Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture - The Changing Face of Humanitarianism

Venue: G08 Theatre, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Ms Erika Feller, Ms Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The changing face of humanitarianism: are non-profits and governments working towards the same aims?

This event will explore the role of governments and civil society organisations in upholding and advocating for human rights around the world. With nations and non-profits both grappling with huge global issues, such as the growing refugee crisis and ever-challenging humanitarian work in developing countries, how can all players in the space work better together? CEO of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt is joined in conversation with Erika Feller to discuss this dynamic.

This event is hosted in partnership with Save the Children and Melbourne School of Government.

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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The Temple of Architecture

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

Presenters: Professor Attilio Terragni

Giuseppe Terragni (1904 – 1943) was a pioneer of modern Italian Architecture and is recognised as a revolutionary figure in architectural design.

He conceived some of Italy’s most significant 20th century buildings, with his designs forming the nucleus of the Italian Rationalist school of architecture.

Much of his work combines a paradoxical combination of the avant garde and the traditional, highlighting a balancing act between Terragni’s own penchant for modernism and the pressure to prioritise the traditional, amidst neo-classical and neo-baroque revivalism under Italy’s fascist government.

In this special presentation Giuseppe Terragni’s grand-nephew Attilio Terragni will explore Terragni’s continued influence on modern architecture and the Terragni family legacy.

Professor Attilio Terragni runs his own studio Attilio Terragni ingegnere architetto artista since 1989.

Special thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne, for their support.

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Computational Material Culture

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

Presenters: Professor Achim Menges

The first Dean's public lecture for the year, presented by Professor Achim Menges, will focus on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of morphogenetic design computation, biomimetic engineering and robotic fabrication that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment.

Professor Achim Menges is a registered architect in Frankfurt and professor at Stuttgart University, where he founded the Institute for Computational Design. Currently he also is Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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Corden Lecture 2017: India's Search for Prosperity

Venue: Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre

Presenters: Vijay Joshi

India has been the subject of many extravagant predictions and hopes. It grew fast for three decades from 1980 to 2010 but has faltered since then. Is it on course to become a prosperous country in the next quarter century? The lecture will argue that the foundations of rapid, durable, and inclusive economic growth in India are distinctly shaky.

For India to realize its huge potential, the relation between the state, the market, and the private sector must be comprehensively realigned. Deeper liberalization of goods and factor markets is very necessary but far from sufficient. The state needs to perform much more effectively many core tasks that belong squarely in its domain, such as a) providing a ‘basic income’ for citizens, b) improving state capacity to deliver public goods, and c) taking steps to reduce corruption and crony capitalism.

The lecture will discuss where India is today, where it is headed, and what it should do to attain its ambitious goals.

Vijay Joshi is Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

The Faculty of Business and Economics is proud to host the 2017 Corden Lecture. The Corden Lecture series is named after Professor Max Corden, one of Australia’s most famous economists.

The Department of Economics, the Faculty and the University are honoured that Max continues his long association with us, which began at undergraduate level.

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Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture

Venue: G08, Law G08

Presenters: Ms Erika Feller, Ms Helle Thorning-Schmidt

This event will explore the role of governments and civil society organisations in upholding and advocating for human rights around the world. With nations and non-profits both grappling with huge global issues, such as the growing refugee crisis and ever-challenging humanitarian work in developing countries, how can all players in the space work better together? CEO of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt is joined in conversation with Erika Feller to discuss this dynamic.

Speakers Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark
Erika Feller, Vice-Chancellor Fellow at Melbourne School of Government and former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner

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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Negotiating Brexit: The Trade Dimensions

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Alan Winters

The UK government has committed to clear the way to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to leave the European Union. Thus by April 2019, we expect the UK to no longer be a member and will consequently need its own international trade policy.

This has formal elements - such as 'regularising' its position in the WTO - and policy elements - what sort of trade agreements it will negotiate with other countries, including the remainder of the EU.

Professor Alan Winters, Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex, will discuss these issues in the light of the most recent analysis and political developments.

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The Dark and the Life: The Four Big Questions of Twenty First Century Astrophysics

Venue: Auditorium, Ground Floor, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Professor Colin Norman

Melbourne graduate Professor Colin Norman will be visiting from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to discuss the 'Four Big Questions' in astrophysics. According to Professor Norman these are:

(1) The Nature of Dark Matter
(2) The Physical Understanding of Dark Energy
(3) The Formation and Evolution and Structure of Black Holes and, finally, a different kind of question
(4) The Habitability of Exoplanets.

In this lecture Professor Norman will focus on four great problems confronting us in the current era:

(1) The Nature of Dark Matter,
(2) The Physical Understanding of Dark Energy,
(3) The Formation and Evolution and Structure of Black Holes, and,
finally, a different kind of question: (4) The Habitability of Exoplanets.

Modern Astrophysics is a potent blend of multi-wavelength ground-based observations, high-tech space missions, and powerful physical insights. Professor Norman will discuss work from these different approaches relevant to the Four Big Questions with accompanying images from many recent astronomical space missions and other great observatories. He will also describe the powerful techniques being applied in laboratory experiments that are attempting to simulate conditions in space, thereby progressing, albeit slowly, toward the identification of significant building blocks of life in other parts of the universe.

Where possible he will indicate the future plans for upcoming space missions in these areas including: the James Webb Space Telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope and the Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics. He will also discuss the major Australian initiative for the Square Kilometer Array.

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The Psychology of Passion

Venue: Q230, 234 Queensberry St. Room 230

Presenters: Professor Robert Vallerand

What is passion? Who is passionate and for which type of activities? Is passion good or bad for people?

Following a brief historical survey of the concept, Professor Robert Vallerand will present the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003), and address these issues. It will be seen that passion permeates our lives and matters greatly. Further, two types of passion exist, one where the passion is under our control (harmonious passion) and a second where the passion controls us (obsessive passion). He will explore research conducted in a variety of settings, revealing that harmonious passion typically leads to adaptive outcomes while obsessive passion leads to less adaptive and at times maladaptive outcomes. Finally, Professor Vallerand will also address the role of the determinants of passion, before proposing some directions for future research and applications.

Professor Robert J. Vallerand is Full Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Comportement Social at the Université du Québec à Montréal where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Motivational Processes and Optimal Functioning.

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Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Colloquia: Meter and Musical Form

Venue: Heinze Room, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Presenters: Professor Richard Cohn

This series of colloquia perpetuates the legacy and cultural impact of Melburnian music patron and publisher Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884–1962), founder of Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre, by bringing cutting-edge issues in music research to a public forum for discussion and debate. It presents lectures by renowned scholars working in diverse fields of music research, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance studies, and composition.

Along with tonality, meter is one of the systems through which the mind regulates and organizes musical input. In theories of musical form, though, tonality is perpetually a colossal star, while meter sits quietly on the bench watching. This is a strange state of affairs on the face of it, but it makes sense when we regard it as a consequence of an under-nourished and archaic theory of meter. That theory equates meter with meter signatures; meter signatures typically do not change, except occasionally at formal boundaries that are marked by simultaneous change in other parameters; and without change, there is no form in time. As soon as we release meter from metric notation, and link it to music as heard and experienced, we license it to get out there on the floor of musical form, and we can quickly see that it has a vigorous contribution to make.

Richard Cohn is a prominent music theorist and Battell Professor of Music Theory at Yale University. He is the author of Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad’s Second Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous leading studies on music theory. Richard Cohn proposes a general model of meter, and makes a case for its analytical value through a range of classical, popular, and “world” musics.

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Obscurity as a Means of Identity

Venue: Forum Theatre - 153, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Woodrow Hertzog

The concept of obscurity plays a profound and under-appreciated role in shaping our identities.

First, obscurity gives us the breathing room to fully develop who we are as human beings. Even when we interact with others in public, we are typically shrouded in obscurity, which gives us a degree of freedom of interaction to experiment and make mistakes without severe penalties. This freedom is being threatened by modern technologies like facial recognition apps and other modes of contemporary surveillance, and it is troubling that the tech industry tries to sidestep the issue of our right to obscurity.

Second, obscurity is a completely necessary precondition for the performative aspect of identity. Drawing upon the work of Erving Goffman and Irwin Altman, Professor Woodrow Hartzog argues that obscurity is the key boundary management technique by which we reveal certain shades of our identity to others. Recognizing what makes up this obscurity, such as semantic vagueness, information search costs, and architectural constraints, is thus much more central to identity than most consider.

Professor Hartzog is the Starnes Professor of Law at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

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Music on the Mind: The genetic basis of singing, twins and musical ability

Venue: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

As part of the on-going relationship with the Melbourne Recital Centre, this event engages the public with MCM research on systematic enquiries into the genetic basis of musical ability as understood from the study of twins.

Gary McPherson is Ormond Chair of Music and the Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Sarah Wilson is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology and Director of the Music, Mind and Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Melbourne.

Yi Ting Tan is a postdoctoral researcher working on twins and musical ability.

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Music and Morality

Venue: Parkville Building, Conservatorium of Music

Paul Watt is senior lecturer in musicology in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, working on music and social reform in the nineteenth century. His publications include the edited volumes Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), besides numerous articles and book chapters.

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Music on the Mind: Music and Trauma Recovery

Venue: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

As part of the on-going relationship with the Melbourne Recital Centre, this event engages the public with MCM research on systematic enquiries into how music can assist in the recovery of trauma.

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French Music Culture

Venue: Parkville Building, Conservatorium of Music

This series of colloquia perpetuates the legacy and cultural impact of Melbournian music patron and publisher Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884–1962), founder of Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre, by bringing cutting-edge issues in music research to a public forum for discussion and debate. It presents lectures by renowned scholars working in diverse fields of music research, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance studies, and composition.

Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton, renowned for her research on French music. Her publications include the books The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

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In Conversation with the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

Venue: David P. Derham Theatre, Level 1, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Professor Carolyn Evans, The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG

The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG will be in conversation with Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean of Melbourne Law School.

The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG was Australia's longest serving judge when he retired from the High Court in 2009. He was also the Acting Chief Justice of Australia twice.

Professor Carolyn Evans is Dean of Melbourne Law School. Carolyn has degrees in Arts and Law from Melbourne University and a doctorate from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar and where she held a stipendiary lectureship for two years before returning to Melbourne in 2000.

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New Research in Music Theory

Venue: Parkville Building, Conservatorium of Music

This series of colloquia perpetuates the legacy and cultural impact of Melburnian music patron and publisher Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884–1962), founder of Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre, by bringing cutting-edge issues in music research to a public forum for discussion and debate. It presents lectures by renowned scholars working in diverse fields of music research, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance studies, and composition.

Richard Cohn is a prominent music theorist and Battell Professor of Music Theory at Yale University. He is the author of Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad’s Second Nature (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous leading studies on music theory.

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Asia TOPICS: Lunchtime Artist Talks

Venue: Space 28, Performing Arts Building

Dancer-choreographers and curators of the XO State performance series Eisa Jocson (Philippines) and Gideon Obarzanek (Australia) In conversation with Paul Rae, University of Melbourne.

Major international performer-choreographers in their own right, during Asia TOPA, Eisa Jocson and Gideon Obarzanek are joining forces both to present their own work, and to curate XO State, a series of dance, music and theatre performances that provide a dark and compelling underground to the main festival program. In conversation with theatre scholar Paul Rae, Eisa and Gideon will explore what motivates them in their own work, as well as the thinking underpinning the XO State project, and their prognosis for the future of Asian and Australian contemporary performance.

What makes contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian performing artists tick? What forms, materials and ideas are they working with, and how? What kinds of responses to their work are they looking for, and how should we make sense of it for ourselves?

From 21-24 February, join a diverse range of featured artists from the first Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts to explore the answers to these questions, and to pose your own. Each lunchtime, artists from different places and practices will be in conversation with local specialists in a lively investigation into the state of contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian arts.

Admission: Free, bookings essential

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Asia TOPICS: Lunchtime Artist Talks

Venue: Space 28, Performing Arts Building

Directors and writers from Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric playwriting initiative In conversation with Chris Mead, Literary Director of the MTC

What makes contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian performing artists tick? What forms, materials and ideas are they working with, and how? What kinds of responses to their work are they looking for, and how should we make sense of it for ourselves?

From 21-24 February, join a diverse range of featured artists from the first Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts to explore the answers to these questions, and to pose your own. Each lunchtime, artists from different places and practices will be in conversation with local specialists in a lively investigation into the state of contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian arts: Admission: Free, bookings essential to guarantee a seat

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Asia TOPICS: Lunchtime Artist Talks

Venue: Space 28, Performing Arts Building

Rapper and MC Aristophanes (Taiwan) In conversation with Rachel Marsden, University of Melbourne.

Aristophanes is a Taipei-based artist, whose striking verbal wordplay, poetry and cutting-edge delivery has seen her rise to the forefront of new sounds emerging out of Taiwan. Her arresting, energetic contribution to the track ‘SCREAM’ on Canadian singer Grimes’s latest album, Art Angels, has brought international attention to her singular style, which toys in playful and challenging ways with female sexuality whilst stretching the expressive boundaries of Mandarin rap. In conversation with contemporary Chinese arts and culture curator and scholar Rachel Marsden, Aristophanes will talk about her experiences of the music industry in Taiwan and China, transcultural collaborations with international musicians and producers, and how her music translates to new audiences in Australia.

Rachel invites the public to submit questions prior to the event via Twitter using @rachmarsden

What makes contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian performing artists tick? What forms, materials and ideas are they working with, and how? What kinds of responses to their work are they looking for, and how should we make sense of it for ourselves?

From 21-24 February, join a diverse range of featured artists from the first Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts to explore the answers to these questions, and to pose your own. Each lunchtime, artists from different places and practices will be in conversation with local specialists in a lively investigation into the state of contemporary Asian and Asian-Australian arts:

Admission: Free, bookings essential.

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"Post Platonism: Rethinking the Relations of Art, Love and Desire, 1500-1767"

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture Theatre B101, Arts West

Presenters: Professor James Grantham Turner

Art & Love explores the "erotic revolution" that swept through aesthetic theory and artistic practice in the sixteenth century. Early modern "sex-positive" polemic denounced the false shame that devalues physical, sexual love, and targeted neo-Platonism, with its fierce rejection of corporeal sexuality and bodily sensation.

Professor James Grantham Turner traces the evolution of interpretations of Platonic Eros, expressed through important semantic changes in words like "lascivious" and "libido", suddenly used in a positive sense during this period. Platonic anticorporeality was absolutely rejected; but elements of the Platonic image of a graduated ascent, rising up on a ladder by a series of "steps" to attain the highest form of Love, were retained, and even amplified.

Professor James Grantham Turner holds the James D. Hart Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley

Image Credit - 'Turner on ladder in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence", Martha Pollack

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Imaginative strategies for student mobility and recruitment across Australia–India

Venue: YHM Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Craig Jeffrey

University and skills education is undergoing a period of intense reform in contemporary India. These reforms present exciting opportunities for Australian education providers. In this lecture, Craig Jeffrey will identify five key strategies for improving links between Australia and India in the sphere of tertiary education. This builds upon Professor Jeffrey's experience of conducting research on higher education and youth in provincial north India. The lecture will discuss imaginative strategies for student mobility and recruitment across the Australia-India space

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Testosterone Rex: Death of a Legend?

Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Arts West Building

Presenters: Professor Cordelia Fine

2017 Faculty of Arts Dean's Lecture & Book Launch

We’re all familiar with Testosterone Rex: the pervasive idea that risk-taking, competitive masculinity evolved in males to enhance reproductive success, and that these traits are therefore wired into the male brain, and fuelled by testosterone. This compelling set of interconnected beliefs seem to offer an explanation for why men are much more likely than women to achieve a Rex-like status in society – but they are also based on outdated scientific ideas. This lecture explains why the evolution of science has led to Testosterone Rex’s extinction.

Following the lecture, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of Professor Fine's new book, Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds.

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The Digital Humanist and the Challenges to Humankind

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Juan-Luis Suárez

Join visiting academic Professor Juan Luis Suárez as he explores the changes to humankind and how Digital Humanists' affect the definition of what a human being is in the digital age. He will argue that the humanities are relevant when dealing with many issues including: genetic editing, massive changes in human behaviour, artificial intelligence, and the ecosystem. The common thread across all these issues is that they force us to think at the intersection of human history and human evolution, something we have not had to do before.

Doors open 5:15 for a 5:30 start. After the lecture please join Professor Juan Luis Suarez, the Transformative Technologies Research Unit and the Digital Studio for drinks in the theatre foyer.

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Popular Express Entry Immigration Category in Saskatchewan Reopens

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has reopened its International Skilled Worker – Express Entry immigration sub-category for 500 new applications. This popular sub-category forms part of the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP), through which the province welcomes new permanent residents who have the ability to settle and establish themselves economically. News of the reopening of […]

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QS Best Student Cities 2017: The Top 10 Best Cities for Students

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has reopened its International Skilled Worker – Express Entry immigration sub-category for 500 new applications. This popular sub-category forms part of the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP), through which the province welcomes new permanent residents who have the ability to settle and establish themselves economically. News of the reopening of […]

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2nd annual Travel Trade Ski Day enjoys perfect weather conditions — Travel Industry News

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Bat Trang Ceramic Village tour, Hanoi, VietNam

Venue: Faculty of Business & Economics, Prest Theatre

Presenters: Professor Michael North B.A.Psychology, University of Michigan, PhD Psychology and Social Policy, Princeton University

Join Professor Michael North from the Stern Business School at New York University for a lecture exploring attitudes to ageing in the workforce and beyond. Professor North's research rooted in social psychology, focuses primarily on challenges of, and consideration for, the ageing and increasingly intergenerational workforce.

He has published research in leading academic journals, including Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and has authored articles for Harvard Business Review and The Society for Human Resource Management.

Professor North’s work has also been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, The Huffington Post, Scientific American and NPR.

This lecture is presented in partnership between the Centre for Workplace Leadership and the Hallmark Ageing Research Initiative and the Centre for Employment & Labour Relations Law.

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Oncology Practice Accountability

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Presenters: Professor Fredrick D. Ashbury BA (Hons), MA, PhD

In this lecture Professor Fred Ashbury will highlight the importance and benefits of improving oncology practice accountability. Drawing on 25 years’ experience in cancer control and research into best practice in point-of-care intervention research, supportive care, practice assessment and standardisation, Professor Ashbury will discuss identifying practice guidelines, establishing standards and various methods for creating measurable change from within.

Fred Ashbury has worked in government, not-for-profit and for-profit organisations, including senior leadership positions in Cancer Care Ontario and the Alberta Cancer Board. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international, peer-reviewed journal, Supportive Care in Cancer and presently Chief Scientific Officer at Viviphi Ltd, an ‘Oncology Knowledge as a Service’ organisation.

Professor Ashbury’s research has been widely published and he is a member of numerous professional organisations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (Board Member), and the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology.

Introduction by Professor Grant McArthur, Executive Director of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

Registrations Essential: Light breakfast served from 9:00am, Lecture at 9:30am-10:30am.

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Current Dilemmas of European Security Policy

Venue: 4th Floor, Linkway Room, John Medley

Presenters: Mr Janusz Onyszkiewicz

The European security environment has undergone fundamental change during the last decade and faces new threats and challenges, arising from Russia's neo-imperial aspirations and the emergence of ISIS.

The last NATO summits in Wales and Warsaw tried to find adequate solutions to these problems and to restore the balance of forces and military potentials in Central and Eastern Europe. The security environment of Europe faces further challenges as a result of emerging uncertainties in US relations with Russia and Europe.

The EU Centre presents former Vice-President of the European Parliament and former Defence Minister of Poland Janusz Onyszkiewicz at this public lecture on European security policy.

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"ART AND LOVE"

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture Theatre B101, Arts West

Presenters: Professor James Grantham Turner

Art & Love explores the "erotic revolution" that swept through aesthetic theory and artistic practice in the sixteenth century. Early modern "sex-positive" polemic denounced the false shame that devalues physical, sexual love, and targeted neo-Platonism, with its fierce rejection of corporeal sexuality and bodily sensation.

Professor James Grantham Turner traces the evolution of interpretations of Platonic Eros, expressed through important semantic changes in words like "lascivious" and "libido", suddenly used in a positive sense during this period. Platonic anticorporeality was absolutely rejected; but elements of the Platonic image of a graduated ascent, rising up on a ladder by a series of "steps" to attain the highest form of Love, were retained, and even amplified.

Professor James Grantham Turner holds the James D. Hart Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley

Image Credit - 'Turner on ladder in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence", Martha Pollack

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The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

Venue: LT1, Melbourne Business School

Presenters: Professor Richard Baldwin

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Prof Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old.

The new globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored jobs.

The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid industrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization of developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is only now petering out. This presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.

This public lecture marks the launch in Australia of Professor Baldwin’s latest book The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization.

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva since 1991, Policy Director of the Centre for Policy Research (CEPR), London since 2006, Editor-in-Chief of Vox since he founded it in June 2007, and an elected Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. He was a Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration (1990-1991) following Uruguay Round, NAFTA and EAI negotiations as well as numerous US-Japan trade issues including the SII talks and the Semiconductor Agreement renewal.

Chaired by Professor Phil McCalman, Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne

Hosted by the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges in collaboration with the EU Centre for Global Affairs at the University of Adelaide.

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Cape Town Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia (4K)

Venue: Faculty of Business & Economics, Prest Theatre

Presenters: Professor Michael North B.A.Psychology, University of Michigan, PhD Psychology and Social Policy, Princeton University

Join Professor Michael North from the Stern Business School at New York University for a lecture exploring attitudes to ageing in the workforce and beyond. Professor North's research rooted in social psychology, focuses primarily on challenges of, and consideration for, the ageing and increasingly intergenerational workforce.

He has published research in leading academic journals, including Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and has authored articles for Harvard Business Review and The Society for Human Resource Management.

Professor North’s work has also been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, The Huffington Post, Scientific American and NPR.

This lecture is presented in partnership between the Centre for Workplace Leadership and the Hallmark Ageing Research Initiative and the Centre for Employment & Labour Relations Law.

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Picturing the Law: 2017 Rare Book Lecture

Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Mr Michael Widener

"Law books" and "illustrations" are rarely associated with one another. Yet, for the past decade, hundreds of examples have been assembled in the Yale Law Library by its Rare Book Librarian, Michael Widener, spanning eight centuries and four continents. A major exhibition of the collection, entitled “Law’s Picture Books,” will open in September 2017 at the Grolier Club in New York City.

In his talk, Micheal Widener will go beyond a preview of the exhibition to explore how collections like this can open fresh opportunities for libraries, book collectors, and researchers.

This exhibition highlights a rich tradition of legal publishing which book lovers - and lawyers - are often surprised to learn exists at all.

"Illustrated law books" may seem like an oxymoron. After all, law is conceptual, analytic, and - wordy. Yet the object of law is human life, and its books, whether published for practitioners, students, or lay readers, mediate between abstract rules and the real world of people and things, between ideals and the everyday. The books on display here respond to this tension. They stem from Europe, Great Britain, the Far East, and the Americas, from the middle ages to today, and include a beguiling diversity of engravings, diagrams, and designs that stand both on their own and in dialogue with their accompanying text.

The books were collected over the course of a decade by Michael Widener of the Yale Law School's library. As a rare book librarian, Mike's goal has been to create a unique research resource. He has collected broadly and eclectically to serve legal historians and a burgeoning community of scholars of law and visual culture. Yet his choices also bear the stamp of his personal interests, notably in humor, political dissent, popular culture, and book design.

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Globalization, its discontents, and the future of multilingualism (or why language learning is more critical than ever)

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Kendall King

The world is presently facing the most massive refugee crisis of the last century with millions displaced and struggling to (re)settle; simultaneously, thousands of languages are at risk of extinction.

In light of the most recent wave of globalization as well as world-wide reactionary moves towards nationalism and xenophobia, this talk reviews current research advances in our understanding of multilingualism, and suggests how multilingual policies can help meet many of current challenges presented by globalisation.

Kendall King is Professor of Second Language Education at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA). A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she was previously faculty at Georgetown University, Stockholm University, and New York University. King’s research examines multilingualism and second language learning in contexts of rapid language loss and language reclamation.

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Hidden Hazards: Common Consumer Products and Indoor Environments

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

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, Professor of Civil Engineering and Chair of Sustainable Cities at the University of Melbourne, will discuss the hidden hazards in our consumer products and indoor environments, and offer practical solutions.

Booking Essential: Refreshments will be served from 6-6.30pm at the ground floor foyer, Sidney Myer Asia Centre. Lecture will commence at 6.30pm at the Carrillo Gantner (Basement) Theatre.

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The ‘Grand Challenges’ for Agriculture and Future Food and Nutritional Security

Venue: The Craig Auditorium, The Gateway Building (Next to University of Melbourne Sports Centre)

Presenters: Professor Timothy Reeves FTSE

Can we get the right balance between short-term productivity/profitability and longer-term social and environmental impacts? This lecture by Professor Timothy Reeves will define and focus on the 'grand challenges' that agriculture must urgently address for this to be achieved over the coming decade and beyond.

Global population is growing at about 150 people per minute with the result that by 2050, planet Earth will be inhabited by around 10 billion humans, compared to around 7.5 billion now. All of these people will need to eat and have access to enough nutritious food and clean water to lead meaningful lives. The reality may be very different however, as many are being born into regions of the world that are already struggling to provide these basic needs.

Every day nearly one billion humans go to bed hungry. An additional billion are undernourished, lacking access to vital vitamins and trace elements in the food available to them. At the other end of the spectrum, there are now over one billion people who are malnourished, through over-consumption of energy-dense foods, with resultant obesity and metabolic diseases prevalent.

Producing the extra food required to feed the 10 billion – nearly a doubling of current food production – will not be easy. It will have to come from less land, with less water, less reliance on energy-rich inputs and from agricultural systems that are already being constrained by increasing climatic variability and extreme events, and other associated perturbations. All of these factors and others, including those around, infrastructure; trade; energy and other policy settings, will seriously challenge agricultural sustainability globally and nationally, over the coming decades.

The overriding question, including here in Australia, will continue to be whether we can get the right balance between the need for shorter-term productivity/profitability gains and undesirable social and environmental impacts in the longer-term – doing so is fundamental to sustainable agriculture, future food and nutritional security and the well-being of humankind.

Achieving sustainability in the medium and longer terms will require substantial investment and commitment – including in research, development, education, infrastructure development and policy making - that will need to be visionary, more risk-taking, more durable and by definition, of a longer term in nature. In a world that is increasingly consumed by short-termism and popular ‘want it now’ decision-making, will the 'grand challenges’ for agriculture be adequately addressed and resourced with the appropriate and timely investments that are urgently required?

This lecture is part of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.

Professor Tim Reeves is a graduate of the University of Nottingham (UK) and the University of Melbourne and has worked for over 45 years in agricultural research, development and extension, focussed on sustainable agriculture in Australia and overseas. At the Rutherglen Research Institute, he was a pioneer of no-till/conservation agriculture research.

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Thinking about the future: Whether, when, why, how, who, what … and so what?

Venue: Room 230, 234 Queensberry Street

Presenters: Professor Roy Baumeister

An organised, future-oriented mindset is probably the most effective way to find success in life, but psychology has focused much more on the past than the future. Professor Baumeister will report ideas and findings emerging from his recent research program on thinking about the future. Despite the common assumption that people see the future as bright, laboratory experiments have found that contemplating the future leads to caution and in some cases pessimism. He will also detail revelations from a large data set on people’s thoughts as they go about their daily lives, including what they reveal about why, when, and how people think about the future, as well as what personality types that think about it more, and correlations and consequences.

Professor Roy Baumeister will argue that predicting the future is difficult - but perhaps that is not the main part of people’s thoughts about the future. Instead, he will explore a theory of pragmatic prospection that shifts the emphasis away from “What is going to happen?” to “What do I want to happen?” and “How can I bring that about?”

Professor Baumeister is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Dean's Lecture Series 2016

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Trang An Grottoes tour, Ninh Bình, Vietnam trip

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor C. Raj Kumar

Asialink Business and the Australia India Institute are delighted to invite you to attend a Public Lecture with Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building

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Corruption, Rule of Law and Governance in India

Professor Kumar will outline the problem of corruption in India, which has affected all institutions of Indian democracy leading to a crisis in governance. The lecture will discuss the significance of corruption in India, the approaches adopted and the measures initiated by the government in responding to the crisis. Issues relating to transparency in governance, accountability in administration, development of integrity systems, whistle-blower protection law and the larger need for creating trust between the citizen and the state will form the central aspects of the talk.

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Chobe River (Zambia) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor C. Raj Kumar

Asialink Business and the Australia India Institute are delighted to invite you to attend a Public Lecture with Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building

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Corruption, Rule of Law and Governance in India

Professor Kumar will outline the problem of corruption in India, which has affected all institutions of Indian democracy leading to a crisis in governance. The lecture will discuss the significance of corruption in India, the approaches adopted and the measures initiated by the government in responding to the crisis. Issues relating to transparency in governance, accountability in administration, development of integrity systems, whistle-blower protection law and the larger need for creating trust between the citizen and the state will form the central aspects of the talk.

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In The Land Of The Nabateans (Jordan) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor C. Raj Kumar

Asialink Business and the Australia India Institute are delighted to invite you to attend a Public Lecture with Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building

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Corruption, Rule of Law and Governance in India

Professor Kumar will outline the problem of corruption in India, which has affected all institutions of Indian democracy leading to a crisis in governance. The lecture will discuss the significance of corruption in India, the approaches adopted and the measures initiated by the government in responding to the crisis. Issues relating to transparency in governance, accountability in administration, development of integrity systems, whistle-blower protection law and the larger need for creating trust between the citizen and the state will form the central aspects of the talk.

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Social Sciences at UVic

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Expedia | Travel Alberta

The following is a summary of developments concerning Canadian immigration and citizenship that have taken place over the past couple of weeks. Our Canadian immigration news briefs bring you the latest news as it happens. When published, these articles are posted across our social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn. Follow us across […]

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Census Shows Immigration Accounted for Two-Thirds of Canada’s Population Growth Since 2011

First reports of Canada’s 2016 census reveal that two-thirds of Canada’s population growth between 2011 and 2016 can be attributed to immigration. Because the Canadian census is conducted every five years, this data provides valuable new insight into statistics that have changed significantly since 2011. Canada’s population grew by five percent from 2011 to 2016, […]

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CanadaVisa News Briefs for Early February, 2017

The following is a summary of developments concerning Canadian immigration and citizenship that have taken place over the past couple of weeks. Our Canadian immigration news briefs bring you the latest news as it happens. When published, these articles are posted across our social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn. Follow us across […]

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Groundbreaking Express Entry Draw Has Lowest CRS Requirement of All Time

Canada’s Express Entry immigration selection system continues to grow apace, with the latest draw, which took place on February 8, having the lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) point requirement of all time. Candidates with 447 or more CRS points received an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence. Moreover, this was the largest draw of […]

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Beattie Smith Lecture 2017 - The Mental Health of Sexual Minorities

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor Michael King

Research shows that people from minority sexual groups are vulnerable to discrimination, stress and consequent mental health and alcohol problems. In this lecture, Professor Michael King will present some of this research and discuss the nature of homo- and transphobia, why these seem to be almost universal across cultures and ages, and what we might do to reduce such prejudice.

Michael King is based in the Division of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Brain Sciences at UCL. A psychiatric epidemiologist, he has a particular interest in the design and conduct of randomised trials of complex mental health interventions in primary and secondary care.  He is joint-director of PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit, which specialises in the conduct of clinical trials in community settings.  He undertakes observational research which includes national surveys of mental health in the UK, and cohort studies in European populations to understand the risks for mental disorders. 

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Terrorism and the ISIS threat in Indonesia

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

Hundreds of Indonesians have left for the battlefields of Syria and Iraq since the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syam (ISIS) in 2013. Dozens of terror plots and attacks within Indonesia over this period have also been linked to ISIS and its supporters. In this Asia Institute public lecture, Solahudin, a leading expert on terrorism, will outline the appeal of ISIS to jihadis in Indonesia and analyse its impact on the domestic terror threat. In view of the fact that ISIS has divided the Indonesian jihadi community, Solahudin will also discuss whether anti-ISIS Indonesian jihadis also pose a threat to security.

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Germaine Greer Meets the Archivists

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, Professors Walk

Presenters: Mr Lachlan Glanville, Dr Millie Weber, Professor Germaine Greer, Dr Rachel Buchanan, Ms Sarah Brown, Ms Kate Hodgetts

This International Women’s Day join us for an encounter between Germaine Greer and the archivists who have been cataloguing and processing the Greer Archive, a world-class collection at University of Melbourne Archives.

Four Greer archivists will discuss the woman they have got to know through the records they have been working with. Learn why Greer decided to ‘write for rapists’ in a seminal 1973 essay for Playboy. Discover the homes and haunts where Greer wrote her books and the cats that kept her company. Listen to snippets of Greer’s intimate audio dairies. Explore the ephemera associated with Greer’s publishing house, Stump Cross Press. Meet Germaine Greer, archivist.

The evening will culminate in a 40-minute response from the creator of the archive, Germaine Greer, and an audience Q and A.

About the archive: The Greer Archive is a record of the liberation struggles and ordinary joys and sorrows not just of its creator, Germaine Greer, but of thousands of other women too, both famous and anonymous. Rosie Boycott, Muriel Bradbrook, Carmen Callil, Lee Cataldi, Beth Chatto, Gay Clifford, Margaret Fink, Helen Garner, Susan Hillard, Florynce Kennedy, Gita Mehta, Paula Rego, Marsha Rowe, Lillion Roxon, Bobbi Sykes, Anne Summers and members of the Women’s Organisation of Iran are some of the artists, publishers, academics, writers and activists who are also part of the Greer Archive. This event is a prelude to the opening of the Greer Archive on 27 March 2017.

Image Credit: Neil Spence Photography

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Porquerolles Island, France 4K

Venue: The Forum Theatre 153, Level 1, Arts West, Lvl 1, North Wing

Presenters: Dr Tom Denison, Dr Graham Willett, Dr Tony Birch, Ms Geraldine Robertson, Mr Jack Roberts

This event will bring together a variety of people working with social movement archives in Melbourne. Each will give a short presentation about their work followed by a panel discussion. Topics to be discussed include the roles archives play within and in relation to social movements and research, issues and options concerning funding, maintenance, and long term sustainability, and opportunities for activists, researchers and others to make donations, work with existing archives or start their own.

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Vietnam Trip 2017 (HD 1080p)

Venue: Lectorial Room 156, Arts West, Lvl 1, North Wing

Presenters: Mr Jack Roberts, Dr Tony Birch, Dr Graham Willett, Dr Tom Denison, Ms Geraldine Robertson

This event will bring together a variety of people working with social movement archives in Melbourne. Each will give a short presentation about their work followed by a panel discussion. Topics to be discussed include the roles archives play within and in relation to social movements and research, issues and options concerning funding, maintenance, and long term sustainability, and opportunities for activists, researchers and others to make donations, work with existing archives or start their own.

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Discover Visit Scotland’s travel trade resources – Travel Industry News

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Episode 1: The Evolution of Food

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Why UQ?

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Queues on interacting networks

Venue: Peter Hall Building, JH Michell Theatre

Presenters: Associate Professor Maria Vlasiou

We have all had the unpleasant experience of waiting for too long at some queue. We seem to lose a significant amount of time waiting for some operator to reply to our call or for the doctor to be able to see us. Queues are the object of study of queuing theory, i.e., the branch of applied mathematics that studies models involving a number of servers providing service to at least one queue of customers. Queues are an example of a stochastic process and a group of connected queues is an example of a network.

In this talk, we will give a brief overview of the area of stochastic processes, ranging from classroom examples to their impact on industry and technology. We then introduce networks with interacting architectures and look at different architectures through examples. The aim is to give an idea of the mathematical challenges that these interactions create and the importance of incorporating this level of detail in mathematical analysis.

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Palmyra (Syria) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Forum Theatre - 153, Arts West Building, North Wing

Presenters: Professor Catherine Steel

The Roman Republic was a political system which combined direct participatory democracy with a restricted and wealthy political class who monopolised public office and sought to direct policy through the Roman Senate. Political life was marked by deep divisions in policy and method, between those who worked through the elite and those who appealed directly to the people. The resulting clashes became increasingly violent until the Republic ended in the first century BC to be replaced, after prolonged civil war, with a monarchy. In this lecture, Professor Steel analyses the political and constitutional factors which underpinned this complex and frequently unstable system and explores the range of solutions which the Romans sought to adopt to protect and sustain their fragile Republican system.

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Arches (Utah) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Forum Theatre - 153, Arts West Building, North Wing

Presenters: Professor Catherine Steel

The Roman Republic was a political system which combined direct participatory democracy with a restricted and wealthy political class who monopolised public office and sought to direct policy through the Roman Senate. Political life was marked by deep divisions in policy and method, between those who worked through the elite and those who appealed directly to the people. The resulting clashes became increasingly violent until the Republic ended in the first century BC to be replaced, after prolonged civil war, with a monarchy. In this lecture, Professor Steel analyses the political and constitutional factors which underpinned this complex and frequently unstable system and explores the range of solutions which the Romans sought to adopt to protect and sustain their fragile Republican system.

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Vannes (France) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Forum Theatre - 153, Arts West Building, North Wing

Presenters: Professor Catherine Steel

The Roman Republic was a political system which combined direct participatory democracy with a restricted and wealthy political class who monopolised public office and sought to direct policy through the Roman Senate. Political life was marked by deep divisions in policy and method, between those who worked through the elite and those who appealed directly to the people. The resulting clashes became increasingly violent until the Republic ended in the first century BC to be replaced, after prolonged civil war, with a monarchy. In this lecture, Professor Steel analyses the political and constitutional factors which underpinned this complex and frequently unstable system and explores the range of solutions which the Romans sought to adopt to protect and sustain their fragile Republican system.

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Crime, Justice and the Liberalism of Fear

Venue: Theatre 219, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Ian Loader

What does it mean to identify as a ‘liberal’ in recent controversies about crime control?

In this public lecture Professor Ian Loader will take this question as his point of departure and explore how ‘the liberalism of fear’ has contested the politics of criminal justice over the past few decades. As part of his project to create a ‘better politics of crime’, Professor Loader will question what elements of this protectionist ideology should be retained, adapted, or discarded altogether. In the aftermath of Brexit and Donald Trump’s election, this kind of ideological appraisal is more necessary than ever.

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Lessons from Australia’s Animals

Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Mr Tim Winton, Associate Professor Devi Stuart-Fox, Associate Professor Andrew Pask, Dr Ben Phillips, Professor Ary Hoffman

The School of BioSciences invites you join us to celebrate the lessons we can learn from Australia’s animals.

We will present four fascinating stories showcasing how Australian animals have created enormous benefits: both for conservation, but also, surprisingly, for humans.

Professor Ary Hoffmann - Bacteria from local flies limit mosquito disease transmission

Associate Professor Devi Stuart-Fox - Unexpected insights from unassuming lizards

Associate Professor Andrew Pask - Invisible threats to our native fauna

Dr Ben Phillips - How to stop a billion invading toads

The event also serves as a launch for the newly established philanthropic Trust for Native Australian Animals. Our intent with the trust is to provide a way for people who are passionate about Australia’s wildlife and ecosystems to connect with and support our work.

We are delighted that award-winning Australian author, Tim Winton, will serve as a Patron of the Trust and will be a guest speaker at this event.

The event commences at 6:30 pm and will conclude at 7:30 pm. A networking reception will follow the seminar.

Free of charge, but registration is required for catering purposes

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Globalisation of Cancer Prevention

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Presenters: Professor Peter Boyle

A Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Live Event

In this lecture Professor Peter Boyle will discuss how prevention leads to populations having longer and healthier lives, and the critical factor of collaboration between disciplines, particularly close links between clinical and non-clinical specialities:

"There is a wide variety of statistics available regarding cancer in Africa and other low-resource countries, many just estimates based on estimates. However, statistics are patients with the tears wiped away. It is bad to have cancer and worse to have cancer if you are poor. The gap between rich and poor, highly educated and less educated and the North-South divide is substantial and continuing to grow. Radical solutions to improve the situation in the poor countries are urgently needed: the status quo is not an appropriate response to the current situation."

Introduction by Professor Bob Thomas, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC).

Join VCCC colleagues for a global perspective on cancer prevention from a world-renowned public health expert.

Light lunch served from 12.30pm.

Lecture: 1pm- 2pm.

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Canada’s New Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program a Fresh Opportunity

The Atlantic provinces of Canada have come together with the federal government to launch an exciting new employer-driven immigration program, which is likely to attract the attention of potential immigrants and employers alike. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP) has unique eligibility requirements that may be particularly attractive to certain workers and graduates. For example, […]

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New CanadaVisa Study Hub for International Students and Graduates in Canada

The CanadaVisa Study Hub is a new online portal for international students in Canada and recent graduates working on a Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP). The Study Hub links members with a wide range of tools and resources to help them make the most of their time in Canada, and start their pathway to permanent residence. Study Hub members […]

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Canadian Immigration Questions and Answers with Attorney David Cohen

Every month, Attorney David Cohen will answer a few general Canadian immigration questions submitted by our readers. These questions cover immigration programs, eligibility, processing, language requirements, investing in Canada, landing, admissibility, studying in Canada, working in Canada, and much more. Here are this month’s questions and answers. 1. I was born in Ghana, but I am an […]

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CanadaVisa News Briefs for February, 2017

The following is a summary of developments concerning Canadian immigration and citizenship that have taken place over the past couple of weeks. Our Canadian immigration news briefs bring you the latest news as it happens. When published, these articles are posted across our social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn. Follow us across […]

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CanadaVisa Social : Introducing a New Facebook Channel for International Students

Welcome to CanadaVisa Social! It is an exciting week for us here — in addition to reaching 500,000 likes on Facebook, we have also welcomed a new channel to the CanadaVisa Social family. Canada Study News, our network for international students and those considering studying in Canada, is now on Facebook to bring you all the latest […]

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David’s Blog: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses”

The historical narrative of North America is built on immigration. Both Canada and United States, and Mexico, for that matter, are largely populated by the sons, daughters, and other descendants of individuals and families who at one point made a major life decision to seek a new and better life far from home. For many, […]

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