The Seminar

Short lectures on critical theory, philosophy, and history, and their possible connections to current affairs with guest speakers, group discussions, beverages, snacks, printed resources, and online guides. In this inaugural year, we will focus on the vocabulary we use to find common ground. Hoping to feel our own way and develop a well-rounded perspective from our colleagues.

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Please arrive by 5:15. We'll do our best to seat everyone who shows up at 5:30pm.

EVENT SCHEDULE

5:00 Doors Open / Check-in
* Unused tickets are released to Waitlist at 5:30pm *
5:30 Everyone is seated for Introductions
6:00 Recap Discussion (Old Business)
6:30 Speaker: Presentation
6:50 Discussion (New Business)
7:50 Closing Announcements
8:00 Store Closes

8:00 After Options - At some nearby watering hole

TOPICS

MARCH 22 Worldview—Migrants and Indigenous People with Dr. Tink Tinker

Tink Tinker (wazhazhe / Osage Nation) and his students advocate a new form of analysis based on worldview that is completely different from continental European notions. Within the analysis, they suggest replacing what we conventionally call “white people” with term ‘eurochristian’. In such thinking, modern conceptions of ‘race’ are viewed from a deeper historical trajectory as a function of ongoing colonialism. Christian theology of the early modern period could not be separated from politics and later concepts of ‘the secular.” Colonialism was justified through a central idea of Christendom shared throughout many different European cultures and linguistic traditions. During the 17th century, a new legal discourse of race emerged based on color metaphors. Tinker argues that by contrast with a eurochristian worldview, American Indians had and continue to have an entirely different one. During this talk, Tinker will describe American Indian worldview and Roger Green will be on hand to discuss the legacy of the eurochristian one in papal bulls of donation, the New England Charter, and U.S. property law still regularly cited today.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Dr. Roger Green is initiator of the Center for Critical & Cultural Theory in Denver, Colorado. He holds PhDs in English Rhetoric & Theory and Religious Studies and has taught for two decades at various institutions of higher education. He’s the author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics (Palgrave, 2019) along with multiple articles and book chapters. His article “Neoliberalism and eurochristianity” is freely available and a good introduction to this topic: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/688

Dr. Camilla Raymond's research involves religious/ethnic groups and migration. She is interested in the future intersections between how Deep Tech Diplomacy, human relations, social conditions, belief, religious societies, and migration will converge. She guides adult learners in engaging the nature of hermeneutics, how to gather a variety of viewpoints, methods, and approaches from sometimes ambiguous and conflicting sources, and how to integrate them into meaningful interpretative positions. Camilla is an expert in Second Temple Judaic and Early Christian thought, the Dead Sea Scrolls, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and cultural identity. For some of her writing: https://udenver.academia.edu/CamillaRaymond

Dr. Tink Tinker (wazhazhe, Osage Nation) is professor emeritus of Native American Cultures and Traditions at Iliff School of Theology. His publications include more than 100 academic articles and several books including American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (2008); Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation (2004); Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide (1993); and the forthcoming text co-authored with Roger Green: American Indian Worldview and Eurochristian Domination. Dr. Tinker volunteered in the Indian community as (non–stipendiary) director of Four Winds American Indian Survival Project in Denver for twenty-five years. In that capacity, he functions in the urban Indian community as a traditional American Indian spiritual elder.

UPCOMING TOPICS (DATES ARE TENTATIVE)
APRIL 12 What is a Human? with Camilla Raymond
MAY 17 Postapocalyptic Musings and the Anthropocene
JUNE 21 Locating Whiteness and Its Historical Legal Construction
SEPT 13 WTF? NFT's, EFTs – You’re Unbelievable
OCT 18 Coding Technology, AI, Wealth, and Race
NOV 15 Action Items—I'm So Angry, I Made a Sign for Us.
DEC 20 Care Beyond A Framework of Authenticity

PAST TOPICS
JAN 25 Liberalism-Neoliberalism: Identity, and the Path Forward. View our notes.
FEB 15 Beyond Left-Right Binaries—The Political-Theological Vortex with Roger Green

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