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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif"">THE COMMON CAUSE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif"">Non-Possession, Anti-Materialism and Moral Imperfection<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif"">A Symposium with Professor Leela Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">The legacy of European imperialism includes acquisition and possession as tendencies associated with the moral ascent of individuals and peoples towards civilised
perfection. Imperialist ways of thinking are resisted by anti-colonial and antinomian lineages of non-possession and subjective imperfection. This symposium explores how postcolonial political philosophy may draw upon these rich philosophical lineages to conceive
a collaborative politics and an egalitarian ethos of postcolonial coexistence. How can contemporary European thought reconsider its privileged models of appropriative selfhood? How can it balance the private and singular ownership of things with the multiple
pleasures to be found when diverse material belongings are shared in ‘the common cause’?
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">*Leela Gandhi</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif""> (Brown University)*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>* Mai Al-Nakib</b> (U Kuwait) *
<b>Moira Gatens</b> (U Sydney) * <b>Rosalyn Diprose</b> (UNSW)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center">*<b>Danielle Celermajer</b> (U Sydney)
<b>* Joanne Faulkner</b> (UNSW) * <b>Stephen Muecke </b>(UNSW)<b> </b>* <b>Kudzai Matereke</b> (UNSW) *
<b>Miguel Vatter </b>(UNSW)<b> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>* Simone Bignall</b> (UNSW)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">To reserve a place, please RSVP by December 8, 2014 to
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