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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">This Thursday 7 April there will be two events at The University of Wollongong on the theme of Free Speech and Freedom of
Religion – a Roundtable (2.30 – 4.30pm) and the LIRC Public Lecture (5 for 5.30pm)</span></font>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10pt 0"><font size="2" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="en-US"><strong>Roundtable: Free Speech and Religious Freedom after Charlie Hebdo and Section 18C</strong></span></font></div>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="en-US">PANELLISTS: ANSHUMAN MONDAL (BRUNEL UNIVERSITY), LUKE MCNAMARA (UNSW), ALANA LENTIN (WSU), RANDA ABDEL-FATAH (MACQUARIE), ERIN CHEW (PROJECT 18C).</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="en-US"> CHAIR:
MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS (UOW)</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="en-US"><br>
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>From the Fatwah placed on Salman Rushdie to the Danish political cartoons event of 2005 to the fallout from last year?s Charlie Hebdo attacks. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion often come into conflict with one another in the post-911 world. In Australia,
in Britain and in Europe, positions derived from cultural difference - Indigenous and diasporic - have repeatedly found themselves under attack by arguments claiming to derive from the liberal ideology of free speech. Liberal political theory appears to be
increasingly ill prepared to deal with the incommensurability between the right to free speech and such rights to religious freedom or cultural self-determination that can act as a check on it. Our speakers bring a range of expertise on the topic from legal
scholarship to political theory to discourse analysis. The conversation promises to open up new ways to defend cultural difference from the right while maintaining the possibility of freedom beyond the terms of liberalism.</span></font>
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THURSDAY 7 APRIL 2016 - 2.30PM TO 4.30PM LHA RESEARCH HUB (19.2072)</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 10pt 0"><font size="2" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="en-US">Sponsored by the Centre for Texts, Cultures and Creative Industries (CTC) and the Forum on Human Rights Research (HRR).
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><strong>LIRC Public Lecture: Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Expression in contemporary multiculture</strong></span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lecture by Professor Anshuman Mondal (Brunel University)</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC) at The University of Wollongong</span></font><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Date: Thursday 7 April 2016</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Time: 5:00pm drinks, Lecture commences at 5:30pm</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Location: LHA Research Hub (19.2072), University of Wollongong</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">RSVP: </span></font><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PwIoQuPNoyJNoJlkS6_3lfQCtzVkLvzx8jZoi_jHAwA/viewform" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Online</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">
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<div style="" align="justify"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><strong>Abstract:
</strong></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Recent freedom of speech controversies involving religious groups have established a widespread public impression that the right to freedom of expression and the right to religious freedom are
in tension if not outright opposition. And yet, in every single human rights charter they appear side by side, as successive articles. Is this adjacency coincidental or merely conceptual? This lecture will argue that it is not, that their proximity to one
another is historical and, in exploring this history, we can see that the contemporary view that they are in tension is relatively recent. Looking at how the First Amendment of the US Constitution came into being, it is possible to show how, over the course
of two centuries, shifts in the understanding of each liberty has profoundly formed and shaped understandings of the other. The lecture will finish with some reflections on the implications of the contemporary view about these liberties and their effects on
the inhabitants of multicultural liberal-democracies, especially religious minorities.</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
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<div style="" align="justify"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><strong>Biography:</strong></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"> Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at Brunel University London,
UK. He is the author of four books, including Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie (Palgrave, 2014) and many essays, journal articles and book chapters on cultural politics, identity, religion and multiculturalism.</span></font></div>
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ARC Future Fellow<br>
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts<br>
University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia<br>
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