Institute of Advanced Studies

Public lectures


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

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

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.