Monthly lectures from previous years |
|
| 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" |
Site maintained by VICNET volunteer,
Tony Stratford.
Last updated August 2, 2009.