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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Philosophy Research Initiative of the University of Western Sydney in collaboration with the State Library of New South Wales, ABC Radio National, and Fordham University
Press, are delighted to announce the establishment of a new lecture series in philosophy. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thinking out loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society” aims
to present </span><span class="bbformtitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">intellectuals talking about the impact of fundamental philosophical ideas on how we understand society. The lectures will be
broadcast by Radio National and subsequently published by Fordham University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year’s speaker,
<b>Professor Stathis Gourgouris </b>(Columbia University), will<b> </b>present three lectures on secular criticism.
<span style="color:black">How do theoretical issues of secularism impact our lives? Has the Enlightenment project to separate politics from theology been successful? Is it possible to reconceptualize a space against religious tendencies of all sorts that is,
at the same time, radically democratic? “Lessons in Secular Criticism” provides stimulating philosophical ideas that are critical to the ways we think and understand secularism today.</span><b>
</b><span style="color:black">The respondent to the lectures is Professor Nikolas Kompridis (UWS).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Stathis Gourgouris,<b>
<i>Lessons in Secular Criticism</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Monday 21 May, Lecture 1:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“The Poetics and Politics of Secular Criticism”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Wednesday 23 May, Lecture 2:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“Why I Am Not A Post-Secularist”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Friday 25 May, Lecture 3:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“Political Theology and Prohibition”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">6pm to 8pm, Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Free, booking essentials:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For details please visit:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2012"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2012</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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Dimitris Vardoulakis</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Western Sydney</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Bankstown Campus, 7.G.11<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith, NSW 2751<br>
AUSTRALIA<br>
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tel: +61 2 9772 6808</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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