Monthly lectures from previous years |
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| 2005 | |
| 1 Feb | Assoc. Prof. Angela O'Brien
(Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) "Shakespeare and Existentialism" |
| 1 Mar | Dr. Neil Levy (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "What Makes Us Moral? Crossing The Boundaries Of Biology" |
| 5 Apr | Michael Barton (Existentialist
Society) "Levinas, Levity and Gravity" April 2005 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 124 kB) |
| 3 May | Dr. Inna Semetsky (Philosophy & Ethics,
Monash University) "The Ethics of Caring" |
| 7 Jun | Dr. Muhammad Kamal (Asian
Institute, University of Melbourne) "Dasein and Creativity: A Re-reading of Heidegger" |
| 5 Jul | John Lenarcic (Information Technology, RMIT University) "Postmodernism and Information Technology" |
| 2 Aug | Mammad Aidani (Poet and Playwright) "Albert Camus and Algeria: What did they learn from each other?" |
| 6 Sep | Patrick Stokes (PhD Student,
University of Melbourne) "Kierkegaard on Moral Vision" |
| 4 Oct | Dr. Claire French (Carl Jung
Society) "Nietzsche and Wagner: The Background" October 2005 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 146 kB) |
| 1 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. Ian Katz (Consultant Psychiatrist) "The Psychology of Melanie Klein" |
| 6 Dec | Anne Seitz (Sociology, Swinburne University) "The Social Construction of Reality" |
| 2006 | |
| 7 Feb | Anastasia Liveriadis
(Society of Friends of the National Centre for Hellenic Studies & Research,
La Trobe University) "Martin Buber's Philosophy" |
| 7 Mar | Howard Dossor
(Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "Towards An Existential Synergy" |
| 4 Apr | Colin Goodwin
(Former Registrar, Victorian College of the Arts) "The Existentialism Of Duns Scotus" |
| 2 May | Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover
(Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University) "Blockbuster Novels And Films: The Ethics Of Popular Culture" |
| 6 Jun | Professor Colin Duckworth
(University of Melbourne) "Outsider and Plague: Adapting Camus' Novels to the Stage" |
| 4 Jul | Geoff Forster
(Existentialist Society) "Consciousness and the Brain: Recent Explorations" July 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 755 kB) |
| 1 Aug | Nigel Sinnott
(Former Editor, 'The Freethinker') "The Rev. Stewart Headlam And Friends: Anglo-Catholics, Atheists, Actors, Aesthetes And Radicals" August 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 157 kB) |
| 5 Sep | Dr. Inna Semetsky
(Education, Monash University) "The Language of Signs: Towards Order and Meaning" |
| 3 Oct | Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria
(Deakin, Melbourne and StoNYbrook Universities) "Grief, Mourning and Melancholia: Secular-Humanism Versus Psychoanalysis" October 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 241 kB) |
| 7 Nov | Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft
(Philosophy, Deakin University) "A Virtue Approach to Bioethical Problems" |
| 5 Dec | Dr. Robert Miller
(Philosophy, Applied Communication, RMIT University) "What Might Come After Postmodernism?" December 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB) |
| 2007 | |
| 6 Feb | Dr. Joanne Faulkner
(Philosophy, La Trobe University) "Nietzsche and Freud" The body as text in the writings of Nietzsche and Freud (Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Vol.7, 2003) |
| 6 Mar | Dr. Arran Gare
(Philosophy & Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University) "Cosmos, History and Existentialism" |
| 3 Apr | Dr. George Vassilacopoulos
(Philosophy, La Trobe University) "A Hegelian Reading of Heidegger's Philosophy" |
| 1 May | Dr. Stephen Curkpatrick
(Monash University & Melbourne College of Divinity) "The Vocative Word, 'Other-Wise'" |
| 5 Jun | Dr. Kevin Brophy
(Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) "Consciousness and Creativity" |
| 3 Jul | Dr. Ian Weeks
(Social Inquiry, Deakin University) "Two Types Of Existentialism: Kierkegaard And His Opponents" |
| 7 Aug | Lev Lafayette
(Prosper Australia) "Autonomy and the Phenomenology of Nature and Property" Towards An Existentialist Political Economy |
| 4 Sep | Catherine MacDonald
(Philosophy, La Trobe University) "Torture and Australian Consequentalism: Some Existentialist Thoughts" Defusing the ‘ticking bomb’: an argument against the use of torture (Australian Rationalist, Numbers 75/76, pp. 32-38) |
| 2 Oct | John Ebel
(Existentialist Psychotherapist and Philosophical Counsellor) "The Relevance of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to our Postmodern World" |
| 6 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Paul Daniels (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Melbourne University) "Nietzsche on Truth and Lies" |
| 4 Dec | Brent McAuslan
(Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA) "The Quest for Authentic Existence" |
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