<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Dear all,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span>n<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">ext</span> <span class="gmail-il">seminar</span> in this semester's<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"> Agora series will be:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dr. Bryan Mukandi</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (The </span></b><b><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University of Wollongong)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Anguish, or the exploding atoms of searing vision: reading Marechera reading Dostoevsky</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Thursday, </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">May 8</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Building 20, Room 4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="">Abstract:</span></b> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">For Ghanian philosopher, Kwasi Wiredu, it is the shared fact of our embodiment which paves the way for intercultural understanding. The Zimbabwe writer, Dambudzo Marechera, grounds his conception of universality elsewhere. He reads in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Wole Soyinka the same anguish at play in the face of different, though similarly brutal, social and political conditions. It is that susceptibility to anguish, the fact of being sensible or prone to one’s environment, or our vulnerability to being ground into ‘the raw person’, that Marechera takes to mark our shared humanity. In making his case, he refers to <i>Notes from the Underground</i>, <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>, <i>A Dance in the Forest </i>and <i>The Interpreters </i>among other works. This chapter follows suit with the aim of excavating the relationship between self and society in two different contexts. The results, it is hoped, will be useful for the articulation of a critical phenomenology of anguish.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="">Bio:</span></b> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline">Bryan studied medicine at the University of Zimbabwe and interned at the United Bulawayo Hospitals before emigrating to Ireland, where he studied the Social Sciences and Philosophy. Since moving to Australia more than a decade ago, his academic appointments have been in Health Policy and Systems Research, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy. The bulk of his work today falls into three categories: Metaphilosophy; Philosophies of the Global South; and the Health Humanities. What unites these is an abiding interest in and concern for the wellbeing of the marginalised. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)">This is an in-person event and there is no need to register. All welcome.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"> </p></div></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"> </p></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Dr. Elena Walsh</span></b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Lecturer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">School of Liberal Arts</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">T </span></b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">+61 2 4220 5692</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"><b style="">W </b><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/q_Q0Cvl1rKiAyOy5OTQfncQOWUh?domain=elenawalsh.squarespace.com" target="_blank" style="">elenawalsh.squarespace.com</a></span></p></div></div></div>