In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
(Weekly Book Discussion)
Thursdays, Oct. 4 - Nov. 29, (Weeks 2 - 10)
12:00 - 1:00pm, EMU Board Room
To register, contact Tim McMahon (timmc@uoregon.edu)
Presenters: The Bias Response Team (Office of Student Life), & Tim McMahon (CoDaC/TEP).
In the Name of Identity is a personal, sometimes even intimate, account of identity-in-the-world by Amin Maalouf, a novelist by trade. Fluidly written to illuminate the roots of violence and hatred he sees tied to tribalistic forms of identity. He argues that our convictions and notions of identity--whether cultural, religious, national, or ethnic--are socially habituated and frequently dangerous in our increasingly globalized existence. He makes the case for understanding and conceptualizing each other and ourselves through the intersections of our identities. For more information, please contact Gina at brt@uoregon.edu
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