Michael Taussig (Colombia), “Re-enachantment of the Sun in An Age of Global Meltdown”
March 27, 2013, 7-9pm
Free, no registration required
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema,
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Using parts of a theater-piece called The Berlin Sun Theater: The Master of Non-Mastery, that he recently presented in the Anthropocene conference at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin, Professor Taussig will explore the meaning and hope for the “mastery of non-mastery” as the basis for a new approach to our technological domination of nature.
Dr. Michael Taussig is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of 11 books including The Devil and Commodity Festishism (1980) and Beauty and the Beast (2012), and many articles.
No registration is required for this event. Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Department of English, and The Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.