Monthly lectures from previous years
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5 Feb 2008
Howard Dossor (Author of 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') - "The Existential Act"
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4 Mar 2008
Dr. Rod Foster (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "Existentialism and Human Nature"
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1 Apr 2008
Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft (Philosophical Studies, Deakin University) - "How can we live in a world of global injustice?"
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6 May 2008
John Lenarcic (University in the Pub, RMIT University) - "What is Red? Colour as the Canvas of Existence"
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3 Jun 2008
Dr. Jack Reynolds (Philosophy, La Trobe University) - "The Unique Existentialism of Merleau-Ponty"
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1 Jul 2008
Dr. Gordon Preece (Urban Seed) - "Vocation in a Post-Vocational World: A Response to Bauman's Liquid Modernity"
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5 Aug 2008
Prof. Graham Priest (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "Heidegger and Zen"
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2 Sep 2008
Howard Dossor (Author, 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') - "Existential Ascent in Nikos Kazantzakis"
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7 Oct 2008
John Noack (Carl Jung Society) - "Revisionist Neo-Platonism in Freud, Jung and George Arthur Gaskell"
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4 Nov 2008
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. David Rathbone (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "The Nightmare of Reason: Hegel, Kafka and Nietzsche"
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2 Dec 2008
Jon Roffe (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) - "Foucault's Problem"
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3 Feb 2009
Brent McAuslan (Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA) -
"Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence: Prediction or Prophecy?"
February 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 56 kB) -
3 Mar 2009
Dr. Maurita Harney (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "The History of Existentialism in Australasian Philosophy"
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7 Apr 2009
Dr. Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University) - "Art, Politics and Truth"
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5 May 2009
Dr. Paul Ashton (Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE) -
"Self and World: The Role of the Thinker in Hegel's Philosophy"
May 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 536 kB) -
2 Jun 2009
Dr. Ashley Woodward (Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) -
"Nihilism, from Existentialism to Postmodernism"
June 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 100 kB) -
7 Jul 2009
Paul Daniels (Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy) - "Kant, the Sublime and the Subject"
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4 Aug 2009
Dr. John Perkins (Secular Party of Australia) -
"The Enlightenment as a Secular Project?"
August 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 86 kB) -
1 Sep 2009
Dr. Rod Foster (Trinity College, University of Melbourne) - "Wittgenstein and Freud"
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6 Oct 2009
Cathy McDonald (Philosophy, Monash University) - "Kantian Values, the Authentic Self and Existentialism"
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3 Nov 2009
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Dr. Robert Miller (Philosophy, RMIT University) -
"Buddhist Existentialism: From Anxiety to Authenticity and Freedom"
November 2009 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 201 kB) -
1 Dec 2009
John Stewart (Author: 'The Evolutionary Manifesto') -
"How the Evolutionary Worldview Answers the Big Existential Questions"
December 2009 lecture transcript
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2 Feb 2010
Howard Dossor (Author: 'Colin Wilson: The man and his mind') - "Existential Consciousness"
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2 Mar 2010
Dr. Maurita Harney (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "Consciousness: Existentialism and the Challenge of the Neurosciences"
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6 Apr 2010
Dr. Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University) - "Was Socrates an Existentialist?"
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4 May 2010
Assoc. Prof. Kevin Brophy (Creative Arts, University of Melbourne) - "Creative Frenzy"
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1 Jun 2010
Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover (Comparative Literature, Monash University) -
"Dostoevsky's Penultimate Novel 'Adolescent' (1876) and the Growing Up of Russia in the 19th Century"
Lecturer contact details -
6 Jul 2010
Phillip Ferguson (Philosophy, La Trobe University) - "The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre"
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3 Aug 2010
Assoc. Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria (Philosophy, Deakin/Melbourne & University of California) -
"Science, Religion and Secularism: Who is winning? Can they talk rationally to each other?"
August 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 229 kB) -
7 Sep 2010
Dr. David Rathbone (Philosophy, University of Melbourne) - "Existentialist? Yes! - but what kind of existentialist? The essence/existence dichotomy."
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5 Oct 2010
Assoc. Prof. Stan van Hooft (Deakin University) -
"Religion and Hope"
October 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 65 kB) -
2 Nov 2010
Melbourne Cup Day Lecture
Anne Seitz (Sociology, Swinburne University)
"Is Science Our Fundamentalist Secular Religion?"
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7 Dec 2010
Dr. Jack Reynolds (La Trobe University) and Dr. Felicity Joseph (University of Melbourne) (Deakin University) -
"Existentialism and Phenomenological Method"
The Continuum Companion to Existentialism
November 2010 lecture transcript (Adobe Acrobat format, 152 kB)