Dear Sydphil, I'm sending all three of our April Blackheath PhilOsophy Forum events in this email because Easter has intervened and I'm not sure of your deadlines.
I hope you can still include the item about our first Forum on April 9 which is only a week away. Here are all three announcements. Many thanks, Sandra Darroch Secretary. *BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM* blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org> ** *SATURDAY APRIL 9* 4pm -6pm FIRST TALK *THEME 1: POLITICS, FREEDOM AND POWER** **" Free speech under threat?"* ***Our speaker, Michael Sexton SC, the *NSW Solicitor-General, will discuss the dilemma surrounding Free Speech:Freedom of speech is a key prerequisite for a functioning democracy. However few argue that free speech should be completely unconstrained.** ***Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion *at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org> _________________________________________________________________________________ * BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM* blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org> *SATURDAY APRIL 16, 201*6 ** 4pm -6pm SECOND TALK *THEME 1: POLITICS, FREEDOM AND POWER* *"Biopolitics as a new paradigm of power"***** *Our speaker, **Vanessa Lemm*,Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of NSW. will discuss the tendency to think of political theory and biological science as hermetically separate realms. She will draw on the work of the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault to challenge this view, *Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion *at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org> ___________________________________________________________________________ *BLACKHEATH PHILOSOPHY FORUM* blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org> ***SATURDAY APRIL 23* *4PM-6PM * THIRD TALK *THEME 1: POLITICS, FREEDOM AND POWER** **"The Left and identity politics"***** *Our speaker, Peter Baldwin, *former minister in the Hawke and Keating governments and currently chairs the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, will ask: What does it means when someone describes their politics as “left-wing” or “progressive”? Come and join us for a stimulating talk and lively discussion**at the Hall at the Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre, cnr Gardiner Crescent & the Great Western Highway, 4pm-6pm, followed by informal discussion at the pub.Admission $10 includes a big afternoon tea before question time. Hall is heated.All welcome!** For more program details please go to blackheathphilosophy.org <http://www.blackheathphilosophy.org>
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