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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Call For Papers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">“Belief and Unbelief in a Post-secular Age”</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">The question of belief – its role, meaning, and, indeed, its very
possibility – is an important one for the present age. “We are constantly
trying to think the interconnectedness,” writes Derrida, “of knowledge <i>and</i>
faith, technoscience <i>and</i> religious belief, calculation <i>and</i> the
sacrosanct.” As Derrida suggests, belief today seems polarized between
two very different forms of experience or knowledge. This situation alone
places a demand on us to rethink both the nature of belief and its role in
contemporary life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">We invite papers addressing this topic for a one-day interdisciplinary
seminar at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Murdoch</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> on Tuesday
July 17th. Perspectives from a range of disciplines such as literature,
philosophy, theology, media and cultural studies are welcome. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">“Fundamentalist” forms of religious
belief</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent: -17.85pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-AU"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Unbelief as a species of belief</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent: -17.85pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-AU"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">The Dawkins debate and the rise of
atheism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent: -17.85pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-AU"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">The waning of conventional belief
systems (New Age spiritualities, weak thought, weak theology)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">The legacy of Enlightenment
rationalism </span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Epistemological perspectives on
belief</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Postmodernism as a crisis of belief;
postmodernism as its resurgence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent: -17.85pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-AU"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Politics, nationalism and religion
(for instance, the messianicism of Barack Obama)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Belief in texts—novels, films,
television, online. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">Please wishing to send
your 300 word abstracts to Matthew Jamieson at <a href="mailto:matthewrjamieson@yahoo.com">matthewrjamieson@yahoo.com</a> and Em
McAvan at <a href="mailto:estrangedcognition@hotmail.com">estrangedcognition@hotmail.com</a>
by April 20<sup>th</sup>.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">RSVPs for
attendance closer to the date would be most welcome.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial;">This seminar
proudly presented by the Krishna Somers Foundation.</span></p>
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