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The Institute of Advanced Studies hosts a selection of public lectures by prominent local, national and international speakers.

Upcoming lectures

May
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

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.

 
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