Templeton Lectures
- 2011: Joe LeDoux: The Emotional Brain. [Video now on Slow TV]
- 2010: Frans de Waal: Is man a wolf to man? Morality and the social behaviour of our fellow primates
- 2010: David Sloan Wilson: Evolving the city: using evolution to understand and improve the human condition Charles Birch Memorial Templeton Lecture.
- 2009: Sean Carroll: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time [Video now on TED]
- 2008: Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-Expanding Universe
- 2007: Jack Copeland: Alan Turing and the Curious Birth of Artificial Intelligence
- 2006: Jorgen Randers: Global Collapse - Fact or Fiction?
- 2005: Jill Tarter: Seeking Extraterrestrial Physics and Intelligence During the International Year of Physics
- 2004: Ian Lowe: Values for Sustainable Futures
- 2003: Vandana Shiva: Beyond Corporate Globalisation; Towards Global Democracy
- 2002: Richard Butler: Science, Weapons, Politics: The Ethics, The Hard Choices?
- 2001: Lord Robert May: Science Advice, Policy Making, And Public Trust
- 2000: Philip Kitcher: Creating Perfect People? The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities
- 1999: Paul Ehrlich: Ethics and Environmental Crises
- 1998: Tim Flannery: 'Australia Unlimited' or Meganesian Legacy: What Future for Australia?
- 1997: Richard Lewontin: Biology as a Social Weapon
- 1996: Evelyn Fox Keller: Gender Language and Science
- 1995: Barrie Pittock: How 'dangerous' is climate change?
- 1994: Margaret Boden: Creativity: Inspiration, Intuition or Illusion?
- 1993: Stephen Boyden: Nature, Culture and the Future
- 1992: John Cobb: The Cosmos and God
- 1991: Paul Davies: The Birth of the Cosmos