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The Wednesday Lectures 2016
August 3, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - September 7, 2016 @ 8:00 pm AEST
The six Wednesday Lectures of 2016 will explore what sustains and what erodes the idea of a common humanity and, more radically, whether it is a useful idea with which to think about the moral, legal and political relations between people and peoples.
Wednesday, August 3: Ghassan Hage
White Concepts
Wednesday, August 10: Raimond Gaita
The Fragility of the Idea of A Common Humanity
Wednesday, August 17: Karen Hitchcock
Seeing the Old, the Weak and the Afflicted
Wednesday, August 24: Dianne Otto
Gender and Sexual Diversity: a Question of Humanity?
Wednesday, August 31: Philomena P Murray
The European Union – Beacon of Hope or a Values Community in Crisis?
Wednesday, September 7: Maria Tumarkin
Svetlana Alexievich Didn’t Make it to the Royal Commission. (The Dramas of Non-Witnessing).
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