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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year’s
<i>Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society</i> will be delivered by professor Bonnie Honig.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Entitled “Public Things,”
<span class="bbformtitle">Professor Honig’s lectures </span>will stress the importance of public things to democratic life. Whereas so many democratic theorists focus on the importance of the<span class="apple-converted-space">
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</span>to democracy, theorizing the terms of inclusion, identity, or nation, Honig will ask to what extent democracy is rooted in common love for, and contestation of, shared objects.</span><span class="bbformtitle"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bbformtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For a more detailed description of the lectures, please visit:
<a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2013">
www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/thinking_out_loud/2013</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="bbformtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The dates for the lectures are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Monday, April 15, Lecture 1:
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The Politics of Public Things: Neoliberalism and the Routine of Privatization”</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tuesday, April 16, Lecture 2:<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“What Kind of a Thing is Land? Between Cultures, Between Times”</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friday, April 19, Lecture 3:
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Going Through the Motions: Ceaseless Work and the Reduction of Publicity to Emergency”</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Times</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm (including drinks reception from 5.30 to 6.00 pm)<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Venue</span></strong>: Metcalfe Auditorium, The State Library of NSW, Sydney<br>
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$10 per lecture or $25 for the entire series, booking essential: <a href="http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/all_events.html">
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/all_events.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The lectures are organized by the
<i>Philosophy Research Initiative</i> at the University of Western Sydney in collaboration with Fordham University Press, ABC Radio National and the State Library of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- - - - - - - - -<br>
Dimitris Vardoulakis<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Bankstown Campus, 7.G.10<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith, NSW 2751<br>
AUSTRALIA<br>
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tel: +61 2 9772 6808<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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