2025 ALAN SAUNDERS LECTURE
KATE LYNCH & CHRISTOPHER LEAN
23 October 2025 6.00 - 7:30pm AEST
Eugene Goossens Auditorium, Sydney
This year’s Alan Saunders Lecture, organised by the AAP’s Media Committee in partnership with David Rutledge of the ABC, will be delivered by Christopher Lean and Kate Lynch (Macquarie University and University of Melbourne), on the topic 'Environmental techno-utopias'.
This is a free event. Information on how to register will be circulated to members closer to the event.
A free, ticketed, live streamed event. This lecture is recorded by the ABC & available for download on Radio National's 'The Philosopher's Zone'.
abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/alan-saunders
2024 Krushil Watene
2022 Bryan Mukandi
2021 Stephen Gardiner
2019 Alison Wylie
2018 Serene Khader
2017 Nancy Sherman
2016 Susan Wolf
2015 Cordelia Fine
2014 Philip Pettit
2013 Simon Blackburn
Alan Saunders 1954 - 2012
Alan Saunders was a prince among broadcasters. Of all the journalists I've ever met, he had the deepest love of, and also understanding of, philosophy, and his passion for ideas made doing a program with him a highlight of one's year -- even long distance by phone, and even more in person in the studio. What he brought to public discussion was priceless'.
- Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
In recognition of his enduring work, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in association with the Australasian Association of Philosophy presents an annual Alan Saunders Memorial Lecture. The lecture aims to spread the joy of philosophy and make it accessible to the wider public.