Monthly lectures from previous years
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7 Feb 2017
Dr. Gordon Preece
(Centre for Research in Religion & Social Policy, University of Divinity)
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"Re-Tayloring the Secular Towards Transcendence: Charles Taylor's 'A Secular Age'"
Lecturer contact details
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7 Mar 2017
Dr. Maurita Harney
(Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
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"Anticipatory Being: Re-thinking the Concept of Agency"
Lecturer contact details
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4 Apr 2017
Assoc. Prof. Janice Richardson
(Author, 'Law and the Philosophy of Privacy')
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"The Philosophy of Privacy"
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2 May 2017
Dr. Nick Trakakis
(Philosophy, Australian Catholic University)
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"Existentialist Vs. Idealist Philosophy"
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6 Jun 2017
Dr. Pierre Van Osselaer
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"Michel Foucault and the Quandary of the Body"
June 2017 lecture transcript
(Adobe Acrobat format, 75 kB)
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4 Jul 2017
John Ebel
(Existentialist Psychotherapist)
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"Sleepwalking Towards a Nuclear Holocaust: A Sartrean and de Beauvoirian Perspective"
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1 Aug 2017
Dr. Lachlan Ross
(Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)
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"The Neglected Emphasis on 'Alienation' in Marx's Mature Works"
August 2017 lecture transcript
(Adobe Acrobat format, 262 kB)
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5 Sep 2017
Dr. Colin Goodwin
(Independent Scholar)
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"The Existentialism of Sir John Eccles, Neurophysiologist and Philosopher"
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3 Oct 2017
Dr. Vaughan Rapatahana
(Writer, Poet, Critic)
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"Colin Wilson as Existential Outsider"
October 2017 lecture transcript
(Microsoft Powerpoint format, 1.1 MB)
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7 Nov 2017
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Les Allan
(RationalRealm.com)
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"Is Morality Objective?"
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3 Dec 2017
Dr. Kevin Orrman-Rossiter
(Research, Innovation and Commercialisation, University of Melbourne)
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"The Problem of Scientism"
Lecturer contact details
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6 Feb 2018
Howard Dossor
(Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind')
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"Man Ascendant"
February 2018 lecture video
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6 Mar 2018
Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover
(School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics, Monash University)
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"Dostoevsky and Roberto Mangabeira Unger: An Approach to Time"
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3 Apr 2018
Assoc. Prof. Hans Baer
(Social & Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)
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"A Radical Response to the Impending Socio-Ecological Crisis"
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1 May 2018
Dr. Debra Campbell
(Psychologist. Author, 'Lovelands')
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"How Childhood Wounds Colour Adult Relationships"
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5 Jun 2018
Assoc. Prof. Kim Sawyer
(Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
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"Karma: The Unobservable of Existence"
June 2018 lecture transcript
(Adobe Acrobat format, 292 kB)
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3 Jul 2018
Dr. John Lenarcic
(Business, IT and Logistics, RMIT University)
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"The Social, Political and Philosophical Implications of Technological Advancements"
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7 Aug 2018
Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria
(Deakin/Melbourne & University of California)
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"Aestheticizing Dharma's Pathos: Mahabharata to Tagore's Paintings and Poems"
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4 Sep 2018
Assoc. Prof. Janice Richardson
(Law Faculty, Monash University)
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"Feminist Theory and Spinoza"
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2 Oct 2018
Jon Rubin
(Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy)
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"Freedom, Passion and Politics in Spinoza's Philosophy"
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6 Nov 2018
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. Colin Goodwin
(Independent Scholar)
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"The Universe and Human Beings: The Atheistic Existentialism of Stephen Hawking"
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4 Dec 2018
Dr. Mammad Aidani
(Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
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"Perplexity as the Origin of Philosophy"
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5 Feb 2019
Dr. Pierre Van Osselaer
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"Paul Virilio and the Philosphy of Speed"
February 2019 lecture notes
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5 Mar 2019
Dr. Binoy Kampmark
(Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University)
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"The Non-Person Category and the Global Refugee Problem"
Lecturer contact details
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2 Apr 2019
Dr. Emma McNicol
(Melbourne Centre for Feminist Philosophy)
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"Simone de Beauvoir: Woman as a Philosophical Problem"
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7 May 2019
John Noack
(Carl Jung Society)
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"Can Existentialism be both Atheistic and Religious?"
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4 Jun 2019
Tim Harding
(Australian Skeptics)
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"The Rejection of Expertise"
The Rejection of Expertise
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2 Jul 2019
Dr Inna Semetsky
(Institute for Edusemiotic Studies)
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"Tracing Esoteric Philosophy in Popular Culture"
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6 Aug 2019
Dr. Andrew Inkpin
(Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
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"Heidegger, Authenticity and the Narrative Self"
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3 Sep 2019
Dr. Francis Macnab
(Professor Emeritus, Cairnmillar Institute)
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"Bid me strike a match: Existentialism has thrown a new light on Psychotherapy"
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1 Oct 2019
Dr. Valery Vinogradovs
(Crossing Avenues)
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"A Sophist on the Crisis in Academic Philosophy"
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5 Nov 2019
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Kim Sawyer
(Historical and and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
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"The Descent of Man"
Lecturer contact details
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3 Dec 2019
Assoc. Prof. Patrick Stokes
(Philosophy, Deakin University)
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"The Prospects of Digital Immortality"
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