Brands of the Future

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Ms Alicia Darvall, Mr Chris Tucker, Ms Aimee Marks, Mr Wells Trenfield

What will brands be doing to drive societal change in 2030?

The new economy will be driven by businesses who do good and who build influential brands that inspire us to act for the good of people and the planet. B Corps are just one of the many ways that companies can structure their businesses from day 1 to make a difference.

Three 'rock stars' of this session (and creators of Australia's household brands) are Aimee Marks, Founder and CEO of TOM Organic, Wells Trenfield, Director of Jasper Coffee, and Chris Tucker, Director of Kooks.

This event, presented as part of the Compass Visionary Series, will be facilitated by Alicia Darvall, Executive Director of B Lab Australia & New Zealand, who will find out what the rock stars think of brand evolution.

• Today - How are brands being used as voices for change? Why do some brands who advocate for social or environmental issues attract a bigger audience while others don’t?

• And tomorrow - What will the top 10 brands of 2030 be? How can brands continue to inspire their audiences to participate in causes bigger than themselves?

Alicia Darvall is Executive Director of B Lab Australia & New Zealand. She has over 15-years’ experience in senior roles for fast-growing, high-profile businesses and organisations. She has an established track record of successfully founding and managing business for the commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

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Secrets Hidden Behind the Walls: The Tomb of Tutankhamun and Nefertiti?

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Christopher Naunton

In summer 2015, British Egyptologist Dr Nicholas Reeves announced that he believed the burial of Queen Nefertiti, great wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, whose image is an archetype of ancient world beauty, lay undisturbed behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb. There are three parts to this sensational story: Firstly there is Reeves’ observation of faint marks on the walls, the tell-take signs, he believes, that something has been concealed. Secondly, there’s Reeves’ well-argued theory that if anything is there, it’s the undisturbed burial of Nefertiti. Could he be right? In any case part of the intrigue here is that we still don’t know where she was buried; if Reeves is wrong, where was Nefertiti buried? Finally there is the story of the story: how the theory was published, and how it was received by a world still utterly gripped by ancient Egypt, and things that are ‘secret’ or ‘hidden’, ideally behind walls…

Dr Christopher Naunton is the Director of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) and will deliver this The Marion Adams Memorial Lecture.

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Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life: A Field Guide to Evaluating Extraordinary Claims

Venue: Laby Theatre, Laby Theatre

Presenters: Professor Scott Lilienfeld

The modern world is a bewildering mix of fact and fiction, and of well-supported, dubious, and downright outlandish claims. Nevertheless, the media rarely helps the public to distinguish science from pseudoscience in everyday life. In this talk, Dr. Lilienfeld will outline basic principles for evaluating remarkable claims regarding human behavior and popular psychology, such as extrasensory perception, belief in UFOS, and fringe psychotherapies.

This 2016 Brotherton Public Lecture will be presented by Dr Scott Lilienfeld

Image Credit: Phrenology by Ryan Somma, 2012

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The Making of Aboriginal Heritage

Venue: Dulcie Hollyock Conference Room, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Michael Davis

Berlin born lawyer and ethnologist Leonhard Adam (1891-1960) fled the Nazis, and sought refuge in England in 1939 where he taught briefly at the University of London. In May 1940, as an ‘enemy alien’, he was dispatched to Australia on the Dunera, and was placed in the internment camp at Tatura in Victoria. Released in 1942, he worked at Melbourne University as lecturer and curator, and built up an ethnographic collection which became known as the Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection, now held by the Ian Potter Museum of Art. Adam remained at Melbourne University until his untimely death in 1960.

This presentation will draw on a close examination of the Adam Papers in the University of Melbourne Archives, to explore Adam’s ethnographic work, and his position within the prevailing anthropological establishment in Melbourne and Australia, and with his large network of correspondents, and consider whether Adam’s status as a European intellectual ‘outsider’ was an influence on his work in Aboriginal art and anthropology.

Dr Michael Davis is Honorary Research Fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute.

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What Can Governments Do to Prevent Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders?

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Susan Paxton

Young Australians identify body dissatisfaction and eating disorders as major concerns, so focus has turned to possibilities for prevention. Importantly, effective prevention requires reaching whole communities rather than a small number of individuals and consequently governments need lead the way to create social change. How can governments help?

After considering what governments could do from a theoretical perspective, this talk will illustrate and evaluate public policy initiatives that are being trialled or proposed around the world. These include legislation restricting very underweight models and banning alteration of fashion images, labelling images when they have been manipulated, banning pro-ana websites, promoting voluntary codes of conduct, advertising campaigns promoting positive body image, funding education initiatives and screening, and supporting parent education. The talk will conclude with recommendations for the Australian context.

Professor Susan Paxton is Professor of Psychology at La Trobe University. An eminent international scholar, her research has concentrated on understanding risk factors for the development of body image and eating disorders, and the evaluation of prevention and treatment interventions for these problems.

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World Trade Disconnect

Venue: Junior Common Room, International House

Presenters: The Honourable Timothy Fischer AC

International House Frank Larkins Oration 2016

Former Deputy Prime Minister, the Honorable Timothy Fischer AC will speak about World Trade Disconnect: rebranding and revamping before renewed protectionism destroys all.

The Honourable Tim Fischer AC is the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and was the Australian Ambassador to the Holy See for three years until January 2012.

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Leading Indicators of Organizational Outcomes

Venue: The Spot Building, 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.

Refreshments will be served at 7pm after the lecture.

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Svetlana Alexievich Didn't Make it to the Royal Commission - Dr Maria Tumarkin

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts (Building 149)

Presenters: Dr Maria Tumarkin

The Wednesday Lectures 2016 hosted by Raimond Gaita

It is striking how often people now speak of 'a common humanity' in an ethically inflected register, one that expresses a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth. More often than not, however, we refer to the idea of a common humanity when we lament the failure of its acknowledgment. The forms of that failure are depressingly many: racism, sexism homophobia, the dehumanization of our enemies, of unrepentant criminals and those who suffer severe and degrading affliction. As often as someone reminds us that 'we are all human beings', someone will reply that to be treated like a human being you must behave like one.

Many people appear now to fear that within twenty years or less national and international politics will be dominated by crises that caused and inflamed by the shameful gap between the rich and the poor nations, aggravated by the effects of climate change. They fear their children and grandchildren will not be protected as they have been from the terrors suffered by most of the peoples of the earth because of impoverishment, natural disasters and the evils inflicted upon them by other human beings. In such circumstances the ideal and even the very idea of a common humanity is likely to seem to have been a foolish illusion.

The six Wednesday Lectures of 2016 will explore what sustains and what erodes the idea of a common humanity and, more radically, whether it is a useful idea with which to think about the moral, legal and political relations between people and peoples.

Wednesday, 7 September: Svetlana Alexievich Didn't Make it to the Royal Commission. (The Dramas of Non-Witnessing)

In this lecture Maria Tumarkin brings together two seemingly unconnected things: the unclassifiable Belarusian winner of last year’s Nobel prize for literature Svetlana Alexievich and Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She asks what are we to make of the Royal Commission's apparent failure to get the under the skin of our culture despite the world-shattering significance of what it continues to reveal? And ditto for other shatterings? Her purpose here is to think hard about unwitnessed suffering and how it complicates, or not, the fragile idea of common humanity.

Speaker: Dr Maria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three acclaimed books of ideas: Traumascapes, Courage and Otherland. All three books were shortlisted for literary prizes; Otherland, most recently, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award, NSW Premier's Award and The Age Book of the Year. Tumarkin's essays have appeared in The Best Australian Essays (2011, 2012 & 2015), Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Monthly, Kill Your Darlings, Sydney Review of Books, The Age, The Australian and Inside Story. In 2015 her essay No Skin was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize of Literature. Maria is involved in wide-ranging artistic collaborations with visual artists, theatre makers and audio designers. She was a 2013-14 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow in humanities and is a member of the Melbourne Writers Festival's programming committee.

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The European Union – Beacon of Hope or a Values Community in Crisis? - Professor Philomena P Murray

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts (Building 149)

Presenters: Professor Philomena Murray

The Wednesday Lectures 2016 hosted by Raimond Gaita

It is striking how often people now speak of 'a common humanity' in an ethically inflected register, one that expresses a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth. More often than not, however, we refer to the idea of a common humanity when we lament the failure of its acknowledgment. The forms of that failure are depressingly many: racism, sexism homophobia, the dehumanization of our enemies, of unrepentant criminals and those who suffer severe and degrading affliction. As often as someone reminds us that 'we are all human beings', someone will reply that to be treated like a human being you must behave like one.

Many people appear now to fear that within twenty years or less national and international politics will be dominated by crises that caused and inflamed by the shameful gap between the rich and the poor nations, aggravated by the effects of climate change. They fear their children and grandchildren will not be protected as they have been from the terrors suffered by most of the peoples of the earth because of impoverishment, natural disasters and the evils inflicted upon them by other human beings. In such circumstances the ideal and even the very idea of a common humanity is likely to seem to have been a foolish illusion.

The six Wednesday Lectures of 2016 will explore what sustains and what erodes the idea of a common humanity and, more radically, whether it is a useful idea with which to think about the moral, legal and political relations between people and peoples.

Wednesday, 31 August: The European Union - Beacon of Hope or a Values Community in Crisis?

For many people throughout Europe and across the globe, the European Union seemed to present a noble narrative of peace and human rights. It was a values community that inspired many countries to join its ranks. Beyond Europe, it was admired for its strong stance on human rights and its huge aid programmes. Yet this Union is in crisis. The noble narrative of the EU as a peace project is in question. Many are casting doubt on its very existence.

The refugee crisis is the latest to test these founding ideals and values. They have been questioned within Europe, as the EU appears to be the source of problems and not solutions. Murray will examine what that uncertainty, now at a point of crisis, means for Europe and the rest of the world.

Speaker: Philomena Murray is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Research Director on Regional Governance in the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges, The University of Melbourne. She holds Australia's only Personal Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) awarded by the European Union. She received a Carrick Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for pioneering the first EU curriculum in Australia and leadership in national and international curriculum development. She is a former diplomat.

She is a Research Associate of the School of Business at Trinity College Dublin, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Associate Research Fellow at United Nations University’s Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges, and an Academic Associate, Queen’s College, the University of Melbourne.

Her publications include Longo, M. and Murray, P, Europe's Legitimacy Crisis: From Causes to Solutions; Brennan, L. and Murray, P, Drivers of Integration and Regionalism in Europe and Asia: Comparative Perspectives; Christiansen T, Kirchner E, Murray P (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Asia Relations; Murray P (Ed.), Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux Basingstoke Palgrave and Murray, P. (2005) Australia and the European Superpower.

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Gender and Sexual Diversity: a Question of Humanity? - Professor Dianne Otto

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts (Building 149)

Presenters: Professor Dianne Otto

The Wednesday Lectures 2016 hosted by Raimond Gaita

It is striking how often people now speak of 'a common humanity' in an ethically inflected register, one that expresses a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth. More often than not, however, we refer to the idea of a common humanity when we lament the failure of its acknowledgment. The forms of that failure are depressingly many: racism, sexism homophobia, the dehumanization of our enemies, of unrepentant criminals and those who suffer severe and degrading affliction. As often as someone reminds us that 'we are all human being', someone will reply that to be treated like a human being you must behave like one.

Many people appear now to fear that within twenty years or less national and international politics will be dominated by crises that caused and inflamed by the shameful gap between the rich and the poor nations, aggravated by the effects of climate change. They fear their children and grandchildren will not be protected as they have been from the terrors suffered by most of the peoples of the earth because of impoverishment, natural disasters and the evils inflicted upon them by other human beings. In such circumstances the ideal and even the very idea of a common humanity is likely to seem to have been a foolish illusion.

The six Wednesday Lectures of 2016 will explore what sustains and what erodes the idea of a common humanity and, more radically, whether it is a useful idea with which to think about the moral, legal and political relations between people and peoples.

Wednesday, 24 August: Gender and Sexual Diversity: a Question of Humanity?

Sexuality and gender are arguably as fundamental to our sense of what it means to be human as our mortality and vulnerability to misfortune. For that reason some forms of hostility to gays, lesbians, transgender and intersex people amount to a denial, not only of their rights, but also, more fundamentally, of their full humanity. Hostility to gays, lesbians, transgender and intersex people is fierce in many countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, although it is hardly absent from western countries. The rise of right wing populism in Britain, Europe, America and to a lesser extent in Australia, suggest that gains achieved on behalf of the LGBTI community may be reversed. For that reason, many fear that a plebiscite in Australia on marriage equality will be the occasion for ugly expressions of hostility. Dianne Otto will examine the nature and extent of this hostility in Australia and elsewhere, what, if anything, we can justifiably expect from international law and what, realistically, we might get.

Speaker: Dianne Otto is Francine V McNiff Professor in Human Rights Law, Director of Institute for International law and the Humanities and Co-Director of its International Human Rights Law Programme at The Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.

Otto has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, New York University and the University of British Columbia. In 2004 she was the Kate Stoneman Endowed Visiting Professor in Law and Democracy, at Albany Law School in New York. Through her NGO involvement, she helped draft a General Comment on women's equality for the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a General Recommendation on treaty obligations for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and was a member of the Expert Panel at the Asia-Pacific Regional Women's Hearing on Gender-Based Violence in Conflict held in Phnom Penh in 2012.

Her publications include three edited volumes, Gender Issues and Human Rights; Rethinking Peace Keeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security; Feminist approaches to International Law (edition 1). She has also written many chapters for books and articles for journals, most recently, a chapter in Margaret Davies and Vanessa Munro (Eds.), A Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory, and an article in Jindal Global Law Review (2013). She also authored a bibliographic chapter, 'Feminist Approaches', in Tony Carty (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Law.

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Roundtable Seminar: Natural Resources and Crony Capitalism in India

Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, The University of Melbourne

Presenters: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy in India over the manner in which natural resources like telecommunications spectrum, coal, iron ore, natural gas and land have been allocated and priced. The government (at the federal and provincial levels), which is supposed to act as a fair and transparent custodian of resources that belong to the people of the country, has been accused time and again of playing favourites and not ensuring that the benefits of these resources accrue to the public at large and not a privileged few. The nexus between business and politics has arguably been the most important source of corruption in India. Of late, this has been epitomised in the manner in which profits from the exploitation of natural resources have been appropriated by a rent-seeking elite. This phenomenon has been adversely commented on by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and led to intervention by judicial authorities, including the Supreme Court of India.

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Half Baked Ideas: Indian Democracy in Heterogeneous Times: Disenchantment, Coercion & History

Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, The University of Melbourne

Presenters: Mr Souresh Roy

Much of the political science literature dealing with Indian democracy alludes to its success and argues that democracy has taken deep roots within its polity. In order to account for the success of the democratic experiment in India, analysts have focused both on socioeconomic determinants as well as the manner in which distribution of power in the society is negotiated. However, very few have dealt with the question of Indian democracy in the context of modernity. What does the ‘human condition’ entail in modern times? This talk will engage with three specific ‘events’ in the contemporary history of India and try to shed light on certain concepts in relation to Indian democracy. Through a deeper analysis of the student uprising of 1968, the Emergency of 1975 and the demolition of the Babri masjid in 1992, it will try to delineate the notions of disenchantment, coercion and history as they play out in the body politic of the Indian nation in relation to modernity.

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Seeing the Old, the Weak and the Afflicted - Karen Hitchcock

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts (Building 149)

Presenters: Karen Hitchcock

The Wednesday Lectures 2016 hosted by Raimond Gaita

It is striking how often people now speak of 'a common humanity' in an ethically inflected register, one that expresses a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth. More often than not, however, we refer to the idea of a common humanity when we lament the failure of its acknowledgment. The forms of that failure are depressingly many: racism, sexism homophobia, the dehumanization of our enemies, of unrepentant criminals and those who suffer severe and degrading affliction. As often as someone reminds us that 'we are all human beings', someone will reply that to be treated like a human being you must behave like one.

Many people appear now to fear that within twenty years or less national and international politics will be dominated by crises that caused and inflamed by the shameful gap between the rich and the poor nations, aggravated by the effects of climate change. They fear their children and grandchildren will not be protected as they have been from the terrors suffered by most of the peoples of the earth because of impoverishment, natural disasters and the evils inflicted upon them by other human beings. In such circumstances the ideal and even the very idea of a common humanity is likely to seem to have been a foolish illusion.

The six Wednesday Lectures of 2016 will explore what sustains and what erodes the idea of a common humanity and, more radically, whether it is a useful idea with which to think about the moral, legal and political relations between people and peoples.

Wednesday, 17 August: Seeing the Old, the Weak and the Afflicted

Is our inhumanity towards older people in some way an inhumanity towards ourselves, our old selves? It's a remarkable act of denial that we can make what we will unavoidably become so thoroughly other. The same could be said of the difficulty we have in seeing the full humanity of those who are weak or who suffer severe affliction, both conditions to which we are all vulnerable - a vulnerability that, like our mortality, partly defines what it means to be human.

Speaker: Karen Hitchcock is an author and medical doctor. She has published in both medical and literary journals and her stories and essays have been included in Best Australian Short Stories and Best Australian Essays. She writes a regular column about medicine for The Monthly and currently works as a physician in a large city hospital in Melbourne.

Hitchcock’s first book Little White Slips won The Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted in the 2010 NSW Premiers Literary Award and the Kibble/Dobie award for women writers. Her Quarterly Essay Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly was published to high critical acclaim.

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Brexit, Trump and the Future of Globalisation

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West Building

Presenters: Dr Miles Kahler

The rise of populist and anti-globalization movements, such as the candidacy of Donald Trump in the U.S. and the recent vote for Brexit in the U.K., have been interpreted as an unprecedented, global threat to the existing liberal economic and political order. Closer examination suggests that these movements are not entirely unprecedented, that they are not global, and that their supporters are motivated by a variety of political and economic discontents. Rather than witnessing an end to globalization, we may be redesigning globalization in a new political environment.

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Jokowi’s Foreign Policy and Australia-Indonesia Relations

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Evi Fitriani

Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s contrasting approach to foreign policy compared to his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stands to reshape Australia-Indonesia ties. The bilateral relationship developed robustly under Yudhoyono, considered by many to be a great friend of Australia. But within Indonesia Yudhoyono incurred criticism as too concerned with Indonesia’s international image, at the expense of taking decisive action against Australia when it transgressed the bounds of friendly behaviour.

In this public lecture, Dr Evi Fitriani will chart President Jokowi’s distinct approach to foreign policy compared to Yudhoyono and outline the implications for Indonesia’s relationship with Australia.

Light refreshments will be served prior to the commencement of the lecture at 6pm. The lecture will be live-streamed via the Indonesia At Melbourne blog (http://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/).

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Litigating the War on Terror: Smith v Obama and the Place of Islamic Law

Venue: Room 609, Level 6, Law

Presenters: Professor Andrew March

Since 2014, the United States has participated in military operations in Syria against 'The Islamic State' as part of its 'Operation Inherent Resolve'. The US government claims that its use of force against IS in Syria is authorised domestically on the basis of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force against Al-Qaeda and associated forces.

In this public lecture Professor Andrew March will examine the present fight over the legality of Operation Inherent Resolve from the standpoint of US domestic law, focusing specifically on the recent lawsuit brought by Captain Nathan Smith seeking a declaratory judgment on the legality of President Obama's war against IS.

Andrew March is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School.

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Scorsese's Women

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Mark Nicholls

The films of Martin Scorsese are internationally recognised as platforms for male actors such as Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and the pantheon of underworld misanthropes they create. In this lecture, Mark Nicholls considers the creative work of women in Scorsese’s films and the fundamental contribution of women to Scorsese’s popular and artistic reputation. He reads the performances of both the small band of Scorsese ‘repeaters’, such as Jodie Foster and Barbara Hershey, as well as the vast array of ‘special guests’, like Ellyn Burstyn, Liza Minnelli, Michelle Pfeiffer and Cate Blanchett. He also analyses Scorsese’s extended collaborations with women behind the camera, such as producer Barbara De Fina and costume designer Sandy Powell, paying special attention to the work of editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has been at the foundation of Scorsese’s success for nearly fifty years.

Assessing the work of these women on films such as Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Aviator (2004), Dr Mark Nicholls aims to refresh our perspective on Scorsese and to demonstrate that the Scorsese mob is far less male dominated than we may think. This new perspective expands our view of Martin Scorsese’s filmmaking practice and, more broadly, challenges our idea of what lies behind and beyond the seemingly unassailable international film cult of the male auteur.

Dr Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film since 1993. He is the author of Lost Objects of Desire: The Performances of Jeremy Irons, Berghahn Books (2012) and Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob, Pluto and Indiana University Press (2004).

In association with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, this free public lecture is presented by the Faculty of Arts in celebration of ACMI's SCORSESE exhibition.

Those interested in this program may also wish to attend the Faculty of Arts' Melbourne Masterclass: Martin Scorsese.

IMAGE: The Age of Innocence (1993)

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How to do a reform in a 'second best world': the case of Indonesia

Venue: The Spot, Business and Economics

Presenters: Dr Muhamad Chatib Basri

The word of reform has become a mantra to solve many economic problems in developing countries. Nevertheless, only a few reforms have been successful. When economists are asked why, they usually blame on politics or institutional setup as the culprit. Many economic or institutional reforms often fail because the international best practices do not fit with the political or institutional setup in developing countries.

While we understand that reformers have to change the institutional set up, they are in reality often constrained with the dilemma that changing institutions requires a lot of time, whereas on the other hand politicians usually work within a limited term horizon. Economists do not have the luxury to work in an “empty space”. They have to live with political realities. Thus, the important question is how an effective reform can be produced under institutional and political constraints? This lecture will address this question and focus on Indonesia as a case study.

Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri will present the David Finch Lecture 2016.

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Lives lived in out-of-home care: Using research evidence to improve outcomes for children

Venue: Peter Doherty Auditorium, Ground Floor, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Dr Fred Wulczyn

Despite the growing emphasis on research evidence use, the link between evidence use and better outcomes for children has yet to be firmly established. There are several reasons why. Definitions of research evidence have tended to emphasize randomized clinical trials to the virtual exclusion of other equally important types of evidence. Similarly, evidence use as a process within the child welfare field has received relatively little attention when compared with other fields such as education and nursing. To make better use of evidence, the process of evidence use and the skills needed to use evidence effectively have to receive greater attention.

Drawing on lessons learned from the Project on Research Evidence Use in Child Welfare, Dr. Fred Wulczyn will discuss these issues, focusing on types of research evidence, the process of evidence use and the use of research evidence to target services with greater precision.

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Fidgety Phil and head in the air Johnny: What is ADHD and why is it still so controversial?

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor David Coghill

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been recognised as an important cause of impairment for children and young people for many years for adults yet it remains very controversial within the public domain. Much of this controversy stems from the use of stimulant medications like methylphenidate (Ritalin) and dexamfetamine.

Professor David Coghill will explore the evidence that supports the validity of ADHD as a concept and disorder and look at the course of ADHD and its impact functioning across the lifespan. I will also discuss the evidence that helps us understand some of the causes of ADHD and in particular the concept of heterogeneity that suggests that ADHD is in fact the common outcome of several causal different pathways.

Professor Coghill will discuss the current evidence as it relates to the treatment of ADHD both with medication and non-medication treatments and make some practical suggestions about the way forward.

Professor David Coghill is Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health Departments of Paediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne.

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Was it An Intellectual Genocide? The Elimination of ‘Leftist Elements’ in the Indonesian Higher Education, 1965-1980

Venue: Old Arts Theatre D, Old Arts Theatre D

Presenters: Dr Abdul Wahid

The anti-communist violence of 1965 is a political caesura that affected almost every aspect of the Indonesian state and society. So far there is a rich body of literature devoted to understanding the violence with a strong focus on: the political crises preceding the 1965 Coup, the persecution of alleged communists, state discrimination against survivors and their families, and the struggle of these people to regain their basic rights. Yet, those historical investigations still leave us with many unanswered questions.

One important sector that remains to be examined in detail is that of academia or higher education. The work of Farid (2003), White (2003), and Dhakidae (2005), has provided us with clues that this sector was also dramatically affected by the 1965 violence. Expanding on their work this paper seeks to analyze the immediate and long-term effects of ‘1965’ on Indonesian academia. To do this I will assess what happened to prominent public universities in major Indonesian cities just before, during, and after the political turmoil.

Based on primary sources and interviews, the paper analyzes how the anti-communist campaigns launched by Suharto’s regime turned into a form of ‘intellectual genocide’, which fundamentally changed academic life and the institutional arrangements of Indonesian universities.

Dr Abdul Wahid is teaching staff at the Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta.

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Rejecting normal: Reversing the relationship between large-scale and classroom assessments

Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2, , Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Mark Wilson

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Dean's Lecture presented by Mark Wilson, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and Assessment Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

There is an imbalance between classroom assessment and large-scale assessment. While large-scale assessment generally guides what happens in the classroom, there is a legitimate place for classroom assessment alongside large-scale assessment - the two must be different, but they must support one another.

In his lecture, Professor Wilson will explain the current dominant relationship between the two and its problems. He will explore how an alternative useful relationship can be built up from the classroom level to support large-scale tests. By relating the measurement concept of a construct map, to the curriculum idea of a learning progression, construct maps effectively map progression in the classroom and allow key concepts to be selected for large-scale assessment.

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International Human Rights and Australian Exceptionalism

Venue: GM15, Law

Presenters: Professor Gillian Triggs

The Sir Anthony Mason Honorary lecture was inaugurated in 1995, the year of Sir Anthony Mason's retirement as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. The lecture serves to celebrate Sir Anthony Mason's outstanding contribution to the legal profession and the common law of Australia, as well as offering the opportunity for students of the Law School to meet and hear those who have helped to shape the law as we study it. It provides a substantial contribution to legal debate within the Melbourne Law School, as well as inspiration and insight to students. In keeping with the tradition of speaking on pertinent and contentious issues within the legal and wider community, the Melbourne University Law Students' Society are delighted to announce that Professor Gillian Triggs will be presenting this years' lecture on 'International Human Rights and Australian Exceptionalism'.

Light refreshments will be provided following the lecture.

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Revenge in the Age of Empire: Civilisation and Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre (B02), Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Jan Rüger

Presented by Dr Jan Rüger:

‘Revenge is a kind of wild justice’, Francis Bacon wrote four centuries ago. It was a form of retribution, he thought, ‘which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out’. Blood feuds and revenge killings were still a common feature in Europe when Bacon penned his critique in 1625. In the centuries that followed revenge became a taboo within European societies, but it continued to play an important role in the justification of war and violence against others. It still does. Since the attacks of 11 September 2001 there has been an appalling resurgence of vengeance as a rhetorical tool and military practice: terrorism has come to be seen as a form of revenge which in turn justifies violent retribution.

If we want to make sense of the role revenge plays in our own times, we need to know under what circumstances past societies promoted or prohibited the desire for ‘wild justice’. The lecture focuses on the long nineteenth century in which a series of ‘small wars’ and punitive campaigns were fought by which the imperial powers avenged the deaths of Europeans overseas. Most of these campaigns followed a similar structure and were accompanied by similar rhetoric, with ‘punishment’ and ‘revenge’ being the most widely used concepts employed to give meaning to them. Using British, French and German examples, the lecture explores the thinking and acting that was at the heart of this culture of revenge, a culture in which civilization and violence were intrinsically bound up with one another.

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“The Pig and the Peace: Defining Imperial Order in the Age of Revolutions”

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre (B02), Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Associate Professor Lisa Ford

This lecture begins with the execution of a “very fine pig” in Sydney in 1795. Pigs made notoriously disorderly colonists – procreating, trespassing and damaging public property at will. But this particular pig caused an unusual amount of trouble. Her death escalated into a brawl when her master – an “avowed” republican called John Boston – ran into the street to demand which “damned Villain of a Rascal” had shot his sow. The villainous rascals, it transpired, were members of the New South Wales Corps. They responded by giving Boston a “damned good threshing”. It would not do, they argued later, to let such a man insult the King’s soldiers in a colony of thieves. This fracas is more than an amusing anecdote. The legal controversy that followed showed that the brawlers, the governor and the court held quite different ideas about how to keep order in the colony of New South Wales. The Corps argued that the threat of revolution and the convict majority meant that soldiers needed special power and status to keep the colonial peace. John Boston argued that the colony needed to support peculiar liberties – his liberty to talk politics, but, more importantly, his liberty to trade and contract with convicts who would have no legal standing at home. The governor and the court defended civil law against military violence, but they too imagined a compromised legal order – one where both convicts could testify against free men and the governor wielded extraordinary power. New South Wales was a strange place indeed in 1795. But, this lecture will argue that the controversy tells us a great deal about how the British imperial constitution was imagined in the age of revolutions. In the upheavals of colonial Boston and Montreal, in the fractious military autocracies of Trinidad and Malta, and in the street-side brawls of Sydney, colonists, governors, judges and soldiers argued endlessly about how to order colonies full of unruly subjects. Disputes like these mattered – at stake were the rights of British subjects scattered around the globe.

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Trusts – constructive, resulting and the importance of definition and doctrinal approach

Venue: Courtroom 1 (8A), Level 8, Federal Court of Australia

Presenters: The Honourable James Leslie Bain Allsop AO, Professor William Swadling

For the third event in the 2016 ‘Judges in Conversation’ series, the Hon James Leslie Bain Allsop AO (Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor William Swadling (University of Oxford) to discuss Trusts – constructive, resulting and the importance of definition and doctrinal approach.

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Torn clothes, blood stained, half-undressed: The place of costume in Australian Shakespeare productions

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Professor Rachel Fensham

On 23 April 1616, the poet and playwright William Shakespeare died, at the age of 52. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, the Baillieu Library’s After Shakespeare exhibition explores the author’s legacy, both in terms of writers who imitated or adapted his works (that is, literally wrote ‘after’ his style) and in terms of Shakespeare’s reputation and significance in the four centuries after his demise, with a particular emphasis on how his work has been received in Australia.

After Shakespeare brings together early folios of Shakespeare’s works (1632, 1685), 19th-century playbills and costume sketches from State Library Victoria, a unique prompt book for a slated goldrush-era performance of Antony and Cleopatra in Melbourne, and unpublished works from the Germaine Greer collection at the University of Melbourne Archives. It also features production artefacts from Union House Theatre, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Melbourne University Shakespeare Company. After Shakespeare offers a rare glimpse of important Shakespeariana from Melbourne and Australia.

Join Professor Rachel Fensham, Head of the School of Culture and Communication and renowned theatre and dance scholar, as she unveils the significance of costume in past Australian Shakespeare productions.

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Japanese security policy under Prime Minister Abe: A revival of militarism?

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Glenn D. Hook

The predisposition of international relations scholars to examine the evolution of Japanese security policy through the prism of realism has been challenged by constructivist approaches. Whereas the former has recently paid attention to the change in security policy following the ‘rise of China,’ the latter continues to focus on the constraints on policy posed by antimilitarist norms. These two approaches lead to contenting interpretations for the constrained changes now taking place in Japanese security policy under Prime Minister Abe, but are these leading to a revival of militarism?

The purpose of this presentation, co-hosted by the Asia Institute and the Asian Law Centre is to investigate this question by examining three issues of central importance to the future of Japanese security policy. The first is the long-standing attempt to relocate the US Futenma Marine Air Station to Henoko in the north of Okinawa in the face of local opposition. The second is the introduction in 2014 of the three Principles on the Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology, which replaced the 1967 Three Principles of Arms Exports. And the third is the revised interpretation of Article 9 of the Constitution and the passage of legislation in 2016 allowing Japan to exercise the right to participate in collective Self-Defense. In conclusion the presentation will explore how these three issues help us to answer the question of whether or not the Abe administration’s security policy is leading to the revival of militarism.

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Dynamic Patterns

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

Presenters: Associate Professor Karen M’Closkey, Mr Keith VanDerSys

Join us for the third Melbourne School of Design Dean's Lecture, which will showcase the work of eminent international professionals in the built environment. Dynamic Patterns will discuss the work of Philadelphia-based PEG office of landscape + architecture. They will examine a range of projects and techniques that enable a multivalent, multilayered understanding of pattern as both expression and shaping influence of environmental processes. The projects range from small-scale fabrications that explore the capacity of geometry to articulate site functions, such as water collection, to computational modeling and hydrodynamic simulations. M'Closkey and VanDerSys's work explores the relationship among digital media, fabrication technology and construction.

Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys are founding partners of PEG office of landscape + architecture and faculty in the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945

Venue: Theatre D (155), Old Arts Theatre D

Presenters: Professor Mark Edele

The question of Red Army soldiers crossing the line to the Germans during the German-Soviet war of 1941-45 has long obsessed historians. Some have treated all Soviet prisoners of war as deserters to the enemy, while others have tried to minimize the phenomenon. This lecture explores newly available evidence from German and Soviet sources in an empirical exploration of the reasons, the extent, and the problems of the process of switching allegiance at the frontline. In a second step, the lecture will explore how this phenomenon adjusts our perception about the Soviet war effort and the political loyalties of ordinary Soviet citizens.

Mark Edele is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, where he has been teaching history and historiography since 2004.

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Scrapbook Shakespeare: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and the preparation of a nineteenth-century Shakespeare edition

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Professor Paul Salzman

Join Professor Paul Salzman as he provides insights into this noteworthy publication.

On 23 April 1616, the poet and playwright William Shakespeare died, at the age of 52. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, the Baillieu Library’s After Shakespeare exhibition explores the author’s legacy, both in terms of writers who imitated or adapted his works (that is, literally wrote ‘after’ his style) and in terms of Shakespeare’s reputation and significance in the four centuries after his demise, with a particular emphasis on how his work has been received in Australia.

After Shakespeare brings together early folios of Shakespeare’s works (1632, 1685), 19th-century playbills and costume sketches from State Library Victoria, a unique prompt book for a slated goldrush-era performance of Antony and Cleopatra in Melbourne, and unpublished works from the Germaine Greer collection at the University of Melbourne Archives. It also features production artefacts from Union House Theatre, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Melbourne University Shakespeare Company. After Shakespeare offers a rare glimpse of important Shakespeariana from Melbourne and Australia

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Songs to live by: the Arrernte Women's Project

Venue: Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre (122), Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre

Presenters: Dr Myfany Turpin, Ms Rachel Perkins

Join Rachel Perkins and Myfany Turpin as they discuss the Arrernte Women's Project, an ethnographic project documenting the songlines of Arrernte women's culture for future generations.

Presented by the Research Unit for Indigenous Language.

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The Art of Travel in the Name of Science

Venue: Singapore Theatre, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Dr Sarah Thomas

This public lecture explores the significance of mobility to an understanding of visual culture in the colonial period, focusing in particular on the works of art produced on board Matthew Flinders' inaugural circumnavigation of Australia between 1801 and 1803: by British landscape painter William Westall (1781-1850), and Austrian botanical artist, Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826).

Dr Sarah Thomas not only considers the status of the traveling artist as eyewitness in the period, but also examines the mobility of visual culture itself, and the implications for art history in a globalised world. The Art of Travel in the Name of Science considers the inherent contradictions between mobility and place as they condition our understanding of the art of exploration.

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Leveraging technology to improve the wellbeing of the world

Venue: Q230, 234 Queensberry St

Presenters: Dr Acacia Parks

Ample research shows the benefits of happiness for personal wellbeing, as well as workplace wellbeing and physical health. Dr Acacia Parks will provide an overview of some of these benefits, including the idea of happiness as “contagious,” then talk about cutting-edge work using technology to improve wellbeing at schools, in workplaces and in the general public. She will also discuss the potential of wearable health-tracking technology to explore the intersection of psychological wellbeing with physical variables like sleep, heart rate variability, and physical exercise.

Dr Acacia Parks will also talk about implications of this research for preventing and treating mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, as well as health problems such as nicotine addiction and chronic pain.

Dr Acacia Parks is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hiram College and Chief Scientist at Happify, a New York-based startup company that spreads the science of happiness to the general public.

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Ideology Beyond Belief: Social Practices and the Persistence of Injustice

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building

Presenters: Professor Sally Haslanger

Racism, sexism, and other forms of injustice are more than just bad attitudes; after all, such injustice also involves unfair distributions of goods and resources. But attitudes play a role. How central is that role? Tommie Shelby argues that racism is an ideology that consists in false beliefs that arise out of and serve pernicious social conditions. In this paper Haslanger agrees that racism is an ideology, but in her view, ideology is deeply rooted in social practices. Social practices are patterns of interaction that distribute things of value, guided by cultural meanings. In the case of subordinated social groups, these habits of mind distort, obscure, and occlude important facts about those groups and result in a failure to recognize their interests. How do we disrupt such practices to achieve greater justice? Haslanger argues that this is sometimes, but not always, best achieved by argument or challenging false beliefs, so social movements legitimately seek other means.

Professor Sally Haslanger presents the 2016 Miegunyah Philosophy Lecture

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Energy Transistions - this event might light up your life

Venue: Collaborative Learning Space 1, Old Arts

Public Interactive Learning Lab - Energy Transitions

Have you ever wondered how new technologies like solar panels, Tesla battery walls and electric vehicles will change our lives? Shocked at the profits that coal burning power producers are reporting? Curious about our place as consumers? Wondering why wind power has a lot of fans? We have sparked up our experts and they are ready to explore current issues in energy transitions with you. Come along and find out Watt's what and share in the discussion about our energy future.

The format for the evening is:

• Short sharp talks by our experts (10mins each)
• Talk back (10mins)

• Sharing and discussing your ideas (35mins)

• Agree on an 8 point action plan for Energy Transition (15mins)

Come along, you don't need to be an expert, just have a general interest in energy transitions and a desire to discuss the future with some knowledgeable people.

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

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The EU-China Relationship - an investment perspective

Venue: Linkway Room, Level 4, John Medley

Presenters: Professor Louis Brennan

EU Centre Visiting Fellow Professor Louis Brennan, Trinity College Dublin, will examine the features and trajectory of the EU-China relationship, a vital trade partnership for the global economy. The EU is China's largest trading partner, and behind the US, China is the EU's second largest trading partner, yet despite the mutual benefits of their economic relationship, China accounts for a small share of Europe's investments abroad while China's investment in Europe, though rising rapidly in recent years, has done so from a very low base.

As China's outward investment has grown rapidly in recent years to become the third largest source of outward investment in the world, its firms have increasingly focused on the acquisition of European firms. Meanwhile, negotiations to conclude an EU-China Investment Treaty have been in progress for a number of years. The EU-China economic partnership will likely develop new features in the coming years.

Taking an investment perspective, this seminar considers the EU-China relationship and the associated challenges and responses. And in light of the recent Brexit vote, consideration will be given to its implications for the EU-China relationship.

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Brain in a Dish: Advancing our understanding of neurological disorders

Venue: Level 10, Woodward Conference Centre

Presenters: Professor Stan Skafidas

Neural engineering is a new transdisciplinary research area bringing together neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, physics, computer science and engineering, with the aim of better understanding complex neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders such as epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.

In this lecture, Professor Stan Skafidas, Director of the Centre for Neural Engineering at the University of Melbourne will discuss the recent advances in brain in a dish technology and intracellular sensors. The talk will highlight how neuropathology, stem cells, genetics, pharmacology and engineering are working together to build new sensors and disease models that will provide greater insights into the underlying causes of these complex disorders and enable new platforms for drug discovery and treatments.

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Another part of the desert: The first Melbourne performance of Antony and Cleopatra

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Dr Mimi Colligan will present a free public lecture as part of the After Shakespeare exhibition.

On 23 April 1616, the poet and playwright William Shakespeare died, at the age of 52. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, the Baillieu Library’s After Shakespeare exhibition explores the author’s legacy, both in terms of writers who imitated or adapted his works (that is, literally wrote ‘after’ his style) and in terms of Shakespeare’s reputation and significance in the four centuries after his demise, with a particular emphasis on how his work has been received in Australia.

After Shakespeare brings together early folios of Shakespeare’s works (1632, 1685), 19th-century playbills and costume sketches from State Library Victoria, a unique prompt book for a slated goldrush-era performance of Antony and Cleopatra in Melbourne, and unpublished works from the Germaine Greer collection at the University of Melbourne Archives. It also features production artefacts from Union House Theatre, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Melbourne University Shakespeare Company. After Shakespeare offers a rare glimpse of important Shakespeariana from Melbourne and Australia.

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Deception and Revelation: Shakespeare at the National Gallery of Victoria

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library

Dr Vivien Gasdton and Dr Ted Gott present an exciting public program as part of the After Shakespeare exhibition at the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library. This exhibition and its associated public programs has been programmed by Special Collections and the Granger Museum.

On 23 April 1616, the poet and playwright William Shakespeare died, at the age of 52. To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, the Baillieu Library’s After Shakespeare exhibition explores the author’s legacy, both in terms of writers who imitated or adapted his works (that is, literally wrote ‘after’ his style) and in terms of Shakespeare’s reputation and significance in the four centuries after his demise, with a particular emphasis on how his work has been received in Australia.

After Shakespeare brings together early folios of Shakespeare’s works (1632, 1685), 19th-century playbills and costume sketches from State Library Victoria, a unique prompt book for a slated goldrush-era performance of Antony and Cleopatra in Melbourne, and unpublished works from the Germaine Greer collection at the University of Melbourne Archives. It also features production artefacts from Union House Theatre, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Melbourne University Shakespeare Company. After Shakespeare offers a rare glimpse of important Shakespeariana from Melbourne and Australia.

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