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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 "Encountering the Author" 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>
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<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 Ben Golder (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales), 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 “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. <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 Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He 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.
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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