Julia Bryan-Wilson: Cecilia Vicuna, About to Happen.

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

Presenters: Associate Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson

Keir Foundation Lecture.

Associate Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson will give a lecture on Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña.

This talk discusses Vicuña's sculptural work looking closely at her textile-based work from the 1970s to think through issues of production and materiality. Drawing on her forthcoming book, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, Julia Bryan-Wilson investigates how Vicuña's use of knotted threads and strings signified politically during the Pinochet dictatorship and in relation to Andean systems of knowledge production. She explores a range of art and performance from several decades of Vicuña's practice to illuminate how textiles unravel preconceived ideas about handicraft, industry, and memory.

Julia's visit and lecture is supported by the Keir Foundation.

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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy

Venue: Theatre A, Old Arts Theatre A

Presenters: Dr Judith E. Stein

During the early 1960s in New York, the Chinese-American art dealer Richard Bellamy (d. 1998) ran the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty- Seventh Street where he launched the careers of many of today’s iconic Pop, minimalist and maverick artists. In an illustrated talk based on her engrossing biography, Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), Judith E. Stein brings alive this beatnik with a legendary eye who was the first to show Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Mark di Suvero and George Segal, as well as Yayoi Kusama’s sculpture and Warhol’s printed money. He even brokered Yoko Ono’s first sale. “There was nobody like Bellamy. I certainly consider myself his pupil,” art dealer Leo Castelli later reflected.

Dr Judith E. Stein is a writer and curator specialising in post-war American art. Her biography, Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) earned the Athenaeum Literary Award.

Image credit: Richard Bellamy by Alex Katz, 1960, Whitney Museum Collection

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Using Real World Data to drive Clinical Trials

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

Presenters: Dr Manfred Stapff MD, PhD

In the areas of clinical research and drug development, the possibilities for analysing large volumes of data remain largely untapped, presenting tremendous opportunities for those who can overcome the barriers.

As it stands, health data is often locked in disparate individual databases, standards are highly inconsistent and data privacy protection complicates data consolidation and use. This can result in complex clinical trial protocols with unrealistic selection criteria, and trials often assigned to inappropriate sites, while patient recruitment continues to be one of the major problems in the execution of clinical trials.

Dr. Manfred Stapff, Chief Medical Officer, TriNetX Inc, will demonstrate how use of real world data allows the alignment of protocols to actual medical conditions, and how to formulate realistic inclusion and exclusion criteria and to test their effects on recruitment.

Light lunch served from 12.30pm Presentation: 1pm- 2pm

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Turning Cultural items into Art: Wilin Week 2017

Venue: Federation Hall, Federation Hall

Presenters: Marie Clarke

The Lin Onus Oration is the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development's annual event where we hear from esteemed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists and Cultural practitioners as they provoke thought, discussion and debate.

Named after Yorta Yorta Artist this years oration will be delivered by artist Maree Clarke. Marie is a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/Wemba Wemba woman from north-east Victoria. Marie will speak on Turning Cultural items into Art.

The oration will begin with an A Welcome to Country from Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Di Kerr, then followed by supper and light refreshments.

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Leveraging Science to Concurrently Foster Employee Wellbeing

Venue: Room 230, Level 2, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Dr Michelle Segar PhD, MPH

Do you want to know why most people don’t stay motivated to practice healthy behaviours (exercise, dietary change, etc.), even when they deeply want to?

In this presentation, Dr Michelle Segar presents research explaining why the traditional approach to promoting healthy behaviours sets employees and patients up for short-term rather than sustainable behaviour. Integrating behavioural science with positive organizational scholarship, she will explain how sustainable behaviour change, personal well-being, and organizational thriving can result from reframing “healthy choices” and self-care with “The Right Whys” (e.g., vitality).
Come to this presentation if you want to learn a new science and practice-based approach for motivating and maintaining healthy behaviours among individuals that can concurrently foster outcomes that organisations desire.

Dr Michelle Segar, author of No Sweat! How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness (AMACOM 2015), directs the University of Michigan’s Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center (SHARP) and is a Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan’s Ross Center for Positive Organizations.

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VCE Physics Lecture - Relatively Moving ... Einstein's special theory

Venue: Hercus Theatre, Hercus Theatre

Join us for this fascinating and informative lecture.

Your understanding of the often counter-intuitive concepts of this theory will be much enhanced.

Professor David Jamieson is a Chief Investigator of the Victorian node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T).

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The Strength-Switch

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Lea Waters

The extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than trying to correct their weaknesses is revealed in this game-changing book for parents. By showing us how to throw the ‘strength switch’, Professor Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help children build resilience, optimism and achievement.

As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Professor Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in children and teenagers, and how parents find it exciting and rewarding. With many specific techniques for parents, she demonstrates how to discover your children’s strengths and talents, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, deal with problem behaviour and talk about difficult situations and emotions. The Strength Switch shows parents that a small shift can yield enormous results.

Book signing will be from 7-8pm.

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Government Contracts and Public Law

Venue: GM15 - David Derham Lecture Theatre, The David P. Derham Theatre

Presenters: Justice Kenneth Hayne AC

The Annual Lecture is part of an ongoing effort by the Melbourne University Law Review to increase engagement between itself and the legal community. In the past, we have had The Honourable Justice John Middleton speak on ‘Statutory Interpretation — Mostly Common Sense?’ and The Honourable Justice Stephen McLeish on ‘Challenges to the Survival of the Common Law’.

This year, for our Annual lecture, we are honoured to have The Honourable Kenneth Hayne AC as our guest speaker. Mr Hayne will deliver a speech on government contracts and public law, focusing on the Commonwealth executive's non-statutory power to enter contracts.

This event is open to all and no RSVPs are necessary.

A reception will be held in the foyer of Melbourne Law School following the event.

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Professor Wallace Kirsop on Gabriel de Foigny’s novel "La Terre Australe connue"

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, First Floor, The Baillieu Library

Presenters: Professor Wallace Krisop

Join Professor Wallace Krisop for a talk on Gabriel De Foigny’s novel La Terre Australe connue in association with Rare Book Week and the exhibition, Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery.

The exhibition navigates real and imagined voyages, seeing the island of Australia as the pivotal destination. Indigenous inhabitants had a long established connection to this island, yet in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and opportunity for territorial expansion. European exploration transformed the world’s map, leading into the age of Enlightenment. This gave rise to a desire for specimens of natural history and culture that steered collectors to shipwreck, mutiny and conflict with the original inhabitants of many islands. The exhibition strives to study the changing identities of these islands through the University’s collection.

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The Age of Climate Change & Humanitarian Consequences

Venue: Seminar Room, LAB-14, 290

Presenters: Ms Sherri Goodman

The humanitarian dimension of climate change receives little attention in Australia, but is the subject of intense focus overseas, particularly in the United States. Climate change interacts with other pre-existing problems to become an accellerant to instability in unexpected ways. Scarce resources, growing water scarcity, declining crop yields, rising food prices, extreme weather events and health impacts become catalysts for instability and conflict, especially in Asia.

Presented by Breakthrough and Sherri Goodman Deputy Undersecretary for Environmental Security at the US Department of Defense.

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Privacy and Human Rights – A Discussion with the Australian Privacy Commissioner

Venue: G08, Law G08

Presenters: Mr Timothy Pilgrim, Professor Megan Richardson, Dr Monika Zalnieriute, Mr James Horton

The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, will head a legal, social policy and rights panel at the University of Melbourne. Commissioner Pilgrim will be joined by human rights scholar and advocate, Dr. Monika Zalnieriute, and technology advisor, James Horton. The free public event will be hosted by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the University of Melbourne.

University of Melbourne’s privacy and legal expert, Professor Megan Richardson, will MC the interactive panel and will be taking questions from the floor and from the live Twitter feed #ppnMelbourne. Privacy professionals, academics and students with an interest in privacy rights are encouraged to attend and join in the discussion.

Doors open at 5:30pm with refreshments on arrival.

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2017 Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture: Diversity in the Legal Profession: Reflections on Gender Equity and the Rule of Law

Venue: G08, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: The Honourable Allyson K. Duncan

Free Public Lecture – 6.30 – 7.30 pm

Post-lecture reception – 7.30 - 8.00 pm

Diversity carries with it innumerable benefits for lawyers, litigants, and society more broadly. In ranking a country’s commitment to the rule of law, international organisations specifically consider the country’s treatment of women. And studies have shown that gender equality is correlated with lower levels of official corruption, greater economic output, improved labour productivity, and other positive measures of social development. Yet in many advanced nations, including the United States, a gap remains between our ideals and our reality. Women are underrepresented in the U.S. legal profession at large, and in the judiciary in particular. Despite great strides toward encouraging women to attend law school, few women make partner in large law firms or go on to become federal judges. Approximately two thirds of all active federal judges are men. But there is hope for more progress. Through mentoring young women, engaging in conversations about the importance of diversity, and encouraging women to seek judicial appointments, we can continue to bridge the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be.

The Honourable Allyson K. Duncan will present the 2017 Seabrook Chambers Lecture. Judge Duncan’s career has been marked for its series of “firsts.” She is the first African American woman and the first woman from North Carolina to sit on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was the first African American woman to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was the first African American to serve as President of the North Carolina Bar Association, and only the third woman to do so.

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Boundaries of Public Law

Venue: G08, Law G08

Presenters: Professor Denis Baranger

2017 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture

In many western legal systems, public law stands at the crossroads. Now a well–established field of law and doctrinal inquiry, public law has nevertheless either lost its self-evident "autonomy" in the continental systems (as in France) or never acquired such a privileged status (UK, and possibly Australia), despite its development. Redefining the boundaries of public law now seems more necessary than ever. This may raise questions as to the status of the core concepts in the field, and a willingness to challenge the very nature of the "publicness" of public law.

Professor Denis Baranger is professor of public law at Université Panthéon-Assas since 2001.

The Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program

The Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program enables overseas scholars of international distinction to make an extended visit to the University and contribute to the University's academic, intellectual and cultural life.

The Fellowships are awarded annually, following an application and selection process that begins with nominations from University of Melbourne Faculties.

The Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Program arose from a recommendation by the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund Committee - the body responsible for the management of the Russell Grimwade bequest.

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Mutiny on the Bounty: Freedom and Slavery in the Age of the Enlightenment

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Professor Deirdre Coleman

The 18th century was an age of paradox, summed up best in Samuel Johnson’s astute question concerning the American Revolution: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" In this talk, Professor Deirdre Coleman will discuss what ensued when the breadfruit of free Tahiti was transported to the slave islands of the British West Indies.

This free public program accompanies Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster, an exhibition in the Noel Shaw Gallery at the Baillieu Library (Level 1). The exhibition Plotting the island: dreams, discovery and disaster navigates both real and imaginary voyages, seeing the island of Australia as a pivotal destination.

The Indigenous inhabitants had long established profound connectedness and history to this island, yet in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and imagined through art and literature. It was the lucrative spice trade and the opportunities for territorial expansion that brought Europeans to the Pacific and onto Australia, sometimes purposefully, other times by fateful accident. Their cartographic developments began to transform the world’s map. The era of exploration encompassed another age, that of the Enlightenment. This in turn gave rise to a great desire to collect; voyages were a course leading to the collection of scientific specimens from natural history and objects of culture. The subsequent and often disastrous shipwrecks, mutinies and encounters between Europeans and Indigenous people had effects which shaped the identities of many islands. The exhibition strives not to be chronological and comprehensive in its exploration of islands, rather to study how they are characterised through the University’s collections.

Professor Deirdre Coleman is Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne.

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Understanding Self-Harm and Suicide in Young People

Venue: MSD-B117 (Theatre), Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Professor Ellen Townsend

The lecture will describe how self-harm and suicide are significant public health issues worldwide. In Australia more young people die by suicide than any other cause and globally suicide is the second largest cause of death among those aged 15-24 years. Around 50% of young people who die by suicide have previously self-harmed, meaning that the risk of suicide for those who self-harm is hundreds of times higher than the general population.

In her lecture Professor Ellen Townsend will describe her work on the psychological and social factors associated with self-harm and suicide in young people, including pioneering new techniques she has developed to understand the temporal dynamics of the thoughts, feelings, behaviours and events that lead to self-harm. The discussion will focus on the importance of understanding the sequential patterning of key factors that lead to self-harm. The lecture will conclude with findings from her work on two new major systematic reviews that investigate which interventions may be effective for self-harm.

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Nature and Nationalism: American Landscape and the Hudson River School, 1825-1865

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Franklin Kelly

Keynote lecture, Parallel Histories Symposium

American landscape painting rose to prominence during the nineteenth century. During this time artists, such as Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and others reckoned with exactly what 'national' meant and how it might be addressed and conveyed through art.

Join Franklin Kelly, Deputy Director and Chief Curator National Gallery of Art Washington as he examines major works produced by Church, Durand, and Cropsey in the years 1850-1865, a period when American unity came under strain as sectional disputes, particularly between states in the North and those in the South, were on the rise and political and social systems became increasingly fraught.

This keynote lecture is part of the Parallel Histories Symposium to accompany the exhibition 'Not As The Songs Of Other Lands'. This lecture will be presented in the Forum Theatre, Arts West building.

'Not As The Songs of Other Lands' is organised by the Ian Potter Museum of Art in collaboration with the Terra Foundation for American Art, which is recognised for its generous support. This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund.

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Plotting the Exhibition

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

A significant aspect of preparing for an exhibition involves the preservation and conservation of the featured cultural materials. Learn about some of the conservation treatments performed on the paper items in this exhibition by conservators at Melbourne University’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation during the lead up to Plotting the Island.

The exhibition Plotting the island: dreams, discovery and disaster navigates both real and imaginary voyages, seeing the island of Australia as a pivotal destination. The Indigenous inhabitants had long established profound connectedness and history to this island, yet in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and imagined through art and literature. It was the lucrative spice trade and the opportunities for territorial expansion that brought Europeans to the Pacific and onto Australia, sometimes purposefully, other times by fateful accident. Their cartographic developments began to transform the world’s map. The era of exploration encompassed another age, that of the Enlightenment. This in turn gave rise to a great desire to collect; voyages were a course leading to the collection of scientific specimens from natural history and objects of culture. The subsequent and often disastrous shipwrecks, mutinies and encounters between Europeans and Indigenous people had effects which shaped the identities of many islands. The exhibition strives not to be chronological and comprehensive in its exploration of islands, rather to study how they are characterised through the University’s collections.

Exhibition run dates: 23 February - 16 July 2017

Noel Shaw Gallery, First Floor, Baillieu Library.

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Japan and I: Past, Present and Future

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

Presenters: Mr Adam Liaw

As part of the Asia Institute’s Centenary celebrations of Japanese language teaching at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the Consulate General of Japan in Melbourne, Adam Liaw will deliver a keynote address on the importance of cross-cultural relations, his experiences as an ambassador for Asian-Australian relations and his love of Japanese food, language, history and culture.

This event has been made possible through the generosity of the Consulate General of Japan in Melbourne.

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Bio21 Big Picture Seminar: Journeys in Molecular Science

Venue: Auditorium and Atrium, David Penington Building

Presenters: Professor Michael Parker

Hear Professor Michael Parker share his journey from an undergraduate chemistry student, to a researcher realising the power of visualising the structures of molecules using X-ray crystallography, to an institute director, forging a path for molecular science into the future.

Professor Parker commenced his role as Director of the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, 6 March 2017. He is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University. He has published over 300 papers and his work has been recognised with numerous awards.

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From Research to Practice: Labour, Work and Architecture

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

Presenters: Mr Milinda Pathiraja

Reflecting on his PhD research read at the University of Melbourne and his subsequent architectural practice based in Sri Lanka, this talk by Milinda Pathiraja explores the possible role of architects (active in developing-world regions) as industrial policy-makers. It stems from the idea that, when developed with an understanding of regional characteristics, idiosyncrasies and limitations, the strategic design of architectural and technological configurations can not only produce sound building artifacts but also increase technical capacity in the workforce.

By using a sample of building projects realized in Sri Lanka, the presentation evaluates how architectural intent and resolution can incorporate technical decisions carrying policy implications in terms of incremental labour development and organisation.

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Something Lost, Something Found: Kriol of Northern Australia

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Mr Grant Thompson, Dr Gregory Dickson

Northern Australia is a global hotspot of endangered languages. Growing out of the diminishing of Australia’s diverse linguistic heritage is a new language, Kriol. Based on English but pulsing with innovations from its Indigenous speakers, this lecture shows how Kriol is a vibrant, growing language yet one with a troubled existence.

Presented by Dr Gregory Dickson and Kriol speaker Grant Thompson.

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Life after Hazelwood

Venue: G01, JH Michell Theatre

Presenters: Mr Ben Davidson, Ms Marianne Robinson, Dr Gavin Mudd, Dr Sara Bice

The Australian-German Climate and Energy College in collaboration with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) is hosting a public seminar themed around the closure of the Hazelwood power station: “Life after Hazelwood” The closure of the Hazelwood power station is scheduled for 31 March 2017. It has delivered cheap electricity to the National Electricity Market (NEM) for decades but contributed substantially to Australia’s emissions. The community of Morwell and the surrounding LaTrobe Valley has relied on the existence of Hazelwood. It has provided jobs and contributed to the economy for decades.

While the closure of Hazelwood is inevitable, the transition needs to be fair for all involved. What can we learn from the closure of Hazelwood that would apply to future decarbonisation efforts of the energy sector? What are the possibilities and barriers in relation to the mine remediation? Are there options to reuse the mine pit in any way? What does the community want? How can a transition be just for all involved? The public seminar to explore these questions will be hosted by Dr. Sara Bice from the University of Melbourne School of Government. The seminar will focus on the feasibility of mine remediation and the wishes and concerns that are voiced by the community and the workforce.

Speakers: Dr. Gavin Mudd, Associate Professor Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT. Ben Davison, Chief of Staff at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Marianne Robinson, a member of the Voices of the Valley.

The panel discussion and Q&A will be supported by Bronya Lipski and Dan Musil. Bronya works for Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) that uses its legal expertise to protect nature and defend the rights of communities to a healthy environment. Bronya is from the Latrobe Valley and familiar with the issues surrounding the Hazelwood closure and potential future liability. Dan is Secretary of the Earthworker Cooperative, a union-environmental initiative to re-imagine the 'jobs vs environment' debate and establish worker-run renewable energy manufacturing cooperatives starting in the Latrobe Valley. Dan is also undertaking PhD research into low-carbon transition and worker-ownership in the Latrobe Valley, where he lives.

This seminar will be held in the JH Michell Theatre (Room G01) in the Peter Hall Building, University of Melbourne Parkville campus, on 30 March 2017, 18:30 - 20:00. https://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/160/jhmichelltheatre

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Greenhouse-gas Neutral Germany 2050

Venue: Seminar Room, LAB-14

Presenters: Dr Ursula Fuentes Hutfilter

The German Climate Protection Plan 2050, adopted in November 2016, confirmed Germany's 2050 target of reducing emissions by 80 to 95% to enable extensive greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. Under the interim target for 2030, Germany's total greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by at least 55 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 at the latest - with detailed sectoral targets: energy sector (61-62% reduction by 2030 compared to 1990), buildings (66-67%), transport (40-42%), industry (49-51%), and agriculture (31-34%). The Climate Action Plan introduces a paradigm shift. In the future, renewable energies and energy efficiency will be the standard for investments. In this way, the Climate Action Plan 2050 creates the necessary conditions to keep Germany's economy competitive in a decarbonising world.

In this seminar, Dr. Fuentes Hutfilter will provide an insight regarding the state-federal interactions, the inclusion of municipalities, associations and citizens and the merit and approach towards sectoral targets.

Dr. Ursula Fuentes Hutfilter was one of the architects behind the German Climate Protection Plan 2050.

The english summary of the German Climate Protection Plan 2050 is available at http://www.bmub.bund.de/fileadmin/DatenBMU/DownloadPDF/Klimaschutz/klimaschutzplan2050kurzfenbf.pdf

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What Makes a Law Book Rare?

Venue: Theatre G08, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: Mr Peter Tinslay

Peter Tinslay, antiquarian bookseller and rare books and archives valuer, and Carole Hinchcliff, Law School Librarian at The University of Melbourne, talk about collecting rare law books. This program features selected rare law book titles held in The University Library’s Law Rare Book collection.

Attendees are invited to bring a rare law book for discussion and comment.

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Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs)

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

Presenters: Associate Professor Michael Jefford MBBS, MPH, MHlthServMt, PhD, GAICD, FRACP, Dr Karolina Lisy BSc (Hons), PhD

Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Monday Lunch Live Event

Towards better outcomes for cancer survivors

To address the lack of robust population-based data regarding the lived experience of cancer survivors the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre commissioned the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures or PROMs project.

This study used a cross sectional survey to assess the quality of life of survivors of breast, colorectal, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or melanoma, one-, three- and five years post-diagnosis. The study assessed associations between various demographic and disease-related factors and quality of life. The results highlight the need to better understand the factors that affect quality of life for cancer survivors, especially for those at higher risk, and opportunities to use this knowledge to improve current results.

Light lunch served in the atrium from 12.30pm.
Lecture: 1pm- 2pm.

Associate Professor Michael Jefford is Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Oncology at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and is Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre.

Dr Karolina Lisy is a senior research fellow in Cancer Experiences Research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

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Virtual Reality in Neuro-Rehabilitation: What Does The Future Look Like?

Venue: Auditorium, Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Associate Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Greg Wadley Computing and Information Systems University of Melbourne, Dr Jeanette Tamplin, Dale Harris

Join us as we explore how augmented and virtual reality is being used as a therapeutic tool to improve cognitive function.

No longer within the realms of science fiction, virtual reality technologies are advancing neurological and cognitive rehabilitation. Whether it be used in conjunction with transcranial stimulation to improve cognitive ability in people with Parkinson’s disease, or used on its own to deliver telehealth group singing interventions for people with quadriplegia to improve respiratory function, voice, mood, and social connectedness, augmented and virtual reality programs have opened up a new world of research.

Join us to learn about a few unique projects happening here and from around Victoria.

Music Therapy in Virtual Environments Jeanette Tamplin, University of Melbourne

Virtual Reality Therapy for Youth Mental Health Greg Wadley and Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, University of Melbourne

Augmented Learning for Rehabilitation Dale Harris, Deakin University

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Wominjeka 2017

Venue: University Plaza, Union Road

A Welcome to Country for all University Staff and Students

A Wominjeka (Woi-wurrung word for Welcome) happens each year to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people and their Elders past and present, upon whose land we study and work, and to welcome and acknowledge Indigenous students and staff. All members of the University community and the general public are invited to Wominjeka.

The format will be some words from the Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis, Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony from Aunty Di Kerr, speakers representing the staff and student body, guest speaker Professor Shaun Ewen, dancers, and a special Didjerido performance by Kiernan Ironfield, Murrup Barak's team leader for Indigenous Student success.

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Drinks and Drugs: Entanglements of Aegean Pottery in Late Bronze Age Canaan

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building

Presenters: Professor Philipp W. Stockhammer

This talk will demonstrate how a transcultural and entangled approach to Mycenaean pottery and social drinking in ancient Greece and the Levant can show the potential for better understanding the social meaning of pottery.

This event is co-sponsored by the Classical Association of Victoria.

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The Influence of Global Norms in Indonesian Resource Governance

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Poppy S. Winanti

In recent decades, transnational civil society has significantly influenced extractive industries governance reform in many resource-intensive economies such as Southeast Asia. This is evident in the emergence of transnational advocacy networks such as the ‘Publish What You Pay’ campaign.

In this lecture, Dr Poppy Winanti will explore how and why the global norms advocated by these actors are adopted in particular historical and social contexts. By analysing the District of Bojonegoro, which contributes 20% of resources to Indonesia’s oil and gas reserves, Dr Winati will explore how global norms become institutionalised and create unique structures of local governance.

Dr Poppy S. Winanti is a Lecturer in the International Relations Department at the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.

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Feminographies: Narrating the Female Self in the Feminist Age

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

Presenters: Professor Lynn Abrams

Life story telling has become a central plank of our confessional age as well as a key methodology of modern histories whether via the written autobiography, the oral history, or the self telling made possible by new forms of media. In the last 20 years there has been a sea-change in the willingness of people to tell their stories and a related shift in women’s ability and facility to tell narratives with authenticity at their core. In oral histories in particular we are able to hear women owning their voices and the stories those voices tell. This 2017 Kathleen Fitzpatrick History Lecture introduces and explores the concept of feminography — the modern phenomenon of feminist narration of a life which is self validating as well as creating a genre of life story telling that authorises others to do the same.

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Globalising the Human Right to Remember: Genocide Memorials in Cambodia

Venue: Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Associate Professor Carol A. Kidron

In recent decades, the genocidal pasts of non-Western societies have been memorialised in culturally specific and traditionally Western ways. From museum exhibits to monuments, this hybrid use of both local and global forms of commemoration has transformed culturally specific loss into a universal language of collective memory. If these are incongruent it can lead to a ‘crisis of representation’.

In this lecture, Associate Professor Carol Kidron will use the example of genocide memorials in Cambodia to explore whether global forms of commemoration can be effectively grounded in the local cultural terrain or if these hybrid practices risk cultural erasure altogether.

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Day of Immunology

Venue: The Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Dr Nicholas Huntington, Professor Cameron Simmons, Professor Sharon Lewin

This year’s free public lecture will be introduced and chaired by Dr.Nicholas Huntington from the Walter & Eliza Hall Medical Institute. The topic is Immunology: Preventable Pandemics, which will be discussed by three of Australia’s top immunologists: Professor Sharon Lewin, Professor Nicole La Gruta and Professor Cameron Simmons. The public lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and refreshments. Registrations details will be available shortly.

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Researchers Behaving Badly

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

Presenters: Professor David Vaux AO BMedSc Melbourne MBBS Melbourne PhD Melbourne

Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Monday Lunch Live Event

One million new papers are listed in PubMed every year. Ninety per cent of preclinical cancer research cannot be reproduced. Professor David Vaux will delve into why this might be so, and how you can pick the 10 per cent of papers that are worth reading.

Come join us for a thought-provoking session with Professor David Vaux, whose research focus is in the field of programmed cell death/apoptsis, but also has interests in research integrity and the seamier side of science.

Introduction and welcome by Professor Grant McArthur
Light lunch served from 12.30pm
Presentation: 1pm- 2pm

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Immunology: Preventable Pandemics

Venue: The Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

This year’s free public lecture will be introduced and chaired by Dr.Nicholas Huntington from the Walter & Eliza Hall Medical Institute. The topic is Immunology: Preventable Pandemics, which will be discussed by three of Australia’s top immunologists: Professor Sharon Lewin, Professor Nicole La Gruta and Professor Cameron Simmons. The public lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and refreshments. Registrations details will be available shortly.

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Smarter Cities: Critical for Australia's Economic Future

Venue: Brown Theatre, Electrical Engineering Brown Theatre

Presenters: Mr Warren Lemmens

Free public lecture, delivered by Warren Lemmens, looking at how Australia can fully embrace the economic opportunities offered by smart city technology.

Smart cities and innovation are on the national agenda, but are they enough to ensure Australia captures the full economic opportunity?

All cities – metropolitan and regional – are essential economic engines that are already coming under pressure to compete for jobs, investment and talent. Australia is falling behind in key competitive metrics and faces key capability gaps in how it is positioning its cities to win in the technologically disrupted future.

Based on the recently released whitepaper - A new world of cities and the future of Australia - and Nokia’s global experience, this talk argues for a more sophisticated approach to cities as a key enabler of Australia’s innovation and economic development. It puts forward six imperatives to help foster a national approach that overcomes legacy ideas about cities and ensure the appropriate policy, partnership and infrastructure enablers are in place.

Warren Lemmens is Chief Technology Officer across Nokia’s Oceania market unit.

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Judges in Conversation Series ‘The Changing Face of Judicial Review: a UK / Australia Comparison’

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

Presenters: The Honourable James Allsop AO, Professor Paul Craig

For the first event in the 2017 ‘Judges in Conversation’ series, The Honourable Chief Justice James Allsop AO (Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Paul Craig (Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford) to discuss ‘The Changing Face of Judicial Review: a UK / Australia Comparison’.

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Charts, Stars and Islands: on the History of Maritime Navigation

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt

Maritime navigation has always relied on thorough knowledge of the seas and of the skies, it also depended on experience that needed to be acquired through training. However, in different cultures and in different periods we find diverse navigational practices - using the Sun, stars, waves, currents and coastlines as markers. We also find many conflicts on what would constitute the right kind of navigational techniques. In this talk Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies in the Faculty of Arts, will discuss some examples and look at the role islands played in the history of navigation.

This public lecture is part of the public program for the Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster exhibition.

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Thomas Crow in Conversation with Anne Dunlop and Charles Green: Theological Originality in Art?

Venue: Ground Floor, North Gallery, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Professor Thomas Crow, Professor Charles Green, Professor Anne Dunlop

Join Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, and Associate Provost for the Arts, New York University in conversation with The University of Melbourne’s Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair in Fine Arts, and Charles Green, Professor of Contemporary Art, for the launch of Professor Crow’s most recent publication No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art.

Thomas Crow’s research interests are both wide, spanning the 18th century to contemporary art, and deep. He has been a leader in reformulating art history and its research over recent decades. No Idols focuses on the inescapably linked but nonetheless distinct areas of art, theology and religion which, seeks to recover the theological import in the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent and five other essential artists – Chardin, Rothko, McCahon, and Turrell against commonplace notions of the religious or spiritual in their art.

Join us to hear more about the work of Corita Kent and the findings of Crow’s significant publication.

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