The Institute of Advanced Studies hosts a selection of public lectures by prominent local, national and international speakers.
| May | |||
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| 22 May | 6pm | Stalemate in American Politics: Sorting Out the Culprits | Burdett Loomis, Fulbright Flinders University Distinguished Chair in American Political Science |
| 23 May |
6pm |
The Margin Shifts:Contemporary Bengali Refugee Writers Speak | Jaydeep Sarangi, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College, University of Calcutta |
| 27 May | 6pm | Shark in Art: creature vs. culture | Vivienne Westbrook, Associate Professor, National Taiwan University |
| 28 May | 6pm | Australian Science and Engineering: Reaching for the Stars | Lyn Beazley AO FTSE, Chief Scientist of Western Australia |
| 29 May | 6pm | The Black Pope and the White Pope: The Jesuits and the Papacy | Thomas Scirghi, SJ, 2013 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies |
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30 May |
6pm | The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things | Oron Catts, Director, SymbioticA, Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia |
| June | |||
| 5 Jun | 6pm | Terror, Catastrophe, and the Role of Theory | David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Davis |
| 6 Jun | 6pm | Witness to Disaster: Journalists and Journalism in Hurricane Katrina | James O’Byrne, NOLA.com |
| 26 Jun | 1pm | Sharks, Camera, Action! | Forum and Mini Film Festival |
| July | |||
| 3 Jul | 6pm | 'Worshipers of the Cross and Eaters of Pork’: Food, Conversion and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean | Eric Dursteler, Associate Professor History Department, Brigham Young University |
| 18 Jul | 6pm | The 2013 Vincent Fairfax Oration: Courageous integrity | Tony Cripps Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Bank Australia |
| 23 Jul | 6pm | The 2013 George Seddon Lecture - Is Central Perth Getting Better? A View from Seddon Perspectives | Peter Newman, John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University |
| August | |||
| 6 Aug | 6pm | 2050 Food Series - Australian agriculture and global food security | Kadambot H.M Siddique, AM FTSE, Director, The UWA Institute of Agriculture |
| 22 Aug | 6pm | The 2013 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture: From Continental to Regional: transforming the scales of climate projection | Andrew J. Pitman, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales |
| September | |||
| 4 Sep | 6pm | Is ‘more efficient’ food production in conflict with animal welfare? | Marion Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford |
| October | |||
| 10 Oct | 6pm |
Do genetic effects threaten the sustainability of marine fisheries? |
Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, University of Montana and 2013 US Fulbright Senior Specialist UWA |
Many public lectures are recorded. Visit our archive of past lectures to hear them.