Show Date
Fri 4 Sep 2026 4:00 PM to 4:50 PM
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| Title Short | Eucontaminating Virtue: Queerness, Virtue, and Liberation in the Shadow of Empire |
| Venue | Oasis |
| Experience Description | What does it mean to flourish in a world shaped by empire, assimilation, and the slow violence of respectability? This workshop invites participants into an encounter between virtue ethics, psychoanalysis, and queer liberationist theology—arguing that classical virtue frameworks, long co-opted by conformist and imperial projects, can be reclaimed and reimagined through the lens of liberation and Lacanian theory.
Drawing on their collaborative work in disgust theology and queer liberationist frameworks, Billie and Paul Hoard will introduce the concept of eucontamination (the redemptive disruption of purity logics) as a foundation for rethinking what virtuous life might look like. The session will explore virtues like Queer Prudence, Magnanimity, and Courage alongside distinctly liberationist virtues forged in the experience of marginalized communities navigating empire's edges.
This is not a workshop about whether queer people can be virtuous. It assumes they already are, and asks how flourishing on the margins enhances our understanding and practice of virtue. Participants will leave with a richer theological vocabulary for resisting assimilation and embodying liberation in their communities. |
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