Institute of Advanced Studies
The Institute of Advanced Studies hosts a selection of public lectures by prominent local, national and international speakers.
Public Lecture Series
- 2009 History Lecture Series - Environment and History
- International Year of Astronomy Public Lecture Series
Other upcoming lectures
| July | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July | 6.00pm | Why is it important to study estuaries? | Professor Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida and 2009 Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow, UWA |
| 5 July | 6.00pm | Apocalypse When? | Panel |
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7 July |
6.00pm | The Mirror Test: Humans, Animals and Sentience | Sherryl Vint, Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada |
| 15 July | 6.00pm | The Sustainability of Global Ecosystems: Re-evaluating the Current Paradigm | Michael A. Huston, Department of Biology Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas and IAS Professor-at-Large 2009 |
| 21 July | 6.00pm | How to think about the structure and dynamics of the brain using mathematics | Professor Jack Cowan, Mathematics Department, University of Chicago |
| 30 July | 6.00pm | Asia-Pacific Universities in the New Era | Dr Antonette Palma-Angeles, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines |
| August | |||
| 6 August | 6.00pm | The 2009 Western Australia Disability Collective Lecture | The Hon Bill Shorten, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services |
| 11 August | 6.00pm | 2009 George Seddon Lecture - Revisiting ‘Sense of Place’ in a rapidly changing world | Stephen D. Hopper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, and School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia |
| 20 August | 6.00pm | Evicted from Eternity-The Restructuring of Modern Rome | Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University |
| September | |||
| 3 Sept | 6.00pm | The 2009 Clay-Mahler Public Lecture: Cosmic Distance Ladder | Professor Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics, UCLA |
- Many public lectures are recorded.
