Institute of Advanced Studies
The Institute of Advanced Studies hosts a selection of public lectures by prominent local, national and international speakers.
Upcoming lectures
| August | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August | 6.00pm | Chemistry in the Courtroom | Joel Bernstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 5 August | 6.00pm | From Einstein’s photon to Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment: illuminating the inner mystery of quantum mechanics | Alain Aspect, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, France |
| 12 August | 6.00pm | Our Galaxy, the Milky Way | Ken Freeman, Duffield Professor of Astronomy, ANU |
| 18 August | 6.00pm | How many people can Australia eat? The Politics of Population and Consumption | David Ritter, Commentator, Academic and Campaigner |
| 25 August | 6.00pm | The Clearing House Blues, or “Numbers” in Harlem | Shane White, Challis Professor of History, University of Sydney |
| September | |||
| 2 Sept | 6.00pm | Glamour and the Mystique of Fashion | Stephen Gundle, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University |
| 21 Sept | 6.00pm | 2010 New Critic Lecture: Murdering Stepmothers - the sensational trial and execution of Martha Rendell | Anna Haebich, Research Intensive Professor, Griffith University |
| 23 Sept | 6.00pm | Film Screening - A Good Man, followed by discussion with Director, Safina Uberoi | Fundraising Event with Western Australian Disability Collective |
| 28 Sept | 6.00pm | 2010 Ian Constable Lecture: On Regulation of Immunity and Immunopathology by Antigen | Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich |
| 30 Sept | 6.00pm | Literary Reading with Peter Rose, author and editor of the Australian Book Review | |
| October | |||
| 6 Oct | 6.00pm | Subsurface Geo-Engineering - Band-aid or enduring solutions to the looming prospects of peak oil and climate change | Derek Elsworth, Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Penn State |
| 13 Oct | 6.00pm | Quest for the Hobbit ancestors: recent research in Flores and Sulawesi, Indonesia | Mike Morwood, Professor of Archaeology, University of Wollongong |
| 14 Oct | 6.00pm | Art and the Evolution of Culture | Robert H. Layton, Professor of Anthropology, University of Durham |
- Many public lectures are recorded. Visit our archive of past lectures to hear them.
