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Dowling College Fall Philosophy Speaker Series Kicks Off

Dr. Wendy C. Hamblet, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, at Adelphi University, will present a talk entitled, "Greek Philosophy and the Critique of Modernity" at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday September 30 in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room at Dowling College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. The event is free and open to the public and begins the Dowling College Philosophy Department's Visiting Speaker Series for the fall term.

Dr. Hamblet received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 2000. She is author of "The Sacred Monstrous: Reflections on Violence in Human Communities" (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004), and the forthcoming, "Savage Constructions: A Theory of \'Rebounding\' Violences in Africa" (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi. 2004-5). Her current research project is titled, "Evil Discourse: Moral Fault-Lines in Perceptions of Evil".

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Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.