What does it mean for human beings to be moral being? how do we experience morality? In connection with the visit of American anthropologist Cheryl Mattingly (USC) and Jason Throop (UCLA) an interdisciplinary seminar will set the stage for anthropologists and philosophers to explore questions concerning 'moral experiences'

• Time: October 9, 2012
• place: building 2113, room 344

Program:

• 09.00-10.00: Jason Throop (UCLA) - Mood, Morality, and Experience
• 10.15-11.15: Rasmus Dyring (AU) - On the Strength of the Absurd: Kierkegaardian clues to   moral experience
• 11.30-12.30: Martin Demant Frederiksen (AU) - The social life of pointlessness - (a)morality among declared nihilists in the republic of Georgia
• Lunch break
• 14.00-15.00: Cheryl Mattingly (USC) - Moral Laboratories: Experience as narrative experiment
• 15.15-16.15: Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen (AU) - Of Mist and Men: Transgressing the ethical relation among the Bugkalot of Northern Luzon
• 16.30-17.30: Troels Stru Schmidt (AU) - Empowerment over justice: A dual understanding of morality among textile workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Contact: Rasmus Dyring, Department of Culture and Society - section of philosophy