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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">A d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">ay symposium on Jacques Derrida’s
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Fri April 20, 9am-5pm </span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">University of New South Wales, Kensington</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Please RSVP to Chris Danta
<a href="mailto:c.danta@unsw.edu.au">c.danta@unsw.edu.au</a> by April 16.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Rowena Braddock (USyd)</span></div>
<div>Matthew Chrulew (Macquarie)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Vicki Kirby (UNSW)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Paul Patton (UNSW)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Christopher Peterson (UWS)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">James Phillips (UNSW)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Dinesh Wadiwel (USyd)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Melanie White (UNSW)</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri; ">“Why is political sovereignty, the sovereign or the state or the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri; ">people, figured sometimes as what
rises, through the law of reason, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri; ">above the beast, above the natural life of the animal, and sometimes </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Calibri; ">(or
simultaneously) as the manifestation of bestiality or human a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><i>nimality?"</i> Jacques Derrida,
<i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Consolas; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Estrangelo Edessa', serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Jacques Derrida’s 2001-2003 seminars on
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The Beast and the Sovereign </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">bear significantly on a number of important questions within contemporary humanities research. Derrida’s
earlier work, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The Animal That Therefore I Am</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">, has set the agenda for “the question of the animal” in posthumanism, animal studies
and related ethical and philosophical debates. These recent seminars delve further into literary and political discourse: on the fables of the Bible and La Fontaine, on those of Hobbes, Machiavelli and Schmitt, and on the entire question of the “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">bête</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">”
in Western thinking about sovereignty. In a seminar swarming with fabled creatures, Derrida traces the figure of the wolf, returning once more to Rousseau, to Freud and to Heidegger. He takes on Deleuze’s studious sarcasm and Agamben’s scholarly tics. He reads
the poetry of Valéry, Celan and Lawrence, the novels of Defoe and Blanchot, prompting his auditors and readers to confront the philosophical ramifications of therichly fraught pairing of sovereignty and bestiality.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Estrangelo Edessa', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">This symposium, convened by Matthew Chrulew and Chris Danta, brings together a number of readers of Derrida
for a full-day discussion of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The Beast and the Sovereign</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; "> (Volumes I & II) at the University of New South Wales.</span></span></p>
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