At a recent Board meeting, the Institute for Feminism and Religion decided to focus its work for the next several years on the prophetic cry (found in various forms in most religions)

“I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice”.

This November, in conjunction with the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin, we are organising four events on this theme:

1. Desiring Mercy Not Sacrifice: A distinguished and multi-disciplinary international panel address this theme in a public forum. Thursday Evening: Nov. 1st: Trinity College, Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, 7:30.More Info>
2. Challenging Cultures of Death: Mercy Not Sacrifice. A three day conference held at Trinity College’s School of Nursing, D’Olier Street. Featuring major international speakers and thirty international panellists addressing this issue from a multi-disciplinary perspective. More Info>
3. Sacred Cows: Lectures and Seminar with Bracha Ettinger and Griselda Pollock. Bracha Ettinger’s widely acclaimed Matrixial Theory has been described as “one of the few contemporary instantiations of innovation within the critical tradition of the human sciences.” Roy Boyne. “No one else thinks this way, with such patience, rigor, and inventiveness.” Judith Butler. Trinity College, Arts Building, Friday evening Nov. 2nd.More Info>
4. The Feminine and the Maternal in the Matrixial Transference, through Psychoanalysis and Art. This seminar will appeal to those working in cultural, psychoanalytic, religious, aesthetic, art, philosophical or feminist theories broadly familiar with the dilemmas posed by post-Lacanian theories of subjectivity.Trinity College, Arts Building, Sunday Afternoon, Nov. 4th