Existentialist Society, Melbourne, Australia: 2005-2007

Monthly lectures from previous years

1 Feb 2005
Assoc. Prof. Angela O'Brien (Creative Arts, University of Melbourne): "Shakespeare and Existentialism"
1 Mar 2005
Dr. Neil Levy (Philosophy, University of Melbourne): "What Makes Us Moral? Crossing The Boundaries Of Biology"
5 Apr 2005
Michael Barton (Existentialist Society): "Levinas, Levity and Gravity"
April 2005 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 124 kB)
1 May 2005
Dr. Inna Semetsky (Philosophy & Ethics, Monash University): "The Ethics of Caring"
7 Jun 2005
Dr. Muhammad Kamal (Asian Institute, University of Melbourne): "Dasein and Creativity: A Re-reading of Heidegger"
5 Jul 2005
John Lenarcic (Information Technology, RMIT University): "Postmodernism and Information Technology"
2 Aug 2005
Mammad Aidani (Poet and Playwright): "Albert Camus and Algeria: What did they learn from each other?"
6 Sep 2005
Patrick Stokes (PhD Student, University of Melbourne): "Kierkegaard on Moral Vision"
4 Oct 2005
Dr. Claire French (Carl Jung Society): "Nietzsche and Wagner: The Background"
October 2005 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 146 kB)
1 Nov 2005
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. Ian Katz (Consultant Psychiatrist): "The Psychology of Melanie Klein"
6 Dec 2005
Anne Seitz (Sociology, Swinburne University): "The Social Construction of Reality"

7 Feb 2006
Anastasia Liveriadis (Society of Friends of the National Centre for Hellenic Studies & Research, La Trobe University): "Martin Buber's Philosophy"
7 Mar 2006
Howard Dossor (Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind'): "Towards An Existential Synergy"
4 Apr 2006
Colin Goodwin (Former Registrar, Victorian College of the Arts): "The Existentialism Of Duns Scotus"
2 May 2006
Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover (Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University): "Blockbuster Novels And Films: The Ethics Of Popular Culture"
6 Jun 2006
Professor Colin Duckworth (University of Melbourne): "Outsider and Plague: Adapting Camus' Novels to the Stage"
4 Jul 2006
Geoff Forster (Existentialist Society): "Consciousness and the Brain: Recent Explorations"
July 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 755 kB)
1 Aug 2006
Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, 'The Freethinker'): "The Rev. Stewart Headlam And Friends: Anglo-Catholics, Atheists, Actors, Aesthetes And Radicals"
August 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 157 kB)
5 Sep 2006
Dr. Inna Semetsky (Education, Monash University): "The Language of Signs: Towards Order and Meaning"
3 Oct 2006
Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria (Deakin, Melbourne and StoNYbrook Universities): "Grief, Mourning and Melancholia: Secular-Humanism Versus Psychoanalysis"
October 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 241 kB)
7 Nov 2006
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft (Philosophy, Deakin University): "A Virtue Approach to Bioethical Problems"
5 Dec 2006
Dr. Robert Miller (Philosophy, Applied Communication, RMIT University): "What Might Come After Postmodernism?"
December 2006 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB)

6 Feb 2007
Dr. Joanne Faulkner (Philosophy, La Trobe University): "Nietzsche and Freud"
The body as text in the writings of Nietzsche and Freud (Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Vol.7, 2003)
6 Mar 2007
Dr. Arran Gare (Philosophy & Cultural Inquiry, Swinburne University): "Cosmos, History and Existentialism"
3 Apr 2007
Dr. George Vassilacopoulos (Philosophy, La Trobe University): "A Hegelian Reading of Heidegger's Philosophy"
1 May 2007
Dr. Stephen Curkpatrick (Monash University & Melbourne College of Divinity): "The Vocative Word, 'Other-Wise'"
5 Jun 2007
Dr. Kevin Brophy (Creative Arts, University of Melbourne): "Consciousness and Creativity"
3 Jul 2007
Dr. Ian Weeks (Social Inquiry, Deakin University): "Two Types Of Existentialism: Kierkegaard And His Opponents"
7 Aug 2007
Lev Lafayette (Prosper Australia): "Autonomy and the Phenomenology of Nature and Property"
Towards An Existentialist Political Economy
4 Sep 2007
Catherine MacDonald (Philosophy, La Trobe University): "Torture and Australian Consequentalism: Some Existentialist Thoughts"
Defusing the ‘ticking bomb’: an argument against the use of torture (Australian Rationalist, Numbers 75/76, pp. 32-38)
2 Oct 2007
John Ebel (Existentialist Psychotherapist and Philosophical Counsellor): "The Relevance of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to our Postmodern World"
October 2007 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 175 kB)
6 Nov 2007
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Paul Daniels (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Melbourne University): "Nietzsche on Truth and Lies"
4 Dec 2007
Brent McAuslan (Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA): "The Quest for Authentic Existence"

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