To Mother and Father Culture: Village Making and Ritual in a MeFirst, AI world.
Themes We'll Explore:
--Mothering and fathering culture ≠ raising a child – but raising a child is mothering and fathering culture
--The role of men in culture making
--Creating ritual while facing the compromise of tradition
--Coming to the altars of birth, marriage and death
--Identity, inheritance, and the consequences of casting off religion or tradition
--The withering of difference in a homogenized, multicultural world
--Matrimony and patrimony in troubled times
--Sovereignty, autonomy, and reassembling the shards of culture by starting with the poverties
--Globalizing ‘spirit’, privatizing love, owning dying
It's not too far from now- about 6 weeks. So I hope that you will answer the call, and you will be able to join us, OR you will send to your friends who you think could use some soul food.
To register: www.kimberlyannjohnson.com/oxford
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