Philosophy and Religious Studies

Seminars are held off-campus on a fortnightly basis at METROPOLITAN HOTEL (also known as "Pugs"), Bull Street in the centre of Bendigo. We have booked the UPSTAIRS room at the hotel on every second Monday night. Dinner is at 6pm. Seminars with speakers begin at 7.30-8pm. Academics, post graduates, honours candidates and visiting scholars are all welcome.

We are now looking for speakers. If you would like to offer a paper/talk/presentation then please let me (Rod Blackhirst 54 447 813) know as soon as possible. Places are filling up quickly.

Dates are still subject to confirmation but the year's program looks as follows:

Date	Speaker	Title
16/03/09	Dr Roger Sworder	Socrates on "evil"
30/03/09	Mr Peter Chang	China’s Soft Power: Why Confucianism?
Easter and Anzac Day	No seminars
20/04/09	Kim Lai	Buddhist epistemology
11/05/09	Dean Hadlow	Symbolism of serpents in Western tradition
25/05/09	Dr Timothy Scott	Symbolic exegesis
8/06/09	Ann Van Ryn	Plotinian insights
22/06/09	No seminars - examination period
20/07/09
3/08/09
17/08/09	Dr Rod Blackhirst	Did John Locke get the notion of the equality of man from Islam?
31/08/09
14/09/09
28/09/09
12/10/09
26/10/09
23/11/09

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Last Updated: 18 May, 2009

Humanities and Social Sciences

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