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The Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value

Faculty of Theology and Philosophy

School of Philosophy

First instituted in 2000, the Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value are held in Sydney and Melbourne each year, inviting a distinguished international scholar to give a lecture and seminar at ACU National.

The lectures are not intended to be a forum for engaging specifically with the work of Simone Weil, but are inspired by Weil's commitment to recognising the full humanity of our fellow human being, by her moral idealism and by her commitment to social justice issues

We are very pleased to announce that the Simone Weil Lecture in 2010 will be given by Antony Duff.  More information on the 2010 lecture will be available soon.  

Previous Simone Weil Lectures

- 2009 Knowledge and Prejudice by Miranda Fricker

- 2008 Uprootedness, Narratives and National Conflict by Jonathan Glover 

- 2007 (Lecture cancelled)

- 2006 Terrorism and Religion by Susan Mendus

- 2005 Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman

- 2004 The Conversation of Mankind by Stephen Mulhall

- 2003 "I Want to Die, I Hate My Life": Phaedra's Malaise by Simon Critchley

- 2002 A Wonderful Life: Philosophy and Biography by Ray Monk

- 2001 A Moral Witness by Avishai Margalit

- 2000 Human Action and the Kantian Imperatives by Christine Korsgaard