Atheist Society

Lecture Programme Second Thursday of the month at 8 pm. Unitarian Church Hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. (Opposite the old Mercy Hospital). Melways Map 2G, D2. Admission free, no prior booking necessary, all welcome. The talk usually goes for 45-60 minutes. A question-to-the-speaker period follows the lecture.

This is an in-person event, and we also host the event on zoom. We sometimes have speakers via zoom, if so they are denoted *. The zoom session is recorded, edited, and uploaded. During the presentation can zoom attendees please mute their mics.
Zoom Meeting ID: 889 7463 4032 Passcode: 271497 (from 13 Feb 2025 to 14 Aug 2025) link

	2024
08 Feb	Robert Bender (Humanist) Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man - 1871   Video
14 Mar	John Perkins (Secular Party) Arab Prophet: Fact or fiction?   Video
11 Apr	Michael Sherlock * (Atheist Author) Wokeism: The New Age Religion   Video
09 May	Leslie Allan (Rational Realm) Freedom of Thought Report - Australia   Video
13 Jun	Hein Htet Kyaw (Abu Bakr) * (Burmese Atheists) Political Buddhism & its oppressions   Video
11 Jul	Chris Guest (Victorian Skeptics) Sphericity: A History   Video
08 Aug	Adam Ford (Futurologist) Navigating the Path to AI Superintelligence: The Role of Indirect Normativity   Video
12 Sep	Rakshith Sridharan * (Rational Thinkers - India) Religions and their Socio-economic Impact.   Video
10 Oct	John Perkins (Secular Party) Israel and Islamism: an Indictment of Religion   Video
14 Nov	James Fordor (Rationalist Society) A Critical Thinker's Response to Misinformation
12 Dec	Dr Joe Sampson (Humanist) A Critique of the Biblical God
	2025
13 Feb	Robert Bender (Humanist) Darwin Day lecture - Darwin's Study of Volcanic Islands
13 Mar	Dr Ian Storey The Evolution of Cooperation
10 April May	Leslie Allan (Rational Realm) Why I am a Humanist

For those who are happy to accept that there is no credible scientific or factually reliable evidence for the existence of a god or gods or the supernatural.

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John Perkins, Convenor. 0411 143744 Email: here
David Miller, Secretary. Email: here
Mail: PO Box 1111, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.