Institute of Advanced Studies
Each year the IAS hosts a number of symposia on selected themes.
Symposia in 2009
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26-27 May - Survival Skills for Scientists Workshop
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5 June - Limina - 4th Annual Conference
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12-13 June - NEER Symposium:"Perceptions of Terra Australis"
- 20-21 August - Epigenetics and Human Health
- 18 September - A Green ‘New Deal’? Confronting Climate Change, Peak Oil and the Financial Crisis
- 21 September - George Frideric Handel and the Glory of the Baroque – A Symposium
- 31 October - Day of Ideas 2009
Symposia held in 2008:
- 31 March - 4 April Deep surveys of the radio universe with SKA Pathfinders
- 6 May - Driving change in the disability sector
- 6 June - Limina Conference - In the Margins: Exploring the marginal in historical and cultural studies
- 9-11 July - The Australian Womens and Gender Studies Association International Conference - Vision, Memory, Spectacle
- 3-5 August - ICHORA4: the Fourth international conference on the history of records and archives
- 22 August - Putting Health First - a multidisciplinary symposium
Our 2007 symposia were:
- Australia and Asia in the 21st Century
- Come and play outside
- Conquest and isolation: A symposium for Professor Brian Bosworth
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Day of Ideas: On the track, off the track and down the track
- Day of Ideas: Seeking the contemporary aesthetic
- Dictators: Historical and contemporary perspectives
- Emotions, moods and motivations
- Limina Conference
- NEER Conference
- Rankings, RAEs and RQFs: Their impact on Asian and Australian Universities
- Seminar with Professor Lyn Pykett
- Terrorism and torture
- Thinking society, thinking culture
- Victorian beginnings
