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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Philosophy Research Initiative<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>and the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney present a Sydney Seminar on the Arts and Philosophy:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Seminar 19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ETERNAL LIFE AFTER THE DEATH OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">TIME: Tuesday, 7 August 2012<br>
6:00pm to 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PLACE: Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Building<br>
Cost: Adults $15, Friends and Concessions $10.<br>
Booking essential: <u><span style="color:#A75503"><a href="https://www4.sl.nsw.gov.au/sydneyseminar">https://www4.sl.nsw.gov.au/sydneyseminar</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Can we still talk about eternity in the era of capitalist modernity? How can we understand the persistent desire for eternity in a time
where the predominant political objective is the control of the life of people?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kiarina Kordela will address these questions in her presentation “Secular Eternal Life and Immortality” by distinguishing between infinity and immortality
as a way of conceiving biopolitics. Miguel Vatter will explore in “Sex, Marriage, and Eternal Life” how the key to the fulfillment of the political potential of the human species is contained in the dialectic between the natural and the social dimensions of
sexual relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Programme</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Chair Nicole Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">6:00 pm Welcome by Professor Peter Hutchings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">6:05 to 6:40 pm Kiarina Kordela, <i>Secular Eternal Life and Immortality</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">6:40 to 7:15 pm Miguel Vatter,
<i>Sex, Marriage, and Eternal Life</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">7:15 to 7:30 pm Question and Answer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Professor Kiarina Kordela</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota) works on the relation
among metaphysics, psychoanalysis, economic structures, and biopolitics, as well as on literary and cultural analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Professor Miguel Vatter</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (UNSW) works on republicanism, biopolitics and political theology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/2012/07/seminar-19-eternal-life-after-the-death-of-god/">
http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/2012/07/seminar-19-eternal-life-after-the-death-of-god/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">You can download the flyer: <a href="http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/19_Eternal-life-after-God.pdf">
http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/19_Eternal-life-after-God.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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