From May 31, 2012 18:00 until May 31, 2012 20:00
At Mercy Lecture Theatre Australian Catholic University 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
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The Muslim and Catholic Symposia series invites you to:
‘Muslim and Catholic: Ethics in the Modern World Symposium’
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Mercy Lecture Theatre Australian Catholic University 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
ADMISSION IS FREE
Free parking during the time of the symposium may be available along Victoria Parade but please pay close attention to parking restrictions. For those of you who wish to attend with your partner and friends, please feel welcome to do so.
Keynote Speakers:
DR JOHN QUILTER: Quilter was born to a farming family which had been in the Junee district since the 1890s and in Australia since the 1820s. He was educated in Junee and Wagga. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1986 with first class honours and the university medal in Philosophy and first class honours in Ancient Greek. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh from 1986 to 1990 where he gained an MA in Philosophy. Whilst there, he studied a great deal of Ancient Philosophy and Philosophy of Science studying under, among others, Wilfrid Sellars, Adolf Gruenbaum, Jonathon Dancy, Jonathon Bennett, David Gauthier, John McDowell, Jennifer Whiting, Jean Hampton, Joe Camp and Annette Baier. In 1989, he began a PhD under Prof John McDowell but then could not finish it due to family circumstances requiring his return to Australia. He began work at ACU in 1990. Since that time, he has been connected with the Plunkett Centre for Ethics. Quilter completed studies in Information Technology in 2001 and completed his PhD in 2009 at Macquarie University under Prof Catriona MacKenzie. The thesis concerned Moral Luck. Quilter has published on topics in Ancient thought, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Moral Philosophy. He regularly supervises research students. He is the Chairperson of the REC for Australia Hearing, Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of St. Patrick's Institute of Education, was Chief Examiner of the HSC subject Studies of Religion 2008-2011, is on the Anglicare REC for Canberra-Goulburn and has been or is a member of several Research Ethics Committees and served on numerous committees within ACU. He works on two campuses of ACU: Strathfield and Canberra. He has been a Fulbright scholar and held a number of academic prizes and scholarships, including a small ARC grant. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland, the RSSS at ANU and Orebro University in Sweden. Quilter has been married for 32 years to his wife Theresa Angert-Quilter, who is a priest of the Anglican Church, a Scripture scholar and feminist theologian. Quilter and Rev Angert-Quilter have two sons, Joseph, and John Patrick who is married to Margaret and is the father of Zariah Mary.
DR SVEN SCHOTTMANN: Dr Sven Alexander Schottmann is a Research Associate at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University. His main research interests are social movements in the ‘Muslim world’ and Southeast Asian politics. He is the convener of the Muslim Leadership Program, organized annually by the Centre for Dialogue and the Islamic Council of Victoria, as well as The M Project, a new forum for Muslim engagement with the challenges confronting humanity as a whole. He is also the Muslim Faith Coordinator for the 2012 Winter Conference of the Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia. Sven was born in Hong Kong in 1977 to German expatriate parents, and grew up between Hong Kong, Germany and Singapore where he embraced Islam twenty years ago. He is married to Nursyahida Mohamed Roslan and has a three-year old daughter, Amira Victoria. Sven was previously a student at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur, DePaul University in Chicago, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and earned his doctorate for a study of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at Monash University in 2011. Sven has been in Melbourne since 2006 and thinks it’s the most wonderful place in the world.
For further information Fatih Erol Tuncer on (03) 9953-3920.