Annual lectures, talks and conferences

Ministry Leadership Program Mission in the Pub:

What gets lost in mission drift?

A discussion about what is at stake for our organisations when leadership for mission is misunderstood and unsupported.

Monday 26 August 2024
7:30pm
Harts Pub, Essex St & Gloucester St, The Rocks (Sydney), NSW

 
Speakers:
Prof Fr Frank Brennan SJ OA, Adjunct Professor, ACU
Ms Sonya Smart, Chief Executive Officer, VMCH
Ms Kerry Brettell, Trustee, Calvary Ministries
 
Facilitator:
Ms Phil Billington
 
More and more Catholic organisations in health and aged care, social services and education, are experiencing tremendous pressures. These pressures are not simply financial where more service delivery is demanded for less cost, but also in terms of the their identities as Catholic organisations.
 
What defines Catholic organisations as such, and so provides them with their unique market offering, is mission. It is mission which provides the overarching narrative of purpose in which the values of Catholic organisations are articulated. It is this mission which ensures the unique Christian vision of the human person understood particularly in term of human dignity and the promotion of the common good. This vision, this mission is why so many choose to work in Catholic organisations.
 
When this mission falters through inadequate formation for leadership of mission, when due attention is not given to properly resourcing leaders either financially or in terms of time, for mission formation opportunities such as the MLP, then mission drift is very real possibility and much that is crucial to the organisational identity is in danger of being lost.
 
To stand against this loss, the MLP was brought to Australia and tailored for Australian Catholic organisational mission purposes. It remains the only unique and key executive leader mission formation program across all Catholic sectors and within. Work based and so bespoke for each participating organisation, the MLP fosters a community of practice that cannot be value to add to each organisation in terms of preventing mission drift.

Email us to register.

Mission in the Pub is presented in partnership with Catholic Healthcare Australia.

Events were held in March 2024. 

Future events will be advertised here. Please register your interest to learn more. 

Venue: 250 Victoria Parade, level 4 (ACU Building 469), room 460-4-28

Plus online via Teams

Time: 3:30-5:00 pm (unless otherwise indicated)

To register or ask other questions, please email matthew.sharpe@acu.edu.au

ACU 2024 Philosophy Seminar Series - PhilEvents

The Simone Weil Lecture on Human Value is hosted by the School of Philosophy. It was first held in 2000, an initiative of Professor Raimond Gaita. It is a free public lecture held annually in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Each year, a distinguished international scholar is invited to give a public lecture and academic seminar at ACU. The lectures are inspired by Simone Weil's ethical vision that is rooted in attentive compassion and obligation to others, her unstinting desire for the Good, and her non-negotiable commitment to justice.

This year, ACU was thrilled to have Professor Dermot Moran of Boston College present the lecture on 'Empathy and interpersonal relations'.

Learn more about the Simone Weil lecture

Past lecturers have included:

• Mr Scott Stephens, ABC's Religion and Ethics Editor, and co-host of The Minefield
• Professor Michael Morgan, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
• Professor Mark Alfano, Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and Professor of Philosophy, ACU
• Professor Robert Audi, Professorial Fellow, ACU and John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
• Professor Eleonore Stump, Professorial Fellow, ACU and Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, Missouri
• Associate Professor Jeffrey Bloechl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College.

Heidegger's "The Question concerning Technology" - New Readings

Wednesday 12 June 2024
9am to 4:45pm

Greg Craven Centre, St Teresa of Kolkata Building, Level 7
Australian Catholic University
115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
Melbourne

Program:

Heidegger's "The Question concerning Technology" New Readings  - PhilEvents

Conferences and workshops actively contribute to the flourishing of academic disciplines and academic profiles. Here is a listed of selected recent past events. New events will be added separately as announced.

Past events

Conferences and workshops hosted by the faculty in recent years have included:

• AAP Conference (2023)
• ACU Luminaries Series (2023)
• Conference on Perception (2023)
• Heidegger and the Greeks workshop (2022)
• The Phenomenology of Affect international e-conference (2021)
• A Very Short History of Being Oneself: Theological, Philosophical and Aesthetic Perspectives with Professor Claude Romano (2021)
• International Conference on Comparative Theology (2019)
• Asia-Pacific Conference on Comparative Theology (2017)
• "Heidegger and Nature" Workshop (2017)
• The Annual Conference of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion (COV&R) and 6th Annual Conference of the Australian Girard Seminar (2016)
• International Ethics Conference, Reasons and Virtues (2015)
• COMIUCAP Conference, Civil Society and Human Formation: Philosophy's Role in a Renewed Understanding of the Meaning of Education (2015)
• Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Annual Conference (2015).