What Makes a Happy and Sustainable Workforce?

Venue: Theatre 219, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Tanja van der Lippe

** Insights from a cross-national study of European organisations and employees,**

Economic and demographic trends are driving the need for a sustainable workforce in which employers are productive and satisfied, workplaces are cohesive, employment rates are high, and the economy is flourishing. Although much research in this area focuses on individuals and their families, organisational context needs to be considered to understand the reasons why certain employees are happy and productive and others are not.

Advocating a multi-level perspective, Professor Tanja van der Lippe will draw on new and unique data from the Sustainable Workforce ERC Project in which she and colleagues studied 11,000 employees in 260 organisations across Europe. In this research, they examined how workplace policies and characteristics intersect with job satisfaction and performance. Specifically, Professor van der Lippe will discuss and be able to answer questions about the advantages and disadvantages of the increasingly common trend of ‘working from home’.

Professor Tanja van der Lippe is the Head of the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University and the Research Director of The Inter-university Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology in the Netherlands.

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The Law of Deliberative Democracy - Book Release

Venue: 920, Law

Presenters: Dr Ron Levy

Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of these laws of politics has been hobbled by a limited set of theories about politics. Largely absent is the perspective of deliberative democracy – a rising theme in political studies that seeks a more rational, cooperative, informed, and truly democratic politics. Legal and political scholarship often view each other in reductive terms. This book breaks through such caricatures to provide the first full-length examination of whether and how the law of politics can match deliberative democratic ideals.

Essential reading for those interested in either law or politics, the book presents a challenging critique of laws governing electoral politics in the English-speaking world. Judges often act as spoilers, vetoing or naively reshaping schemes meant to enhance deliberation. This pattern testifies to deliberation’s weak penetration into legal consciousness. It is also a fault of deliberative democracy scholarship itself, which says little about how deliberation connects with the actual practice of law. Superficially, the law of politics and deliberative democracy appear starkly incompatible. Yet, after laying out this critique, The Law of Deliberative Democracy considers prospects for reform. The book contends that the conflict between law and public deliberation is not inevitable: it results from judicial and legislative choices. An extended, original analysis demonstrates how lawyers and deliberativists can engage with each other to bridge their two solitudes.

Dr Ron Levy researches and writes on public law and political theory, especially constitutional law, the law of politics, and deliberative democracy.

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Book Launch: Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench

Venue: Multifunction Room, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Dr Christopher R. Marshall, Dr Gerard Vaughan

Join Dr Gerard Vaughan AM, Director, National Gallery of Australia for the Melbourne launch of Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Dr Christopher R. Marshall.

In Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting, Marshall presents a new reading of 17th-century Italian Baroque art that explores the social, material, and economic history of painting, revealing how artists, agents, and the owners of artworks interacted to form a complex and mutually sustaining art world. Through such topics as artistic rivalry and anti-foreign labour agitation, art dealing and forgery, cultural diplomacy, and the rise of the independently arranged art exhibition, Christopher R. Marshall illuminates the rich interconnections between artistic practice and patronage, business considerations, and the spirit of entrepreneurialism in Baroque Italy.

Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting is available for purchase online through Yale University Press.

Presented in partnership with the Australian Institute of Art History.

FREE. All welcome. RSVP essential.

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Curatorial Perspective: The Dead Don't Bury Themselves

Venue: Classics and Archaeology Gallery, Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Dr Andrew Jamieson

In this floor talk at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, curator Dr Andrew Jamieson will discuss The Dead Don’t Bury Themselves exhibition which features an important collection of Early Bronze Age vessels recovered by Professor Paul Lapp’s excavations at Bab edh-Dhra in the Dead Sea plain of southern Jordan, along with selected works from the Australian Institute of Archaeology.

In the presentation Andrew will examine the role of objects from burials and the mortuary traditions of the ancient Near East, and also discuss the distribution of the Bab edh-Dhra finds and the innovative solution proposed by Paul Lapp’s widow Nancy Lapp to the issues around the ‘Storage Wars’ and ‘curation crisis’ in archaeological collections management.

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The World's Other Malala’s: Why Students, Teachers and Schools are Targeted in Today's Wars

Venue: Room 109, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Bede Sheppard

Around the world, in places experiencing armed conflict, schools and universities are being transformed into a part of the battlefield. Students, teachers, and schools have been deliberately targeted for attack by armed groups. Armed forces have also taken over schools and universities and used them for military purposes, such as converting them into bases and barracks. The result is that students are forced to either stay at home and interrupt their education, or study alongside armed fighters while potentially in the line of fire.

Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for children’s rights, will discuss the extent of such attacks on students, teachers, and schools around the world. He will also explain current efforts to better protect students and schools through the Safe Schools Declaration—a new international political accord that Australia has to date refused to join. He will draw upon his personal experiences investigating war crimes and other abuses against children, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Thailand, Ukraine, and Yemen.

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"Hello Girls and Boys": Early Melbourne TV ventriloquists

Venue: Dulcie Hollyock Room, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Derham Groves

Clowns, magicians and ventriloquists were staples of live-to-air children’s television during the 1950s and 60s. Derham Groves will briefly introduce some some early, live, children’s TV shows in Melbourne, including The Tarax Show on GTV-9, The Happy Show on HSV-7 and The Children’s Club on ABV-2. He will then discuss the fascinating careers of three, highly talented, local ventriloquists and their unforgettable dolls: Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee, Ian Williams and Sylvester the Talking Sock, and Alan Rowe and Kimbo the Koala.

This free public program is presented as part of Tee Vee at Sixty - an exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Baillieu Library, marking the 60th anniversary of television in Australia. On display from 2 August to 30 January 2017, the exhibition is located on the ground floor and third floor of the Baillieu Library. The exhibition includes vintage TV sets showing news footage from the GTV-9 archive from the University of Melbourne Archives, as well as material relating to The Mickey Mouse Club, The Tarax Show, TV Westerns, TV dining and TV knitting. Re-live the early days of television in Australia by attending an exciting program of events to be held in the Dulcie Hollyock Room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, in conjunction with the exhibition.

Dr Derham Groves joined the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne in 1999. His research interests include the architect Arthur Purnell, the actress Anna May Wong, brickwork design, Chinese temples in Australia, the influence of popular culture on architecture and vice versa, and everyday architecture.

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Curators Floor Talk, Percy Grainger: The Accidental Futurist

Venue: Exhibition Galleries, Grainger Museum

Presenters: Brian Allison, Clare Williamson

Composer, designer and social commentator, Percy Grainger was a cultural maverick, ahead of his time in both his approach to music and to his interactions with society. Curators Clare Williamson and Brian Allison will take you on a colourful journey that opens a window into the life of an extraordinary thinker.

Clare Williamson is an freelance curator, arts writer, picture and film researcher who lives and works in Melbourne.

Brian Allison is Exhibitions Coordinator, Special Collections and the Grainger Museum and has previously been Curator, Public Programs at the Grainger Museum and held a number of curatorial roles in cultural institutions.

Curators' Floor Talk: Percy Grainger: The Accidental Futurist is part of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collisions, presented in association with Melbourne Festival.

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TV's 'Annoying' Commercials, Jingles and Themes

Venue: Dulcie Hollyock Room, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Derham Groves

Dr Derham Groves will introduce a curated collection of “classic”—but some might argue “annoying”—TV commercials, as well as the opening themes to some bygone TV shows. While "Dr. McKenzie’s Menthoids" have long disappeared from our supermarket shelves, the memory of the goateed “doctor" spelling out his miracle cure in his thick Scottish accent lives on in memory—and on videotape. Likewise, the openings to TV shows such as Leave it to Beaver, 77 Sunset Strip and, perhaps the most ridiculous show ever conceived, My mother the car. Be sure to bring your Tee Vee Snacks!

This public program is presented as part of Tee Vee at Sixty - an exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Baillieu Library, marking the 60th anniversary of television in Australia. On display from 2 August to 30 January 2017, the exhibition is located on the ground floor and third floor of the Baillieu Library. The exhibition includes vintage TV sets showing news footage from the GTV-9 archive from the University of Melbourne Archives, as well as material relating to The Mickey Mouse Club, The Tarax Show, TV Westerns, TV dining and TV knitting.

Re-live the early days of television in Australia by attending the public events to be held in the Dulcie Hollyock Room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, in conjunction with the exhibition.

Dr Derham Groves joined the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne in 1999. His research interests include the architect Arthur Purnell, the actress Anna May Wong, brickwork design, Chinese temples in Australia, the influence of popular culture on architecture and vice versa, and everyday architecture.

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Curators Floor Talk, Percy Grainger: The Accidental Futurist

Venue: Exhibition Gallery, Grainger Museum

Composer, designer and social commentator, Percy Grainger was a cultural maverick, ahead of his time in both his approach to music and to his interactions with society. Curators Clare Williamson and Brian Allison will take you on a colourful journey that opens a window into the life of an extraordinary thinker.

Clare Williamson is an freelance curator, arts writer, picture and film researcher who lives and works in Melbourne. She was formerly Exhibitions Curator at the State Library of Victoria and also held curatorial roles at the Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Brian Allison is Exhibitions Coordinator, Special Collections and the Grainger Museum and has previously been Curator, Public Programs at the Grainger Museum and held a number of curatorial roles in cultural institutions.

Curators' Floor Talk, Percy Grainger: The Accidental Futurist is part of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collisions, presented in association with Melbourne Festival.

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Crafting Experiments in Freedom

Venue: Exhibition Gallery, Grainger Museum

Rosalind Hall is the researcher behind the exhibition Experiments in Freedom and the co-producer of a forthcoming LP of Grainger’s Free Music experiments. Rosalind will describe the process she and engineer/designer Michael Candy undertook to realise the playable remakes of Grainger’s instruments, and guide you through the fascinating story of Grainger’s lifelong quest to realise his Free Music. See recently digitised images of Grainger’s instruments and workings, hear never before released recordings of Grainger’s original instruments - and play on the instrument remakes!

Percy Grainger's last great adventure into experimental music saw him attempting to build extraordinary music machines that would revolutionise ideas about making and experiencing music.

Crafting Experiments in Freedom is part of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collisions, presented in association with Melbourne Festival.

Experiments in Freedom is part of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collisions, presented in association with Melbourne Festival. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Researcher and Producer: Rosalind Hall
Designer and Engineer: Michael Candy
Curator: Jonathan Drews

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On the Edge of Madness: Shakespeare and Cervantes

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Arnold Zable, Professor Luis Salvador-Carulla, Luke Stegemann

The University of Melbourne and the Instituto Cervantes, in commemoration of the 400 year anniversary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, present the Seminar:

On the Edge of Madness: Shakespeare and Cervantes

What does it mean to be 'mad'? This word has fallen out of use as society has embraced inclusive ways of understanding and supporting people who live with mental illness. Yet, the literary allusions to madness are still alive, just as they were 400 years ago when Cervantes and Shakespeare let madness play a central role in their masterworks.

How did each of these early seventeenth century writers portray madness, and how were these representations a reflection, not only of their societies, but of how mental illness was understood more broadly? How do we understand and interpret figures such as Don Quixote, Lady Macbeth or King Lear today, and how have our understandings of the human condition changed over the centuries? How much did these iconic figures borrow from reality and how much from imagination?

Join internationally recognised mental health expert, Professor Luis Salvador-Carulla, acclaimed novelist and storyteller, Arnold Zable, and Hispanist and writer, Luke Stegemann, in a discussion about Cervantes, Shakespeare and the changing nature of madness and its manifestations in literature.

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Crafting Experiments in Freedom

Venue: Exhibition Gallery, Grainger Museum

Rosalind Hall is the researcher behind the exhibition Experiments in Freedom and the co-producer of a forthcoming LP of Grainger’s Free Music experiments. Rosalind will describe the process she and engineer/designer Michael Candy undertook to realise the playable remakes of Grainger’s instruments, and guide you through the fascinating story of Grainger’s lifelong quest to realise his Free Music. See recently digitised images of Grainger’s instruments and workings, hear never before released recordings of Grainger’s original instruments - and play on the instrument remakes!

Crafting Experiments in Freedom is part of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collisions, presented in association with Melbourne Festival.

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“A Conversation with the Hon. Chief Justice French AC”

Venue: Theatre G08, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Robert French Honourable Chief justice, Professor Carolyn Evans

Reflections on a Career in the High Court.

A Conversation with the Hon. Chief Justice French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, moderated by Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean and Harrison Moore Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School.

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Australia in the World

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Mr Ramachandra Guha

India is one of the world’s oldest and most diverse civilisations and the largest democracy in the world. However, freedom of expression for many Indians is increasingly at risk. As the country approaches its 70th year of independence, concerns about liberal freedoms are growing with increasing sedition charges and the steady rise of identity politics.

Hosted by Asialink and the Australia-India Institute, one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, will share insights on freedom of expression in a multicultural and secular India, and discuss the challenges for India’s democracy in the years ahead.

Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. He has taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the academic year 2011-2 he served as the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.

Registrations close Tuesday 1 November.

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Keeping Honey Bees in Victoria

Venue: Lower Theatre (Room B01), Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science

Presenters: Mr Robert Owen

Keeping bees has become very popular and the number of beekeepers in Australia has doubled in the last seven years. This talk will explain what is involved in keeping bees both in urban areas as well as in country Victoria as well as the time commitment and costs involved. Also discussed will be local council regulations for beekeepers. There has been a lot of information in the media about the plight of the honey bee globally; this talk will include how this relates to keeping bees in Victoria and how this may affect Australia in the future.

This event is hosted by the Sustainability Team's Bee Club.

Robert Owen is the author of the book The Australian Beekeeping Handbook, published in 2015. He also owns Bob’s Beekeeping Supplies in Eltham and has kept bees for 15 years.

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The Inaugural Derek Denton Lecture in the Arts - The Neurobiology of Art

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

Presenters: Professor Semir Zeki FRS

Derek Denton Lectures in Science and the Arts

“...the artist is in a sense, a neuroscientist, exploring the potentials and capacities of the brain, though with different tools. How such creations can arouse aesthetic experiences can only be fully understood in neural terms. Such an understanding is now well within our reach.”

In this lecture Professor Semir Zeki will explain how viewing art is an example of the function of the brain and explore how the neural functions might explain variability of subjective experiences as well as the range of abilities to create and experience art.

Professor Zeki, founder of the Institute of Neuroaesthetics at UCL and Berkley California, is a pioneer in the field of neuroaesthetics, and led the world in discovering that different visual attributes such as motion, form and, in particular, colour are processed in parallel by separate visual areas of the brain.

Chairman: Dr Robyn Williams AM

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The three worst things about criminal law in our systems: a US-Australia comparison

Venue: Courtroom 1 (8A), Level 8, Federal Court of Australia, 305 William Street, Melbourne

Presenters: The Honourable Mark Weinberg AO, Professor Paul Marcus

For the fourth event in the 2016 'Judges in Conversation' series, the Hon Mark Weinberg AO (Supreme Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Paul Marcus (Haynes Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law) to discuss The three worst things about criminal law in our systems: a US-Australia comparison.

Professor Paul Marcus is the Haynes Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Formerly the law dean at the University of Arizona, his teaching and research interests are in the criminal justice, comparative law, and intellectual property areas.

Justice Weinberg was appointed to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria in July 2008. His Honour was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1998 to 2008 and previously held the following appointments: Deputy President, Federal Police Disciplinary Tribunal; Non-resident Judge, Supreme Court of Fiji; Judge, Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory; and Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Norfolk Island.

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Secrecy for Sale: Unravelling the Panama Papers

Venue: Brown Theatre, Electrical Engineering Brown Theatre

Presenters: Mr Hamish Boland-Rudder

Imagine you have has just been handed an immense amount of leaked information that could change the world. How do you navigate the data, how do you locate the important details and form them into a story for the general public?

The Panama Papers were a milestone event in data journalism and mobile collaboration. The papers were first leaked to a German newspaper that realised the volume of data they had been given was immense. They called on the help of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and soon 107 media companies from over 80 countries were working on the data.

In this afternoon of intrigue learn how the Panama Papers investigation was done. Join us as we explore the process and technology behind this ground-breaking exposé.

This talk will focus on how the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) told the Panama Papers story and the data journalism process involved.

Hamish Boland-Rudder is ICIJ's online editor. He spent two years running the breaking news website for The Canberra Times, which included co-ordinating digital coverage of elections, major sporting events, and live coverage of significant natural disasters. Hamish also instituted new digital reporting rounds for the daily newsroom, and has himself spent time as a reporter writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Korea Herald, The Canberra Times, and various other publications.

The event will include a technical demonstration by Neo Technology using the Panama Papers dataset enriched by the Open Corporates dataset to show how multiple datasets can be merged for new insight into the connections within their data.

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Workers’ Capital - The Industrial Relations Foundations of Australia’s Superannuation System

Venue: Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre

Presenters: Mr Garry Weaven

The lecture focuses on the unique development of the ACTU-led industrial campaign of the 1980’s and its role in laying the foundations for our world leading universal system of retirement income. It also deals with the development of the representative trustee sector, which comprises some $850 billion of Australia’s $2 trillion superannuation assets, and the collective vehicles developed by industry super funds in an effort to contain costs and promote their values on behalf of some 6 million members. Finally, it briefly discusses some of the internal and external challenges confronting the continued development of this movement.

Garry Weaven is Chair of IFM Investors, a global funds management business collectively owned by Australian industry superannuation funds and now serving some 200 institutional investors world-wide.

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Equality: Keywords for India

Venue: Prest Theatre, G06, FBE Building

Presenters: Professor Steven Wilkinson

Indian citizens have a fundamental right to equality, recognized in the 1950 Constitution. But caste, religious, gender and sexual equality remain elusive for many Indians. Indians also debate whether recent market liberalization is making things better or worse.

This talk explores the meaning and reality of equality in post-independence India, how things are changing today, and the prospects for greater equality in the future.

Professor Steven I. Wilkinson is Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University, where he also chairs the Political Science department

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Hidden Hazards: Common Consumer Products and Indoor Environments

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

Presenters: Professor Anne Steinemann

Contrary to popular belief, most of our exposure to hazardous pollutants occurs in places we consider safe—indoor environments, such as homes, schools, and workplaces. Primary sources of these pollutants are also considered safe—everyday consumer products, such as cleaning supplies, air fresheners, and personal care products. However, indoor air environments are generally unregulated, and consumer products are not required to disclose all ingredients. Even so-called ‘green’ products can emit hazardous pollutants, similar to regular products. In this Dean's Lecture, Professor Anne Steinemann will discuss the hidden hazards in our consumer products and indoor environments, and offer practical solutions.

Lecture commences at 6pm; drinks served from 5.30-6pm in the foyer.

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Just Words. And Then the Tower Crumbled

Venue: Arts West, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Saúl Sosnowski

2016 Walter Mangold Lecture

To learn another language is to create the possibility of a dialogue, though not (necessarily) of understanding ‘the other.’

Other than in mathematics –the only language that does not require mediation or explanation— how are our utterances received when they navigate along and across the edges that define ‘differing cultures’? Are words the same when they move across space or to the other side of the table? How are visual, or written texts received when they travel across cultural divides? At the more intimate level of reading a poem, for instance, at how many simultaneous levels do we read “just words” and obtain different meanings? Aren’t ‘sacred books’ forever reinterpreted without any recourse to an absolute or single version? Do humans produce art and literature to somehow fill the gap of miss-understanding, of that which is almost within our grasp but always beyond it?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this presentation: a brief journey from A to B: from Adam to Borges, with a stop at Babel.

Professor Saúl Sosnowski holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and directed the Institute for International Programs from 2000 until 2011.

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Eat to Cheat Dementia: What you eat helps you avoid it or live well with it!

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Ms Ngaire Hobbins APD, BSc., Dip. Nutrition and Diet

Ngaire Hobbins is a dietitian driven by a passion to promote independence and health in older people by averting physical and mental decline that is all too common because of inappropriate food choices. She is an advocate for promoting the joy of eating and the essential place food plays in the health of all older people, whether living independently, being assisted in the community or residing in residential care. She's lives in Australia and is a clinical practitioner, aging wellness consultant, author and lecturer in dementia studies, University of Tasmania, an aged care consultant and seniors' advocate.

Ngaire's common sense approached to food is built on years in practice combined with a thorough review of the nutritional science in ageing years. You will be entertained and you will go home with a new understanding of food and the role it plays as we age.

Eat To Cheat Dementia expands on the healthy brain chapter in Ngaire's first book, summarising the latest research on what we can do to reduce our chance of cognitive decline and dementia, but also provides an invaluable resource for those living with a dementia diagnosis and the people who care about them. It provides practical strategies and advice to keep people enjoying independent lives as long as possible.

Ngaire's talk will include a question and answer session. Her book will be available for purchase on the day.

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Planning in Complexity: Applying Collaborative Rationality to Wicked Problems

Venue: B117 Theatre, Basement level, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Professor Judith Innes

These days planners are faced with great uncertainty as the demands of players and interests proliferate and as traditional government institutions are becoming less effective in addressing public problems. Trust in government is at a low, as is trust in science and expertise. Things fall between the cracks of government with no one to make meaningful, feasible plans, much less take charge of complex tasks. The situation has created an institutional void—an uncharted space where actors are inventing new ways of making decisions and taking collective action. These new approaches most often involve collaboration among public agencies, private entities, NGOs and other stakeholders. They rely on multiple forms of knowledge, build relationships, engage in joint learning and frequently move forward jointly. Such methods are better suited than bureaucracy or legislative process for dealing with complexity, rapid change, and uncertainty of because they are more flexible, inclusive and better informed. This talk will lay out principles and practices for such collaborations to be effective, fair, and built on sound knowledge. These will be illustrated through case studies in California water management and regional sustainability. The bottom line is that collaboration, done properly, is a far more effective strategy for wicked problems than traditional analytic command and control.

In this lecture, Professor Judith Innes, UC Berkeley will discuss the challenges of planning in complexity.

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Shakespeare and Padova: The Taming of the Shrew

Venue: Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street

Presenters: Associate Professor Alessandra Petrina

After the Prologue dedicated to Christopher Sly, The Taming of the Shrew opens with Lucentio declaring ‘the great desire I had / to see fair Padua, nursery of arts’; Tranio, his servant, gently mocks him, expressing his delight at his master’s resolve to ‘suck the sweets of sweet philosophy’. Whether or not William Shakespeare was expressing his own desire to visit the centre of learning of Renaissance Italy, he was certainly interpreting the resolve of many of his contemporaries. Between the late fifteenth and the sixteenth century Padova was the goal of English students, scientists, philosophers, politicians and poets, from John Dee to Henry Wotton, from Gabriel Harvey to Francis Walsingham. Its proximity to Venice made it also an ideal point of reference for English merchants, for the exchange of wares, books, wealth and ideas: Lucentio’s counterpart in Shakespeare’s comedy, the much more down-to-earth Petruchio, declares the ‘I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua’.

Shakespeare thus shares with his audience the image of a unique Italian city: less splendid than Venice, less factious that Verona, Padova was at the same time a centre of learning and a uniquely free city, whose university was not governed by religious or political authorities but by the nationes, that is by the students, grouped according to their provenance and mother tongue. The natioanglica, though initially less numerous and influential that its southern counterparts, grew in the sixteenth century and created a unique bond between this city and the developing English culture.

In this paper, Associate Professor Alessandra Petrina will explore this connection, using Shakespeare’s words as a case study for the variety of reactions that English writers present in their letters, travel narratives and literary works, and showing the results of very recent research that has brought to light a further, extraordinary instance of cultural exchange between early modern England and Italy, in which Shakespeare plays an active and hitherto unsuspected role.

Presented by Museo Italiano, Co.As.It, in association with the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

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The sustainability of Chinese investment in Australia

Venue: Old Arts Theatre D, Old Arts Theatre D

Presenters: Professor Hans Hendrischke

The sustainability of Chinese outbound direct investment in Australia has become a political and geo-strategic issue as national interest and national security concerns compete with business interests for public support.

Based on analysis of the trajectories of Chinese ODI in Australia over the past decade, including pre-investment motivations, industry characteristics, entry strategies, and post-entry integration, Professor Hans Hendrischke will argue that it is imperative to separate strategic and economic fundamentals and depoliticise the foreign investment debate.

The Centre for Contemporary Chinese studies is pleased to present the Inaugural Special Seminar on Chinese State Owned Enterprises presented by Professor Hans Hendrischke from the University of Sydney Business School and China Studies Centre

Hans Hendrischke is professor of Chinese business and management at the University of Sydney Business School. He leads the School¹s Australia China Business Network and chairs the Business and Economics Cluster of the University¹s China Studies Centre.

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The Australian Accent: Origins and Evolution

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Associate Professor Felicity Cox

Australian English differs from other Englishes of the world in its syntax, lexicon and idiom, but it is the phonology that immediately signals ‘Australian’ to a listener. The phonology determines the unique characteristics of the Australian accent but what is the nature of the Australian accent today and how has it evolved in response to the rapidly changing society in which we live?

Unprecedented cultural change has led to increased linguistic variation in the community necessitating a reevaluation of ideas about Australian English and its various forms. In particular, it has been important to acknowledge the wide range of ethnocultural and indigenous varieties and to demonstrate a greater awareness of social and regional variation within mainstream Australian English. The proportion of the Australian population born overseas is currently at its highest point in 120 years so it is timely to examine how the accent has changed over this period and to consider the impact of sociocultural variation on language change.

In this talk the origins and evolution of the Australian English accent with reference to acoustic analyses of both archival and current speech data to illustrate where the accent has come from, how it got to where it is now, and where it may be headed will be explored.

Associate Professor Felicity Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University.

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Live and Dangerous: Journalism and the Real-Time Social Web

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Emily Bell

The 2016 A. N. Smith Lecture in Journalism

Modern journalism is enabled by the reach and power of technology platforms and social networks to broadcast anything from anywhere in the world. Terrorist attacks become horrifying theatre, our attention drawn to events and their aftermath as they unfold, and the 'breaking news' organisation is anyone with a mobile phone and a social media account. As Facebook Live becomes the window on all events, and mobile technology turns anyone into a potential broadcasting unit, how do we decide what to report and what to edit? Who is in control and what is the role for legacy broadcasters and news organisations in this new world?

Emily Bell is the founding director of Columbia University’s highly regarded Tow Center for Digital Journalism and a leading authority on digital journalism.

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George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein: Why the United States Went to War in Iraq in March 2003

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

Presenters: Professor Melvyn P. Leffler

Presented by Professor Melvyn P. Leffler

The war in Iraq launched in 2003 was a decisive moment in post-Cold War international history. This lecture will challenge and interrogate prevailing interpretations of why the United States went to war in March 2003. Critics argue that hubris, power, and greed (oil) inspired the neoconservatives in the Bush administration to push for war. These critics are not wrong, but their explanation is incomplete. A more textured account of the decision to go to war is essential to illuminate the complexities of decision-making and to understand why policy turned out so tragically.

Based on interviews with leading members of the Bush administration, captured Iraqi records, documents and records from the Chilcot parliamentary inquiry in the United Kingdom, declassified U.S. documents, and memoirs and public interviews, this lecture offers a new synthesis, arguing that in addition to hubris and power, fear, threat perception, guilt over 9/11, a sense of responsibility, and worries about domestic political recriminations exerted decisive influence on policymakers.

Melvyn P. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Chair of American History at the University of Virginia and Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2016 at the University of Melbourne.

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Persons with Disabilities: Cure or Accommodate?

Venue: The Courtyard, State Library Victoria

Presenters: Graeme Innes, Helen Herrman, Richard Dowell, Dianne Ashworth, Rosemary Kayess

From a medical perspective, disability may be viewed as the result of a physical condition intrinsic to the individual which may reduce that person's quality of life and cause disadvantages. A major purpose of medical research can thus be viewed as aiming to discover ways of limiting and, if possible, 'curing' disabilities to alleviate disadvantage.

On the other hand, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes within its definition of persons with disabilities those with impairments "which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others".

The Convention requires governments to make "reasonable accommodation" for persons with disabilities. This means making "necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments" to ensure those with disabilities can enjoy their rights on an equal basis with others.

Where should scarce governmental resources be channelled: to improving function and finding cures or making reasonable accommodations to ensure persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in society?

It is the voices of people with disabilities themselves that must guide this debate. This event will include diverse voices of people with disabilities with varying perspectives on the topic and will aims to highlight the 'social' and 'medical' models of disability and stimulate discussion about rights and research.

Moderated by Jon Faine, host of the morning show on 774 ABC Melbourne.

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Jadoo: Street Magic from India - Performance and Public Lecture

Venue: Village Roadshow Theatre , State Library of Victoria

Presenters: Rahman Shah, John Zubrzycki

Join the Australia India Institute and the Festival of India in welcoming three of India’s renowned street magicians in a one of a kind performance. This hybrid public lecture and performance event will give you insight into the background and history of Indian street magic and its evolution over time. Following a short introduction you will be treated to a 30min magic performance which will be followed by a question and answer session.

Rahman Shah is a street magician who brings alive the ancient tradition of 'majak' (magic) from India which used to involve a travelling group of artists and performers interacting with audiences and creating a bond of mythology and culture in their wake. Rahman, who performs along with his two aides, has a repertoire of tricks involving interactive and participatory magic which are immensely popular.

Introduction by John Zubrzycki

In May 1853, the first troupe of Indian jugglers arrived in Melbourne after a successful tour of Victoria's Gold Fields. Newspapers described them as the ‘soothsayers of India’--their astonishing feats of sword swallowing, bullet catching, fire breathing and balancing were ‘impossible to explain’. Since then, magic has maintained its power to mystify and amaze. Conjurers and illusionists from India and Australia have entertained audiences, swapped secrets and taught each other tricks. Researcher and author John Zubrzycki will present the largely untold story of how magic left an indelible mark on the popular culture of both countries.

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Salomania in Nineteenth-Century Western Visual Culture

Venue: Agar theatre, Agar Theatre

Presenters: Professor Antonio Baldesarre

Dance and music, as two of the most expressive signifiers of femininity in the European history of ideas, are crucial to understanding the narrative structure of the story of the beheading of John the Baptist as told in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 6:14-29). This narrative unfolds as a parable with a strong Oriental-Hellenic flavour. Its core context is the challenge to the male worldly order by the female, sharpened insofar as both the actual and future orders are threatened, the former presented in the reign of Herod, the latter in the visions of John the Baptist.

Based on a brief analysis of the biblical telling of the story within its historical context, the lecture explores the multiple and intricate transformations the story underwent in European culture, with a special emphasis on nineteenth-century Salomania, and the function of dance and music within this process. As was already the case with the Gospel of Mark, all these transformations first and foremost are variations of the male imago of an Oriental-Jewish woman who threatens the male order of life with her dancing, and thus amalgamates the outwardly contradictory elements of “dance”, “music” and “violence.” This complex interplay was essential for the fascination that Salome exposed in nineteenth-century visual culture, and which eventually made her the epitome of the femme fatale, desired and vilified simultaneously.

The lecture will explore the proposition that both the nineteenth-century fascination for Salome, and the concept of Salome as femme fatale, are closely but not exclusively linked to nineteenth-century Orientalism, taking into account that Salome is a cultural product and daughter of her many fathers’ imaginations.

Professor Antonio Baldassarre is Professor and Head of Research and Development at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Music.

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South Asia Research Seminar: Hegemony and Sustainable Agriculture in India

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

Presenters: Dr Trent Brown

According to its advocates, low-external input sustainable agriculture has the potential to not only reduce the ecological burden of industrial farming, but also to challenge entrenched power relations. This is said to be particularly true in developing countries.

Through building farmers’ self-sufficiency and establishing local marketing networks, ecologically integrated farming systems are said to reduce farmer dependency upon chemical and seed companies and undermine the hegemony of global agri-business over developing countries’ food systems.

The irony, however, is that in order to achieve their goals, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture must work with at least four entities that are part of the same hegemonic bloc that established the existing global food regime. Typically, they must forge relations with:
international donors;
the state;
the urban middle class;
the rural elite.

Through reference to three case studies, this talk will explore how the contradiction between sustainable agriculture’s hegemonic embeddedness and counter-hegemonic ideology play out on the ground in rural India.

DrTrent Brown is a research assistant at the Australia India Institute.

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Food Security in a World Full of Infections (Dookie Campus)

Venue: Administration Building, 505

Presenters: Professor John Fazakerley

In his inaugural lecture Professor John Fazakerley, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, will address the threat posed to our global food supplies by a wide range of infectious diseases from African swine fever, influenza and foot-and-mouth disease to white spot, wheat rust and blight. The lecture will also outline the steps that are being, or can be, taken in the 21st century to safeguard our food supplies from these infections.

Refreshments will follow the lecture.

Professor Fazakerley has more than 35 years of experience as a manager, teacher and researcher.

Professor Fazakerley will also deliver his lecture at the University’s Parkville campus on Thursday 22 September.

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Food Security in a World Full of Infections

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre - Arts West, Arts West

Presenters: Professor John Fazakerley

In his inaugural lecture Professor John Fazakerley, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, will address the threat posed to our global food supplies by a wide range of infectious diseases from African swine fever, influenza and foot-and-mouth disease to white spot, wheat rust and blight. The lecture will also outline the steps that are being, or can be, taken in the 21st century to safeguard our food supplies from these infections.

Refreshments will follow the lecture.

Professor Fazakerley has more than 35 years of experience as a manager, teacher and researcher.

Professor Fazakerley will also deliver his lecture at the University’s Dookie campus on Thursday 6 October.

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