Monthly lectures from previous years |
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Previous speakers, please send any document, paper, or summary to John
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| 1999 | |
| 09 Feb | Chris Jones (Victorian Secular Society)
"Warning: Religion is a Health Hazard" |
| 09 Mar | Bob Nixon (Australian Skeptics)
"The Skeptics $100,000 Challenge is not a 'Set-up': It's a Genuine Scientific Test" |
| 13 Apr | Graeme Lindenmayer (Author, Bonds of Belief)
"What Atheist's Believe. What Agnostics Don't Believe" |
| 11 May | Michael Barton (Existentialist Society)
"Wittgenstein's Philosophy: The implications for Atheism" |
| 8 Jun | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"C.S. Lewis and Miracles" |
| 13 Jul | James Gerrand (Australian Skeptics and Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Karl Popper's Improper Science" |
| 10 Aug | Steven Higson (Philo Sophia )
"Rudolf Steiner: Fraud or Prophet" |
| 14 Sep | Silvio Bonazinga (Atheist Society)
"Anarchy, State or Utopia: Night Thoughts on Liberalism" |
| 12 Oct | Norman Rothfield (Author)
"The Trial of God" |
| 9 Nov | Sean Dooley (Physicist)
"Physics and Ultimate Reality" |
| 14 Dec | John Noack (Carl Jung Society )
"Medeival Counter-Christianity" |
| 2000 | |
| 8 Feb | Steve Colebrook (Australian Skeptics)
"Skepticism and Dogmatism" |
| 14 Mar | David Miller (Atheist Society and Existentialist Society)
"The Zoroastrian Reformation of the Proto-Vedic Religion, as the Origin of the Major Concepts of Judeo-Christianity" |
| 11 Apr | Peter Cuffe (Synaethesia Performance Art Ensemble) - Comedy Festival Lecture
"Ectopian Potentialism: Neo-Pagan Technophobic Anachronism or Nascent Euthenically Orientated Eco-centric Civilization? " |
| 9 May | Dr Rod Foster (Anthropology, University of Melbourne)
"Evolutionary Psychology: Neo-Darwinian Socio-Biology" |
| 13 Jun | Dr Mark Newbrook (Linguistics, Monash University)
"The Tower of Babel: Evolution and Language" |
| 11 Jul | Dick Gross (Author)
"The Godless Gospel" |
| 8 Aug | Dr Vera Butler (Australian International Studies Association)
"The Politics of 'New Age' Cults" |
| 12 Sep | Colin Goodwin (Victorian College of the Arts)
"Creative Atheism: The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander" |
| 10 Oct | Graeme Lindenmayer (Agnostic. Author of Beyond Belief)
"Monism and Dualism: A Case for the Existence of Spirit" |
| 14 Nov | Will Ross (Australian Church of Free Thought)
"Growth Through Reason" |
| 5 Dec | Prof. Jack Smart (Philosophy, ANU/Monash University)
"Science and Religion" |
| 2001 | |
| 13 Feb | Lillian Van Der Molen (Victorian Secular Society)
"Women and Religion" |
| 13 Mar | David Miller (Existentialist Society)
"Gnosticism and the Ancient Christian Church of Marcion" |
| 10 Apr | Dr Mark Newbrook (Linguistics, Monash University) - Comedy Festival Lecture
"Nutters I Have Known" |
| 8 May | Dr Rod Foster (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"Innate Mental Structures and Religious Belief" |
| 12 Jun | Ian Robinson (Editor, The Australian Rationalist)
"Can an Atheist Have a Religious Experience?" |
| 10 Jul | Adam Joseph (Past President, Victorian Skeptics)
"Should Free-Thought Groups Unite" |
| 13 Aug | John Noack (Carl Jung Society)
"Art as Blasphemy: Piss Christ, Corpus Christi, and the Last Temptation of Christ" |
| 11 Sep | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"A Critique of Alchemy" |
| 9 Oct | Rosalie Tremaine (Christian Fundamentalist)
"God's not Dead, but the Churches are" |
| 13 Nov | Dr Mark Newbrook (Linguistics, Monash University)
"Atheism and Atheists: Agreeing on the Basics But on Little Else" |
| 10 Dec | Colin Goodwin (Former Registrar, Victorian College of the Arts)
"Aristotle Amongst the Atheists" |