800 University Avenue, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building - Room L150, Madison, WI 53706 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jane Bennett’s talk explores a trans-temporal resemblance between the Zhuangzi (a source-text for Daoism, China, 5th-3rd century, BCE) and the materialism of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (Rome, 1st century, BCE). The two orientations affirm what she calls the efficacy of the …