Dr Knox Peden is an Academic Research Officer and Historian at the Sea Power Centre-Australia and Visiting Fellow in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He has taught history and philosophy at several Australian universities, including UQ, and has published widely on French intellectual history. His current research seeks to bring an intellectual-historical approach to debates within naval strategic thought about the uses of history.
Join us for the 2025 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Annual Lecture titled 'Simone de Beauvoir on independence, freedom, and happiness: Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)' delivered by Professor Marguerite La Caze.