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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are delighted to invite you to the first presentation of Semester 2, 2025 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>August 11th (Monday, 12.15pm UTC+11) V. Gordon Childe Boardroom, Madsen Building Level 2.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Zoom link: <a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Michael Lazarus (Deakin University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Marx's Aristotelianism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Biography:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Lazarus is currently Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute. Recently, he was Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University (2024/25). He holds a PhD from Monash University (2020) and studied
at Sussex University. His research is in political theory, political economy, moral philosophy and the history of political thought. Interests include: theories of capitalism, Marx and Marxism, Hegel and German Idealism, Critical Theory, Aristotle and neo-Aristotelianism
and the political economy of work. In addition to his academic publications, he has written numerous articles for the general public. He has taught at universities in Australia (Monash University and Australian Catholic University) and lectured in North America
(including Columbia University and St. Francis Xavier University). He is the recipient of prizes from the Australian Academy of Humanities, including the Humanities Travelling Fellowship (2024), with which he conducted archival research on the writings of
Hannah Arendt.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Further Event of Interest<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael's book was published this year: <i>Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx</i> (Stanford University Press, 2025).
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a book launch: In conversation with Jean-Philippe Deranty.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Tuesday, August 12, 6:00pm at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All best, Ben</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DR BEN BROWN </span><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Co-director </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pXieC71R2NTZ15Ok8F8fGsoKncq?domain=criticalantiquities.org/" title="https://criticalantiquities.org/"><i><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0078D7;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Critical
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</span></i><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Marc Bloch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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