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The Wednesday Lectures
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
School of Philosophy
A Free Public Lecture Series organised by the School of Philosophy at ACU National
Each year the School of Philosophy runs a free public lecture series addressing a theme or issue of contemporary relevance and importance for the community. The series hosts a different invited speaker each Wednesday night for six weeks, and seeks to present the issue from a diverse range of expert perspectives, and in the spirit of philosophical questioning.
The series, which has become known to many as The Wednesday Lectures, has led to various publications, including the collection of essays, Why the War Was Wrong? (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003). A number of the presented lectures have also been broadcast on ABC Radio National and published in the popular media.
The 2009 Wednesday Lectures
Gaza: Morality Law and Politics
Listen to the 2009 Wednesday Lectures Panel Discussion on Gaza with Mark Baker, Raimond Gaita, Ghassan Hage, Robert Manne and Gerry Simpson
On ABC Radio National's Encounter
Sunday 18 October at 7.10am; repeated on Wednesday 21 October at 7pm
This program is now available for download from the Encounter website.
Previous Wednesday Lectures
2008 - Rethinking Our Place in Nature
2007 - Whatever Happened to Reconciliation?
2006 - Multiculturalism and Global Terrorism
2005 - Torture
2004 - Politics: the Glory and the Misery
2003 - The Invasion of Iraq
2002 - The Second Series
2001 - The First Series
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