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    2019

    Home Events Ramsay Lectures Past Lectures 2019

    Ramsay Lecture Series 2019.

    In 2019 The Ramsay Centre ran 8 lectures. To learn more click on the links below.

    The impact of western science on today’s society

    Professor Fiona Wood

    The Case for God: can Western Civilisation be sustained without belief?

    Greg Sheridan

    Recovering and Sustaining Cultural Memory

    Rod Dreher

    The Rise and Whys of Grievance Studies

    Editor, Areo, Helen Pluckrose

    The Coddling of the American Mind

    Jonathan Haidt

    Great Books of the Middle Ages, and How to Read Them

    Rachel Fulton Brown

    Has the Cultural Revolution arrived in the West?

    Anastasia Lin

    Shakespeare

    John Bell AO OBE

    Might Makes Right? The Past, Present and Future of the Great Powers and Challenges to the International Order

      Prof Ian Frazer AC | The Truth Test: Science and Pseudoscience in a World of Information Overload

        The future West: How we can harness new technologies to transform lives

          Professor Bettany Hughes OBE

            Bernard Salt | Professor James Curran | Welcome to Oz – Immigration 1788-2100

              Robert D. Kaplan |The Tragedy of 21st Century Geopolitics

                Professor Martin Krygier |Well-Tempered Power: The Rule of Law in Theory & Practice

                  Kyle Wilson |Getting Russia Right

                    Andrew Kern |Liberal Education in the 21st Century

                      Professor Michael Wesley | Living with Leviathans: Australia in a Multipolar Age

                        Navigating the Crossroads: Australia’s Strategic Position Between China and the US in Asia

                          Rémi Brague | Is the West eccentric?

                            Robert Tombs | Are the History Wars Worth Fighting?

                              John Carroll | Searching for Meaning in an Age of Unbelief

                                A Reflection on Liberal Education – An exclusive panel discussion with Emily Langston, Simon Haines and Stephen McInerney

                                  Secondary Education: Laying the Foundation

                                    Dr Joseph Henrich | WEIRD Minds: How religion, marriage and the family made the West psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous

                                      Peter Boghossian | The Socratic Method in the Western Tradition

                                        Western Civilisation: An Australian View

                                          John Minford | Four Classics of Chinese Literature: Thoughts from Another Great Civilisation

                                            Kim Beazley | Australian Self-Reliance: The Task for Our Defence Review

                                              Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God

                                                Roosevelt Montás | The Liberal Arts: why they matter more than ever

                                                  Bob Carr | How politics and books shaped a life

                                                    Gary Johns | Charity – Enhancing its value to Australian society

                                                      Peter Craven | Classics and why we must keep them alive

                                                        The party that ate China: the subsuming of a great culture

                                                          Why the West is more Christian than it thinks

                                                            The Great Covid Panic

                                                              The sensible centre can it hold

                                                                The Last Straw: has Covid-19 finally broken freedom’s back?

                                                                  Liberalism: Not investment or exploitation or Christianity made us rich

                                                                    Why Liberalism Failed – Prof Patrick Deneen  in conversation with Dr Stephen McInerney

                                                                      Lord Charles Moore in conversation with the Hon John Howard OM AC

                                                                        A matter of some notes, or why we should still study classical music in Australia

                                                                          The ABC, democracy and the importance of press freedom

                                                                            Turning Back the Woke Tide

                                                                              Just because we’ve been okay, doesn’t mean we’ll stay that way.

                                                                                Why we must believe in Western Civilisation – Prof Andrew Roberts

                                                                                  Trust in a time of pandemic: The use and abuse of civilisations

                                                                                    Speaker profiles

                                                                                      Past Lectures 2019

                                                                                      • The impact of western science on today’s society
                                                                                      • The Case for God: can Western Civilisation be sustained without belief?
                                                                                      • Recovering and Sustaining Cultural Memory
                                                                                      • The Rise and Whys of Grievance Studies
                                                                                      • The Coddling of the American Mind
                                                                                      • Great Books of the Middle Ages, and How to Read Them
                                                                                      • Has the Cultural Revolution arrived in the West?
                                                                                      • Shakespeare

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