LIAS Lecture: "Postsecular Pilgrimages, Imaginary Sources, Disappointed Returns"
14. May
In this LIAS Lecture, Roberto Strongman (UC Santa Barbara) discusses the sanctity of scientific gathering.
Date: Wednesday, May 14th 2025, 6:30–8:00 pm
Location: Leuphana Campus, Lecturehall 5
This keynote address deploys the trope of "the pilgrimage," and its elaboration in foundational anthropological studies (Victor Turner, Joseph Campbell and others) to imagine our scholarly gathering as a sacred journey. The path is composed of our series of presentations, but also of a proposed chronology with specific dates and epistemic shifts that demarcate the religious, secular and post-secular historical periods. My presentation posits that the post-secular involves a certain return to the religious--with a twist, because pilgrimages are never circular, always elliptical.
The LIAS Lecture is also part of the workshop “Postsecular Reckonings: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art History and Cultural Studie” on May, 14 and 15 2025 at the Kunstraum.
