“South East Asia in Turmoil” by Gerhard Hoffstaedter part of the ‘Asia Pacific and Us’ course recorded on the 14th of October 2010

“Asia-Pacific and us: Australia in the region” by Jasmine-Kim Westendorf & Gerhard Hoffstaedter part of the ‘Asia Pacific and Us’ course recorded on the 30th of September 2010

recorded: 1st of May 2010 Course: Ethics and Morality in the 21st Century Lecture Title:Religious Truth Claims pt 3 Lecturer: Gerhard Hoffstaedter

On the 10th May the Age newspaper shared MFU’s 1st birthday celebrations with its readers: FREE university might sound like a relic of Australia’s past, but a group of keen scholars recently gathered to celebrate the first birthday of Melbourne Free University, a community project with an enthusiastic following. The MFU was launched by three [...]

MFU’s Gerhard Hoffstaedter will be interviewed by Lee Cummins on the ‘Coffee Chat show’ on Southern FM on Monday 28 Feb at 9am. You can ‘live stream’ the show through http://www.southernfm.com.au or listen on your FM radio in the southern, south-eastern and bayside suburbs of Melbourne on 88.3FM

A FREE university has sprung up in Melbourne’s inner-north aiming to promote ‘learning for learning’s sake’. Up to 40 people a week have been attending Melbourne Free University classes on philosophy, sociology and cinema in Clifton Hill and North Carlton. Co-founder Gerhard Hoffstaedter has a traditional academic background, with a PhD in anthropology and sociology [...]

Education is not just about getting a job Knowledge for its own sake seems to have lost its currency in a world where “outcomes” have become the goal of tertiary education. But education without a necessary career goal should be valued, which is why on May 1, the Melbourne Free University, co-founded by Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, [...]

Contemporary Australian Issues 5 June 2010 – 12pm – 4.30pm Universal Differences – 12pm Miriam Bankovski – Lecturer in Political Theory Deb Chapman – Community Development Activist/Lecturer, VU Alex Ling – Lecturer, University of Melbourne Ruby Murray – Writer/researcher in gender and the environment Religious Truth Claims – 2.30pm Gerhard Hoffstaedter – Research Fellow, La [...]