Monthly lectures from previous years |
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| 2008 | |
| 5 Feb | Howard Dossor
(Author of 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "The Existential Act" |
| 4 Mar | Dr. Rod Foster
(Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "Existentialism and Human Nature" |
| 1 Apr | Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft
(Philosophical Studies, Deakin University) "How can we live in a world of global injustice?" |
| 6 May | John Lenarcic
(University in the Pub, RMIT University) "What is Red? Colour as the Canvas of Existence" |
| 3 Jun | Dr. Jack Reynolds
(Philosophy, La Trobe University) "The Unique Existentialism of Merleau-Ponty" |
| 1 Jul | Dr. Gordon Preece
(Urban Seed) "Vocation in a Post-Vocational World: A Response to Bauman's Liquid Modernity" |
| 5 Aug | Prof. Graham Priest
(Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "Heidegger and Zen" |
| 2 Sep | Howard Dossor
(Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "Existential Ascent in Nikos Kazantzakis" |
| 7 Oct | John Noack
(Carl Jung Society) "Revisionist Neo-Platonism in Freud, Jung and George Arthur Gaskell" |
| 4 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. David Rathbone (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "The Nightmare of Reason: Hegel, Kafka and Nietzsche" |
| 2 Dec | Jon Roffe
(Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) "Foucault's Problem" |
| 2009 | |
| 3 Feb | Brent McAuslan
(Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA) "Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence: Prediction or Prophecy?" February 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB) |
| 3 Mar | Dr. Maurita Harney
(Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "The History of Existentialism in Australasian Philosophy" |
| 7 Apr | Dr. Matthew Sharpe
(Deakin University) "Art, Politics and Truth" |
| 5 May | Dr. Paul Ashton
(Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE) "Self and World: The Role of the Thinker in Hegel's Philosophy" May 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 536 kB) |
| 2 Jun | Dr. Ashley Woodward
(Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) "Nihilism, from Existentialism to Postmodernism" June 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 100 kB) |
| 7 Jul | Paul Daniels
(Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) "Kant, the Sublime and the Subject" |
| 4 Aug | Dr. John Perkins
(Secular Party of Australia) "The Enlightenment as a Secular Project?" August 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 86 kB) |
| 1 Sep | Dr. Rod Foster
(Trinity College, University of Melbourne) "Wittgenstein and Freud" |
| 6 Oct | Cathy McDonald
(Philosophy, Monash University) "Kantian Values, the Authentic Self and Existentialism" |
| 3 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. Robert Miller (Philosophy, RMIT University) "Buddhist Existentialism: From Anxiety to Authenticity and Freedom" November 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 201 kB) |
| 1 Dec | John Stewart
(Author: 'The Evolutionary Manifesto') "How the Evolutionary Worldview Answers the Big Existential Questions" December 2009 lecture transcript |
| 2010 | |
| 2 Feb | Howard Dossor
(Author: 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "Existential Consciousness" |
| 2 Mar | Dr. Maurita Harney
(Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "Consciousness: Existentialism and the Challenge of the Neurosciences" |
| 6 Apr | Dr. Matthew Sharpe
(Deakin University) "Was Socrates an Existentialist?" |
| 4 May | Assoc. Prof. Kevin Brophy
(Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) "Creative Frenzy" |
| 1 Jun | Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover
(Comparative Literature, Monash University) "Dostoevsky's Penultimate Novel 'Adolescent' (1876) and the Growing Up of Russia in the 19th Century" Lecturer contact details |
| 6 Jul | Phillip Ferguson
(Philosophy, La Trobe University) "The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre" |
| 3 Aug | Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria
(Philosophy, Deakin/Melbourne & University of California) "Science, Religion and Secularism: Who is winning? Can they talk rationally to each other?" August 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 229 kB) |
| 7 Sep | Dr. David Rathbone
(Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "Existentialist? Yes! - but what kind of existentialist? The essence/existence dichotomy." |
| 5 Oct | Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft
(Deakin University) "Religion and Hope" October 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 65 kB) |
| 2 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Anne Seitz (Sociology, Swinburne University) "Is Science Our Fundamentalist Secular Religion?" November 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 152 kB) |
| 7 Dec | Dr. Jack Reynolds (La Trobe University) and Dr. Felicity Joseph (University of Melbourne) "Existentialism and Phenomenological Method" The Continuum Companion to Existentialism |
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