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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
For the past 10 years the Australian Catholic University's (ACU) School of Philosophy has 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 the following publication:
- Why the War Was Wrong? (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003)
- Gaza: Law, Morality and Politics (Perth: UWA Press, Forthcoming July 2010)
- Muslims and Multiculturalism (Melbourne: Text Publishing, Forthcoming February 2011)
A number of the presented lectures have also been broadcast on ABC Radio National and published in the popular media.
Previous Wednesday Lectures
2010 - Who's Afraid of International Law?
2009 - Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics
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
