Skeptics Cafe.
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Skeptics Cafe.
Vic Skeptics Pub Night - Third Monday of every month.
Skeptics Café will be held in the Mahogany Room at The Stolberg Hotel, 197 Plenty Road, Preston.
Each month, Victorian Skeptics hosts a social night in the pub. We get together for dinner, drinks and good conversation with like-minded individuals.
We have a different speaker each month.
Topic: Yuval Harari’s Humanist Horror Story - Why History Matters.
Speaker: Leslie Allan.
You may have been enthralled with Yuval Harari’s sweeping history of humankind in his Sapiens and Homo Deus. But even an acclaimed best-selling author can get the story terribly wrong—and in ways that do real damage to reputations. In this talk, Leslie Allan subjects Harari’s retelling of humanist history to critical scrutiny. Did humanism really fracture into three warring sects, giving us Stalin’s gulags, Hitler’s Holocaust and rapacious capitalism? Leslie disentangles Harari's many confusions and shows what the historical record actually tells us about humanism and its legacy.
BIO: Leslie Allan is a long-time skeptic and humanist. He currently serves as a director for Humanists Australia and is author of Harari’s Humanist Wars of Religion: A Critique of Harari’s History of Modern Ideologies. Leslie’s essays, along with recorded talks on philosophy, religion and humanism, are available at [RationalRealm.com](https://www.rationalrealm.com/)
Start Time: 6:00pm for dinner and a chat. 7:30pm for beginning of the talk.