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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stathis Gourgouris is a visiting professor at the Philosophy Research Initiative of the University of Western Sydney. He has been in Sydney to deliver the Thinking out Loud
lectures (<a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2012">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2012</a>). If you did not manage to get in the Monday or Wednesday lectures because they
were booked out, please note that there are a few places left for the Friday lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You can also come to a seminar that Stathis Gourgouris will be delivering at UWS. The seminar it titled </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">An
Archç for Radical Democracy, to take place 11am-1pm, Wednesday 28th May, at UWS Banktown, 20.G.05.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">SPEAKER: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">An Archç for Radical Democracy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">TIME: 11am 1pm, May 28<sup>th</sup> 2012</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 20.G.05</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">ABSTRACT:
</span>An examination of the notion of <i>archç </i>in ancient Greek thought, from its initial appearance as a philosophical concept in the Anaximander fragment to its political uses in Aristotle and Herodotus, as a way of arguing for democracy's quintessential
an-archic character.<br>
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BIO: Stathis Gourgouris is Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, author of
<i>Dream Nation</i> (1996) and <i>Does Literature Think?</i> (2003), and editor of
<i>Freud and Fundamentalism</i> (2010).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">For the entire 2012 program and recordings of past Philosophy seminars at UWS see:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2012" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2012</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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