[Reader-list] Lecture by Allison Weir on ‘Collective Love as Public Freedom: Ehrenreich, Arendt, and Idle No More' on 7 January 2016 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Collective Love as Public Freedom: *

Ehrenreich, Arendt, and *Idle No More*

by *Allison Weir*





*Shail Mayaram* will Chair

Thursday, 7 January 2016, 4
pm
      RSVP


CSDS Seminar
Room,
                        Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
            Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 3.30 pm

   email:
jaya at csds.in





In this lecture the speaker will suggest that the etymological connection
between freedom and love might be rooted in danced rituals that have
historically been a source of solidarity and freedom for communities in
diverse locations around the world. Taking up the connection between
freedom and love in the work of Hannah Arendt, she will argue that
collective love is a form of public freedom rooted in *philoxenia*:
friendship that includes the normally excluded, the marginal and oppressed,
in which hierarchies of status and power are overturned. Taking the example
of the Indigenous *Idle No More *movement, she will argue that collective
love has been integral to Indigenous resistance to colonization, in an
alternative politics of freedom rooted in *philoxenia* and in the idea of
the exemplar: being the change.



*Allison Weir* is Research Professor of Social and Political Philosophy and
Gender Studies in the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian
Catholic University in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of *Identities
and Freedom* (2013) and *Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the
Critique of Identity* (1996), and is currently completing a book on
nonwestern and nondominant conceptions and practices of freedom.



*Shail Mayaram* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai