The Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse research network at TORCH is delighted to host a workshop on 'Crises of Meaning and Political Theology' on the afternoon of 6 June.

Speakers will include:

• Martin Ruehl (Cambridge), Ernst Kantorowicz and the Politics of Political Theology
• Amir Engel (Hebrew University), On Real and Imagined Catastrophes: Gershom Scholem's Sabbatinism.
• Julia Ng (Goldsmith's), Surrealism’s Political-Theological Afterlife: Benjamin—Blumenberg—Taubes.
• Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford), Rescue in the Face of Danger: Benjamin, Goethe, Sebald
• Hjalmar Falk (Oxford/Gothenburg), The Modern Epimetheus. Carl Schmitt's Marian Katechontism
• Jean-Claude Monond (ENS), Progress, Providence, eschaton: Löwith, Blumenberg, and after

All are welcome. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided. For information, please contact Audrey Borowski at audreyborowski@yahoo.com