International Law and Global Non-International Armed Conflict

Venue: Lecture Theatre G08, Law Building

Presenters: Professor Naz Modirzadeh

How is international law involved in what the US has called the ‘global non-international armed conflict’ against al Qaeda and associated forces? In this lecture, Professor Naz Modirzadeh will analyse the legal arguments developed by the US to justify its resort to force, as well as recent developments in the approach to international law taken by other states participating in the massive campaign against ISIS. She will argue that the result of the use of law-talk as part of this conflict is a blurring of lines between different bodies of law and different international law professions and professionals, with troubling implications.

Professor Naz Modirzadeh is the founding Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. She is a Visiting Professorial Fellow with the Laureate Program in International Law for 2016.

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Science and Technology: New Frontiers for Helping People with Mental Illness

Venue: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Plenary 2

Presenters: Mr Thomas Insel MD

Mental illnesses are amongst the most common, disabling, and costly disorders in all of medicine. In contrast to most medical disorders, mental illnesses (including depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder) usually begin before age 25. This early onset combined with low rates of treatment too often incurs disability and high medical and social costs.

One recent report estimated the annual cost of mental illness in Australia at over $28B per year, 2.2% of the nation’s GDP. In addition to the disability and costs, these disorders are often fatal. In Australia, suicide has increased to the highest rate in 13 years, with the recent report of 2,864 deaths/year or nearly one every 3 hours. Fortunately, science and technology offer hope for reducing the high morbidity and mortality of these disorders.

The revolutions in genomics and brain imaging have begun to reveal the fundamental biology of psychosis as well as mood and anxiety disorders, changing our perspective on these illnesses from exclusively behavioral problems to disorders of specific brain circuits. Meanwhile new sensors and software that have revolutionized so many aspects of our lives have begun to offer better ways of measuring behavior, promising powerful tools for detecting early signs of psychosis or depression. Modern scientific and information technologies not only are suggesting more precise diagnostic boundaries that may help people get the right treatment at the right time, they are creating new approaches to treatment that may improve outcomes and prevent suicide.

This 2016 Graeme Clark Oration will describe some of the recent advances in the science of mental illness and new frontiers in technology that give hope for reducing the suffering from serious mental illness.

Dr Thomas R. lnsel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, who joined Verily (formerly known as the Life Sciences Team at Google) in December, 2015. Previously he was Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) committed to research on mental disorders. Dr. Insel served as Director of this $1.5B agency from 2002 until 2015.

During his tenure, Dr. Insel focused on the genetics and neurobiology of mental disorders as well as transforming approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Prior to serving as NIMH Director, Dr. Insel was Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University where he was founding director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Center in Atlanta.

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Political Islam and the Challenge to International Law

Venue: Lecture theatre G08, Ground floor, Law G08

Presenters: Professor Naz Modirzadeh, Associate Professor Andrew March

Professor Naz Modirzadeh and Associate Professor Andrew March will explore some of the challenges posed by the rise of militant forms of political Islam to international law. The speakers will explore what transnational Jihadis may have contributed to Islamic laws of war, the ways in which international humanitarian lawyers have approached a perceived enemy that as part of its identity rejects international humanitarian law in favour of a stronger legal system, and what is at stake when international lawyers talk about Islamic laws of war.

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Documentary Screening & Talk: Right to Know - Understanding Digital Literacy in Rural India

Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute

Presenters: Mr Andrew Garton

How can we welcome one billion rural, mostly below-the-poverty-line Indians online by 2020? Right to Know is a photo and video essay presented as a seminar discussing the issues forthcoming film Ocean in a Drop raises; from the risks field workers take when providing internet access to women, to asking what does being digitally literate actually mean within the context of rural India?

With specially selected excerpts to be screened from the yet to be completed film, a curated selection of behind-the-scene photographs and video stills Right to Know is an informative and entertaining insight to the making of a film giving voice to the impact the internet is having on rural Indians.

Screening and discussion presented by filmmaker Andrew Garton

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Recent acquisitions from the Kerry Stokes collection

Venue: Postgraduate Room, 1st floor Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Ms Erica Persak, Professor Emeritus Margaret Manion

A 16th century eleven metre scroll illustrating the history of the world from Biblical times is the centrepiece of an exclusive exhibition at the University of Melbourne to coincide with Rare Book Week. 'A chronicle of French, English and world history, ranging from creation to the year 1521' and other exquisite items including illuminated manuscripts on vellum from the same period will be on show. The items are recently acquired and on loan from the Kerry Stokes Collection, and will be on show in the University's Baillieu Library. Three public lectures will explore the objects' unusual provenance and cultural significance. The third and final lecture in the series by Erica Persak and Margaret Manion, gives an overview of the Kerry Stokes collection and recent acquisitions.

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The Chronicle of Chronicles, 1521

Venue: Postgraduate Room 1st floor , Baillieu Library

Presenters: Professor Charles Zika

A 16th century eleven metre scroll illustrating the history of the world from Biblical times is the centrepiece of an exclusive exhibition at the University of Melbourne to coincide with Rare Book Week. 'A chronicle of French, English and world history, ranging from creation to the year 1521' and other exquisite items including illuminated manuscripts on vellum from the same period will be on show. The items are recently acquired and on loan from the Kerry Stokes Collection, and will be on show in the University's Baillieu Library. Three public lectures will explore the objects' unusual provenance and cultural significance. The second lecture in the series, by historian Charles Zika, will explore this exemplary Chronicle, which was printed in Paris in 1521and includes 92 woodcut illustrations.

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After Shakespeare, Floor Talk

Venue: Postgraduate Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr David McInnis

'After Shakespeare' is an exhibition with associated public programs exploring the 400 year legacy of William Shakespeare. The exhibition includes work by writers who imitated or adapted his works, and documents his cultural influence in the four centuries since his death. With particular emphasis on Australian reception of his work, the exhibition brings together for the first time two of only five known Australian copies of the Second Folio of Shakespeare’s works (1632), a unique promptbook for a Gold Rush era performance of Antony and Cleopatra at Melbourne’s Theatre Royal in 1856, and numerous production artefacts and ephemera. 'After Shakespeare' offers a rare glimpse of important Shakespeariana from the University of Melbourne, the State Library of Victoria and the Melbourne Theatre Company.

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Artists' books holding us in their palm

Venue: 1st floor HUB building, Lenton Parr Library

Presenters: Ms Louise Jennison, Ms Gracia Haby

The flexible medium of the book holds us in its palm rather than us holding the book in our own palms. We are besotted with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature. In our artists' books, prints, zines, drawings, and collages, we use an armoury of play, humour, and perhaps the poetic, to lure you closer. The animal is often present and easily detectable, the centre of our paper stage. Join Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison as they discuss their artist book practice and see first-hand examples of their work from the Baillieu Library Rare Book Collection.

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Water, marks and countenances: Works on paper from the Grainger Museum collection

Venue: Exhibition space, Grainger Museum

Presenters: Mr Brian Allison

Join curator Brian Allison for a floor talk discussing the latest temporary exhibition, Water, marks and countenances: works on paper from the Grainger Museum collection.

Free Entry

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Tradition and invention in Thielman Kerver’s last book of hours

Venue: Postgraduate room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Hilary Maddocks

A 16th century eleven metre scroll illustrating the history of the world from Biblical times is the centrepiece of an exclusive exhibition at the University of Melbourne to coincide with Rare Book Week. 'A chronicle of French, English and world history, ranging from creation to the year 1521' and other exquisite items including illuminated manuscripts on vellum from the same period will be on show. The items are recently acquired and on loan from the Kerry Stokes Collection, and will be on show in the University's Baillieu Library. Three public lectures will explore the objects' unusual provenance and cultural significance. To kick the series off scholar Hilary Maddocks explores the Kerver Book of Hours.

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EU Perspectives on the Energy Transition

Venue: Seminar Room, Carlton Connect Initiative

Presenters: Dr Ronan Bolton

As part of its Market Design Initiative, the European Union is currently consulting on changes to its Internal Electricity Market (IEM) - the long held ambition of an integrated, trans-national electricity infrastructure and trading zone. At the heart of the debate about IEM is a tension between the ideal of a fully harmonised pan-European market, where prices closely reflect the marginal costs of generation and transport in particular network locations regardless of national jurisdiction, and the right of states to influence the energy mix in their countries in line with their own national policy priorities.

Through an examination of the UK, and with some reference to the German case, Dr. Ronan Bolton argues rather conforming to the economic ideal, electricity market redesign processes are strongly influenced by historical path dependencies and the politics of energy technology choice in countries and regions. Conceptual insights from Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) are drawn upon to characterise electricity market redesign a complex, socio-technical and multi-scalar process.

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Half Baked Ideas - Putting India to Work: a new approach put more Indians in jobs

Venue: Seminar Room, 147-149 Barry Street

Presenters: Sahil Shekhar

Despite two decades of economic growth, more than 70 percent of urban Indian workers don’t have formal sector jobs. This vast majority is excluded from India’s remarkable progress: their wages are twenty times lower, they don’t enjoy worker protections, and they can’t access formal credit.

Programs to boost formal sector employment typically fall into two broad categories: job creation (through investment in infrastructure and regulatory reform) and skill development (through boosting tertiary and vocational education). While these efforts are important, we argue that a third, neglected approach could prove to be the most effective medium term strategy to put more Indians in jobs: fixing the education to employment transition in India.

Sahil Shekhar is an entrepreneur working to make labor markets more efficient and meritocratic. Sahil has also worked with various Indian governments on education and employment-related topics.

This talk will explore inefficiencies in the education and labor markets that prevent matching the right candidate with the right skills for the right job. We also discuss promising technological and institutional innovations that may fix these inefficiencies in the near future.

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Closing the gap on indigenous health

Venue: Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Associate Professor James Ward

Associate Professor James Ward will speak on closing the gap on indigenous health.

James Ward is the Head of Infectious Diseases Research and Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide and is a leading researcher in Aboriginal sexual health, blood borne viruses (BBVs) and associated issues, including illicit drug use.

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The brain and space travel: How does travelling into outer space influence the space between our ears?

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: George Aranda

Travelling into space and how it influences our minds has been the stuff of science fiction. With extended stays on the International Space Station and plans for colonising Mars on the horizon, it has become more important to understand how our brains and minds are influenced by zero-gravity; how living in confined quarters and in artificial environments can best be managed; and what sort of training might benefit those spending more and more time in space.

Dr George Aranda is a Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, conducting research into technology, science education, science communication and putting 3D printers into primary schools. Formerly a cognitive neuroscientist, he is fascinated by the ways psychology and the mind are ever-present in our daily lives. He loves stories and books and writes the blog 'Science Book a Day’.

This session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.

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The Science of Aboriginal Star Knowledge

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Duane Hamacher

Like many Indigenous peoples of the world, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures use the stars to inform navigation, calendars, and social structure. Within their complex astronomical traditions, the properties of stars play an important role. When stars rise and set at dusk and dawn inform people about seasons, animals, and plants. The shape, colour, magnitude, and changes in brightness and the relative positions of the Sun and Moon are also important. Astronomer Duane Hamacher will discuss the scientific information encoded in Indigenous knowledge systems, and how this is passed down through story, art, song, and dance.

Dr Duane Hamacher is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre specialising in Indigenous astronomy.

This session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.

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How Do You Do a Space Business?

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Jason Held

Building any business is a difficult, time-consuming and expensive task. It’s no wonder that 90% of all entrepreneurs fail. And a business for space is considered especially difficult because it is owned by very large established players, not to mention that Australia has its own unique set of challenges due to a lack of government funding for civil space programs. Fortunately, the conditions are changing rapidly – and now is the best time to get involved. In this talk Saber Astronautics draws on their story and the decisions they made to survive as a space company in Australia.

Jason Held is founder of Saber Astronautics, and former US Army Major and Army Space Support Team leader for USSTRATCOM (formerly Space Command).

This session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.

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OzQube-1: The Rise of DIY Satellites

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Stuart McAndrew

OzQube-1 is one of a growing number of a new generation of tiny satellites. It is unique in that it’s being developed in Australia, but not by the government, a company or even a University. It’s a solo project that was conceived and developed by its creator – Stuart McAndrew – at his home in suburban Perth. In this talk, we’ll explore the creation and the development of the OzQube-1 project and its form factor. And the talk will explore the journey of the progress of the OzQube-1, reflecting on events and projects that have contributed to the phenomenon known as “DIY Satellites”.

This speaker session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.

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What’s Space Ever Done for Me?

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Kerrie Dougherty

You may not realise it, but space technology touches your life every day. From the food on your plate and the GPS in your smartphone to the daily weather report and live global 24-hour news, satellite networks and spinoff technologies from space exploration have revolutionised out world. Medical technology, computing, materials science, battery technology and project planning are just some of the many areas that have benefited from space research. Find out more about the importance of space in your life in this fascinating-and maybe surprising-presentation.

Kerrie Dougherty is a member of the Faculty of the International Space University, lecturing in space and society studies. An elected Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Kerrie is a space historian, curator, educator and author with more than thirty years’ experience in communicating space to the public.

This session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.

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The Dark Frontier

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Professor John Ellis CBE FRS

Astrophysical and cosmological observations tell us that the matter described so well by the Standard Model of particle physics is only 5% of the content of the Universe. Another 25% is the mysterious dark matter, which may be provided by unknown particles, with the remainder being the even more mysterious dark energy that is present even in the ‘empty’ space between the galaxies, driving the expansion of the Universe at an accelerating pace.

Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and elsewhere are searching for dark matter particles, which may emerge from the theory of supersymmetry that may also help explain why the dark energy is so small.

This lecture will be presented by British theoretical physicist Professor John Ellis CBE FRS, who is currently the Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London. John has worked with CERN for almost 40 years.

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Violence and the Supreme Court: Perspectives from both sides of the bench

Venue: Theatre TBC, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Mr Colin Mandy, The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth

Violent crime is of central concern to the community and attracts significant political interest. The Criminal Division of the Supreme Court sees the state's most violent offenders. It is the premier venue for deliberating on those crimes that reflect the boundaries of most grievous and heinous behaviour.

The view of the court practitioner is rarely heard outside the courtroom. This panel of experienced legal practitioners provides perspectives from both sides of the bench. How do those acting for the prosecution and defendants approach the limits of violence, and how do judges approach culpability, mitigation and community concern? This will provide a unique insight and opportunity to engage with those at the coalface of deliberation on violence and justice in our community.

The seminar will provide a unique insight into how Supreme Court practitioners think about, process, and deal with violent offences. It will present their perspectives on the way in which they each frame their understanding of violence, and how the various tools at their disposal - legislation, precedents, practice notes, narratives, criminological research and epidemiological evidence - factor into their work.

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Citizens, Criminologists and Wayfarers: On Crime in the ‘Open City’

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building

Presenters: Professor Alison Young

The city has long been a space of industry, commerce, pleasure and connection. Cities are also places that require defence, their territories vulnerable to outsiders; and a city was declared ‘open’ when its defenders conceded it for occupation by enemy attackers. Contemporary societies still fear the ‘open city’, less as a result of enemy incursion than as the effect of unstable social relations within the city. Criminology attempts to understand how crime takes place in the ‘open city’, but has been unsure whether crime is a symptom, cause, or indicator of the precariousness of urban relations. This lecture investigates ways in which anxieties about the vulnerability of the open city dominate social, legal and political responses to crime. By walking through the changing neighbourhoods of the city, it proposes ways in which we can encounter crime in urban environments as citizens, criminologists and wayfarers, and argues for a more complex understanding of openness in the contemporary city.

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How to be a Pragmatist

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre 122, Old Arts Building

Presenters: Professor Elizabeth Anderson

The 2016 Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture

Pragmatism is often loosely characterized as the view that people should adopt "whatever works." This seems like empty and useless advice, since it omits any substantive criterion of what works. This lecture will explain what this advice really means, why we ought to follow it, and how we can follow it. The key to pragmatism lies in its method, which deeply integrates moral with empirical inquiry. Pragmatism offers two ways to intelligently update our moral beliefs: bias correction, and experiments in living. In this presentation, Professor Anderson will illustrate how these methods work and why they make sense.

Professor Elizabeth Anderson is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), and numerous, widely reprinted articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics.

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Dean's Lecture: Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys

Venue: B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of Design, Masson Road, University of Melbourne

Presenters: Associate Professor Karen M’Closkey

M'Closkey and VanDerSys's work explores the relationship among digital media, fabrication technology and construction. Through new media and fabrication technologies, M'Closkey and VanDerSys's work explores methods of systemic patterning to expand landscape’s expressive agency in the shaping of the public realm. Their projects experiment with formal and temporal patterns; in all cases, these methods are used to craft variation in surface appearances, as well as participate in site functions, such as water collection, plant growth, and maintenance zones. These incremental infrastructures have implications for more integrative thinking about natural systems in relatively dense urban environments and offer new expressive potential for landscape via new combinations of organic and inorganic materials. The use of these tools and techniques has created a signature aesthetic, establishing PEG office of landscape + architecture as part of the next generation in the field of landscape design.

Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys are founding partners of PEG office of landscape + architecture.

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Ready for Action: strengthening the role of non-violence and conflict resolution in the UN and its agencies

Venue: Theatre , 207 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Professor Diane Bretherton

The idea of readiness for action is usually associated with military intervention. But peace, non-violence and conflict resolution also require careful preparation and training.

Changes that build peace can come from dramatic top down decisions. They can also take the form of many smaller interactions, from which new configurations emerge, like the process of morphing images on video. This lecture will be grounded in an ecological approach to conflict and peace, in which changes in relationships in the micro-systems can serve to alter the shape of macro-systems.

Some examples of how a lack of conflict analysis and resolution skills can undermine the implementation of a wide range of UN initiatives will be provided and a number of suggestions for strengthening conflict resolution training in the UN and its agencies will be discussed.

In her commitment to advancing Peace and Conflict Studies, Professor Diane Bretherton has published many works and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Peace and Conflict. She has conducted conflict resolution workshops in many countries and is currently an adviser to a peace building project in Somalia. Professor Bretherton has been made a member of the Order of Australia for theoretical contributions to her discipline and for the practical prevention of violence through promoting conflict resolution in the community.

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Flourishing in the 21st Century: The rise of contemplative science

Venue: Lyle Theatre 101, Redmond Barry Building

Presenters: Dr Alan Wallace

A century of unprecedented scientific and technological innovation has given humanity the potential to resolve many of its material challenges. Nevertheless, fear and greed have perpetuated exploitation and inequity of a massive scale, while dissatisfaction and delusion have driven rampant consumerism that now threatens to devour the natural environment that sustains us.

In this talk, Dr Alan Wallace will draw on contemplative science to present the dimensions of human flourishing and provide a model of mental balance linked to a range of complimentary contemplative practices.

Presented by the Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

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Leading Indicators of Organizational Outcomes

Venue: The Spot - Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre

Presenters: Professor Shane Dikolli

Professor Shane Dikolli will deliver the 77th CPA Australia - University of Melbourne Annual Research Lecture.

Shane will explore how recent innovations in accounting research such as executive compensation, audit fees, and corporate culture, have yielded several data sources and methods for generating leading indicators of organizational outcomes. In particular, Shane will discuss leading indicator implications of data sources such as social media preferences; the mandatory expanded disclosure of executive compensation details; the voice recording, written language and speaking style of executives; and the variation in the level of an organization’s audit fees not explained by observable economic factors.

Shane Dikolli is an Associate Dean for Faculty Engagement at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Fellow of CPA Australia.

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Australia Decides: The inside story on the Australian Election 2016

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Mr Nicholas Reece

Got a burning election question? Our panel of top “insiders” can help you make sense of the issues before Australia votes on 2 July.

• Barrie Cassidy, Host of the ABC’s “Insiders” program
  
• Ben Hubbard, Chief of Staff to former PM Julia Gillard
• Peta Credlin, Chief of Staff to former PM Tony Abbott
• Ellen Whinnett, National Political Editor, Herald Sun

Moderated by Nicholas Reece, Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne.

The panel will discuss key election issues, the anticipated outcomes of the election and answer your questions.

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Diversity in Science

Venue: Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Ms Leonie Walsh

How is Victoria approaching true diversity in science? Join the discussion on how we can improve and progress in diversity and gender equality in science with the Victorian Lead Scientist, Leonie Walsh.

Leonie Walsh was appointed to the inaugural role of Victorian Lead Scientist in mid-2013. In her role as Lead Scientist she represents Victoria and advises on many committees, councils and boards across science and technology industry, innovation and education platforms.

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA), The ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) and the Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WiSPP) are pleased to invite you to learn how Victoria is approaching true diversity in science and join in the discussion on how we can improve and progress in diversity and gender equality in science.

This lecture is the opening event for the 2016 ASA Diversity in Astronomy workshop hosted by the Astrophysics group in the University of Melbourne's School of Physics.

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Climate policy 2016: Has Labor got it right this time around?

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Mr Mark Butler MP, Dr Sara Bice, Ms Elisa de Wit, Mr Peter Castellas, Mr Tony Wood

Australia now has a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020 and we need to get on track to meet that target. The policies that are presented in the current federal election campaign have areas in common and of difference.

In this public policy forum, presented by Grattan Institute, Melbourne Energy Institute and Carbon Markets Institute, the Shadow Minister, Mark Butler, will outline Labor’s policies to address the challenge of climate change.

Join our panel to ask the questions to which you want answers. Panel includes:

Dr Sara Bice, Melbourne School of Government
Mark Butler MP, Labor Member for Port Adelaide
Peter Castellas, CEO CMI
Elisa de Wit, Lawyer, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Tony Wood, Energy Program Director, Grattan Institute

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Youth Unemployment - Freedom's Just Another Word For Nuthin' Left to Lose

Venue: Collaborative Learning Space 1, Old Arts

Public Interactive Learning Laboratory - Youth Unemployment

Is being young and unemployed a type of "freedom" that previous generations could ony dream about, or do our young people really have "nothing left to lose"? Now that you have the song stuck in your head... Everyone seems to have an opinion on this, SO we asked a bunch of researchers from different fields to come and talk to us about it. They asked for a bunch of people to come and talk back to them! What could possibly go wrong?

The format for the evening is:

• Short sharp talks by our experts (45mins)
• Questions (10mins)

• Interactive round tables covering a range of topics (35mins)

• Agree on a 10 point action plan to make tax better (15mins)

Come along, you don't need to be an expert, just have a general interest in the welbeing of young people and a desire to discuss the causes and impacts of youth unemployment.

We'll post the action plan and a video on the Election Watch website and we'll let the politicians know what you think (we are the School of Government after all).

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Marketing vs Animal Welfare Science: Who's Really Winning in the Free Range Egg Debate?

Venue: B02, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Professor Tina Widowski

Recent decisions by egg suppliers in the US and Canada to use only cage-free eggs by 2025 demonstrate the power of public animal welfare campaigns in the 21st century. It also allows these companies to avoid the negative publicity associated with caged eggs in future.

But the science of animal welfare shows us that what is good for the marketing of eggs is not necessarily what is best for the quality of life of the birds themselves. It is likely the decision to go cage-free will create avoidable risks for hen welfare if farmers, regulators and consumers don’t look beyond the label and ensure hen housing meets the recommendations of animal welfare scientists.

In this University of Melbourne free public lecture Professor Tina Widowski will discuss how scientists measure the health, behavioural preferences and emotional states of hens and how we can house them to best ensure they have a life worth living. An expert in animal behaviour and physiology, she uses a variety of measures to determine how the housing and management of farm animals affects their welfare.

Tina Widowski is Professor of Animal Biosciences and Director of the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is recognised internationally for her research on behaviour and welfare of farm animals.

Professor Widowski will draw upon her research to argue that decisions about animal welfare should be based on scientific measurement of what is best for animals rather than emotional responses or imagery, and that scientists, farmers and policymakers have a responsibility to understand animal welfare science and communicate it to the public to ensure the best outcomes for the animals and humans that work in these systems.

This lecture is part of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences’ 2016 Dean’s Lecture Series, in conjunction with the Animal Welfare Science Centre.

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