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</head><body class="body"><span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InformAction"><span style="display:none" itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing/Notification"><meta itemprop="description" content="Notification"/></span><span itemprop="object" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"><meta itemprop="eventStatus" content="http://schema.org/EventScheduled"/><span itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Google Calendar"/></span><meta itemprop="eventId/googleCalendar" content="3i2lr51uvolbmccpv69pp2v4cm"/><span style="display: none; font-size: 1px; color: #fff; line-height: 1px; height: 0; max-height: 0; width: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden;" itemprop="name">Michael Freeden, The University of Sydney (two events)</span><meta itemprop="url" content="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r?eid=M2kybHI1MXV2b2xibWNjcHY2OXBwMnY0Y20gMm1lN2M3ZnIzb21wbDRyaHZrcG1sYTUzNjhAZw&es=1"/><span aria-hidden="true"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20220912T060000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20220913T010000Z"></time></span><div style="display: none; font-size: 1px; color: #fff; line-height: 1px; height: 0; max-height: 0; width: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden;">Prof. Michael Freeden (emeritus, Oxford) is in Sydney next week for two in-person only events at The University of Sydney. He is one of the world’s leading political theorists and historians, and the </div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class="body-container"><tbody><tr><td style="" class="" align="left"><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><td height="16" style="height:16px;"><![endif]--><div style="height:16px;" aria-hidden="true"> </div><!--[if mso | IE]></td></tr></table><![endif]--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: #e8f0fe;;color: #1a73e8;padding: 12px 32px; border-radius: 8px;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;text-align: left;" class="info-bar-inner"><span style="font-weight: 700;">You have an upcoming event</span></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><td height="12" style="height:12px;"><![endif]--><div style="height:12px;" aria-hidden="true"> </div><!--[if mso | IE]></td></tr></table><![endif]--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="border: solid 1px #dadce0; border-radius: 8px; direction: rtl; font-size: 0; padding: 24px 32px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" class="main-container-inner"><!--[if mso | IE]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tr><![endif]--><div class="" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 100%;overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" class="main-column-table-ltr" style="padding-right: 32px; padding-left: 0;;table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td class="main-column-td" style="padding:0; vertical-align:top;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="table-layout: fixed;"><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:2px;"><div style="font-family: 'Google Sans', Roboto, sans-serif;font-weight: 400; font-size: 22px; line-height: 28px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span itemprop="name">Michael Freeden, The University of Sydney (two events)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span aria-hidden="true"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20220912T060000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20220913T010000Z"></time></span><span>Monday 12 Sept ⋅ 16:00 – Tuesday 13 Sept 2022 ⋅ 11:00 (Eastern Australia Time - Sydney)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><span><p><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/FwJACwV1vMfL2RxzYt9ixlu?domain=google.com" target="_blank"><u>Prof. Michael Freeden</u></a> (emeritus, Oxford) is in Sydney next week for two in-person only events at The University of Sydney. He is one of the world’s leading political theorists and historians, and the global authority on the theory of ideology.<br></p><p>If you’d like to attend one or both events, please follow the RSVP links below. </p><p>If you have any questions about these events, please write Prof. Alexandre Lefebvre (<u><a href="mailto:alex.lefebvre@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank">alex.lefebvre@sydney.edu.au</a>)</u></p><p>Event #1</p><p><b>Ideology: Picking up the pieces? A conversation with Michael Freeden</b></p><p>Monday 12 September, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm</p><p>United States Studies Centre, Institute Building (H03)</p><p>In recent decades, ideology studies have attempted to break free from two encumbrances. The one – European – relates to the residues of the Marxist conception of ideology as distorted and dogmatic. The other – American – is the resort to crude dichotomies as very imperfect research tools. In response, ideology studies focused on fluid morphological configurations and on uncovering histories that serve as suturing palimpsests. Now a newer turning point is emerging, recognizing the fragmented and discontinuous nature of ideologies as normal, as well as their colloquial and commonplace manifestations. It concerns deintellectualization; the brevity of transmitted messages; the democracy-challenging super-atomization of voices in the public domain – in the US, notably, through its replacement with demotics; the increasing speed of change; the easy transfer of ideas across conventional boundaries; and a subtle opacity, often unintentionally concealed. Liberal-democratic political super-conventions, such as acknowledging electoral defeat, are weakened by validating the ideological myth of ‘alternative facts’, adopting the guise of epistemological pluralism. And the convention of attributing liberal neutrality to the US Supreme Court is outed as a spurious ideological device, sustained by enlisting obfuscating philosophical abstractions such as Rawls’ public reason. </p><p>Please register <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cQlyCxngwOfJzQv4ruwQi3F?domain=google.com" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.</p><p>Event #2</p><p><b>Communicating political thought: The inevitability and hazards of interpretation </b></p><p>Tuesday 13 September, 10-11am</p><p>Sydney Policy Lab, RD Watt Building </p><p>Political information is never directly accessible but disseminated through selective filters of interpretation. Some of them are designed to distort, crudely or subtly. Others reflect the choice of sources employed as evidence or depend on competing understandings of what ‘the political’ entails. Political interpretation is also always subject to variations in collective memory, to cultural shifts, and to the fluidity of conceptual morphology. Underlying all that has been a move in political theory away from universal truths, decontextualized abstraction, key individuals, or the advocacy of stipulative solutions to tenacious dilemmas. How might we think about the inevitability and hazards of interpretation? What reflections could we share from the practice of policy development with communities? And how might this alter our methods in communicating political thought? </p><p>For this special event, please join an intimate discussion in the Sydney Policy Lab with Michael Freeden, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College to explore these issues and their potential practical consequences. A light morning tea will be served.</p><p>Tickets are free but limited, so registration is essential. To RSVP please <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/L6xDCyojxQTNpyoz9HNNR2y?domain=google.com" target="_blank"><u>click here</u></a> or reach out to the Lab team on <a href="mailto:policy.lab@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank"><u>policy.lab@sydney.edu.au</u></a>.</p></span><meta itemprop="description" content="Prof. Michael Freeden (emeritus, Oxford) is in Sydney next week for two in-person only events at The University of Sydney. He is one of the world’s leading political theorists and historians, and the global authority on the theory of ideology.If you’d like to attend one or both events, please follow the RSVP links below. If you have any questions about these events, please write Prof. Alexandre Lefebvre (alex.lefebvre@sydney.edu.au)Event #1Ideology: Picking up the pieces? A conversation with Michael FreedenMonday 12 September, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pmUnited States Studies Centre, Institute Building (H03)In recent decades, ideology studies have attempted to break free from two encumbrances. The one – European – relates to the residues of the Marxist conception of ideology as distorted and dogmatic. The other – American – is the resort to crude dichotomies as very imperfect research tools. In response, ideology studies focused on fluid morphological configurations and on uncovering histories that serve as suturing palimpsests. Now a newer turning point is emerging, recognizing the fragmented and discontinuous nature of ideologies as normal, as well as their colloquial and commonplace manifestations. It concerns deintellectualization; the brevity of transmitted messages; the democracy-challenging super-atomization of voices in the public domain – in the US, notably, through its replacement with demotics; the increasing speed of change; the easy transfer of ideas across conventional boundaries; and a subtle opacity, often unintentionally concealed. Liberal-democratic political super-conventions, such as acknowledging electoral defeat, are weakened by validating the ideological myth of ‘alternative facts’, adopting the guise of epistemological pluralism. And the convention of attributing liberal neutrality to the US Supreme Court is outed as a spurious ideological device, sustained by enlisting obfuscating philosophical abstractions such as Rawls’ public reason. Please register here.Event #2Communicating political thought: The inevitability and hazards of interpretation Tuesday 13 September, 10-11amSydney Policy Lab, RD Watt Building Political information is never directly accessible but disseminated through selective filters of interpretation. Some of them are designed to distort, crudely or subtly. Others reflect the choice of sources employed as evidence or depend on competing understandings of what ‘the political’ entails. Political interpretation is also always subject to variations in collective memory, to cultural shifts, and to the fluidity of conceptual morphology. Underlying all that has been a move in political theory away from universal truths, decontextualized abstraction, key individuals, or the advocacy of stipulative solutions to tenacious dilemmas. How might we think about the inevitability and hazards of interpretation? What reflections could we share from the practice of policy development with communities? And how might this alter our methods in communicating political thought? For this special event, please join an intimate discussion in the Sydney Policy Lab with Michael Freeden, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College to explore these issues and their potential practical consequences. A light morning tea will be served.Tickets are free but limited, so registration is essential. To RSVP please click here or reach out to the Lab team on policy.lab@sydney.edu.au."/></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding-bottom:24px;"><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;" class="primary-text" role="presentation"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"><tr><td><h2 class="primary-text" style="font-size: 14px;color: #3c4043; text-decoration: none;font-weight: 700;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;margin: 0; padding: 0;">Guests</h2></td></tr></table><div style="padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;;color: #3c4042;"></div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iMBXCzvkyVCR7mqpJTw5Kwi?domain=calendar.google.com" style="display: inline-block;;color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none;font-weight: 700;" target="_blank" class="accent-text underline-on-hover">View all event details</a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><!--[if mso | IE]></tr></table><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%;" class=""><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;;padding:4px 12px;" class="" align="left"><div class="secondary-text" style="color: #70757a; text-decoration: none;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: left;"><p>Invitation from <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_kt9Cr81nytAWDZ0Ls7X1Jv?domain=calendar.google.com/" class="accent-text underline-on-hover" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;;color: #1a73e8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a></p><p>You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Calendar notifications. 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