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<h2><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE OF TIME & VENUE TO PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED
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<h2><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Blood: A Critique of Christianity<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Philosophy@UWS "Encountering the Author" seminar on Gil Anidjars' book
<a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/blood/9780231167208" target="_blank">Blood: A Critique of Christianity</a><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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Wednesday 3 December 2014<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Time:</span></strong> 2.30pm to 5.00 pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Location:</span></strong> UWS Bankstown Building 3, Ground Level, Room 3.G.55,
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Chair:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dimitris Vardoulakis</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Respondents:</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Chris Fleming</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> (UWS),
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Simon During</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> (UQ),
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Alana Lentin</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> (UWS),
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Miguel Vatter</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> (UNSW),</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Dimitris Vardoulakis</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<p style="border:none;padding:0cm"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Blood</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity.
As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law.<br>
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Anidjar</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> is a professor of religion, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. His other books include
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy</span></em> and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Semites: Race, Religion, Literature </span></em> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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