Philosophy and Religious Studies
Campus Address
Edwards Road
Flora Hill
Bendigo Vic 3550
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 199
Bendigo Vic 3552
Australia
Tel: +61 3 5444 7225
Fax: +61 3 5444 7970
Email: d.amarant
@latrobe.edu.au
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Philosophy and Religious Studies
Staff Directory
Academic Staff
| Name |
Position |
Research/Teaching Interests |
Telephone |
Email |
| Dr Rod Blackhirst |
Lecturer |
The perennialist and traditionalist perspectives in Religious Studies and comparative religion. The monotheist religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
+61 3 5444 7813 |
r.blackhirst@latrobe.edu.au |
| Mr John Penwill |
Senior Lecturer |
Greek and Roman Literature and Philosophy. My particular interests are in Roman literature of the late republic and early empire (Lucretius to Apuleius). |
+61 3 5444 7547 |
j.penwill@latrobe.edu.au |
| Dr Harry Oldmeadow |
Lecturer |
The traditionalist school of perennialism critiques of modernity; the Western encounter with Eastern religious traditions; religion and the environmental debate; primal and indigenous religions; classical Hollywood cinema. |
+61 3 5444 7592 |
h.oldmeadow@latrobe.edu.au |
Research Staff
| Name |
Position |
Research/Teaching Interests |
Telephone |
Email |
| Mr Peter Chang |
Research Officer |
Chinese moral and religious traditions: classical and contemporary Confucian movements; human rights; Christian and Confucian philosophical and religious ethics. |
+61 3 5444 7228 |
p.chang@latrobe.edu.au
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| Dr Timothy Scott |
Research Officer |
Traditional symbolism and metaphysics; the mystical traditions; sacred art; the traditionalist school of perennialism. |
+61 3 5444 7243 |
t.scott@latrobe.edu.au |
| Dr Algis Uždavinys |
Research Officer |
Hellenic, ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Byzantine and Indian traditions; Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Stoicism and Neo-Platonism; Islamic history and theology; Sufism; Hermeticism; sacred art. |
+61 3 5444 7542 |
a.uzdavinys@latrobe.edu.au |
Honorary Associate
| Name |
Position |
Research/Teaching Interests |
Telephone |
Email |
| Dr Brian Coman |
Hon. Assoc |
Philosophy of religion, the interaction between religion and science, and especially, the question of religion and ‘ecological consciousness’. |
+61 3 5444 7990 |
b.coman@
latrobe.
edu.au |
| Dr Al Gabay |
Hon. Assoc. |
The related areas of my research interests are: religion in the l8th Century and on 19th Century Spiritualism in Australia, the U.S. and Britain; and biography in History. |
+61 3 5444 7421 |
a.gabay@latrobe.edu.au |
| Mr Maurice Nestor |
Hon. Assoc. |
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Literature, Film and Art |
+61 3 5444 7421 |
m.nestor@latrobe.edu.au |
| Dr Roger Sworder |
Retired |
Roger teaches units in Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Enlightenment and Romantic thought and the Philosophy of Work and Art. Other interests are Vedanta, Taoism, the Metaphysical and Romantic poets. |
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