<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">INVITATION: ACU NORTH SYDNEY POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">We are excited to invite interested postgraduate students to partake in a special event with the renowned feminist philosopher, NAOMI SCHEMAN, who will talk about Wittgenstein and Democracy.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Naomi Scheman will present a paper, which will be followed by a short interview with Talia Morag (ACU), a group discussion with the students, and a catered reception.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">WHEN: Friday, August 1 , 3pm-5:30pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">WHERE: ACU North Sydney (details of location will be given with registration).<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">TITLE: “How to do (radical) things with Wittgenstein: Fellow Travellers on the Rough Ground.”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-gmaildefault"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-gmaildefault" style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">ABSTRACT:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="gmail-gmaildefault"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Wittgenstein's later work chastens philosophical temptations to seek answers to questions that arise from dis-ease with aspects of the forms of life in which we are embedded. The puzzles we are tempted to solve cannot be dealt with by what has come (following Charles Mills) to be known as "ideal theory", appealing to grounding that transcends "what we do". Wittgenstein's urging us "back to the rough ground" is radically anti-foundationalist in calling our attention not to bedrock but rather to</span></span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></span><span class="gmail-gmaildefault"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">the </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">ground literally and metaphorically under our feet<span class="gmail-gmaildefault">. The implications of such attention lead to what I call "grounded radicality", grounded in engagement with </span>the </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">diverse specificities of</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> <span class="gmail-gmaildefault">the rough ground</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> o<span class="gmail-gmaildefault">n which</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>we (take a) stand and<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>a<span class="gmail-gmaildefault">cross which</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>we are complexly entangled with other beings.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Such engagement shifts the understanding and practice of democracy from its liberal<span class="gmail-gmaildefault">, Enlightenment</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>grounding in (allegedly) universal rationality to "pluriversal" grappling with<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-gmaildefault">irreducible diversity and</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>complex entanglements</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">NAOMI SCHEMAN<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota in the U.S.A., currently living in Boston.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">She is the author of<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>two volumes of collected papers in feminist epistemology and metaphysics:<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, (Routledge, 1993) and </span>Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trustworthiness <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">(Oxford University Press, 2011)</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">And she </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">is the co-editor of </span>Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> (Penn State Press, 2002), Her subsequent work has continued her efforts to connect Wittgenstein's later work to issues of current social and political concern, such as prison abolition, diasporic Jewish ethics, and transgender identities</span>.<font size="3"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Registration by email to <a href="mailto:talia.morag@acu.edu.au">talia.morag@acu.edu.au</a></span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Talia Morag<div>Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities</div><div>Australian Catholic University | North Sydney NSW 2060</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>