ANZAAS Public Lectures
Event Details
This event is running from 17 June 2015 until 21 October 2015. It is next occurring on 19 August 2015.
http://www.gtac.edu.au/events/event/anzaas-public-lectures/
Venue: Gene Technology Access Centre
Upcoming Dates:
19 August 2015
16 September 2015
21 October 2015
Royal Society of Victoria
http://www.sciencevictoria.org.au/events.html
University of Melbourne
http://events.unimelb.edu.au/all/free-public-lecture
Atheist Society
Temporary website – http://www.atheism.quantechsolutions.com.au/atheist-society
Free public lectures, followed by questions and discussion. 8pm. Tuesdays at Unitarian Hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. Melways Map 2G D2.
9 June 2015 Lawrence Pope (Victorian Advocates for Animals) “Unhelpful God, Over-inflated Man: Toward a Freak Ethos”.
14 July 2015 Dr. Joe Sampson (Humanist Society of Victoria) “God: His Biography”.
11 August 2015
Graeme Lindenmayer (Author, “agnosticperspectives.com”)
“What if you were wrong?”.
8 September 2015
Jonathan Carter (Omnitheon)
“God the Father, and the Slaughter of Sons”.
13 October 2015
Royston Wilding
“Feminism and Atheism: A Scientific Perspective”.
10 November 2015
Heather McLaughlin (kiva.org)
“Atheist Charity: The Kiva ‘A+’ Team”.
8 December 2015
Rev. Dr. Paul Tonson (Progressive Agnostic Christian)
“The Gods I don’t believe in: Theism, Atheism and A-Theism”.
9 February 2016
Charles Darwin Day lecture:
Rick Barker (Progressive Atheists)
“Miocene African Apes: Our Anthropoid Ancestors”.
8 March 2016 – Topic to be announced.
12 April 2016 – ”
10 May 2016 – ”
14 June 2016 – ”
12 July 2016
Dr. Joe Sampson (Humanist Society of Victoria)
“Faitheists: Atheists who are nice to Theists”.
Enquiries – David Miller, Secretary – atheist_agnostic@lycos.com – Tel: (03) 9467 2063
Mail – PO Box 1111, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
Future lectures, past transcripts, links, etc:
Temporary website – http://www.atheism.quantechsolutions.com.au/atheist-society
Venue – Unitarian Hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne (Melways Map: 2G D2)
Enquiries – David Miller, Secretary – atheist_agnostic@lycos.com – Tel: (03) 9467 2063
Future lectures, past transcripts, links, etc – http://www.vic.TheAtheist.net
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Existentialist Society lectures 2015-16
For those interested in the ideas of – de Beauvoir, Berdyaev, Buber, Bultmann, Camus, Dostoyevsky, Frankl, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Laing, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Sartre, Stirner, Tillich, etc.
ENQUIRIES: http://www.existentialistmelbourne.org – For future lectures, past transcripts, links, etc.
Secretary, David Miller. Tel: 9467 2063 Email: existmelb@yahoo.com.au
Mail: P.O. Box 1111, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.
Existentialist Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Existentialist-Society
LECTURES: 8pm. First Tuesday of the month. Admission is free. No prior booking is necessary.
All are welcome. An extended question and discussion period follows the lecture.
VENUE: Unitarian Hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. Opposite the old Mercy Hospital.
2015 Melways Map 2G, D2.
7 JULY SAM GREEN (Rationalist Society of Australia)
“CAN MORAL NIHILISM MAKE LIFE MORE WONDERFUL?”
4 AUG. PROF. PURUSHOTTAMA BILIMORIA (California/Melbourne/Deakin Universities)
“TRIBUTE TO HAZEL ROWLEY: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND PAULI MURRAY
ON AMERICA’S CIVIL WRONGS AND GANDHI.”
1 SEPT. HOWARD DOSSOR (Author, ‘Colin Wilson: The man and his mind’)
“ALBERT CAMUS AND NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS.”
6 OCT. CATHERINE McDONALD (Melbourne philosopher)
“JUST WAR THEORY AND SELF DEFENCE: ISRAEL AS A CASE STUDY.”
3 NOV. Melbourne Cup Day Lecture:
PROF. GRAHAM OPPY (Philosophy, Monash University)
Topic to be announced.
1 DEC. DR. GRACE TARPEY (Lacan Circle of Melbourne. World Association for Psychoanalysis)
“THE OTHER OF THE SELF: FOR THE LOVE OF WISDOM.”
2016
2 FEB. DR. VAUGHAN RAPATAHANA (Writer, poet, critic)
“CLIVE INGRAM PEARSON: AUSTRALASIA’S OWN EXISTENTIALIST.”
1 MARCH DR. PIERRE VAN OSSELAER
“HEIDEGGER: QUESTIONING CAUSALITY?”
5 APRIL DR. A.L. JONES (Author, “The Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud”)
Topic to be announced.
3 MAY DR. COLIN GOODWIN
“ATHEISM AND THEISM: RICHARD DAWKINS VERSUS THOMAS AQUINAS.”
7 JUNE DR. KIM SAWYER (Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne)
“THE ENIGMA OF THE SOUL.”
