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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Philosophy Seminars 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy@UWS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Jo Faulkner </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Fellow in Philosophy </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(UNSW)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">TITLE: <b>Security from Moral Ambiguity: the ‘gray zone’ and the Child Witness in Catastrophe Literature<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">DATE/TIME: Wednesday 3 April, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank">[How
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In recent decades the figure of the child witness has become prevalent in catastropheliterature. The child’s putative innocence renders it an attractive site of identification for readers anxious about their own
complicity in moral disaster. But the child’s ability to epitomize suffering also informs a particular theoretical deployment of “infancy,” as an incapacity of expression that has come to mark contemporary understandings of witnessing and our ethical responsiveness
to catastrophe. With reference to Agamben, Levi, and trauma theory, this paper begins to interrogate the possibility of a responsibility grounded in moral ambiguity and apprehension of one’s own “infancy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Biography:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Joanne Faulkner is an ARC DECRA Fellow in Philosophy, the School of Humanities, UNSW. She is the author of The Importance of Being Innocent (Cambridge UP, 2011) and Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic
Art of Reading Philosophy (Ohio UP, 2010), co-author of Understanding Psychoanalysis, and has published articles in Angelaki, Theory and Event, Hypatia, and Critical Horizons, among other journals. Her specific research area at present is the political ontology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">For the entire 2013 program of the Philosophy seminar series at UWS see:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013" target="_blank">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Mariana Fragueiro<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Administration Coordinator, Philosophy Research Initiative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Western Sydney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bankstown Campus Building 5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Locked Bag 1797<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Penrith NSW 2751<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+61 2 9772 6190<o:p></o:p></p>
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