| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| December 11, 2016 |
TBA |
TBA |
| November 6, 2016 |
TBA |
TBA |
| October 9, 2016 |
TBA |
TBA |
| September 4, 2016 |
TBA |
TBA |
| August 14, 2016 |
TBA |
TBA |
| July 10, 2016 |
Mimi Marziani |
The Texas Civil Rights Project |
| June 12, 2016 |
Anthony Magnabosco |
A Different Approach: Street Epistemology |
| May 22, 2016 |
Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker |
Freedom From Religion Foundation (a BONUS lecture at the Little Walnut Creek branch library) |
| May 8, 2016 |
Steve Bratteng |
The Good, the Bad, and the Genetically Modified |
| April 10, 2016 |
Sarah Morehead and Neil Carter |
Removing the Fig Leaf - sex and religion |
| March 13, 2016 |
Chase Hunter |
Why Humans Created God |
| February 14, 2016 |
Chris Robison |
The Chemistry of Love |
| January 17, 2016 |
Neil Carter |
Bonus lecture: Godless in Dixie. This talk will be given at the Little Walnut Creek branch library (835 W. Rundberg) |
| January 10, 2016 |
Elliott Naishtat |
The Adventures of a New York Yankee in LBJ's Court |
| December 13, 2015 |
Adam Narkiewicz |
What is wrong with the burden-of-proof logic? |
| November 8, 2015 |
Chris Robison |
The Mess in Your Head: How Cells in Your Brain Communicate |
| October 11, 2015 |
Dan Quinn |
Update on the Texas Freedom Network |
| September 26, 2015 |
Heina Dadabhoy |
Sex and Islam |
| September 13, 2015 |
Alan Covey |
Incan Religion and Culture |
| August 9, 2015 |
Heather Teague |
Contemporary Mayan Culture and the Modern World |
| July 12, 2015 |
Jen Peeples |
Equal Dignity Under the Law: The Long Road to Marriage Equality |
| June 14, 2015 |
Alix Jules |
How the Church is Beating Atheism at Diversity |
| May 10, 2015 |
Steve Bratteng |
Mother's Day Special: Your Mother's First Gift to You: Your Microbiome |
| April 12, 2015 |
Janet Heimlich |
Religious Maltreatment of Children: based on her book, Breaking Their Will. |
| March 8, 2015 |
Ryan Bell |
My Year Without God: Now a Permanent Condition |
| February 1, 2015 |
Chase Hunter |
Inside Scientology 2: the Sea Org |
| January 18, 2015 |
Clare Wuellner |
Fire Ants! |
| December 7, 2014 |
James H. Dee |
Why there are no gods (and no God) |
| November 9, 2014 |
Clare Wuellner |
The Foundation Beyond Belief |
| October 12, 2014 |
Steve Bratteng |
The New Tree of Life -- Where have all the Kingdoms gone - the new organization of organisms. |
| September 14, 2014 |
Chase Hunter |
Inside Scientology |
| August 10, 2014 |
Atif Shahnawaz |
Testing Tests |
| July 13, 2014 |
Wonders of the Living World |
A multimedia presentation of some of the amazing organisms sharing our planet. |
| June 8, 2014 |
Clifton Stuckey |
"Sex Education in Texas: Just the Facts, Ma'am" |
| May 11, 2014 |
Robert Jensen |
White Privilege |
| April 6, 2014 |
Lydia Pyne |
"Meet the Neanderthals"
Note that this lecture is on the first Sunday this month instead of the usual second Sunday. |
| March 9, 2014 |
Vic Cornell |
ACLU Update. Recent news in the conflict over church/state and free speech issues. |
| February 9, 2014 |
Steve Bratteng |
What Darwin Never Knew -- Video clips and discussion of science since Darwin |
| January 12, 2014 |
Reeve Hamilton |
Politics and Higher Education in Texas |
| November 10, 2013 |
Steve Bratteng |
The ABCs of Biotechnology. A primer on the composition of organisms and how their genes can be manipulated. |
| October 13, 2013 |
Russell Glasser |
How Online Social Media is Changing the Face of Atheism |
| September 28, 2013 |
PZ Myers |
Bat Evolution |
| August 11, 2013 |
Innes Mitchell & Victoria Davis |
"Perspective by Incongruity: Teaching Atheism at a Catholic University" |
| July 14, 2013 |
Don Baker |
Broken Six Ways from Sunday: The Astounding Backwardness of the Christian Anti-Abortion Movement |
| June 9, 2013 |
Donald Wright |
A Secular Perspective on the State of the Nation |
| May 12, 2013 |
Matt Dillahunty |
Reflections on a "lifetime" as ACA President |
| April 14, 2013 |
Val Benavidez |
Update on Church-State separation and education issues facing Texans |
| March 10, 2013 |
Hans Hofmann |
Does Free Will Exist? |
| February 10, 2013 |
James Aldrete |
The Political Landscape from the Consultant's Perspective |
| January 13, 2013 |
David Prindle |
The Politics of Evolution |
| December 2, 2012 |
Darrel Ray |
Religion and Sex (tentative) |
| November 4, 2012 |
Steve Bratteng |
What's Eating You! An exploration of the evolving world of parasites. Visually gross, but fascinating. |
| October 7, 2012 |
James Dee, Ph. D. |
The X-Rated Stories about Jesus: Weird Tales from the Apocryphal Gospels |
| September 22, 2012 |
Teresa MacBain |
The Clergy Project and how she found freedom from religion |
| August 5, 2012 |
Sissy Bradford |
Paying the Price for Defending Religious Freedom |
| July 1, 2012 |
Dr. Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas Professor of Astrophysics |
“HETDEX”, The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment |
| June 3, 2012 |
Jerry DeWitt |
Laughing through the Apocalypse! |
| April 1, 2012 |
Vic Cornell |
The ACLU of Texas & Religious Freedom |
| March 4, 2012 |
Wrath James White, author and blogger |
Escaping The Overseer: Atheism in Black America |
| January 8, 2012 |
Steve Bratteng |
Unintelligent Design: Deceit and Hypocrisy vs. Science |
| December 4, 2011 |
The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today |
We'll be showing a documentary about the landmark Vashti McCollum school prayer case. |
| November 6, 2011 |
Gardner Selby, Austin American Statesman PolitiFact Texas Editor |
Pants on Fire and Other Ways to Judge What Politicians Say |
| October 2, 2011 |
Dr. Bruce J. Hunt, Associate Professor of History, UT Austin |
Darwin and Religion, or the Lack of It |
| September 11, 2011 |
Sarah Wheat, CEO of Planned Parenthood, Austin |
Standing up for Planned Parenthood---why healthy Texas women and families matter |
| August 7, 2011 |
Brett Buchanan |
Beyond The Reach, a look inside the FLDS |
| July 3, 2011 |
Nick Lee, President, Atheist Alliance America |
The New/Old Atheist Alliance |
| April 3, 2011 |
Åron-Ra |
What we can and cannot honestly say we 'know' |
| March 6, 2011 |
Jen Peeples |
Comfortable Lies About Don’t Ask, Don't Tell |
| February 6, 2011 |
The Mormons! |
Brian Spears talks about his experience of being steeped in Mormonism and his path out. |
| January 2, 2011 |
Don Baker |
Mechanisms of Religious Evil |
| November 7, 2010 |
Eileen Flynn Delao |
Observations: Why the Media Still Fears Atheists, and other observations from a religion writer |
| October 3, 2010 |
Steve Bratteng |
Dr. Darwin Makes a House Call |
| September 25, 2010 |
Matt Dillahunty |
The Superiority of Secular Morality |
| September 12, 2010 |
Dr. James H. Dee |
The Second Wave of Secular Humanism: How Scholarship Undermines Religion |
| August 1, 2010 |
Sarah Weis and Brian Spears from Americans United |
The Importance of the Separation of Church and State |
| July 11, 2010 |
Aime Parsons |
Camp Quest Texas, A Journey of the heart for the secular community in Texas |
| June 6, 2010 |
Doyle Duke, author |
A Critical Analysis of Christianity |
| May 2, 2010 |
Election meeting |
In lieu of a lecture, we will have an election meeting for the next ACA Board at the Austin History Center. |
| April 11, 2010 |
Noelle George |
Effective Secular Activism -- Not Just Politics and Protests |
| March 7, 2010 |
Kathleen Johnson |
A Place at the Table |
| February 7, 2010 |
Dr. Jennifer Whitson |
The Perception of Patterns in the Noise of Everyday Life |
| January 3, 2010 |
Fred Edwords |
"Sailing the Rising Tide of Reason" |
| December 6, 2009 |
Dr. Jay Banner |
Climate change in Texas – A long past and view to the future |
| November 1, 2009 |
Don Moore from Final Exit Network |
Don Moore talks about the death with dignity movement and the Final Exit Network |
| October 29, 2009 |
Dr. Victor J. Stenger |
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason |
| September 13, 2009 |
Kathy Miller |
Texas SBOE -- Dragging our schools into the culture wars |
| August 2, 2009 |
Chris Comer |
Standing Up for Science in Texas |
| July 5, 2009 |
Panel Discussion |
ACA Members will talk on the subject of school vouchers |
| February 1, 2009 |
Matt Dillahunty |
How to fool the mind |
| December 7, 2008 |
Dr. James Dee |
The Truth about the Christmas Story |
| October 5, 2008 |
Russell Glasser |
How atheists can be effective evangelists |
| September 7, 2008 |
Oak DeBerg |
Are Atheists in the Military the "New" Gay, (or Black or
Female)? |
| August 3, 2008 |
Matt Dillahunty |
Belief |
| July 6, 2008 |
Dr. Rory Coker |
Pseudoscience, Antiscience and Nonscience! |
| June 1, 2008 |
Representative Donna Howard |
Religion and the Texas Legislature |
| May 4, 2008 |
ACA Board Election Meeting |
In lieu of a lecture, we will use the time at the Austin History Center to elect a new board. |
| April 6, 2008 |
Charles Jackson, PhD |
Climate Prediction: What can or can't we tell about our future -
The little-known inner-workings of climate model development |
| March 2, 2008 |
Dr. James H. Dee |
"Thinking about Religion...and Why it's so Hard"
This lecture will discuss some of the obstacles to clear and honest thinking |
| February 3, 2008 |
Dicky Grigg |
It's Not About Them, It's About Us |
| January 6, 2008 |
Don Rhoades |
Early Freethought in Texas - The Immigration and Settlement of the "Deutsche Freidenkers" and the Struggle to Preserve Their Sto |
| December 2, 2007 |
Movie showing |
"The God who wasn't There" |
| November 4, 2007 |
Meet the Atheist Longhorns |
We'll have several members of the new UT group "Atheist Longhorns" to talk about their group. |
| October 7, 2007 |
Membership appreciation meeting |
In lieu of a lecture, we'll have a membership appreciation meeting. |
| September 9, 2007 |
Mark Loewe |
Low cost textbooks, progressive vouchers, and incorrect TAKS scores |
| August 5, 2007 |
Matt Dillahunty |
Visions of Hell |
| July 1, 2007 |
Members of CASA |
From advocacy to reason and back again |
| June 3, 2007 |
Video Showing and Discussion |
Showing of "The Creation Adventure Team: Jurassic Ark Mystery" |
| April 15, 2007 |
Lori Lipman Brown, Secular Coalition of America |
Protecting Our Freedoms: Taking the Message to Congress |
| March 4, 2007 |
Three members of the Travis County Archaeological Society |
Three mini-lectures covering human history in Texas and the practice of archeology. |
| February 4, 2007 |
UT History Professor Howard Miller |
The Atheist Moment: The Sudden and Remarkable Emergence of Public Atheism in George Bush's America |
| January 7, 2007 |
Robert "Rock" Howard |
Libertarianism: Philosophy, Religion or What? |
| November 5, 2006 |
Robin Matthews |
Teaching Evolution in Austin |
| October 22, 2006 |
Don Baker |
The Influence of Religion in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas |
| August 20, 2006 |
Jeff Jones, Center for Inquiry |
The New Austin CFI Community. |
| July 23, 2006 |
Danielle Tierney |
The Religious Right's War on Birth Control |
| June 18, 2006 |
Thomas Van Orden |
Recapping the 10C case and looking to the future of church-state separation |
| May 21, 2006 |
Mark Loewe |
Muon catalyzed nuclear fusion |
| March 19, 2006 |
Matt Dillahunty |
The History of the Biblical Canon |
| February 19, 2006 |
Dr. Alan Cline |
The Disregard of Science and the Responsibility of Citizens |
| January 15, 2006 |
Joe Zamecki |
A special atheist tour of Inner Space Cavern. |
| October 16, 2005 |
DJ Grothe, Center for Inquiry |
Arguing for America: Secularism and the Culture Wars |
| September 18, 2005 |
Don Baker |
Universal Darwinism: How Computer Science has Validated the Theory of Evolution |
| July 17, 2005 |
Craig Nazor |
The Hartman Prehistoric Garden - a Place for Ancient Plants in a Modern World |
| April 17, 2005 |
Deece Eckstein of People for the American Way |
Challenges to church-state separation |
| March 20, 2005 |
Several ACA Members |
A panel discussion on debating theists |
| February 20, 2005 |
Heather Alden |
Church-state separation and the Texas Freedom Network |
| January 16, 2005 |
Joe Zamecki |
Tales from the Trenches: A Report on Atheist Activism |
| November 21, 2004 |
M. Draper |
Darwin and Mendel were clueless: Why we shouldn't teach evolution in schools |
| October 17, 2004 |
Dr. Elaine Rich |
Our Quest for Machines that Act (and Look) Like Us |
| August 15, 2004 |
Shannon Rauh |
Texas, Health Education and the Textbook Debates |
| July 18, 2004 |
ACLU Attorney Jay Jacobson |
A "quick and dirty" guide on the history of the establishment ofreligion clause in the First Amendment - from colonial times to |
| May 16, 2004 |
Thomas van Orden |
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| February 16, 2004 |
Don Baker |
Morality and Christianity |
| December 7, 2003 |
Dr. Robert (Bob) Solomon |
Philosophy, Spirituality, and Atheism |
| November 2, 2003 |
Dr. James Dee |
The Death of the Afterlife: How Fossils, Embryos, and Brains
Falsify Promises of Heaven and Threats of Hell |
| June 1, 2003 |
Don Baker |
The implications of viewing Christianity as a meme |
| October 6, 2002 |
Don Baker |
Memes: The New Replicators |
| July 2, 2000 |
H. Thompson, R. Florence, J. Dee, J. Koonz, and M. Loewe |
Panel discussion on political activism |
| December 5, 1999 |
Mark Loewe |
Predictions of science |
