2022 Max Charlesworth Oration

Vanessa Lemm, Vanessa Lemm (University of New South Wales)

2022 Max Charlesworth Oration

This biennial oration recognises Professor Max Charlesworth's contribution to Deakin University as Foundation Dean of the School of Humanities and one of the foremost figures in Australasian philosophy.

Professor Vanessa Lemm will deliver this year's oration:

Becoming rooted with plants: what can we learn from plants about our responsibilities towards the planet?

Professor Vanessa Lemm is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Her research falls in the area of contemporary continental philosophy, with an interest in questions of human nature, culture and the relationship between human and other-than-human life.

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