Monthly lectures from previous years |
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Previous speakers, please send any document, paper, or summary to John
Perkins for inclusion in web link. Attendees may aslo forward their comments. | |
| 2008 | |
| 12 Feb | John L Perkins (Secular Party of Australia)
"Darwin Day - Darwin's Relevance Today" |
| 11 Mar | Paul Murchison (Author: 'Who is this God?')
"Are The Atheists Too Evangelistic?"" |
| 08 Apr | Robert Bender
"The Jehovah Witnesses and Evolution" |
| 13 May | Tamas Pataki (Author - 'Against Religion.')
"Some Aspects of the Psychology of Religion" |
| 10 Jun | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Morality and the Environment" |
| 08 July | Dr. Gideon Polya (Author - 'Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History')
" Body Count: Global avoidable mortality since 1950" |
| 12 Aug | Ian Robinson (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"No Hope for the Pope: A reply to the attack on Atheism in Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter 'Spe Salvi' (Saved by Hope)" |
| 9 Sept | Professor Graham Oppy (Philosophy & Bioethics, Monash University)
"The New Atheists and Christian Nationalism" |
| 14 Oct | Jacinta Cashen (Victorian Council of School Organisations)
"Challenges to Secular Education" |
| 11 Nov | Catherine Deveny ('The Age' columnist)
"My Conversion to Atheism" |
| 9 Dec | Wolfgang Eubel (A Melbourne Atheist)
"Was J.S.Bach an Atheist?" |
| 2009 | |
| 10 Feb | John L Perkins (Atheist, Economist, and Secular Party founding member)
"Darwin and Islam: Evolution and the Failure of Islam" |
| 10 Mar | Russell Blackford (Philosophy & Bioethics, Monash University
"Voices of Disbelief" |
| 14 Apr | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Does Reductionism Make Science Simplistic?" |
| 12 May | Chris Gaffney (Victorian Labor College)
"Marxism materialism and atheism" |
| 9 June | Dr John Long (Melbourne Museum)
"Creationism, dogma and pseudoscience: fighting the war against the growth of wilful ignorance" |
| 14 July | Silvio Bonazinga (PhD Student)
"The Atheist Veneration of Science" |
| 11 Aug | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Science and religion" |
| 08 Sep | Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor on Atheist Philosophy)
" Progressive Christianity's Redefining of God and Jesus: A Secular Response" |
| 13 Oct | Lev Lafayette
"Atheist Support for Religious Freedom" |
| 10 Nov | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, The Freethinker, UK, 1972-73 )
"My March to Militant Atheism, and What I Fought on the Way " |
| 08 Dec | Roger Boyce (Psychologist)
"Have Atheists Been Gulled By Jesus?" |
| 2010 | |
| 09 Feb | Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Evolution's Controversial History: Lamark, Darwin and Wallace" |
| 09 Mar | Dr. Joseph Gelfer (Social Inquiry, Monash University)
"A Critical Look at the 2012 Phenomenon." |
| 13 Apr | John L Perkins (Secular Party of Australia)
"Economics and the Rise of Secularism" |
| 11 May | Ray Lewis ("The Release Effect")
"I feel, therefore I am: Rationality and the Emotions." |
| 08 June | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"When does a life begin?" |
| 13 July | Jason Ball (University of Melbourne Secular Society)
"A Fresh Generation of Freethinkers" |
| 10 Aug | Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
" Naturalism as a Viable Worldview." |
| 14 Sep | Russell Blackford (Co-Editor, '50 Voices of Disbelief')
" Living in a world without objective values" |
| 12 Oct | Ian Robinson (Rationalist Society of Australia)
" Do modern theologians' concepts of god escape the atheist critique (or does 'post-ontological' boil down to 'non-existent')?" |
| 09 Nov | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
" Orthodox Jews and involvement in science: can they be reconciled?" |
| 14 Dec | Meredith Doig (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The Emotionality of Belief" |
| 2011 | |
| 08 Feb | Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Fitness: The Earth's Evolutionary Path" |
| 08 Mar | Marquez Comelab (Reasonism)
"Morality Does Not Come From Religion" |
| 12 Apr | Jean Brown (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Belief and Unbelief: The Nature of Being Human" |
| 10 May | Lev Lafayette (Isocracy Network)
"The Rejection of Imposed Authority, Divine or Human" |
| 14 Jun | Tony Dear (Rothbardian)
"Anarcho-Capitalism for the Undamned Individual" |
| 12 July | Ali Sayed (Progressive Atheists Inc)
"Progressive Atheism: What is it?" |
| 09 Aug | Lyn Allison (former Senator)
"Religion and Education" |
| 13 Sep | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness" |
| 11 Oct | Roger Boyce (Psychologist)
"Despite its Atheism, is Buddhism a Religion?" |
| 08 Nov | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"The Exclusive Brethren: A critical examination" |
| 13 Dec | Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
"Science and the Objectivity Myth" notes |
| 2012 | |
| 14 Feb | Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"You, Me and the Chimpanzees: You can pick your friends, but not your relatives" |
| 13 Mar | Petra Brown (Paideia Australia. International and Political Studies, Deakin University)
"New Atheism: Destroying golden calfs or worshipping the Wallstreet bull?" |
| 10 Apr | John Perkins (Secular Party)
"Islam and Terrorism: An Atheist View" |
| 8 May | Tim Heasley (Fairness in Religions in School)
"The Threat to Secular Education" |
| 12 June | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
""The Nature of the Supernatural" |
| 10 Jul | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, 'The Freethinker' UK)
"What Atheism means to me, and what it does not mean" |
| 14 Aug | Rosslyn Ives (Australian Humanists)
"Is Atheism Culturally Weak?" |
| 11 Sep | Tamas Pataki (Author - 'Against Religion')
"What's Wrong With The New Atheism: A Critique" |
| 09 Oct | Meredith Doig (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The Pleasure of Understanding" |
| 13 Nov | Lev Lafayette (Victorian Secular Lobby)
"The Importance of a Secular Political System" |
| 11 Dec | Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
"Bible 101 for Atheists (or Being a Biblical Smart Alec to Evangelicals)" |
| 2013 | |
| 12 Feb | Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Neanderthals, Denisovans, Hobbits and Homo-Sapiens: The Origin and Evolution of the Genus Homo" |
| 12 Mar | Dick Gross (Author, 'Godless Gospel')
"Jesus, Judas and Mordy" |
| 9 April | Professor Graham Oppy (Philosophy, Monash University)
"The Kalam Cosmological Argument" |