Institute of Advanced Studies

2008 lectures

Index

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A	An explosion of cosmic explosions	Professor S. R. Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology
	Australian farming - Does it have a future? And does it matter?	Patrice Newell, journalist
	Anatomy of a Volcano: The On-again Off-again Eruption at Soufriere Hills Volcano, WestIndies	Professor Derek Elsworth, Penn State University and 2008 Senior visiting Gledden Fellow, UWA
	Aboriginal spirituality	Noel Nannup
	Acceptable Levels? The threat and use of violence in British Central Africa, 1945-65	Philip Murphy, Reading University UK (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
B	Biophotonics: Bringing Light to Life	Professor Brian C Wilson, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
	Breathing planet - plants, Kew And you: 2008 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture	Professor Stephen D. Hopper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
	Blue Covenant: The global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water	Maude Barlow, Blue Planet Project
C	Cos Play	Leng Leng Thang, National University of Singapore
	Conversations with Robert Drewe – an evening with one of Australia’s Best literary writers	Robert Drewe
	Crossing the Line	Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and Professor of Visual Studies SUNY, Buffalo
D	Disability and Digital Cultures: Brave new worlds, or just new forms of injustice?	Professor Gerard Goggin, University of New South Wales
	Death and Life on Palm Island: The case of Senior Sergeant Hurley	Chloe Hooper, Author
	Dark matter in galaxies	Professor Ken Freeman, Australian National University
E	Elvis is Titanic	Ian Klaus, Author
	Exploring Billions of Kilometres Away: Deep Space Communication	Jianhua Lu, Professor of Information and Communication Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
G	Growing up Asian in Australia	Alice Pung, Author
H	How did Earth’s Secondary Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Originate? Volcanoes, Meteorites, or Comets?	Robert Kerrich, University of Saskatchewan
I	Inter-disciplinarity in the teaching of Early Modern Studies	Professor Brian Cummings, University of Sussex
	Improving health in the 21st century: asocial determinants perspective	Professor Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard Center for Society and Health
L	Living in the web of memory: Constructing virtual communities of records and remembrance.	Associate Professor Jeannette A. Bastian, Simmons College
	Law, legitimacy and the frontier	Julie Evans, University of Melbourne (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
M	Making a difference in Perth: outcomes from the Committee for Perth's Vision for the Arts strategy	Professor Margaret Seares AO, The University of Western Australia
	Materialising the Philippines: Pina Textiles, nationalism and border zones of cultural production	Professor B. Lynne Milgram, Ontario College of Art and Design
	Moonstruck motions in the deep ocean	Hans van Haren, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
	Mona Lisa: The Best Known Girl in the Whole Wide World?	Donald Sassoon, Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London
	MoMARETO: exploration of hydrothermalvents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge	Professor Pierre Legendre, Universite de Montreal
	Massacres and Modernity: Italian colonialism in Ethiopia	Giuseppe Finaldi, UWA (History Series: Re-examining thepractice and legacy of colonialism)
N	Nationalities-Socialism? The Soviet Union as a multi-ethnic empire	Mark Edele, UWA (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
O	Of veils and mourning: Fazal Sheikh's widowed images	Professor Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
P	Populism, mob violence and colonial governance in South Africa and Australia	Jeremy Martens, UWA (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy ofcolonialism)
R	Recent developments in how the ear works	Professor Robert Withnell, Indiana University
	Religion and politics: trusted friends or sworn enemies?	Geoff Gallop, University of Sydney
	Representing London	Tony White, Author
	Race and postcolonial identity: Remembering privileged communities from the former Netherlands Indies	Susie Protschky, UWA (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
S	SUSY and the Lords of the Ring	Professor Sylvester Gates, University of Maryland
T	The very modern world of Fritz Lang	Mark Bould, University of the West of England
	Taking action on climate change	Panel
	The Forgotten Australians: Identity, records and their search for the past.	The Honourable Andrew Murray, Retired Federal Senator
	The changing role of women working in criminal justice organisations	Professor Anne Worrall, Crime Research Centre
	The end of fish?	David Ritter, Greenpeace UK
	The 'I' in Personalised Genetics	Associate Professor David Mackey, University of Melbourne
	The Quest for the 5th Dimension at the Large Hadron Collider	Tony Gherghetta, Professor of Physics and Federation Fellow, University of Melbourne
	The Atlas of Living Australia - Sharing Biodiversity Knowledge to Shape Our Future	Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Entomology
	The history of cinema and the role of French film making	Bertrand Tavernier
	The end of French Colonialism: The Algerian War	Helene Jaccomard, UWA (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
	The Pre-History of the Holocaust?: Conquest, Genocide and German Colonialism	Matthew Fitzpatrick, Flinders University (History Series:Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
	The 21^st Century American Empire	Norman Etherington, UWA (History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism)
V	Vision, memory, spectacle: an evening of independent feminist experimental short films of the 1970s and 1980s	Dr Felicity Collins, Cinema Studies Program, La Trobe University
W	What in the world does ethics have to do with health research? Some musings on whether morality is local or global	Dr Eric Meslin, Indiana University