Monthly lectures from previous years |
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| 2011 | |
| 1 Feb | Russell Blackford
(Humanities & Social Science, University of Newcastle) "Thomas Pynchon?" February 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 86 kB) |
| 1 Mar | Dr. Glenn McLaren
(Philosophy & Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University) "The Triumph of Virtual Reality and its Implications for Philosophy" March 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 172 kB) |
| 5 Apr | Richard Sebold
(La Trobe University) "Toward the Disenchantment of Nature" |
| 3 May | Assoc. Prof. Kate Rigby
(Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University) "The Blindness of Faust: Goethean Science in a Warming World" May 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 106 kB) |
| 7 Jun | Craig Coulson
"Torture, Forgiveness and the Writings of Miroslav Volf" June 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 221 kB) |
| 5 Jul | Howard Dossor
(Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "Existential Love" |
| 2 Aug | Lev Lafayette
(Isocracy Network) "Hannah Arendt's Existentialism" Lecturer contact details |
| 6 Sep | Catherine McDonald
"Religion, Blood and the Love of War: Investigations into an anthropology of war" Lecturer contact details |
| 4 Oct | Ashley Woodward
(Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) "Albert Camus and Nihilism" Lecturer contact details |
| 1 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Peter Cuffe "Cinema of Existential Solitude" |
| 6 Dec | Dr. George Vassilacopoulos
(Philosphy, La Trobe University) "A New Perspective on Plato's Republic" |
| 2012 | |
| 7 Feb | Associate Professor Russell Grigg
(Humanities & Social Sciences, Deakin University) "The Trial of Albert Camus" |
| 6 Mar | Dr. Matthew Sharpe
(International and Political Studies, Deakin University) "Camus, Viewed from His Notebooks: Philosophy as a Way of Life" |
| 3 Apr | Dr. Mark Manolopoulos
(Philosophy, Monash University) "Why We Revolutionary Believers Love Existentialism" April 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 137 kB) |
| 1 May | Dr. Justin Clemens
(Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne) "Albert Camus: Back up the hill again" |
| 5 Jun | Dr. Robert Miller
(Philosophy, Media & Communication, RMIT University) "Buddhist Existentialism: A Proposal for an Environmentally Sustainable Vision of the Good Life, and Philosophical Remedy for our Existential Malaise" June 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 147 kB) | June 2012 lecture video |
| 3 Jul | Dr. Joseph Gelfer
(Social Inquiry, Monash University) "The Masculinity Conspiracy: Deconstructing the Masculine Self" The Masculinity Conspiracy - free ebook |
| 7 Aug | Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria
(Philosophy, Deakin/Melbourne & University of California) "Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity: Between Judaism and Hinduism" August 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 410 kB) |
| 4 Sep | Craig Coulson
"Charity: The Damoclean Sword of Deception" September 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 141 kB) |
| 2 Oct | Howard Dossor
(Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') "The Existential Void" |
| 6 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. David Rathbone (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) "On Merleau-Ponty's essay 'Hegel's Existentialism'" Lecturer contact details |
| 4 Dec | Prof. Stan van Hooft
(Philosophy, Deakin University) "Sex and Virtue" December 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 120 kB) |
| 2013 | |
| 5 Feb | Adjunct Prof. Inna Semetsky
(Cultural Studies, University of Waikato, NZ) "The Re-Symbolization of the Self" Lecturer contact details |
| 5 Mar | David Champion
(Art Therapist) "Finding Meaning in the Face of the Abyss" March 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 3.1 MB) |
| 2 Apr | Dr. William Hall
(Evolutionary Biology of Species and Organisations) "Knowledge and Life: what does it mean to be living?" Lecturer contact details |
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