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Our upcoming events and programs

Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 19 June

Date:

19 Jun 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  

“Us” not “me”; “we” not “I”: a morality for the 21st Century. This session will focus on the ideas of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, religious leader, biblical scholar, philosopher and public intellectual. Rabbi Sacks passed away in November 2020, not long after the publication of his book Morality: restoring the common good in divided times, in which he made the case for combatting “cultural climate change” to build a shared framework of virtues and values. Moderated by Rebecca Cody.

Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.

*Please note the event times are EST.



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Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 17 July

Date:

17 Jul 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  
Can we overcome our ethical blind spots? Research from behavioural psychology shows that people with a firm grasp of ethical principles still make unethical decisions. This session will discuss why we might contradict our moral intentions and what we can do to better align our actions and our ethics.
Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 14 August

Date:

14 Aug 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  
Can philanthropy change the world? Philanthropists can step where governments fear to tread. They invest where business sees no profit. A positive view compares it to acupuncture – inserting tiny needles to trigger systemic change. But is such faith in philanthropy well founded?
Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 11 September

Date:

11 Sep 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  
Civil liberties versus security. Twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, terrorists crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Centre in New York. The attacks prompted much tougher national security laws in many countries, including Australia. Is it necessary to trade some democratic freedoms for safety and if so, have we got the balance right?
Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 9 October

Date:

09 Oct 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  
Reason, Intuition and Emotion. Our responses to some ethical challenges are immediate. We know what is right or wrong, without stopping to think. So while philosophers have tended to emphasise the centrality of reason in decision making, such automatic responses suggest that there is more going on. Do we really think our way to decisions – or is the pathway one of feeling and intuition? This session will discuss recent scientific thinking including the concept of social intuitionism developed by leading psychologist Jonathan Haidt and its implications for ethical leadership.
Saturday Session topics will be confirmed in the month prior to the event.  Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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Saturday Session, Online – Saturday 13 November

Date:

13 Nov 2021

Time:

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location:

Online

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

The online events allow you, wherever you’re located,  to join us and your peers.  
Whistleblowing. Whistle-blowers alert us to important matters of public interest, but how do we judge when it is the right thing to do? And given that whistle blowers are often vilified or sacked, why should we expect any one to do it?
Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings, and a Zoom invitation a few days prior.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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Saturday Session, Melbourne – Saturday 20 November

Date:

20 Nov 2021

Time:

1:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Location:

Melbourne

Topic & Theme:

The Saturday Sessions provide our alumni a way to extend their professional development and ‘top-up’ their Cranlana experience.  The Saturday Sessions discuss different topical issues and explore ethical themes such as power, fairness, justice, trust and short- vs long-term thinking. Using the Cranlana method, these truly fascinating conversations about the things that matter are based on a selection of provided readings and are guided by our expert Moderators. These intimate sessions of philosophical and ethical discussion will refuel your sense of moral courage, re-connect you to your critical reasoning capabilities and provide a forum to re-engage with the extraordinary Cranlana alumni.

How do you teach consent? Educating Australia’s youth about respectful relationships, bodily autonomy and personal boundaries is seen as an essential strategy for reducing sexual violence. But do we know how to do it well? And what ethical challenges do educators when teaching about consent?
Participants will be emailed links to pre-readings.
*Please note the event times are EST.


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