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.
Selected Recordings of Lectures held in 2015-2019
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The case of the Starachowice factory slave labour camps
Speaker: Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina - MindTrails: Using technology to change anxious thinking in the real world
Speaker: Professor Bethany Teachman Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Charting courses through the Ice? Envisioning Antarctic Futures
Speaker: Dr Daniela Liggett, Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research (Gateway Antarctica), University of Canterbury and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Right to Food: A reflection of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right to Food
Speaker: Professor Hilal Elver, Global Distinguished Fellow, Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, UCLA Law School and UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Current Global Crises: towards a more humane global governance.
Speaker: Professor Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2008-2014) and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - With or Without Body: Feeling, Creating, & Performing Emotion
This public event was part of the Limina 14th Annual Conference HUMANIFESTO: dissecting the human experience. - Laparoscopes and Leonardo: unveiling the secrets of art using medical imaging
Speaker: Professor Adam Gibson, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London (UCL) and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies. - PRISON versus WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Speaker: Barry Godfrey, Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool and Russell Ward Visiting Professor, University of New England and 2019 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow. - Why "home" matters the most for people on the move
Speaker: Paolo Boccagni, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Trento, Italy and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
Speaker: Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. - Neural Machine Translation and the Translation Professions
Speaker: Anthony Pym, Translation Studies (Intercultural Studies), The University of Melbourne. - Women, Inequality and the Butterfly Effect
The 2019 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Antoinette Kennedy AO - An African-American feminist visits Perth in 1960: who she met, what she saw, what she said, and what she wore.
Keynote Address of the annual Australian Women's History Network symposium 'The Female Frame: Biopolitics and Wellbeing in Australian and Global Perspective' by Emerita Professor Ann Curthoys. - Cyber Security: why are we not safer?
Speaker: Professor David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Margaret Cavendish's Life of Newcastle (1667), a Wifely Intervention in the Making of History
Speaker: Dr Diana Barnes, Lecturer in English Literary Studies, University of New England and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - The Last Indigenous People of Europe, but for how long?
Speaker: Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Professor of Environmental and Agricultural Economics, UWA. - Struggles with Scale, Strategy, and Stewardship: fifty years of environmental activism
Speaker: Graeme Wynn FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Engineering Empathy
Speaker: Professor Philip Gerrans, Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Technology and the Future of Work: an international perspective in the shadow of the competition for talent
Speaker: Gordon L Clark, Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford; Sir Lewis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Indigenous
- The Art of Healing
The 2019 Robin Winkler Lecture by Helen Milroy, Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Western Australia.
Italian Series
This lecture series celebrated the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA.Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music
Speaker: Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini- Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul
Speaker: Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia - Missing Magnificence: tracing Catherine de Medici?s hidden cultural legacy
Speaker: Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia. - Italy and the Invention of Luxury
Speaker: Dr Catherine Kovesi, History, University of Melbourne. - Staying in touch across distance: 100 years of Italian-Australian migration
Speaker: Professor Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology and Sociology, UWA. - Taking the pulse of Italy today: a creative presence in Europe and in Australia
Speaker: H.E. Francesca Tardioli, Ambassador of Italy in Australia. - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): enigma and genius
Speaker: Costantino D'Orazio, Art historian and writer, Rome. - A cookbook for a nation. Pellegrino Artusi and the Italian language
Speaker: Professor Cecilia Robustelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio-Emilia.
Health and Medical Sciences
- The Human Cost of Drone Warfare
Speaker: Alex Edney-Browne, International Relations, University of Melbourne. - Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Case Study
Speaker: Dr Mark Engel, Associate Professor within the Medicine Department at University of Cape Town and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - From evidence to empowerment - translating UWA breastfeeding research into practice
A panel discussion with three of UWA's leading breastfeeding researchers: Professor Valerie Verhasselt, Larsson-Rosenquist Chair in Human Lactology; Associate Professor Donna Geddes, Chief Investigator of the Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group and Melinda Boss, Senior Research Fellow, School of Allied Health. - Pandemics and their Control in the Modern World
Speaker: Sir Roy Anderson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London and Director, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research. - Glaucoma: what's on the horizon?
The Lions Eye Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies present the 2019 Ian Constable Lecture - by Professor Keith Martin, Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia. - Physics in the Fight against Cancer
Speaker: Professor Thomas Bortfeld, Medical Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. - Heat Therapy: An ancient practice to target modern diseases
Speaker: Christopher T. Minson, PhD, Kenneth and Kenda Singer Professor, and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics
- Will the Earth become too hot for your grandchildren to handle? The science and politics of carbon emissions and storage.
The Australian Academy of Science Selby Lecture by Herbert Huppert, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge. - From Ores to Ash: the Inner Workings of Hazardous Volcanoes.
Speaker: Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow. - Glass Houses: the Internet of Things and its encroachment on intimacy
Speaker: Dr Gilad Rosner, founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Pulling Back the Big Blue Curtain: big fish and big parks
Speaker: Jessica Meeuwig, Professor of Marine Science, The University of Western Australia and 2019 Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering Eminent Speaker. - Pyrogeography and Fire Management
Speaker: David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, The University of Tasmania. - No Sense of Place?
The 2019 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Don Bradshaw, Emeritus Professor, Zoology. - Coping with water scarcity: Lessons from giant cacti of the Americas
Speaker: David Williams, Professor and former Head of Botany, University of Wyoming and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Gas Stations in Space
Speaker: Dr William Notardonato, Principal Investigator, Kennedy Space Centre Exploration Research and Technology Programs, NASA, and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - The Power of Earth: the 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and case studies
Speaker: Dr Lijun Deng, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta and and 2019 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow. - Leading the Rebellious with Empathy: a new paradigm for (STEM) education
Speaker: Dr Johannes Strobel, Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Perils of Fornicating on the Beach: reproductive constraints in a keystone fish may underpin collapse of the Northwest Atlantic foodweb
Speaker: Dr Craig Purchase, Associate Professor of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow. - Astrochemistry
Speaker: Professor Dahbia Talbi, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France.
UWA Research Week Events
- A Good Night's Sleep: sleep disorders and the shape of your face
Speakers: Peter Eastwood, Centre for Sleep Science, and Ajmal Mian, Machine Intelligence Group, UWA - The Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture Coastal Science: Reflections on the past and present and ideas for the future
Speaker: Bruce Thom AM FTSE FIAG, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney.