The Ninth Dawson Centre Colloquium,
Saturday 6 July 2024
Authentic Humanism and the Crisis of Culture
The Italian Club,
77 Federal Street, North Hobart
8.45 Session 1
David Daintree
9.00 Session 2
Karl Schmude
A Transcendent Humanism: Recovering the Vision of
Christopher Dawson
9.45 Session 3
Bella d’Abrera
Undoing Australia: how the Australian Nation is being
Dismantled, One Statue at a Time
10.30 Tea Break
11.00 Session 4
Lucas McLennan
Western Perspectives in the Australian Curriculum
11.45 Session 5
Anna Krohn
Christian Paideia: For the Hearth and Road
12.30 Session 6
Richard Brown
Teaching Authentic Humanism in schools – is it possible?
An educator’s view
1.15 Lunch
2.00 Session 7
Anna Walsh
Without Hindrance or Fear of Reprisal: the attitudes and
experiences of NSW and Victorian doctors with a
conscientious objection to abortion
2.45 Session 8
Matthew Solomon
The Salvation of the West: A return to the Enlightenment
or the Embracing of Tradition?
3.30 Tea Break
4.00 Session 9
Natalie Kennedy
Cultivating a Posture of Awe and Wonder
4.45 Session 10
Archbishop Porteous
T.S. Eliot and the Future of Western Culture
6.00 Pre-dinner drinks
6.30 Dinner with guest speaker Prof Steven Schwartz
