The Western Civilisation Program at ACU warmly invites you to a public lecture by our inaugural international visiting scholar:

Professor Michael Hurley
University of Cambridge

Event Details

When: Tuesday 16th September, 2025 at 5:00 pm (5:30 pm start)

Where: Peter Cosgrove Centre, Level 18, Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney, ACU North Sydney campus

Attendance: In-person

Drawing on a wide range of writers and thinkers, from Dante and Newman to Chesterton and T.S. Eliot, Professor Hurley will explore what it means to be alive rather than dead, to weigh the virtues and limitations of Virgil, and to wrestle with the nature of truth itself. By considering these questions together, he will reframe the often opposed ideas of faith and reason as mutually illuminating, offering a new foundation for deeper understanding.

Professor Hurley is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in English at Trinity College. Educated at the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews, and at Stonyhurst College, he has published widely on literary form and style, and the intersections between literature, philosophy and theology.

The evening will include a Q&A session and conclude with light refreshments.

Please RSVP below by 3rd September.