Existentialist Society, Melbourne, Australia: 2011-2013

Monthly lectures from previous years

1 Feb 2011
Russell Blackford (Humanities & Social Science, University of Newcastle): "Thomas Pynchon?"
February 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 86 kB)
1 Mar 2011
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 2011
Richard Sebold (La Trobe University): "Toward the Disenchantment of Nature"
3 May 2011
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 2011
Craig Coulson: "Torture, Forgiveness and the Writings of Miroslav Volf"
June 2011 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 221 kB)
5 Jul 2011
Howard Dossor (Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind'): "Existential Love"
2 Aug 2011
Lev Lafayette (Isocracy Network): "Hannah Arendt's Existentialism"
Lecturer contact details
6 Sep 2011
Catherine McDonald: "Religion, Blood and the Love of War: Investigations into an anthropology of war"
Lecturer contact details
4 Oct 2011
Ashley Woodward (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy): "Albert Camus and Nihilism"
1 Nov 2011
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Peter Cuffe: "Cinema of Existential Solitude"
6 Dec 2011
Dr. George Vassilacopoulos (Philosophy, La Trobe University): "A New Perspective on Plato's Republic"

7 Feb 2012
Associate Professor Russell Grigg (Humanities & Social Sciences, Deakin University): "The Trial of Albert Camus"
6 Mar 2012
Dr. Matthew Sharpe (International and Political Studies, Deakin University): "Camus, Viewed from His Notebooks: Philosophy as a Way of Life"
3 Apr 2012
Dr. Mark Manolopoulos (Philosophy, Monash University): "Why We Revolutionary Believers Love Existentialism"
April 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 137 kB)
1 May 2012
Dr. Justin Clemens (Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne): "Albert Camus: Back up the hill again"
5 Jun 2012
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 2012
Dr. Joseph Gelfer (Social Inquiry, Monash University): "The Masculinity Conspiracy: Deconstructing the Masculine Self"
7 Aug 2012
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 2012
Craig Coulson: "Charity: The Damoclean Sword of Deception"
September 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 141 kB)
2 Oct 2012
Howard Dossor (Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind'): "The Existential Void"
6 Nov 2012
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. David Rathbone (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy): "On Merleau-Ponty's essay 'Hegel's Existentialism'"
4 Dec 2012
Prof. Stan van Hooft (Philosophy, Deakin University): "Sex and Virtue"
December 2012 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 120 kB)

5 Feb 2013
Adjunct Prof. Inna Semetsky (Cultural Studies, University of Waikato, NZ): "The Re-Symbolization of the Self"
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5 Mar 2013
David Champion (Art Therapist): "Finding Meaning in the Face of the Abyss"
March 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 3.1 MB)
2 Apr 2013
Dr. William Hall (Evolutionary Biology of Species and Organisations): "Knowledge and Life: what does it mean to be living?"
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7 May 2013
Dr. Robert Miller (Philosophy, Media & Communication, RMIT University): "Nietzsche's Dionysian Joyful Wisdom"
May 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 196 kB)
4 Jun 2013
Dr. John Wilkins (Blog: evolvingthoughts.net): "Various Ways to Naturalise Religion"
June 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 38 kB)
2 Jul 2013
Rev. Dr. Paul Tonson (Uniting Church in Australia): "Can Existentialist Categories Save Christian Theology?"
July 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 172 kB)
6 Aug 2013
Dr. David Rathbone (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy): "Gender: Simone de Beauvoir, Nietzsche and Heidegger"
3 Sep 2013
Dr. Kim Sawyer (Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne): "Synchronicity: The Anonymous Test of Existence"
September 2013 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 172 kB)
1 Oct 2013
Dr. Matthew Sharpe (International and Political Studies, Deakin University): "Stoicism: An Ancient Existentialism"
5 Nov 2013
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. Ian Weeks (International and Political Studies, Deakin University): "Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer on Human Existence"
3 Dec 2013
Dr. Christopher Gribbin (Classical Studies, University of Melbourne): "Aristotle's Views on How to Direct One's Life"

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