[SydPhil] Sydney Seminar 25: Can there be law without violence? (Peg Birmingham, James Martel, Anna Yeatman)

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Peg Birmingham, James Martel, Anna Yeatman

Sydney Seminar 25: Can there be law without violence?

[cid:image001.jpg at 01D0CEC1.54C522C0]Wednesday 12th August, 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM

Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Building,
State Library of New South Wales

Cost: Adults $15, Concessions $10

* Bookings essential:
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/can_there_be_law_without_violence.html

The law is the basis of institutions such as sovereignty and the police, which are designed to protect citizens from violence and
to establish order, peace and stability. At the same time, these institutions need to use violent means to extend their protection.
Is it possible to establish clear limits to how the law can use violence? Or is the violence from which the law is meant to protect
us internal to the law itself?

Programme:
Chair - Dimitris Vardoulakis
6:05 pm Welcome by Dimitris Vardoulakis (director of the Sydney Seminar)
6:10 to 6:30 Anna Yeatman
6:30 to 6:50 James Martel
6:50 to 7:10 Peg Birmingham
7:10 to 7:30 Q&A and Round Table Discussion

Peg Birmingham<http://las.depaul.edu/departments/philosophy/faculty/pages/peg-birmingham.aspx> is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights.
Anna Yeatman<http://whitlam.org/about_us2/staff_-and-_associates> is a professorial research fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is co-editor of The Aporia of Rights.
James Martel<http://politicalscience.sfsu.edu/james-martel> is Professor of Politics at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The One and Only Law and of Divine Violence.

Further information: www.sydneyseminar.net<http://sydneyseminar.net/artphil/>


This Seminar is funded by the Philosophy at UWS<http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy> Research Initiative and the University of Western Sydney<http://www.uws.edu.au>


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