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SUMMARY:Human (and) Nature from Latin America to the Middle East: Panel Di
 scussion  - Dr Charles Pigott\, Dr Hilary Marlow\, Dr Timothy Winter
DTSTART:20170301T173000Z
DTEND:20170301T193000Z
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CONTACT:Polina Gordovich
DESCRIPTION:What does being part of nature mean for humanity\, and for how
  we approach the environment? Can we both be part of the world and remove 
 ourselves from it in thinking about it? What ethical issues arise from our
  relationship to nature?\n\n*Dr Charles Pigott* (Centre of Latin American 
 Studies\, Cambridge) will be discussing literature (ancient and contempora
 ry) in the Maya and Quechua languages of Central and South America. He wil
 l be exploring how the literature engages with indigenous rituals that for
 eground diverse modes of connection between humanity and the natural world
 . The presentation Will alternate between three levels of analysis: anthro
 pological\, literary and linguistic.\n\n*Dr Hilary Marlow* (Divinity Facul
 ty\, Cambridge) will examine human relationship with nature through two co
 ncepts from the Christian Old Testament: humankind as made in the image of
  God and humankind as formed from the dust of the earth. In dialogue with 
 Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical\, "Laudato Sii"\, it will discuss how thes
 e concepts impact on a number of ethical issues regarding environmental su
 stainability.\n\n*Dr Timothy Winter* (Divinity Faculty\, Cambridge) is the
  Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim
  College. He will be speaking about Sufism\, a mystic current of Islam\, a
 nd how the worldview it adopts portrays the environment and man's relation
 ship to it. Dr Winter will be talking about Qur’anic religion\, which ap
 peals to ‘primordiality’\, in its emphasis on the sacredness of the na
 tural world and humanity’s integration within it. The world is not ‘fa
 llen’\, but is instead ‘the unfolding of the peacock’s tail’. He w
 ill also address the major rituals of the Muslim life\, including prayer a
 nd fasting\, which link worshippers to the natural circadian and mensual r
 hythms.
LOCATION:Assembly Room\, Howard Building\, Downing College
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