On Thursday 22 September, Greg Sheridan will speak on the topic ‘What role can or should religion ploy in a modern nation?’. This event is a Deakin University public lecture.

Greg Sheridan is Foreign Editor for The Australian and arguably the most influential foreign affairs analyst in Australian journalism. He has also written actively and constructively on the question of religion in modern society. Mr Sheridan’s work has always been thought-provoking, and this event (sponsored by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute) provides a forum to address a topic of great national and international importance.

The lecture will be followed by a cocktail reception.

Date: Thursday 22 September 2011
Time: from 6pm
Venue: Conference Theatre, Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke Street
Melbourne (Melways Ref: 43 F8)

To register your attendance for this public lecture please email Dr Sam Koehne samuel.koehne@deakin.edu.au

To wrap up the theism versus atheism discussion (for now), this Wednesday April 21 we’ll discuss Terry Eagleton’s scathing review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. Eagleton’s review was published in the London Review of Books in 2006. You can access the review online at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/terry-eagleton/lunging-flailing-mispunching.

DPS Lectures online

Also, both AC Grayling’s and Tamas Pataki’s lectures are now available on the Deakin Philosophical Society website: http://deakinphilosophicalsociety.com/lectures

Regards,

Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.

The next instalment in the Deakin Philosophical Society’s 2010 presentation series is on this Thursday. Dr Tamas Pataki will explore the link between religion and violence.

Dr Pataki is honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and honorary fellow of Deakin University. He studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne and psychoanalysis at University College, London University. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at RMIT, University of Tasmania and University of Melbourne. He co-edited, with Michael Levine, Racism in Mind (Cornell 2004) and is the author of Against Religion (Scribe, 2007) as well as of several articles and book chapters on the philosophy of mind, and numerous popular pieces and reviews.

The presentation is in room ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus (the same room we used for AC Grayling’s presentation) from 3-4.30pm.

This is a public presentation and anybody is welcome to attend. If you have any questions you can email Dylan Nickelson: mail@deakinphilosophicalsociety.com or dnic@deakin.edu.au.

Against Religion
Wednesday, April 14
4-5.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus

In preparation for Dr Pataki’s presentation, this Wednesday the DPS will discuss his Australian Book Review essay ‘Against Religion‘. The essay is online at: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Feb06/Pataki%20essay.htm .

So feel free to join us for the discussion this Wednesday from 4-5.30pm in ib3.307.

Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.