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Vic Seidler
Social theorist and philosopher, Goldsmiths University
**Victor J. Seidler** is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests include social theory and philosophy; Marxism and critical theory; moral theory; masculinity and sexual politics; and he has written on social theory, ethics, and gender, particularly in relation to men and masculinities. In recent years his writing and research have focused on the cultural memory of particular events and the ways they might challenge traditional social and cultural languages.