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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Philosophy@UWS
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white">and the Writing and Society Research Centre are
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">organising an &quot;Encountering the Author&quot; seminar on Joseph Slaughter's book
<i>Human Rights Inc. The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 Tuesday April 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> 3.30 to 5.00 pm</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Bankstown Campus, Building 3, room
 3.G.27 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">[How to get to Bankstown Campus]</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2F2F2F;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Joseph Slaughter
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">will discuss his important book, followed by responses from&nbsp;Ben Golder (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales),&nbsp;Ben Etherington
 (Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney), and Jessica Whyte (Cultural and Social Analysis, UWS--participating chair.)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that
 the twentieth-century rise of &#8220;world literature&#8221; and international human rights law are related phenomena.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/407">Joseph Slaughter</a>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">is&nbsp;Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He&nbsp;teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial literature
 and theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures, postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Enquiries: Jessica Whyte:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="mailto:J.Whyte@uws.edu.au">J.Whyte@uws.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">For catering purposes, please RSVP to</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">:
<a href="mailto:Philosophy@uws.edu.au" target="_blank">Philosophy@uws.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">For further information on Philosophy @ UWS, please visit</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">:
<a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy">www.uws.edu.au/philosophy</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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