Monthly lectures from previous years
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4 Feb 2020
Assoc. Prof. Matthew Sharpe (Philosophy, Deakin University) - "Philosophy and Evil"
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3 Mar 2020
Prof. Kevin Brophy (Creative Writing, Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) - "Thoughts on Central Australia"
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7 Apr 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
5 May 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
2 Jun 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
7 Jul 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
4 Aug 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
1 Sep 2020
Lecture cancelled due to pandemic -
Saturday 4 Sep 2021
Dr. Valery Vinogradovs -
"Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Tarkovsky on the Child"
September 2021 - lecture video -
Saturday 2 Oct 2021
Bernie Lewin (The Platonic Academy of Melbourne) -
"Lullabies for the dying: from Plato's myths to Christian beliefs"
October 2021 - lecture video -
Sunday 31 Oct 2021
Australian Dostoevsky Society -
"Dostoevsky as a European Writer"
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Saturday 6 Nov 2021
Dr Martin Black (Independent School of Philosophy) -
"Is the truth deadly for life? Nietzsche contra Plato"
November 2021 - lecture video -
Saturday 4 Dec 2021
Prof. Garry Trompf (Co-Editor 'The Gnostic World') -
"Introduction to the Gnostic World"
December 2021 - lecture video -
Saturday 5 Feb 2022
Dr David Newheiser (Author 'Hope in a Secular Age') -
"Hope in a Secular Age"
February 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 5 Mar 2022
Dr Pierre Van Osselaer -
"Guy Debord and International Situationism"
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Saturday 2 Apr 2022
Dr Tim Themi -
"Eroticizing Aesthetics: In the Real with Bataille and Lacan"
April 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 7 May 2022
Dr Martin Black (Independent School of Philosophy) -
"The Problem of Technology: Heidegger and Aristotle"
May 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 4 Jun 2022
Roy Schwartz - "Men of Steel: Superman Versus Ubermensch"
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Saturday 2 Jul 2022
Discussion - "Ecocentrism and Sustainability"
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Saturday 6 Aug 2022
Dr David Rathbone -
"Visions of the Virtual: Wittgenstein vs. Deleuze"
Aug 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 3 Sep 2022
Akiva Quinn -
"Existentialism and Meaning in Life"
Sep 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 1 Oct 2022
Dr Vaughan Rapatahana -
"Colin Wilson's New Existentialism"
Oct 2022 - lecture video
October 2022 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 66 kB) -
Saturday 5 Nov 2022
A/Professor Steven Taubeneck -
"The Relevance of Existentialism"
Nov 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 3 Dec 2022
Akiva Quinn -
"Simone de Beauvoir and 'The Ethics of Ambiguity'"
Dec 2022 - lecture video -
Saturday 7 Jan 2023
Professor Douglas Kellner -
"Adventures in Existentialism"
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Saturday 4 Feb 2023
Dr Valery Vinogradovs - "Albert Camus on Poverty"
Feb 2023 - lecture video -
Saturday 4 Mar 2023
A/Professor Patrick Stokes - "The Road to Martyrdom: Kierkegaard vs. Schopenhauer"
Mar 2023 - lecture video