Faculty of Arts Lectures and Events
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Past events
2011
Renaissance Lecture for the National Gallery of Australia. Presented by Prof Jaynie Anderson. Thursday 24 November 2011
Jaynie Anderson holds the Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne and is the International President of the Committee for the History of Art. She is Principal Advisor to the National Gallery of Australia for the exhibition.
In her lecture, Professor Anderson explored the exhibition on Italian Renaissance painting that opened at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, on 9 December 2011, and continues until 9 April 2011. Download
Enduring Conflict. Challenging the Signature of Peace and Democracy. Presented by Professor Adrian Little. November 17 2011.
Why does the resolution of conflict play such a significant role in the operation of contemporary politics? Why is it assumed that the normative basis on which most ‘normal’ societies operate is devoid of the kinds of conflict that permeate societies with a less cohesive foundation? This lecture analyses the assumption that the absence of conflict is a normative good for any society and questions why the lack of such conflict is assumed to be the foundation of a stable political environment. Adrian Little is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Melbourne where he has also been Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences since 2007.
2011 John Barry Memorial Lecture. More Upbeat Than Usual. Considering Crime Rates in Indigenous Communities. Presented by Professor Larissa Behrendt. Tuesday 15 November 2011
This lecture explored research investigating what factors might explain why some Indigenous communities have high crime rates and others have low ones. Prof Behrendt is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. She is the Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. Download
Smile! You are in Spain. Presented by Professor Alfredo Martínez-Expósito.Thursday 10 November 2011
In his 30-year long career director Pedro Almodóvar has coined some of the most enduring and recognisable stock images of contemporary Spain. In this lecture Professor Alfredo Martínez-Expósito examined Almodóvar and the spectacle of authenticity in Spanish cinema. Download
Would the world have been different under US President Al Gore? Presented by Roy Neel. Thursday 3 November 2011.
Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Chief of Staff for former Vice President Al Gore presented a Public Lecture entitled "Would the world have been different under US President Al Gore?" Roy Neel is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and the current Chief of Staff for former Vice President Al Gore, overseeing his climate change advocacy programs, national and international political relationships and liaison with his clean energy business interests. Download
Leading the Way or Looking the Other Way? Minority Government, Public Policy and Vulnerable Groups. Panel Discussion. Friday 21 October 2011.
Featuring Adam Bandt, Margaret Simons, Tim Wilson, Dr Narelle Miragliotta, Dr Scott Brenton and moderated by Prof Helen Sullivan.
To Civilise the City? Public lecture presented by Prof Raimond Gaita. September 29 2011
In the early 1980s, Don Gunner, a philosopher at the University of Melbourne, proclaimed to me that the task of the university is to civilise the city. He said this to me at a time when most academics still believed that the very concept of a university entitled them to say that no institution could rightly call itself a university if it did not have a department of philosophy, or classics, or physics. Download
Democracy in the Age of Google, Facebook and WikiLeaks. Presented by Professor John Keane, University of Sydney. May 18 2011.
In this lecture, John Keane explores these conflicting trends and asks: when judged in terms of the democratic principle of free and equal communication, does the age of Google, Wikileaks and Facebook on balance proffer more democratic promise than risk? Download
International Responses to Democratisation in the Arab World. Panel discussion. May 13 2011.
Hosted by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences in partnership with the Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria. Featuring Prof Gareth Evans, Prof Hillary Charlesworth, Danial Flitton, Dr Sally Totman, Dr Timothy Lynch and moderated by Prof Robyn Eckersley.
Professor Emeritus Ronald Ridley presents 2011 Marion Adams Memorial Lecture: Team Tutankhamun. Tuesday 19 April 2011.