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For this summer's Ethical Pressures Colloquium, we are happy to invite you to a day under the heading of 'How to Think - Caring for Knowledge Sharpened by Violence'. The colloquium invites reflection on how to be able to think when the ethical and political positions around us make it difficult to stay intellectually curious. We welcome contributions from all Humanities and Social Science disciplines represented in CAHSS, and from all contemporary or historical perspectives.

Kindly co-sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and SPS Research Directorate, the event takes place on June 27th 10 AM- 4 PM in Violet Laidlaw, CMB, and we can host 30 people (including lunch and refreshments).

Our two keynotes are Professor of Philosophy Sandra Laugier, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Professor Richard Rechtman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, EHESS. 

We would like to invite contributions of either 10 or 20 minutes. In line with the principles of the network, we are not expecting finished papers but contributions that present a problem or idea for discussion, reflecting an ethos of openness, reflexiveness and scholarly curiosity. A haunting dilemma, new idea, or half-baked article is as welcome as a formal presentation. To that end, we kindly ask you to fill in this form indicating if you would be interested in making a contribution to the discussion https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=sAafLmkWiUWHiRCgaTTcYX1vYaLCaAZEmxT_DqWs3t5UNVVDMEFJREtOSjZGMlRKUjVBRTZJSVpTUy4u

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Lotte Segal, Dr Sudeepa Abeysinghe, or Professor Peter Davies.

OUR SPEAKERS

Sandra Laugier

Sandra is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France, Deputy Director of the Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103, CNRS Paris 1). She has widely published on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell); moral philosophy and the ethics of care; democracy and gender studies; popular art and culture. She is the translator of Stanley Cavell’s work in French and is an advisor for the publication of Cavell’s Nachlass. She has been Visiting Professor at the School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University, 2023), the University of Toronto (2022), La Sapienza Roma (2019), Boston University (2019, 2021), Pontifical University Lima (2017); Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute Berlin (2014, 2015); Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Johns Hopkins University (2011); Facultés Saint-Louis, Bruxelles (2009); The Johns Hopkins University (2008, 2009). Awards include: Senior Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France (2012-23), Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2014), Grand prix de philosophie de l’Académie française (2022), Member of the American Philosophical Society (2024).Among publications: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (The University of Chicago Press, 2013),Politics of the Ordinary, Care, Ethics, Forms of life (Peeters, Leuven, 2020), TV-Philosophy, How TV series change our thinking (University of Exeter Press, 2023).

Richard Rechtman

Richard is an anthropologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Director of Studies at the EHESS. He worked for many years with the victims of the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge regime. His current research focuses on extreme violence and its psychological and social effects, particularly in the case of the persecuted Rohingya community in Burma. He founded and directs the Réseau International de Chercheuses et Chercheurs à l'Épreuve des Violences Extrêmes (RICEVE -FMSH-EHESS). He is the author of La vie ordinaire des génocidaires (CNRS Éditions, 2020, English Translation, Living in Death, Fordham University Press, 2022), Les Vivantes (Reissue, 2025, CNRS Éditions, with a preface by Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau), Revendiquer l'espace publique (CNRS Editions 2022, in collaboration with Nilüfer Göle, Sandra Laugier and Yves Cohen). He is also co-author with Didier Fassin of L'empire du traumatisme, enquête sur la condition de victime (Flammarion 2007, republished in Champ Flammarion in 2011 and 2024, English translation, The Empire of Trauma, Princeton University, Press 2009).