The Death of Penalties in Two Legal Cultures? (Sydney presentation)

Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower,

Presenters: Professor Sarah Worthington

The James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law public lecture will be presented by Professor Sarah Worthington, Downing Professor of Laws of England.

This lecture will be held in Sydney, Professor Sarah Worthington will be presenting this lecture in Melbourne on 21 September. Details

The common law rules on penalties have changed beyond recognition in both Australia and England. The final courts in each jurisdiction have tackled the problem in quite different ways, perhaps revealing deep-seated differences in judicial methodologies. Functionally, however, the results appear remarkably similar. This lecture assesses the common law principles, policies and practicalities evident from the latest judgments from the UK Supreme Court in Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi (2015) and the Australian High Court in Andrews v ANZ Banking Group Ltd (2012) and Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (2016). The conclusions have important ramifications for commercial parties.

The James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law

The James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law at Melbourne Law School acknowledges the contribution that Mr James Merralls AM QC has made to the legal profession in Australia. The fellowship provides funding for an annual visiting fellow to Melbourne Law School by a highly regarded international professor, lawyer or judge. The Fellow will engage in teaching and present a public lecture to the profession. This initiative has been made possible by generous donations from the Law community.

Sarah Worthington is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Trinity College, and Bencher of Middle Temple. Her main research interests are in commercial equity and corporate law, and she is Co-director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre.

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Charting a new course for humanity through the Sustainable Development Goals

Venue: Auditorium, Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Maxine McKew, Mr Blair Exell, Mr Tim Costello, Mr Sem Fabrizi, Ms Sam Mostyn

The EU Centre is marking the one year anniversary of the international community coming together to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The European Union played a very active role throughout the long and inclusive negotiations at the United Nations, and we invite you to this high-level panel discussion to explore what the global community is already doing to achieve the goals, what new measures are envisaged, and the likelihood of success.

The panel discussion will be moderated by journalist and University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor's Fellow Maxine McKew.

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Trading Tales: E-commerce platforms for Indian craft

Venue: Seminar Room, 147-149 Barry Street

Presenters: Dr Kevin Murray

E-commerce is particularly innovative in India. Many new online trading fields have emerged for Indian crafts that provide much richer engagement than the standard retail environment. In some ways, they may seem to be reviving traditional elements of craft. This involves not on the kind of direct contact experienced in street markets, but also role of the object in story-telling. But as a new medium, e-commerce raises many questions, particularly about its benefits to artisans.

This talk, presented as part of the Half-Baked Ideas series, explores the kinds of critical questions that need to be asked about craft e-commerce in India.

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How Malleable is Autism?

Venue: Room 1123, Redmond Barry Building

Presenters: Dr Kristelle Hudry

Hudry’s research interests are in understanding the presentation of autism in early life, including how symptoms emerge over time and the extent to which these may be modifiable through early experiences, such as intervention. This talk will include an outline of changes in how researchers are thinking about autism and will show how two lines of Hudry’s own research – an intervention trial for pre-schoolers with autism and a prospective longitudinal study of infants at high-risk of autism – are converging toward a new study which has recently commenced in 2016.

Advances in our knowledge of when and how autism emerges early in life, and the extent to which the developmental course of this disorder is malleable, have implications both for developmental science and local policy, particularly given the establishment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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Jamie Lloyd in Coversation

Venue: Sumner Theatre, 140 Southbank Boulevard

Presenters: Jamie Lloyd

Multi-award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd will join MTC Literary Director Chris Mead in a free public talk about his career and prolific output of intriguing and thrilling productions.

This special event is a rare opportunity to hear from one of Britain’s most sought-after theatre directors, who has worked alongside a host of stars in his recent productions, including Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington in Doctor Faustus; Laura Carmichael and Orange Is the New Black star Uzo Aduba in The Maids; Richard III with Martin Freeman; Macbeth with James McAvoy; and Sondheim’s Assassins starring Catherine Tate.

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Oscar Oeser and Psychological Science at the University of Melbourne

Venue: Spot-B01 (Copland Theatre), Copland Theatre

Presenters: Dr Roderick Buchanan

After a number of fitful starts, psychological science fully arrived at the University of Melbourne immediately after World War II. With it, came Oscar Oeser as foundation Professor. Oeser’s vision for the discipline at Melbourne was shaped by his remarkable past. Oeser was an exceptionally bright academic polymath. By age 21, he had degrees in mathematics and physics, and went on to earn a D.Phil. in experimental psychology in Marburg, Germany, and a Ph.D. at Cambridge. Oeser was appointed Lecturer in psychology at St. Andrews in the mid-1930s and found his true calling – applied social psychology. When war broke out, Oeser volunteered for military service and was soon head-hunted for intelligence work. The extraordinary things he did during the war can only now be fully revealed. In the aftermath of hostilities, Oeser headed the German Personnel Research Section tasked with “de-Nazifying” German society.

Dr Roderick Buchanan is an honorary member of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies with a research speciality in the history of psychology, psychiatry, and evolutionary biology and presents the MSPS 70th Anniversary Public Lecture.

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Why is Islamic State so Violent?

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Associate Professor Richard Pennell

Islamic State and its predecessors in Iraq have become famous for their violence, even more than their jihadist rival, al-Qaeda. IS is personally brutal while al-Qaeda has typically engaged in mass-atrocities in the past and, more recently has become much less active. There is a deep antipathy between the two, even though they at one time claimed to have merged into a single movement. This lecture is about how the two organisations differ in their attitudes to religion, authority and the purposes of armed revolution and how this is put into effect by violence.

Associate Professor Richard Pennell is al-Tajir Lecturer in the History of the Middle East and Islam in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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ThoughtLAB-14: My Veggie Garden Rules

Venue: studioFive, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Dr Renee Beale

Competition will be fierce in this series of My Veggie Garden Rules (MVGR). Four new contestants don their gumboots and raise their gardening tools to battle for the title of MasterGrower 2050.

From its humble beginnings in 2016, MVGR is now in its 34th season and last year claimed the title of most popular reality experience fired straight to your neurons on demand.

With your insightful science rock band, Ologism, we invite you to advise, inspire, and cheer on your favourite contestant as they plan how to negotiate searing temperatures, limited water supply, and tiny plots of arid soil to produce the greatest quantity and quality of edible crop. Who will lay claim to the veggie garden to rule them all!

My Veggie Garden Rules is a ThoughtLAB-14 event presented by the Carlton Connect Initiative in partnership with Ologism and University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s studioFive where we invite a guest panel to interact with the audience to collaborate on ideas, analyse evidence and dream alternative futures.

The event is part of Absolutely Famished, a creative exploration of future food curated by Dr Renee Beale. Underpinned by scientific research Absolutely Famished imagines the 22nd century marketplace.

Facilitator: Dr Renee Beale, Creative Community Animator, the Carlton Connect Initiative

Panel: Dr Chris Williams, Urban Horticulturalist, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Dr David Sequeira, artist and freelance curator

Bonnie Shaw, Strategy Lead, Smart City Office, City of Melbourne

Belinda Smith, Online Editor, COSMOS Magazine

Ologism: Chris Krishna-Pillay, Darren Vogrig, Marty Lubran and Luke Fitzgerald

This event is part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016.

Photo: Dr Renee Beale

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The Sentient City

Venue: Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute Auditorium

Presenters: Sir Nigel Thrift

Throughout cities of the world today, an explosion in digital information and communications technology is producing a profusion of data as never before. Presented by the EU Centre and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, this provocative lecture with one of the world's leading human geographers, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, examines what kinds of technological practices are becoming commonplace in cities today.

According to Sir Nigel, the advent of a global informational overlay across cities - touchscreens, virtual landscapes, location tagging, augmented realities - is, in turn, creating a new spatial awareness with major consequences for how we understand our relations to ourselves, others and the wider world.

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Green Growth and Green Trade - Opportunities for Australia

Venue: Seminar Room, Carlton Connect Initiative

Presenters: Dr Alex Teytelboym

Sustainable economic growth requires countries to shift their production to 'green products' that will drastically reduce environmental damage. EU Centre Visiting Fellow and Oxford economist Dr. Alex Teytelboym shares his experiences in compiling a unique dataset on green exports, jobs, skills and patents and using tools from network theory to understand what countries are best poised for green growth in the future.

This seminar is part of European Climate Diplomacy Week (September 12 - 16), a time when EU Delegations around the world reach out to communities, highlighting positive global action and collaboration on climate change.

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The Two Titans of Australian Portraiture: Roberts and Lambert

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Anne Gray

Tom Roberts was the pre-eminent portrait painter in Australia in the late 19th century and George W. Lambert was Australia’s most successful portrait painter in the early 1900s. Portraits were central to both artists’ work and played a major role in establishing their reputations. This lecture will compare and contrast aspects of the portraits of these two artists.

Many portrait painters have used themselves as a model to learn about portraiture and experiment with their approach to depicting people. Roberts, however, was not such an artist; rather, he turned to family and friends as models, and painted many friendship portraits. Lambert, on the other hand, painted numerous self-portraits. Both artists owed much to the tradition of portraiture, and particularly to the art of Velasquez, Manet and Whistler; but the lessons they learnt from looking at their predecessors work were very different. Roberts, however, did not like the swagger in portraits by Sargent, whereas Lambert not only admired it, but also became a master of swagger himself.

Portraits of this period, rather than shaping social values, reflected them: capturing the contemporary fashion for theatricality and for historical paintings. And this interest in ‘the continuing tradition’ was part of a contemporary trend – in music, theatre, and literature.

Anne Gray has had 40 years of art museum experience. She joined the National Gallery of Australia as Head of Australian Art in February 2001, a position she held until April 2016. She was previously Director of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at The University of Western Australia, Head of Art at the Australian War Memorial, and Educator at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She has a PhD in Fine Arts from The University of Melbourne and a MA in Aesthetics from The University of Western Australia.

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Skin and Bone: Surface and Sunstance in Anglo-Colonial Portraiture

Venue: Arts West, Arts West

Presenters: Professor David Hansen

This lecture takes an exploratory, speculative tour around physiognomies of politics and sensibility, class and race in Britain and Australia, from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.

It considers the relationship between the coastal profile, the silhouette and the phrenology head; between the theodolite, the pointing machine and the craniometer; between the contour map, the cameo and the death mask.

It also ventures into the topology of portraiture, the geometries through which portraits and maps are presented: both quadrilateral frames and grids and oval or circular medallions.

By presenting materials which are functionally and materially diverse but which are clearly related in appearance and time and place of origin, this lecture will suggest that the public and popular cultures of the British imperium spread a wider and weirder net that is conventionally supposed.

Professor David Hansen has worked as a regional gallery director, a state museum curator and an art auction house researcher and specialist; in 2014 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University.

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South Asia Research Seminar - Beef Trade in India: Intersections of Religion and Informality

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

Presenters: Dr Yamini Narayanan

India is uniquely placed in having cow protection laws that criminalise slaughter and beef, but intriguingly, is also the leading global exporter of beef, producer of milk, and the largest producer of leather in Asia, all of which can only be sustained through the mass slaughter of cattle. Based on a two-year empirical study of cow protection in India, this paper argues that India’s contradictory realities as regards cattle, and particularly its milk/beef trade, is sustained by a ‘state of exception’ facilitated by the intersections of informality and religion.

Often strategically produced by formality or formal development, informality can be used to dismantle democratic governance and equitable social structures to privilege violence, oppression, and even warlike conditions that exploit the labour and bodies of the poor, women, minorities - and animals. Likewise where religion is invoked as a justification for protectionism, religion itself needs to be made complicit in sustaining India’s cattle industries. Religion is conceptually and empirically important to understand how cattle are located in the shadow 'gray space' between formal/informal development in India.

In its concluding analysis, the paper argues that cow protectionism currently operates as a single-issue campaign, which typically works only if embedded clearly in a larger discourse, in this case, animal rights. Thus conceptualised, cow protectionism may offer real potential to animal rights advocacy through the conceptualisation of universal animal and human rights, and a responsive climate policy in India.

Dr Yamini Narayanan is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.

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Measuring global health and the Global Burden of Disease Study: history, highlights and recent update

Venue: Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Professor Christopher Murray

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study originated in the early 1990s in order to quantify premature death and disability worldwide from various causes, initially as a key input into the 1993 World Development Report of the World Bank. Annual updates now involve over 1500 collaborators worldwide, with the findings published in the Lancet and other leading journals.

The Study has had a major impact on debates about global health priorities with numerous national and subnational applications to inform planning. This talk will focus on the origins of the study, and briefly review the many reactions from the global public health and scientific community to the study and its potential applications. A summary of the key findings from the 2015 GBD Study will also be presented using data visualisations.

Professor Chris Murray’s career has focused on improving health for everyone worldwide by improving health evidence. A physician and health economist, his work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies.

He is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach, a systematic effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time.

His pioneering work with Laureate Professor Alan Lopez, to develop the metric to compare death and disability from various diseases and the contribution of risk factors to the overall burden of disease in developing and developed countries, continues to be hailed as a major landmark in public health and an important foundation for policy formulation and priority setting.

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Asylum Seeker Pathways Forum: Overcoming Barriers and Creating Pathways into Higher Education and Training

Venue: B103 - Theatre 1, 221 Bouverie Street, Theatre 1

Presenters: Ms Sally Morgan, Mr Ivan Mahoney, Dr Colin Long, Ms Jennifer Lord, Mr Erfan Yari, Ms Delaram Ahmadi

Young people seeking asylum in Victoria are among the most severely disadvantaged in our state. They face significant challenges: the ongoing uncertainty of their visas, the need to develop their English skills and the apprehension generated by the government’s transition to a Border Force mentality. They are, on the whole, remarkable young people and they need our support.

Even for those trying to assist, the restrictions and uncertainties around bridging visas can be confusing and disempowering.

The Asylum Seeker Pilot Pathways Project (ASPPP) offers exciting opportunities to create those pathways into education and meaningful work.

This public lecture includes a panel conversation with:
Dr Colin Long
Victorian Secretary NTEU and Refugee Advocate
Ivan Mahoney
Principal, St Joseph’s Flexible Learning Centre
Sally Morgan
Teacher and ASPPP project lead
Erfan Yari
Asylum-seeker VCAL graduate and VicSuper trainee
Jennifer Lord
Executive Manager People and Culture, VicSuper

Presented by the Melbourne Refugee Studies Program

The Melbourne Refugee Studies Program (MRSP) is a University of Melbourne initiative that intends to make a constructive contribution to discussion and decision-making concerning asylum seeker and refugee policies and programs in Australia and internationally.

It aims to draw on the deep expertise and commitment of the University's academic and professional staff and students, support collaboration and exchange across faculties and schools, engage with leading asylum seeker and refugee programs across Australia and internationally, and engage the broader community in informed public discussion that will support and inform the development of effective and ethical asylum-seeker and refugee policies and programs.

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China as a Polar Great Power

Venue: Evan Williams Theatre, Richard Berry G03 Theatre

Presenters: Professor Anne-Marie Brady

In the last five years China has emerged as a member of the unique club of nations who are powerful at both poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in international relations studies. Yet China, a rising power globally, is now widely using this term to sum up its aspirations and symbolise the significance of the polar regions to China’s national interests. Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping first referred to China as a polar great power when he visited Australia in November 2014. China’s focus on becoming a polar great power represents a fundamental re-orientation—a completely new way of imagining the world. China’s signalling that it is poised to enter the ranks of the polar great powers reveals both a deep need for status change in the international system and an awareness of a gap in global geopolitics that China alone has the unique ability to fill. In setting its sights on the polar regions now, China is looking to the mid to long term and planning for its future economic, political, and strategic needs. The Chinese government's stated core national interests in the current era—to maintain China’s social system and state security, to preserve state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the continued stable development of the economy and society—all require access and engagement in the polar regions. China has global interests and is well on the way to becoming a global great power. In order to succeed in this evolution it must be powerful in the polar regions. China is currently acting out an undeclared foreign policy in the polar regions, and it is a situation that provides a useful indicator of China’s attitude to global governance issues more widely.

Dr Anne-Marie Brady is Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC

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The death of penalties in two legal cultures?

Venue: Neil McPhee Room, Level 1, Owen Dixon Chambers East

Presenters: Professor Sarah Worthington QC(Hon) FBA FAAL**

The 2016 The James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law public lecture will be presented by Professor Sarah Worthington, Downing Professor of Laws of England. The common law rules on penalties have changed beyond recognition in both Australia and England. The final courts in each jurisdiction have tackled the problem in quite different ways, perhaps revealing deep-seated differences in judicial methodologies. Functionally, however, the results appear remarkably similar. This lecture assesses the common law principles, policies and practicalities evident from the latest judgments from the UK Supreme Court in Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi (2015) and the Australian High Court in Andrews v ANZ Banking Group Ltd (2012) and Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (2016). The conclusions have important ramifications for commercial parties.

The James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law

This initiative at Melbourne Law School, in the name of Mr James Merralls AM QC, acknowledges the contribution that Mr Merralls has made in the legal profession in this country. The Fellowship fund is used to establish an annual visiting fellowship to Melbourne Law School by a highly regarded international professor, lawyer or judge. The Fellow will engage in teaching and present a public lecture to the profession.

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Natural Features in Greek Cult Places and Ritual: the Case of Athens

Venue: Malaysian Theatre B121, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Professor Katja Sporn

Greek sanctuaries have been connected with monumental architecture for a long time, especially with temple architecture, altars and functional buildings. But natural features were sometimes predecessors of architectural elements; in other cases, even in Hellenistic Times and later, they intentionally outlined the sacred places, as has been recently shown, especially in various cities of Asia Minor. The lecture will discuss various types of natural elements associated with ritual places in Athens: caves, rock-cut features, trees and groves, as well as water. A major theme will be to trace the role and function of these elements in the cult of the sites.

Katja Sporn (PhD in Classical Archaeology, Heidelberg) is the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Visiting Professor for 2016.

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In the Saddle on the Wall

Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Join us for this unique opportunity to hear In the Saddle on the Wall exhibiting artist, Patrick Mung Mung from the Warmun Art Centre give a floor talk about his work Boornoolooloo (Purnululu) 2013.

This is a Kimberley Aboriginal Artists touring exhibition.

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Minds on the Markets

Venue: Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre

Presenters: Professor Read Montague

Neuroscience methodologies are progressing to a point where detailed measures of brain function are being connected to crucial aspects of cognitive function. These methods now reach into domains not even imaginable a short 30 years ago: neurolaw, neuroeconomics, neuroethics, neuropolitics, and so on. The work is in its early days and some of these efforts are hyped beyond their reasonable extension; however, these fields all point to our growing capacity to probe the physical underpinnings of mental function in socially relevant contexts.

In this talk, Professor Read Montague will survey our recent work on humans interacting with markets, political bias, legally relevant mental states, and the potent impact of belief states on neural function.

Professor Read Montague is the founding director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and the Computational Psychiatry Unit of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Center at Virginia Tech where he is also a professor of Physics.

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Chai and Conversation: India Skills - Connecting Demography to Development

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

Presenters: Dr Divya Nambiar

By 2025, almost 1 in 5 of the world’s working age population will be Indian. 12 million young, aspiring Indians enter the Indian workforce every year. Skill development has therefore emerged as a key policy priority to leverage India’s demographic dividend and drive economic and social development in the country.

In July 2015, the Government of India launched the 'Skill India' initiative, which seeks to equip over 400 million young Indians with job-oriented skills to enhance their employability. For the first time, a wide range of new policy and programme initiatives were launched to rapidly scale up skill training initiatives for the country’s youth.

This talk uses 'Skill India' as a prism to explore four key questions.

· What is unique about India’s skills challenge? How is India managing it?

· How do young people experience and encounter skill training programmes?

· How does the vision of the 'Skill India' programme connect with the aspirations of young Indian citizens?

· What challenges are encountered when connecting demography to development?

Through an exploration of these questions Dr Divya Nambiar provides insights into the nature of the contemporary Indian state.

Dr Nambiar is Senior Consultant, at the office of the Union Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India.

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Half-Baked Talk: VR-Enabled Education for EveRyone (VEER)

Venue: Seminar Room, 147-149 Barry Street

Presenters: Gitansh Khirbat, Sneha Sant

Achieving a 100% literacy rate among India's growing youth is of paramount importance to the Indian government. VEER is a small step forward in that direction as it offers free education to children across different education levels. VEER is an amalgamation of Virtual Reality (VR) in education with a special focus in astronomy. It is complemented by a low-cost smart device, solely dedicated to operate educational mobile apps, which will eventually make smart education available to everyone.

Sneha Sant is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute specialising in Immunology. She is the recipient of the Australia India Institute’s Victoria India Doctoral Scholarship for the year 2014 and represents the women in STEM (Australia).

Gitansh Khirbat is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne’s school of Engineering specialising in Machine Learning and Data Science.

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Joseph Lyons - and the management of adversity

Venue: Theatre B117, Basement of the Melbourne School of Design building, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: The Honourable Kevin Andrews

Joseph Lyons was the tenth Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1932 to 1939. He governed Australia through adverse social and economic circumstances, and for a time held the offices of Prime Minister and Treasurer simultaneously.

This 2016 Archbishop Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture will be presented by the Hon. Kevin Andrews.

Kevin Andrews has served as a Member of Parliament since 1991. He has had multiple ministerial appointments, including Minister for Social Services and Minister for Defence. Kevin is a Newman College alumnus and was instrumental in the organisation of the first Mannix Memorial Lecture.

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When the High Court Went on Strike

Venue: G08 Theatre, Law G08

Presenters: The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler

The 2016 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture: "When the High Court Went on Strike" presented by the Hon. Justice Stephen Gageler.

This lecture covers a little known historical episode from the early history of the High Court when the justices went ‘on strike’. This historical episode will be used as a basis for a broader exploration of the question of judicial independence.

Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture:

In 1958, Ethel Thorpe Southey, better known as Nancy Southey, made a gift to the University of Melbourne to endow a law lectureship in memory of her husband Allen Hope Southey, who had graduated as a Master of Laws in the University in 1917 and died in 1929 at the age of 35.

Thirty years later, the Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture again enjoyed the support of the Southey family as they made further donations to build on Nancy Southey’s initiative.

Forty years later, Mr and Mrs Southey’s son, Sir Robert Southey, made a generous gift in his will to the lectureship fund his mother had established.

And in 2008, 50 years later, the five sons of Sir Robert Southey continued the family’s support of the Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture at Melbourne Law School.

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International Refugee Law: Yesterday, Today, but Tomorrow?

Venue: G08, Law Building

Presenters: Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill

The 2016 Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill

The Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture honours the Fourth Dean of the Melbourne Law School, Kenneth Hamilton Bailey, who played a significant part in Australia's contribution to the formation of the United Nations. Kenneth Hamilton Bailey was born in Melbourne in 1898, was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for Victoria in 1919 and graduated Oxford with a degree in Law and Arts. Bailey returned to The University of Melbourne in 1924, where he became a Professor of Jurisprudence, and later, a Professor of Public Law. When he succeeded Harrison Moore in 1928, Sir Kenneth Bailey became Melbourne’s first Australian-born Dean of Law. The Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture was inaugurated at the Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference on 19 February 1999 at the University of Melbourne.

Guy Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford, and a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London, where he practices in public international law generally, and in human rights, citizenship, refugee and asylum law.

This event is co-hosted by Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Journal of International Law.

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Dante at Auschwitz: the Role of Poetry in our World

Venue: Room 122, Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre

Presenters: Professor Lino Pertile Harvard College Professor

Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human being? A point beyond which our spirit dies and only pure physiology survives? And to what extent, if any, may poetry and literary culture be capable of preserving the integrity of our humanity? These are some of the questions that this lecture proposes to consider with reference to two places where extreme suffering is inflicted - the fictional hell imagined by Dante in his Inferno, and the real hell experienced by Primo Levi at Auschwitz and described in If this Is a Man.

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Sculpture and the Museum: From Fortunate Son to Runaway Child

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Christopher R. Marshall

In 2005, the Director of the National Gallery, London, signalled the long-standing eclipse of sculpture in favour of painting when he noted that "sculpture is what you fall over when you step back from the paintings". The expanded field of contemporary sculptural practice, including installations, conceptual art and commissioned artist interventions, has nonetheless re-energised and revitalised the potential of sculpture to engage with the historical, institutional and even commercial dimensions of the museum.

This lecture will consider the long and complex development from the Renaissance to today with a particular focus on the key role played by sculpture in communicating powerful ideas and associations when placed in dynamic museum exhibition environments.

Presented by Dr Christopher R. Marshall, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Museum Studies, Faculty of Arts, presents the Annual Duldig Lecture of Sculpture. Introduced by Ken Scarlett OAM, Writer and Curator.

Inaugurated in 1986 the Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture commemorates the life and work of the artists Karl Duldig and Slawa Duldi (nee Horowitz). This lecture is supported by the Duldig Studio, museum + sculpture garden.

Image: Interior view, Gipsoteca canoviano, Possagno (Treviso)

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Musical States: how governments make music and music makes governments

Venue: Theatre 1 (B103), 207 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Dr Lesley Pruitt, Associate Professor Shane Homan, Professor John Street

Places are often known by, and for, their distinctive musical sounds and associations. Is this just a coincidence or is there an explanation for it? This discussion, led by Professor John Street, will explore this phenomenon as a product of politics. Is it as true for Melbourne as it is for Liverpool or Nashville? The panellists will question how and why governments differ in their role and effect in making places more or less musical. This is not always done through obvious ways, such as censorship or propaganda, but also through everyday regulation such as copyright, tariffs, and licensing.

Music also shapes governments, not just through the conventional protest song, but through its association with particular forms of political activity and intervention. From questioning the understanding of the Pussy Riot punk protest in Moscow to considering how popular culture affects national and international politics, Professor John Street and the panel will explore the intersection of music and power in the emerging field the ‘political science of music’.

John Street is a Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia who has published extensively and authored several books.

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Political Cartoonist Mark Knight in Conversation with Ajit Ninan

Venue: Prest Theatre, G06, FBE Building

Presenters: Mr Ajit Ninan, Mr Mark Knight

The Australia India Institute is delighted to partner with Confluence - Festival of India to bring together two renowned political cartoonists - Australia's Mark Knight and India's Ajit Ninan.

This 'in conversation' style lecture will give the audience an opportunity to interact with the speakers and engage in a Q&A session.

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The Making of Aboriginal Heritage: Leonhard Adam and Anthropology at the University of Melbourne

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. Davis will consider whether Adam’s status as a European intellectual ‘outsider’ was an influence on his work in Aboriginal art and anthropology.

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Science Festival - Making Sense of your Senses

Venue: Singapore Theatre , Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Dr Jen Martin

Are there smells that take you back in time?
Are you aware that the music playing in the supermarket may affect what you buy?
Is it just an urban myth that waiters wearing red get more tips?
And how fast do you decide whether you trust someone you’ve just seen for the first time? Join Dr Jen Martin from 3RRR and the School of Biosciences to find out the answer to these and many other questions about the science of our senses.

This event is part of the 2016 Science Festival - a week of free events and activities to celebrate science at the University of Melbourne and around the world.

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