IAS public lectures aim to attract and stimulate lively discussion.
Lectures, often tied to a longer visit to UWA by a distinguished visitor, are part of the University's long-standing goal to share the research activity at UWA with the community at large. The Institute also sponsors a number of named, endowed or memorial lectures each year with both internal and external partners.
Many of our talks were recorded and the audio file and slides can be viewed by selecting one of the links below.
Lectures held in 2018
Arts and Humanities
- ‘The Unexpected Horrible Side Effect of this Law’: the criminalization of inter-racial sex and white male suicide in South Africa, 1950-1985.
A public lecture by Susanne M. Klausen, Professor of History, Carleton University in Ottawa, Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Encountering: The Conceptual Body, or a Theory of When, Where, and How Art “Means”
A public lecture by Amelia Jones, the Robert A. Day Professor, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.
- Reading for Little Rebels: internationalism and radical writing for children
A public lecture by Kimberley Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Resisting the Orientalization of the Enemy: Korean Americans, Japanese American Incarceration, and Moral Imagination on the Homefront during World War II
A public lecture by Lili M. Kim, Associate Professor of History and Global Migrations, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA and 2017-2018 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.
- Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future
A public lecture by Mark McKenna, Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney.
How to Treat Persons: two anchors of moral judgement
A public lecture by Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, US) and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Black Bodies, White Gold: cotton, art and the materiality of race
A public lecture by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University.
The Feeling of Eugenics
A public lecture by Rob Wilson, Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Where did language come from?
A public lecture by Michael Corballis, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland
A Scandalous Empire
The 2018 Fred Alexander Lecture by Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney.
- Dante, an iconoclast in his age, a model for our own
A public lecture by Rodney Lokaj, Chair of Italian Philology, University of Enna “Kore”, Sicily.
Indigenous
- The Uluru Statement: Towards Truth and Justice
A public lecture by Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Revitalising Indigenous Language and Law
A public lecture by Professor John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School, British Columbia and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- The Collective Power and Potential of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and girls: recognising their human rights in achieving gender equity
The 2018 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
Law
Comparing the UK approach to exploiting offshore petroleum with Australia - does who dares win?
A public lecture by Professor John Paterson, Professor in Law, University of Aberdeen and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Sciences
- Growing up Star Trek. How do we make sense of it all?
A public lecture by Bernie Kraatz, Vice-Principal Research, University of Toronto Scarborough, and 2018 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellow.
Fish Must Breathe!
A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Finding our Place in the Universe
The 2018 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.
- Sleep, Body Clocks and Health: biology to new therapeutics
A public lecture by Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Senior Fellow Brasenose College, University of Oxford and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Social Sciences
- How Remembering Causes Forgetting
A public lecture by Amy H. Criss, Head of Discipline, Psychology, Syracuse University and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Personality, Values, Culture, Evolution – why are we similar and yet so different?
A public lecture by Ronald Fischer, Professor in Psychology and Co-Director, Center for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Knowing Autism
A public lecture by Liz Pellicano, Professor of Educational Studies, Macquarie University.
- Emerging technologies: towards responsible, ethical futures
A public lecture by Professor Sarah Pink, RMIT and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Ageing and Care in Mediterranean Countries: the case of Italy
A public lecture by Giuliana Costa, Associate Professor of Sociology, Politecnico di Milano and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- Duties to One’s Own Population and Combatants in War: is there an “Internal” Humanitarian Law?
A public lecture by Frédéric Mégret, Associate Professor of Law and Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines: missionary networks and theories of racial origin in the nineteenth century
A public lecture by Hilary Carey, Professor of Imperial & Religious History, University of Bristol; Conjoint Professor of History, University of Newcastle, NSW and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
- The Idea of Peace Parks in Africa
A public lecture by Professor Maano Ramutsindela, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
A Tale of Two Diseases: regulating immune responses in the retina
The 2018 Ian Constable Lecture by Professor Andrew Dick, Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
Young people’s mental health - the what, why and how of supporting young people with mental health problems
The 2018 Robin Winkler Memorial Lecture by Debra Rickwood, Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra.
- Is Democracy Dying? Thoughts on the Present Crisis of Representative Democracy and the Importance of Hope in Dark Times
The UWA School of Social Sciences Annual Social Sciences Week Public Lecture by John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney.