Monthly lectures from previous years
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2 Feb 1999
Dr. Francoise Hobby - "The Cycle of Revolt"
| 2 Mar | Dr. Renuka Sharma (Asia Institute,
Monash University) Dr. Purushottama Bilimoria (Post-Colonial Theorist, Bangalore/Burwood) "Sati ('Suttee': Widow Immolation) and Suicide: Yama's Transgressions on the Body Sacred?" |
| 6 Apr | David Mayer (Politics, Deakin
University) "Interpreting Albert Camus' The Plague" |
| 4 May | Dr. Kevin Brophy (Literature &
Communication, Deakin University) "Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism & Creative Writing" |
| 1 Jun | Graham Storey (English, La Trobe
University) "Sartrean Self-Consciousness" |
| 6 Jul | Dr. Robert de Caen (Australian
College of Education) "Intentions of the Heart" |
| 3 Aug | Dr. Millicent Vladiv-Glover (Comparative
Literature, Monash University) "The Political Unconscious in Dostoyevsky's 'Possessed'" |
| 7 Sep | Prof. Padmasiri de Silva (Philosophy,
Monash University) "The Autumn of Glen Waverley: A Silence that Speaks" |
| 5 Oct | Ralph Humphries (Comparative Literature,
Monash University) "Analytic and Continental: The Division in Philosophy" |
| 2 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. Robert Miller (Communication Studies, RMIT University) "Philosophy At The End Of The Millenium: Now What?" November 1999 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 57 kB) |
| 7 Dec | Berry Billingsley (PhD Student,
La Trobe University) "The Relationship Between Science and Religion in the Public Mind" |
| 2000 | |
| 1 Feb | Dr. Mat Gelman (Psychiatry Registrar,
Alfred Hospital) "The Interface Between Psychiatry and Existentialisn" |
| 7 Mar | Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft (Philosophical
Studies, Deakin University) "The Meaning of Suffering" |
| 4 Apr | Howard Dossor (Author of 'Colin
Wilson: The man and his mind') "The Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantzakis" |
| 2 May | Dr. Vera Butler (Australian International
Studies Association) "Economic Liberalism at the Crossroads" |
| 6 Jun | Dr. V. L. Krishnamoorthy (Social
Inquiry, Deakin University) "The Meaning and Purpose of Life in Indian Philosophy: Spiritualism versus Materialism" |
| 4 Jul | Geoff Boucher (English, University
of Melbourne) "Kojeve, Sartre and Postmodernism" |
| 1 Aug | Geoff Forster (Existentialist
Society) "Confronting Death: Ultimate Absurdity or Possible Gateway?" |
| 5 Sep | Dr. Ian Weeks (Social Inquiry,
Deakin University) "Karl Schmitt's Existentialism and the End of Weimar" |
| 3 Oct | Lawrence Pope (Animal Liberation) "Of Evil and Non-Harming: The Place of Kindness in a Hard World" |
| 7 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Prof. Colin Duckworth (French, University of Melbourne) "Between Fact and Fantasy: A Novelist's Playground" |
| 5 Dec | Prof. Richard Freadman (English,
La Trobe University) "Autobiographies of Three Thinkers Who Deny the Will: B. F. Skinner, Louis Althusser and Roland Barthes" |
| 2001 | |
| 6 Feb | Fiona Capp (Author) "Last of the Sane Days" |
| 6 Mar | Prof. George Venturini (Social
Research, Swinburne University) "There's Comfort in Old Certainties—Never Mind the Truth" |
| 3 Apr | Dr. Mark Newbrook (Linguistics,
Monash University) "Existentialists, Postmodernists and Ordinary Language: The Strength of Evidence for Philosophical Claims" April 2001 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB) |
| 1 May | Dr. Muhammad Kamal (Asian Institute,
University of Melbourne) "Heidegger and the Transition to Postmodernity" |
| 5 Jun | Dick Gross (Author of 'A Godless
Gospel') "Suffering and Meaning" |
| 3 Jul | Geoff Forster (Former editor,
CSIRO Science Journals) "Science and Religion" |
| 7 Aug | Dr. Kevin Brophy (Creative Writing,
University of Melbourne) "Poetry: What Kind of Behaviour is That?" |
| 4 Sep | Prof. Padmasiri de Silva (History,
Monash University) "Understanding Depression" |
| 2 Oct | Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria
(Social Inquiry, Deakin University) "Mahatma King Jnr and Civil Rights: African-American Encounters with Gandhian Nonviolence " (Illustrated) |
| 6 Nov | Melbourne Cup Day Lecture Dr. Guy Petterson (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) "On Mountainous Heights: Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'" |
| 4 Dec | Dr. Robert Miller (Communication
Studies, RMIT University) "Beyond Postmodernism? Towards a Philosophy of Play" Lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 85 kB) |