Institute of Advanced Studies

The Institute of Advanced Studies is host to many prominent international, national and local speakers.

At the Institute, these speakers open up debate on a myriad of subjects, knowledge and views.

You can read about the achievements and research of our visiting scholars, artists and intellectuals.

Conversations

• May 2010 - Indian producer, writer and director, Chitra Palekar speaks to Geraldine Mellett about her film Maati May (A Gravekeeper's Tale)

• Dr Eric M. Meslin
  Professor-at-Large Dr Eric M. Meslin discusses his lecture on the ethics of science in the post-genomic world.
• Professor Ross Gibson
  Professor Ross Gibson is an author, filmmaker, curator and producer. Ross talks about his most latest artwork the novel The Summer Exercises in a public lecture.
• Professor Lister Staveley-Smith, Premier's Fellow in Radio Astronomy
  Professor Staveley-Smith discusses the 2009 International Year of Astronomy and other associated activities.
• Professor Douglas Osheroff, J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University and 1996 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics
  Professor Osheroff is speaks about the 2009 Marshall-Warren Lecture.