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COLLOQUIUM TALKS ONLINE

The Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies August 2, 2024August 2, 2024

2 August, 2024

Dear Reader,

All the talks from our 6 July Colloquium are now online.  Here are the links:

Richard Brown

Teaching Authentic Humanism in schools – is it possible? 

An educator’s view

Bella d’Abrera

Undoing Australia: how the Australian Nation is being

Dismantled, One Statue at a Time

Natalie Kennedy

Cultivating a Posture of Awe and Wonder

Anna Krohn

Christian Paideia: For the Hearth and Road

Lucas McLennan

Western Perspectives in the Australian Curriculum

Archbishop Porteous 

T.S. Eliot and the Future of Western Culture

Karl Schmude

A Transcendent Humanism: Recovering the Vision of

Christopher Dawson

Fr Matthew Solomon 

The Salvation of the West: A return to the Enlightenment 

or the Embracing of Tradition?

Anna Walsh

Without Hindrance or Fear of Reprisal: the attitudes and

experiences of NSW and Victorian doctors with a

conscientious objection to abortion

Prof Steven Schwartz

Authentic Humanism and the Crisis of Culture

Closing address at dinner

Our sincere thanks to all the speakers and to Adam Reibel, our cameraman and photographer.  

With best wishes to all, as ever,

David Daintree

FOR FURTHER READING

PREFERRING THE DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT

Anna Krohn, Executive Director of the Thomas More Centre, has written a clever and trenchant letter on the recent Paris Olympics blasphemy.  It focuses on the thought of the late and distinguished polymath Stratford Caldecott, who died 10 years ago last month.  READ ANNA’S PIECE HERE.  

‘They say France is the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church, but she’s quite an unfaithful one’ (Pope Francis)

LIST OF ‘CLASSICAL SCHOOLS’

To recap an earlier feature, here is our current list of ‘classical schools’.  It’s pretty rudimentary.  This movement aimed at recovering the best in education is growing fast worldwide.  We’d be grateful for further information and links from readers: please help us develop this resource.

AUSTRALIA

Augustine Academy, NSW

St Benedict School, South Australia

The Classical School, Perth

Hartford College, Sydney

St John Kronstadt Academy, Brisbane

St John Henry Newman College, Brisbane

Toowoomba Christian College, Highfield, Queensland

ENGLAND

Michaela Community School, Wembley, head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh

West London Free School, founded by Toby Young.

FRANCE

Chavagnes International College, Chavagnes en Paillers

USA

St Andrew’s Academy, Verona, Kentucky

Gregory the Great Academy, Elmhurst, PA

The Chesterton Schools Network

COMING EVENTS

BRISBANE CLASSICAL AND LIBERAL SCHOOLS FORUM

A one-day event to be held on 24 September.  Registration is free.  Register here.  

CHESTERTON SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE

At Campion College, Sydney, on Saturday 2 November.  Details Here.

DAWSON CENTRE SUMMER SCHOOLS 

JANUARY 2025

LATE AND ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN 

Monday 6 to Friday 10 January 2025 

Venue: Notre Dame Priory, Colebrook, Tasmania 

The Latin school assumes some prior knowledge of the language and leads participants through a selection of important readings in poetry and prose, sacred and secular, from authors such as Augustine, Jerome, Bede, Peter Abelard, Aquinas, the Carmina Burana, and even Dante.  In date our selections range from the poet Virgil to the abdication speech of Pope Benedict!  There will also be a segment on palaeography when participants can handle real medieval manuscripts.  Note that this course does not take any position on the use of Latin in Church, but it recognises that Latin remains the official language of the western Church and acknowledges the insistence of the last four popes that Latin must be preserved!  Accommodation may be available on request at the Priory.  Enquiries to guestmaster@notredamemonastery.org.

BIBLICAL GREEK FOR BEGINNERS 

Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 

Venue: Fr John Wall Memorial Library, 131 Tower Road, New Town, Tasmania

The New Testament and Koine Greek school is for beginners who want to experience the excitement of reading parts of the Bible in the original language.  We shall read extracts from the Gospel and Epistles, as well as some important passages from the Septuagint (the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament), as well as some pieces from the early Fathers of the Church and the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.  

For booking details and enquiries, email director@dawsoncentre.org

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