May 2024 Meeting
The second EBC meeting for 2024 will be held on Friday 17 May at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
Our guest will be Dr. Kevin Donnelly. Kevin’s writings and public contributions (particularly on education) are well known through his writings and regular appearances in the media.
The RSVP date is Wednesday, 15 May. Please contact the Club via our email address to RSVP.
The first EBC meeting for 2024 will be held on Friday 9 February at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
Colin Black, the Headmaster of Camberwell Grammar School from 1987 to 2004 will be our guest speaker. He will discuss his educational and cultural journey as a conservative.
I hope you will be able to attend this interesting discussion. The RSVP date is Wednesday, 7 February.
15 December Meeting
The fourth meeting (and Annual General Meeting) for the year will have a guest speaker. Paul Webster is a Melbourne based solicitor who has been involved in leading Monarchist organisations in Melbourne. We will be exploring the issue of the Crown and its significance considering the events of the past 18 months. He brings both his organisational and legal background to the topic
The talk will be preceded by a short AGM.
October 2023 Meeting
The third EBC meeting for 2023 will be held on Friday 20 October at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
The topic of discussion will be the significance of education in our current cultural conflicts. We will draw on the expertise of those engaged in educational scholarship.
The RSVP date is Tuesday, 17 October.
The next EBC meeting will be held on Friday 28 July at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
The topic ‘Religion and Free Speech: an uneasy relationship.’ This paper will be published in August in an edited collection based on the 2022 Dawson Centre Colloquium on “Freedom of Speech and Religion.” When posted online by the Dawson Centre, I’ll send through a link for those who may be interested in exploring the whole collection.
The RSVP date is Tuesday, 25 July.
The next EBC meeting will be held on Friday 2 June at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
Dr Martin Black will give a talk on The human soul: ancient and modern. Dr. Black has presented for the Club before and runs the Melbourne Independent School of Philosophy ( https://www.independentschoolofphilosophy.org/ )
I hope you will be able to attend this interesting discussion. We will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant after the meeting. The RSVP date is Wednesday 31 May. Please reply to this email if you plan to attend.
Dress code:
Tie & jacket for men/Equivalent for ladies.
Our fourth meeting for the year will have a guest speaker. Peter Westmore, former President of the National Civic Council, will speak on the war in Ukraine. Peter has a long-standing interest in Eastern European affairs and has been publishing a podcast throughout the year on the war.
The meeting will be held on Friday, 9 December at the Melbourne Savage Club (12 Bank Pl, Melbourne). 6PM arrival for a 6:30PM start.
The RSVP date is Tuesday 6 December.
Our next meeting will be held on Friday, 21 October at the Melbourne Savage Club with dinner to follow afterwards. The start time is 6:30PM. The RSVP date is Tuesday, 18 October.
The topic of our meeting will be an exploration of the ‘voice’ from a conservative perspective.
There have been many critiques of the ‘voice’ in The Australian, the Herald Sun and other publications; all of them are very strong; they are often focused quite correctly on the collision between the principles of the ‘voice’ and liberal principles. We will explore a more conservative approach.
The General Meeting is on Friday, 19 August 2022. The meeting will begin at 6:30pm.
The title of the talk is ‘National conservatism: a fresh start from libertarianism’
After the meeting we will go to a nearby restaurant. The RSVP date for the meeting is Tuesday, 16 August. Please email.
The second EBC general meeting for 2021 will be held on Friday 9 July at the Melbourne Savage Club- arrive at 6:00pm for a start at 6:30pm.
The presentation will continue to be on Christopher Olaf Blum’s compilation of French counter enlightenment thinkers, Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition. The final three thinkers in the text will be covered.
We will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant after the meeting. The RSVP date is Tuesday 6 July.
Dress code:
Tie & jacket for men/Equivalent for ladies