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In this episode, Simon chats to Dr David Daintree, who is the Director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies, which is based down in Hobart in Tasmania. He is a classicist and medieval Latinist, with an MLitt from Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Siena and  Venice, and a visiting fellowship at St John's College, University of  Manitoba. Most recently, David was President of Campion College in  Sydney. In this episode, we cover topics like the definition of  "Western" Civilisation, the significance of the historian Christopher Dawson, and the future of the humanities.  

For more on David, see: https://daintree.academia.edu/ 

To connect with the Christopher Dawson Centre, go to  https://www.dawsoncentre.org/ 

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