Politics and the Era of the Witness: Survivor Testimony and the Witnessing of Suffering

Name: Politics and the Era of the Witness: Survivor Testimony and the Witnessing of Suffering
Start: 2025-11-26T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-26T13:00:00-06:00
Location: 20 West Gate, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2E1, Canada

Schedule

Wed Nov 26 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

20 West Gate, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2E1, Canada | Winnipeg, MB

This presentation focuses on the practice of witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity. Dr. Jane Barter will explore the relationship between theological forms of witnessing within Jewish and Christian traditions, and public forms of witnessing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This presentation draws on her recent book, Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness.
Speaker: Dr. Jane Barter, department of Religion and Culture, University of Winnipeg
This presentation is part of the 2025-2026 UW Community Lecture Series.