Existentialist Society

Monthly lectures from previous years

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"
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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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