Lecture 'Life History: The Bioclassical Complex and Turbulantiquity '

For whom
Alumni , Press , Employees , Private individuals , Students
When
15-09-2026 from 17:30 to 19:30
Where
Auditorium 3 Suzanne Lilar, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent
Language
English
Organizer
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences & Department of History - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Contact
dries.josten@ugent.be
Website
https://www.ugent.be/doctoralschool/en/doctoraltraining/courses/specialistcourses/objective-of-the-humanities-objectivity-politics-and-knowledge-production

Brooke Holmes considers how to approach the longue-durée and diasporic history of life.

"In this talk, I consider the problem of how to approach the longue-durée and diasporic history of life within a cosmo-anthropology of natures and Nature that takes shape through texts written in Greek within a larger Afro-Eurasian context in the second half of the first millennium bce. I consider this question through the lens of the history of premodern sympathy from Plato to Georges Canguilhem, using its history to argue against a bioclassical model of the history of the life in favor of the turbulence of reception."