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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Monday 8 Dec 2014, Female Orphan School, Parramatta South Campus, University of Western Sydney</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Further information: </span><a href="http://uws.edu.au/philosophy/sentiment"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">http://uws.edu.au/philosophy/sentiment</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">In light of the recent interest across the Humanities in emotion, affect and associated topics such as sensation, this symposium turns our
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">attention to the related but largely overlooked category of sentiment. On the one hand we seek to remember the complex history of this
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">term: its centrality, for instance, to 18<sup>th</sup> century moral philosophy and aesthetics, and the mechanisms by which it becomes, in the 19<sup>th</sup> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">century, conflated with the largely derisory concept of sentimentalism as an overabundance or banality of feeling, triviality of character,
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">or as a descriptor for bad art. Given the demotion of sentiment to sentimentalism, this symposium invites us to reflect on the status of
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">sentiment as a concept at this particular theoretical and cultural moment; to consider what traction it might offer us as a concept in
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">various disciplines across the Humanities; and the ways in which it informs contemporary genres and media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A00003">RSVP essential by Thursday 4 December - places limited</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">THE FULL SCHEDULE IS ATTACHED</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Speakers include:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="color:#A00003">Gil Anidjar </span></b>(Department of Religion and MESAAS, Columbia University; ICLS)<span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">“Derrida’s Holocaust”, Respondent: Chris Peterson (UWS)
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</span><a href="http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/chandler" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#A00003;text-decoration:none">Professor James Chandler</span></b></a> <span lang="EN-US">(Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies, University of
Chicago) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">“Melodrama after Sentiment”, Respondent: Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A00003">Sara Crangle</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">(School
of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Modernism Studies, University of Sussex)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">“Mina Loy’s Sentimental Satire”, Respondent: Ann Vickery (Deakin University)
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="color:#A00003">Magdalena Zolkos</span></b> <span lang="EN-US">(Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">“Porous Skins and Sensible Bodies: Juxtaposition of the Sentimental and Affective Theories of the Subject”, Respondent: Charles Barbour (UWS)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A00003">Patricia Dailey</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">(Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; ICLS)<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“Being With Beguines: Affective Communities and the Middle Ages”, Respondent: Louise D’Arcens (U. of Wollongong)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Admission is free but seats are limited.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">For catering purposes, please RSVP your attendance to: </span></b><a href="mailto:philosophy@uws.edu.au"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">philosophy@uws.edu.au</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Symposium conveners: </span></strong><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/doctor_alex_ling"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">Alex
Ling</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> (</span><a href="mailto:a.ling@uws.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">a.ling@uws.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">)
and </span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/doctor_lorraine_sim"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">Lorraine Sim</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> (</span><a href="mailto:lorraine.sim@uws.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">lorraine.sim@uws.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">),
School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sentiment: A Critical Reassessment</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> is a collaborative Writing/Thinking workshop
presented by the <b>Institute for Comparative Literature and Society</b> (ICLS, Columbia University), </span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">Philosophy@UWS</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> and the </span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/writing_and_society/home"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple">Writing and Society Research Centre</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> (University
of Western Sydney)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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