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. In 2016 we hosted a number of thought provoking talks on a variety of subject matters. 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 2016
- 2016 UWA Research Tasting Night - an Intellectual Tapas
- Speakers: Various
Arts
- 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
- Medieval War in Modern Memory
- Speaker: Andrew Lynch, Director, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia
- The Limits of Tolerance: Arguments For and Against Religious Violence in the High Middle Ages
- Speaker: Michael Barbezat, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, UWA
- Dante at Auschwitz: the role of poetry in our world
- Speaker: Lino Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University
- Theories of Art/Theories of Terror. Avant-garde, Totalitarianism, and Post-Structuralist Epilogue.
- Speaker: Professor Anatoly Rykov, St Petersburg State University
Health
- From ‘Subject’ to ‘Partner’: the changing role of patients and the public in health research
- Speaker: Simon Denegri, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Director for Patients and the Public in Research and Chair, INVOLVE
- Sleep Deprivation and its Health Consequences
- Speaker: Matthew Naughton, sleep physician and researcher
- A More Liveable Perth: how do we create more pedestrian-friendly, less car dependent and more socially inclusive cities?
- Speaker: Jasper Schipperijn, Research Unit for Active Living, University of Southern Denmark and 2016 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow
- The Central Role of RNA in Human Evolution and Development - The 2016 Ian Constable Lecture
- Speaker: John Mattick, Executive Director, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
Engineering
- Marine Renewable Energy: Technology, Opportunities and Challenges
- Speaker: Guy Houlsby, Professor of Civil Engineering, Oxford University and 2016 IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Science
- What Egyptian Mummies tell us about the History of the Nile
- Speaker: Christophe Lécuyer, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre Planètes, Environnement, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow
- Whatever it Takes: legal and sport science perspectives on the 'Essendon Saga'
- Speakers: Dr Tony Buti MLA, and Professor Brian Dawson, The University of Western Australia
- The Inevitable Patterns of Rivers, Landscapes, and People
- Speaker: Kyungrock Paik, School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University and 2016 UWA Gledden Short Stay Fellow
- Bridging the Measurement Scale Gap in Seismic and Rock Physics
- Speaker: Kyle Spikes, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow
- Evolution at the End of the World - stories of plant resilience in the southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot
- Speaker: Kingsley Dixon, Director, ARC Centre for Mine Restoration, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University
- The Songs of the Universe - Detecting Gravitational Waves
- Speakers: Professor David Blair, Director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre (AIGRC), The University of Western Australia and Professor Hyung Mok Lee, Seoul National University and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow
- The How and the Why of Live Cells Imaging in the Retina: current trends in the clinical and basic research
- Speaker: Robert J. Zawadzki, Assistant Research Professor, Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis
Social Sciences
- Architecture, Labour, Capitalism: the architect as worker
- Speaker: Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean, Yale School of Architecture
- Taking a Shortcut Through the Long Grass: The 2016 Grace Vaughan Memorial lecture
- Speaker: Dorinda Cox, Project Officer, Keeping Kids Safe Project, Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA
- Motivation in Learning, Work and Wellbeing: research and practice from the perspective of self-determination theory
- Speaker: Richard M. Ryan, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University and 2016 IAS Short-Stay Visiting Fellow
- Hearing the Unheard, Seeing the Unseen. A Man’s Journey to Better Understanding the Challenges Facing Australia in the 21st Century - 2016 Sir Wallace Kyle Oration
- Speaker: Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO (Retd) and 2016 Australian of the Year
- Out of Bounds? Photographing Australian Border Crossings
- Speaker: Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History
- The German army in World War II: Its moral and military failure
- Speaker: Ben H. Shepherd, 2016 Fred Alexander Fellow and reader in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
- Shape Shifters: journeys across terrains of race and identity
- Speaker: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
- SELF MADE CITY: New Urban Development Strategies and Housing Typologies
- Speaker: Kristien Ring, architect, curator and author