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SYDNEY SCHOOL FOR CRITICAL SOCIAL THOUGHT 2017

16 MAY 1 JUNE

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WELCOME

On behalf of the Institute for Social Justice we warmly welcome all of you to the third annual gathering of the Sydney School for Critical Social Thought.

The first two years of the Sydney School have been exciting events, with panels and talks by ISJ researchers as well as invited academics, public intellectuals, and activists from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Britain, and the United States, and from the Yidindji , Nuu-chah-nulth, Chippewa, and Tanganekald, Meintangk, Boandik nations.

These gatherings, with their focus on sustained and developing dialogues over a 2-week period, have opened our horizons, broadening and deepening our convivial forms of dialogue and exploration.

This year we are experimenting with a new format, combining a series of public lectures in the evenings with a symposium and full-day “Masterclasses” that are open to the public.

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These events surround a week of discussions involving only the ISJ community.

This year’s Sydney School also includes a postgraduate student conference, organized by students in our Doctoral Program for Social and Political Thought.

As always, we have arranged the events of the next two weeks to create opportunities for conviviality and dialogue, and to foster mutual learning and critical engagement. The members of the Institute for Social Justice, from here and abroad, look forward to an intense and exciting two weeks of discussion and to the formation of warm collegial relationships.

The Institute for Social Justice was established at ACU in 2014 as a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research space, combining original normative reflection and research with innovative forms of public engagement.

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On April 28 2016, Professor Charles Taylor officially launched the Institute for Social Justice at the Sydney Opera House.

We want once again to take this opportunity to express our thanks to Professor Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of ACU, and Professor Wayne McKenna, Deputy ViceChancellor, Research, for their enthusiastic support of the Institute for Social Justice, and for making this extraordinary annual gathering possible.

Finally, we also want to thank Ms. Paula Gleeson (Institute Manager) and Ms. Lisa Tarantino (Executive Officer) for their superlative organisation and management of this event in all of its aspects.

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CONTENTS 04 Symposium

13 Student Conference

05 The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism

16 ISJ Media Events

06 Masterclasses

17 ISJ Academics and Visiting Scholars

07 The End of the Enlightenment?

23 Helpful Information about the Sydney School

08 The Social Thought of Sigmund Freud

26 Program

09 Public Lectures

28 How to contact us

10 The Left in Power?

11 Varieties of Religious Pluralism 12 Radical Reflection and the Fight Against Fascism

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SYMPOSIUM

THE CONTEMPORARY POSSIBILITIES OF ROMANTICISM AND MODERNISM Prof. J.M. Bernstein Department of Philosophy New School for Social Research

Prof. Akeel Bilgrami Department of Philosophy Columbia University and Institute for Social Justice ACU

Prof. Nikolas Kompridis Institute for Social Justice ACU

Prof. Robert Pippin Department of Philosophy University of Chicago

Two decades into this perplexing century, it has become a question whether romanticism or modernism have the conceptual resources to make sense of and respond to its enormous challenges. Both seem fated to be historicised and provincialised as exclusively Eurocentric conceptual frameworks, insufficiently capacious to speak to the concerns and circumstances of the global South. But might it be the case that modernism and romanticism are capacious enough to align dissenting voices in the West with dissenting voices in the South? Are romanticism and modernism really exhausted categories or are they in need of renewal through alliances with alternative perspectives and dissenting voices outside the Eurocentric

frame? What within their respective conceptual and normative frameworks would make such alliances possible? In this twoday symposium on the contemporary possibilities of romanticism and modernism, J.M. Bernstein, Akeel Bilgrami, Nikolas Kompridis, and Robert Pippin will address these and other questions, with Bernstein and Pippin speaking about the possibilities of modernism and Bilgrami and Kompridis about of the possibilities of romanticism.

When: 16 and 17 May 2017 10am - 5pm Where: Level 12, Tenison Woods House Institute for Social Justice

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MASTERCLASSES

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Professor Costas Douzinas Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Director Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities What is the meaning of personhood in today’s Western context?

In the first part of this Masterclass, Professor Douzinas will speak on the genealogy of the person and dignity. Douzinas will discuss the move from law to theology and philosophy, and will argue that the idea of personhood is reverting to its earlier meaning as privilege.

In the second part Douzinas will be asking ‘Finis Europae?’. The decline

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THE END OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT?

of the West and of Europe in the new world order of right wing nationalism and isolationism.

When: 18 and 19 May 2017 9-3pm Where: Level 12, Tenison Woods House

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MASTERCLASSES

THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF SIGMUND FREUD

Professor Jacqueline Rose Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Professor of Humanities Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Freud – these classes will argue – was a social thinker.

Our question will be: what does that mean?

Famous for his controversial views on sexuality, Freud is less known for his equally challenging engagement with war, ethics, group identity and faith.

During these four units our in depth focus will be on:

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Thoughts for the Time on War and Death

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Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the ‘I’

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Civilisation and its Discontents

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Moses and Monotheism

With ample opportunity to digress, or rather follow the path they offer, into some of the most intractable dilemmas of the modern world.

This class is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and activists with an interest in psychoanalysis and in Freud as a social thinker.

The Social Thought of Sigmund Freud will be held in conjunction with our Masterclass Series.

When: 29 and 30 May 2017 9-3pm Where: Lochaber Room, Mary MacKillop Place

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PUBLIC LECTURES

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PUBLIC LECTURES

THE LEFT IN POWER?

Professor Costas Douzinas Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Director Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

‘The Left in Power?’ is a series of theoretical and personal reflections of an academic who found himself in the unlikely position of an accidental politician.

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What is the Left of the 21st century? Can the Left survive in an internationally hostile environment?

What can an academic contribute to the business of government?

When: 19 May 2017 4-6pm Where: Level 12, Tenison Woods House

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VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM Professor Rajeev Bhargava Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Director Institute for Indian Thought Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

When: 22 May 2017 4-6pm Where: Level 12, Tenison Woods House

One prevalent form of religious pluralism recognizes the existence of multiple religious communities, each doctrinally apart, rigidly bounded and well demarcated from the other, even demanding the exclusive allegiance of its members but, acknowledging ineradicable differences, endorses tolerance, even mutual respect. However, another, perhaps better form of religious pluralism exists that shuns doctrinalization, seeks more porous boundaries, advocates greater fluidity of movement, and accepts multiple allegiances. Here pluralism is internal to religious perspectives. In this lecture, I examine in detail the internal structure of these two forms of religious pluralism and ask what theological, social and political conditions must be met for the success and legitimacy of the second form of religious pluralism. Â Institute for Social Justice

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PUBLIC LECTURES

RADICAL REFLECTION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM

Professor Jeanne Morefield Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Professor of Politics Whitman College

The British vote to leave the EU, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of right wing, anti-globalization parties in Europe have led to extensive hand wringing by many political commentators and foreign policy pundits over the future of liberal democracy on a global

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scale. Repeatedly, these same commentators insist that, given the extent of the crisis, the best response to the rise of a xenophobic, right wing insurgence, is a wholehearted reiteration of “our” fundamental liberal values – human rights, democracy, and (in the words of Angela Merkel) the “dignity of man.”

By contrast, I argue in this talk that a more effective response must come to terms with the role that liberal internationalism and the language of liberal values has played in setting the stage for

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the current crisis. Such a fight, therefore, needs to combine whole hearted opposition to fascism with a radical critique of the way pundits, political leaders, and scholars have used the language of liberalism to deflect attention away from the deeply hierarchical, anti-democratic qualities of the American dominated global order since the end of formal imperialism. It must also address the way Third Way liberals have used similar deflective language since the 1980’s to justify a long term, neoliberal gutting of welfare states throughout the Global North.

Through an expansive reading of the work of Edward Said, this talk explores what a radically reflective politics might look like and what role such a politics ought to play in the struggle against fascism that is to come.

When: 26 May 2017 4-6pm Where: Level 12, Tenison Woods House

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STUDENT CONFERENCE

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STUDENT CONFERENCE

DAY 1

When: May 31 2017, 9:30am – 3:30pm Where: Lochaber Room, Mary MacKillop Place Presentations will be 15-20 mins with remaining 15-20 minutes for questions or suggestions.

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12:15pm

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Between identity and experience: on queer women, imposition of a refugee identity and possibilities of agency & resistance under victimhood narratives

Responsibilities of Scholars in the Time of Environmental Crisis

Oh my goddesses! Faith, reason and imagination in an age of ecological crisis

Zhang Ye, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

Dr Marco Cuevas-Hewitt, University of Western Australia

Tina Dixson, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

10:45am

Sharia in the modern Islamic state: the Iranian experience

If not sovereignty, then what?

Mahmoud Pargoo, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

Jennifer Newman, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

2:25pm

11:40am Documentary and the renewal of public things Chris Wiseman, MFA student, York University, Toronto

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1:50pm

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Recognising soil as Living and vulnerable: prerequisites for justice and care Anne O’Brien, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

When: June 1 2017, 10:00am – 3:30pm Where: Lochaber Room, Mary MacKillop Place

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11:35am

12:45pm

“(De)constructing Activist Spaces in Post-War Sri Lanka”: Dilemmas of Feminist Politics

Mothering in the Digital Diaspora: migrant mothers in Australia & their online communities

Intersectionalizing Livedexperience: Problematics of Reading Memoir as a Genre

Cayathri Divakalala, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

Leah Williams Veazey, PhD candidate, University of Sydney

10:40am

12:10pm

Gendered Violence & Feminised Resistance in the Age of Empire.

(Semi)permeable Membranes of Interconnection and Epistemic Ignorance

Annette Maguire, PhD candidate, University of Newcastle

Shima Shahbazi, PhD candidate, University of Sydney

2:20pm Group Discussion

Ulrike Prattes, PhD candidate, Institute for Social Justice

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ISJ MEDIA EVENTS

ISJ MEDIA EVENTS Throughout the two weeks of the Sydney School our Scholars will be participating in various public and media events in addition to those outlined in this program.

The Institute for Social Justice website will be updated with all of these events as they arise.

At the time of printing, events featuring ISJ Scholars include: Professorial Fellow, Prof. Jacqueline Rose will be speaking at the Sydney Writers Festival.

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ISJ ACADEMICS AND VISITING SCHOLARS

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Linda Martín Alcoff Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice Linda Martín Alcoff joined the Institute for Social Justice as a Professorial Fellow in 2015. She is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, Graduate Center, CUNY, was President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division and has also served on its Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Program Committee, Committee on the Status of Women, and as Chair of the Committee on Hispanics/Latinos. Her writings have focused on social identity and race, epistemology and politics, sexual violence, Foucault, Dussel, and Latino issues in philosophy, including, Future of Whiteness (2015) Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (2006), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996).

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Paul Apostolidis

Rajeev Bhargava

Akeel Bilgrami

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Paul Apostolidis is Professor and Judge & Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Endowed Chair of Political Science at Whitman College and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice.

His research areas include migrant workers’ experience of labor, migration, and politicization; Neoliberalism and temporalities of work and everyday life; Biopolitics of border control and foodindustrial systems and race, power and immigration. He is a member and founder of the Executive Editorial Committee for the journal Political Theory and has found the community based research program The State of the State for Washington Latinos. His most recent book Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America About Democracy was published in 2010.

Rajeev Bhargava joined the Institute for Social Justice as a Professorial Fellow in 2014 and is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Bhargava’s work on secularism and methodological individualism is internationally acclaimed.

He has been with the CSDS since 2005, was its Director from 2007-2014, and is now Director of its recently launched Institute of Indian Thought. His publications include Individualism in Social Science (1992), What is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It? (2010), and The Promise of India’s Secular Democracy (2010). He has also edited the influential collection of essays, Secularism and its Critics (1998).

Akeel Bilgrami joined ISJ as a Professorial Fellow in 2015. He studied English Literature at Elphinstone College, Bombay University and then went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is currently the Sydney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Professor, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is the author of Belief and Meaning (Blackwell Wiley 1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard University Press, 2014).

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ISJ ACADEMICS AND VISITING SCHOLARS

Joseph Carens

Romand Coles

Costas Douzinas

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Research Professor Institute for Social Justice

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Joseph Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice.

His research focuses on questions about justice, equality, and freedom. He has written extensively on the normative issues raised by migration and by ethnic and cultural diversity.

His publications on these topics include The Ethics of Immigration (2013), Immigrants and the Right to Stay (2010), and Culture, Citizenship, and Community (2000). He is returning now to the concerns with just economic arrangements that he first pursued in Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market (1981).

Romand Coles is a scholar-activist who works at the intersections of critical philosophy, radical democratic theory, environmental justice, and various modes of political organizing and activism.

He served as the McAllister Endowed Chair and Director of the Program for Community, Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University. During the two decades prior to that, he taught political theory and engaged in radical democratic political organizing at Duke University. His most recent publication is Visionary Pragmatism: Receptive Resonance, Circulation, and the Dynamics of Transformation (2016). Coles and Lia Haro are working on a book entitled ‘This Machine Kills Fascism’ in response to the Trump regime.

Costas Douzinas is a Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice and politician for the Greek party Syriza. Douzinas is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Critical Jurisprudence, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy.

He was deeply involved in the British Critical Legal Studies Movement, was part of the team which set up the Birkbeck School of Law and was involved in setting up Law and Critique: The International Journal of Critical Legal Thought.

His many books have been translated into 12 languages including The End of Human Rights and Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis

Lia Haro Research Fellow Institute for Social Justice A cultural anthropologist and social theorist, Haro joined the Institute for Social Justice in January of 2016.

Her work focuses on utopian social imagination and practices of constructing possible futures in present communities and contexts of social transformation.

She contends that the tendency to interpret “utopia” as synonymous with naiveté and unrealistic dreams obscures how collective dreams of radically better futures, both from above (state and international institutions) and from below (grassroots social movements and communities), shape everyday lives, social relationships, present actions and cultural formations.

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Naser Ghobadzadeh

Kiran Grewal

Emilian Kavalski

Nikolas Kompridis

Research Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Senior Research Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Associate Professor Institute for Social Justice

Director Institute for Social Justice

Researching at the intersection of religion and politics, Dr Naser Ghobadzadeh’s interests lie in the study of Islamic political theology, secularism, state-religionsociety relations, and Middle East and Iranian politics.

By mapping competing discourses and practices in the Muslim world, his current research project involves conceptualising the possibility not only of the co-existence of religious and secularity but also the need to recognise the religious roots of an emerging model of secularity in the Muslim world. His most recent book Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State was published

by Oxford in 2015.

Dr Kiran Grewal works in the areas of international human rights, criminal justice and social activism.

Her current research focuses on the relationship between international law and grassroots social justice struggles in post-conflict settings. She is also involved as an activist researcher in a project exploring the possibilities for alternative models of critically reflexive activism in Sri Lanka. Her publications include The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights: Between the Universal and the Particular (2016) and ‘Racialised Gang Rape and the Reinforcement of Dominant Order: Discourses of Gender, Race and Nation’ (2017).

Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice and Book Series Editor for Routledge’s ‘Rethinking Asia and International Relations’ series. He has researched post-Western International Theory at Aalborg University, Academia Sinica, National Chung Hsing University, Ruhr University-Bochum, Osaka University, Rachel Carson Center, University of Alberta, the American Center for Indian Studies. Emilian is the author of three books, most recently: Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers (Bloomsbury, 2012) and he is the editor of ten volumes, including World Politics at the Edge of Chaos (State University of New York Press, 2016).

Nikolas Kompridis is Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought and Director of the Institute for Social Justice.

Originally trained as a musician, after a decade long career in music he was drawn into an academic career, inspired by the Critical Theory tradition. His work has been concerned with rethinking the meaning of reason, critique, normativity, and agency. He is the author of Aesthetics and Political Theory (Polity, 2018), The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury, 2014), Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT, 2016), and Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge, 2006), He is currently completing two new books, Critique and Receptivity, and Romanticism, Politics, and Philosophy.

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ISJ ACADEMICS AND VISITING SCHOLARS

Jeanne Morefield

Jennifer Nedelsky

Jacqueline Rose

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Professorial Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Jeanne Morefield is Professor of Politics at Whitman College. Her scholarship works at the intersection of political theory, history, and international relations, examining a variety of topics including the relationship between the contemporary and historical rhetorics of imperialism and the conflict between democracy and sovereignty. Her publications include Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection (2014) and Covenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire (2005) as well as numerous articles in journals. She is currently co-president of the Association for Political Theory and is writing a book on the political theory of Edward Said.

Jennifer Nedelsky is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice.

In 2018 she will be moving to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto. Her teaching and scholarship have been concentrated on Feminist Theory, Legal Theory, American Constitutional History and Interpretation, and Comparative Constitutionalism. Her most recent book, Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law (2011) won the C.B. Macpherson Prize, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. She is currently completing a jointly authored manuscript (with Tom Malleson), A Care Manifesto: (Part) Time for All (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2017).

Jacqueline Rose joined the Institute for Social Justice as a Professorial Fellow in 2016 and is currently Professor of Humanities and Co-Director at Birkbeck College, University of London. Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012), Women in Dark Times (2014) and the novel Albertine (2001).

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Allison Weir

Magdalena Zolkos

Research Professor Director, Doctoral Program in Social and Political Thought

Senior Research Fellow Institute for Social Justice

Allison Weir is a social and political philosopher, specializing in feminist theory and critical theories, and is the author of Identities and Freedom (Oxford) and Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Routledge). Her current book project, Decolonizing Freedom, explores diverse conceptions and practices of freedom, focusing in particular on Indigenous and Islamic feminist and queer conceptions, in dialogue with agonistic and republican models, to develop a theory of freedom that can sustain practices of decolonization and struggles for global justice.

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Magdalena Zolkos is specializing in the fields of memory politics; historical justice and reconciliation; cultural and psychoanalytic trauma theory; emotions and affect; contemporary democratic theory; and feminist theory. She is interested in how the legacy of historical trauma affects the trajectories of democratic transition and consolidation, conditions the play of affective politics, and inspires, though at times also constrains, practices of emancipatory politics and resistance. She is currently working on two research projects: memory objects and mnemonic object-worlds in politics and aesthetics of memorialization as well as humanitarian restitution as a response to population displacement and dispossession.

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VISITING SCHOLARS

Jay Bernstein

Robert Pippin

Professor of Philosophy The New School New York

Professor of Philosophy University of Chicago

J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily in the areas of ethics, legal philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and German Idealism.

Among his books are: The Philosophy of the Novel (Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006); and Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury.

His next work is provisionally entitled: Law as Ethical Life: From Legal Positivism to Human Rights.

Robert Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, and the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Leopoldina. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge, 1997), The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath (Cambridge, 2005), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale, 2010), Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (Chicago, 2010), and After the Beautiful.

Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism (Chicago, 2013).

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The most effective mode of transport is by train. Trains depart from Town Hall Station and/or Wynyard Station regularly on the red coloured Northern Line, leaving from Platform 3.

The approximate cost is AUD $4.50 one way.

Mary MacKillop Place is a 5 minute walk from the station turning right onto Blues Point Rd and then left onto Mount Street.

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Tenison Woods House Level 12 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney 2060

Buses and ferries to North Sydney are also available but less direct/slower.

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Venues: Lochaber Room Mary MacKillop Place 7-11 Mount Street, North Sydney 2060

The Institute for Social Justice is located on the ACU’s North Sydney campus, close to the northern of Sydney’s magnificent Harbour Bridge.

Participants can best travel to Tenison Woods House and Mary MacKillop Place on public transport, as there is limited car parking available (and it is very expensive).

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PROGRAM

PROGRAM

TUES 16 MAY

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10am - 1pm The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism

10am - 1pm The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism

Prof Nikolas Kompridis Prof Jay Bernstein Prof Robert Pippin Prof Akeel Bilgrami

Prof Nikolas Kompridis Prof Jay Bernstein Prof Robert Pippin Prof Akeel Bilgrami

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

2pm - 5pm The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism

2pm - 5pm The Contemporary Possibilities of Romanticism and Modernism

Prof Nikolas Kompridis Prof Jay Bernstein Prof Robert Pippin Prof Akeel Bilgrami

Prof Nikolas Kompridis Prof Jay Bernstein Prof Robert Pippin Prof Akeel Bilgrami

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

THURS 18 MAY

FRI 19 MAY

MON 22 MAY

TUES 23 MAY

9am - 3pm The End of the Enlightenment?

9am - 3pm The End of the Enlightenment?

9am - 12pm Internal ISJ Symposium

9am - 3pm Internal ISJ Symposium

Prof Costas Douzinas

Prof Costas Douzinas

Closed Event

Closed Event

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

Level 12, Tenison Woods House

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4pm - 6pm The Left in Power?

Prof Costas Douzinas Level 12, Tenison Woods House

4pm - 6pm Varieties of Religious Pluralism Prof Rajeev Bhargava Level 12, Tenison Woods House

Symposium

Masterclass

Public Talk

WED 24 MAY

THURS 25 MAY

FRI 26 MAY

MON 29 MAY

TUES 30 MAY

9am - 12pm Internal ISJ Symposium

9am - 3pm Internal ISJ Symposium

9am - 2pm Internal ISJ Symposium

Closed Event

Closed Event

Closed Event

9 am - 3pm The Social Thought of Sigmund Freud

9am - 3pm The Social Thought of Sigmund Freud

Prof Jacqueline Rose

Prof Jacqueline Rose

Lochaber Room, Mary MacKillop Place

Lochaber Room, Mary MacKillop Place

Student Conference

WED 31 MAY

THURS 1 JUNE

9.30am 3.30pm Student Conference

9.30am 3.30pm Student Conference

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Various

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Lochaber Room, Mary Mackillop Place

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4m - 6pm Radical Reflection and the Fight Against Fascism Prof Jeanne Morefield Level 12, Tenison Woods House

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How to contact us during the Sydney School: Please contact Paula Gleeson or Lisa Tarantino at isj@acu.edu.au Or in case of urgent queries please call Lisa Tarantino on +61 (02) 97392789 Facebook: @ instituteforsocialjustice

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