Institute of Advanced Studies
| A | A Regional state of mind: Making art outside metropolitan Australia | Lyndon Terracini, former director of the Queensland Music Festival |
| Australia's engagement with Asia: Past, present and future | Panel | |
| August Franco, franquistas and Francoism General Francisco Franco: Europe | Associate Professor Judith Keene, University of Sydney | |
| B | Building the Teaching Commons: Pedagogical Communities and Trading Zones | Dr Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, USA |
| Blood, sex, and salvation: Methodist spirituality and the wounds of Christ | Professor Phyllis Mack, History, Rutgers University | |
| Benito Mussolini and the model of dictatorship | Professor Richard Bosworth, History, The University of Western Australia | |
| C | Charles Dickens: the journalist as novelist, the novelist as journalist | Professor Lyn Pykett, English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
| Climate Change and Trust | Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Author and scientist | |
| Cancer, and what we can do to prevent it | Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute of Cancer Immunology and Metabolic Medicine | |
| Critical issues regarding older and ageing GLBTI people in the community | Garry Trotter, Clinical Nurse Consultant - HIV disease, Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) Sydney | |
| D | Despotism and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Africa: The case of Uganda under Amin | Dr Jeremy Martens, History, The University of Western Australia |
| E | Environmental justice and green cities | Professor John Coleman SJ, Professor of Social Values, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles |
| Engaging with the media | Professor John Tulloch, Brunel University, London | |
| F | From despair to hope | Mrs. Tova Ben-Dov, Chairperson of World WIZO |
| From the terrorists' point of view: the crisis of identity in Islamic societies and the radicalization of Muslims | Professor Fathali Moghaddam, Georgetown University | |
| First Light - An overview of modern astronomy and our quest to find the dawn of creation | Professor Peter Quinn | |
| Facts, Moral Values and Evolution | James Chisholm | |
| G | Growing up in a risk averse society | Tim Gill, Rethinking Childhood, UK |
| Grace Vaughn Annual Lecture | Grace Vaughn | |
| H | Human rights and democracy in Australia | Julian Burnside QC |
| His Master's Voice: The corruption of public debate under Howard | David Marr | |
| Hitler | Associate Professor Peter Monteath, Flinders University | |
| Heil Aragorn! The Fuhrer-Ideology in Contemporary Fantasy Literature | Associate Professor Robert Stuart Discipline Groups of History and European Studies, UWA, Acting Head, School of Humanities | |
| I | International corporations and governments showing leadership on reducing greenhouse gas emissions | Rupert Posner, Founder of The Climate Group (Australia) |
| The Impossibility of Torture and Democracy | Jenny Hocking, Director of Research, School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences, Monash University | |
| J | John Winston Howard: The Biography | Dr Peter van Onselen, Edith Cowan University |
| L | Linne, Solander, the Apostles and their Time | Professor Sverker Sorlin, Professor of Environmental History, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
| M | Migrant workers and labour rights in Australia and Asia | Panel |
| Mill on Liberty | Professor Gregory Claeys, Royal Holloway, University of London | |
| O | Outsmarting the terrorists - twenty principles | Professor Ron Clarke, Rutgers University |
| P | Peace and war in the 21st century | Brian Walker, former Director-General Oxfam Daphne Sanders, Author |
| Public private partnerships for research and development | Dr Peter W.B. Phillips, Professor of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan | |
| Progressive politics in Australia | David McKnight, Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Technology, Sydney | |
| R | Reporting about torture: dilemmas and solutions | Professor Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Rewriting Australia | Professor Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University | |
| S | Sustainability in water-stressed environments in Israel and its neighbours | Shimon Tal |
| Sulla and the nature of the classical dictator | Dr Alexander Thein, University College, Dublin | |
| Science matters for the future of Western Australia | WA Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley | |
| Sea level change through the ages: Learning from the past to understand the future | Kurt Lambeck, FAA, FRS, President, Australian Academy of Science, Professor of Geophysics, Australian National University | |
| Stereotypes: What Are They Good For? | Dr Vance Locke, School of Psychology, UWA | |
| Subtle Dehumanisation of Others | Dr Paul Bain, School of Psychology, Murdoch University | |
| T | Technology as a tool or tyrant | Professor Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Provost, Macquarie University, Sydney |
| The impact of global warming on Western Australia | Dr Ray Wills, Chair of the WA Sustainable Energy Association Inc. | |
| Teaching through Performance: Shakespeare and Integrated Learning | Professor Helen Ostovich, McMaster University | |
| The Israeli gastronarrative: Food in Hebrew fiction | Nancy Berg, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770 | John Hirst, Historian and social commentator | |
| This is my body, This is my software: between Western and non-Western cultures | Orlan | |
| The Left, the Right and the Aborigines: New (Uncomfortable) Thoughts on the History of the Dispossession and on the Quest for Reconciliation | Robert Manne | |
| The Nearly Men: France and its Caesars since Napoleon I | Professor Nicholas Atkin, University of Reading | |
| Time of the Nazis. Past, Present and Future in the Third Reich | Dr Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge | |
| The Howard Decade - Separating Fact from Fiction | Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian | |
| The Fallacy of Race | Professor Linc Schmitt, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA | |
| The Myths of St. Petersburg | Dr. Hubertus F. Jahn, Senior Lecturer Russian History, University of Cambridge | |
| The Emerging Dominance of the West in America’s Economy, Culture, and Politics | Professor David M. Kennedy, Stanford University | |
| W | What has happened to sustainability | Panel |
| Where are we after 300 years? - Systematics, ancient to modern | Dr Kevin Thiele, Curator, WA Herbarium |