Medical Research for a Changing World

Venue: Ground Floor Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Professor Anne Kelso AO

Our world is changing rapidly. Social, economic, environmental and political shifts are reshaping the way we think about our future as individuals and as a country. Science and medicine are also changing. A century of extraordinary advances suggests that new technology can solve our problems – from energy supply and climate change to the diseases that afflict us. Our community, and the governments that represent us, expect this return on public investment in the research enterprise.   At the same time, the way we do research is changing. In the life and health sciences, the lone researcher is long gone: today most research is done by teams, often in large internationally connected, multidisciplinary networks. Ideas spread rapidly. Much of the manual labour of traditional laboratory research has been replaced by commercial kits and high-throughput robotic platforms, massively increasing data output. Data are increasingly shared across borders. New technologies allow unprecedented insight into the workings of the genome, the cell, the organism and even that most complex of organs, the human brain. We haven’t yet encountered limits to this growth of knowledge.   So how should we fund medical research today? While knowledge may be boundless, budgets are not. Should we support people or projects, big or small science, discovery or health priorities, prevention or cure? And how do keep both the research sector and the community with us as we balance these choices? Let’s start with the conversation.

Professor Anne Kelso will present the Mathison Memorial Lecture 2017.

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Look what they've done to my data: issues in privacy, security and data protection

Venue: G08, Law

Presenters: Dr Pompeu Casanovas, David Watts, Professor Abigail Payne, Dr Vanessa Teague

The Office of the Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) is hosting its annual Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) in May 2017. For 2017 CPDP has planned a range of events under the theme Trust and Transparency.

PAW is an initiative of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities forum. It is held each year to promote and raise awareness of privacy issues and the importance of protecting personal information.

This panel discussion with the Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection David Watts, will take place at the University of Melbourne. Commissioner Watts will be joined by big data, information security and artificial intelligence experts Abigail Payne, Vanessa Teague, and Pompeau Cassanovas.

Registration is essential.

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Surveillance: Privacy Awareness Week 2017

Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, Law Building

Presenters: Mr Jon Lawrence, Ms Julianne Brennan, Dr Adam Molnar, Dr Suelette Dreyfus, Mr David Cochrane

The Office of the Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) is hosting its annual Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) in May. For 2017 CPDP has planned a range of events under the theme Trust and Transparency.

Privacy Awareness Week is an initiative of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities forum. It is held each year to promote and raise awareness of privacy issues and the importance of protecting personal information.

Together with the University of Melbourne, CPDP is holding a public forum on surveillance. A panel of speakers from a range of backgrounds will debate the tension between privacy, civil liberties and national security in the surveillance state.

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Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Mel Evans

Mel Evans is a London-based artist and activist, and part of Liberate Tate, an art collective exploring the role of creative intervention in social change. On the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Mel Evans published Artwash - an intervention into the unsavoury role of Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell’s collaboration with institutions such as the Tate in an attempt to end the poisonous relationship forever.

Based on years of undercover research, grassroots investigation and activism as well as performance and cultural interventions, Mel Evans will present a compelling case on how corporate sponsorships erase unsightly environmental destruction.

Presented by CLIMARTE, A Centre for Everything, City of Yarra and Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute as part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017

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Avowing the Political: Art and Social Change

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Mr Edward Morris

Artist and co-founder of The Canary Project, Edward Morris, will discuss the diverse ways in which artists can contribute to social movements to address climate change. He will draw on his own work creating and producing myriad projects – from the directly activist Green Patriot Posters to contemplative museum exhibitions – and also upon the work of other artists. He will discuss these projects in light of the ideas of organizer Marshal Ganz that to thrive all social movements need to appeal to the combined emotions of Anger, Urgency, Hope, Solidarity and Feeling You Can Make a Difference.

Edward Morris is one half of the artist duo Sayler / Morris. He is also, along with his collaborator Susannah Sayler, the co-founder of The Canary Project, a studio that produces art and media to deepen public understanding of ecological issues such as climate change.

Presented by CLIMARTE and Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute as part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017

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Nova Scotia to Reopen Express Entry PNP Stream “In the Coming Weeks”

A popular Canadian immigration stream in Nova Scotia will reopen for the first time since 2015 “in the coming weeks,” the province has announced. The Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry stream is part of the Nova Scotia Nominee Program (NSNP), and is one of two NSNP streams aligned with the federal government’s Express Entry immigration […]

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The changing position and duties of company directors

Venue: Ground Floor, G08 Theatre, Melbourne Law School

Presenters: The Honourable Geoffrey Nettle

The development of directors' duties spans the length of the 20th century, from the precepts of fiduciary obligation and the courts of Chancery to the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). This lecture will examine the obligations placed upon, and the roles expected of, company directors. The position of present-day company directors in Australia will be considered in light of the schemes regulating the conduct of other office-holders, including union and public officials, and the approaches taken in other jurisdictions.

This Lecture is named in honour of Melbourne Law School’s distinguished alumnus, Professor Harold Ford, who passed away in September 2012. Professor Ford spent almost his entire career at Melbourne Law School following his appointment to the Law School in 1949. He was Dean of the Law School in 1964 and from 1967 to 1973. He is remembered as a gifted teacher by several generations of law students. Professor Ford also made many important contributions to law reform, and co-authored a leading text titled Principles of the Law of Trusts and other influential books. The Harold Ford Memorial Lecture celebrates the many contributions of Professor Ford to Melbourne Law School, the legal profession, and to the development of corporate law and trusts law.

Harold Ford Memorial Lecture This lecture is co-presented by the Melbourne Law School and the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, and sponsored by Clayton Utz.

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Brexit, Trump and the Future of Democracy

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Glyn Davis AC, Dr Roberto Foa, Professor Adrienne Stone, Dr Andrea Carson

The international political landscape in 2017 is coloured by Brexit, the advent of the Trump administration, and the French, British and German elections. These developments raise crucial questions about democracy, populism and the role of the media. Our panel of experts will debate the following questions: Are citizens losing faith in democracy? Why have populist parties and movements gained prominence in Europe and North America? Can and should constitutional institutions withstand the onslaught of populism? And what is the role of the media in covering these developments, amidst heated debates about political trust, ‘fake news’ and freedom of speech? Our panel of experts will take a critical look at these and other issues. This event takes place shortly after the conclusion of elections in France, and shortly before the UK elections.

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10,000 Sponsors Have 90 Days to Submit Application to Parent and Grandparent Program

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has chosen at random 10,000 sponsors who wish to submit an application to bring their parent(s) or grandparent(s) to Canada as permanent residents through the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP). These 10,000 sponsors have just 90 days to submit a complete application, including all supporting documentation. According to IRCC, […]

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In The Land Of The Nomads (Mongolia) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Celia McMichael, Ms Erika Feller, Professor Brendan Gleeson, Professor Lesley Head, Professor Andrew Walter

Seminar presented by the School of Geography, with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and CLIMARTE.

Globalization has always been contested. Its economic and cultural transformations have been promoted and welcomed by some, its incursions bitterly resisted by others. Meanwhile, the pace of globalization is accelerating. Its instabilities and impacts are intensifying. We are leaving one world behind and entering others.

How can we think about the interwoven drivers of exit and entry? How best to represent, understand and respond to them? Can art play a role here?

In a time of increasing anxiety about globalisation and its impacts, the installation EXIT at the Ian Potter Museum of Art provides a vibrant representation of some of the processes which link us, sometimes inextricably, planet-wide.

In an immersive 360-degree projection, EXIT visualises global human migratory trends associated with increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, and natural disasters. Data gathered from over one hundred sources are presented visually by a panoramic video projection of a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the exhibition space.

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, EXIT is based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. It was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith.

Showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, EXIT is the central feature of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Festival, which runs from April 19 until May 14 across Melbourne.

On Wednesday 26 April, a panel of experts will discuss EXIT and the provocative issues it raises:
Erika Feller - Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, on Refugees and forced displacement;
Professor Brendan Gleeson - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, on Population shifts and the growth of cities;
Professor Lesley Head - School of Geography, on Natural Disasters and their impacts;
Dr Celia McMichael - School of Geography, on Climate change, rising seas, displacement;
Professor Andrew Walter - Melbourne School of Government, on Global funding flows and remittances.

You are urged to see EXIT before attending this event.

IMAGE: EXIT 2008-2015 - View of the installation EXIT
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. Photo © Luc Boegly

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Nusfjord (Norway) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Celia McMichael, Ms Erika Feller, Professor Brendan Gleeson, Professor Lesley Head, Professor Andrew Walter

Seminar presented by the School of Geography, with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and CLIMARTE.

Globalization has always been contested. Its economic and cultural transformations have been promoted and welcomed by some, its incursions bitterly resisted by others. Meanwhile, the pace of globalization is accelerating. Its instabilities and impacts are intensifying. We are leaving one world behind and entering others.

How can we think about the interwoven drivers of exit and entry? How best to represent, understand and respond to them? Can art play a role here?

In a time of increasing anxiety about globalisation and its impacts, the installation EXIT at the Ian Potter Museum of Art provides a vibrant representation of some of the processes which link us, sometimes inextricably, planet-wide.

In an immersive 360-degree projection, EXIT visualises global human migratory trends associated with increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, and natural disasters. Data gathered from over one hundred sources are presented visually by a panoramic video projection of a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the exhibition space.

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, EXIT is based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. It was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith.

Showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, EXIT is the central feature of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Festival, which runs from April 19 until May 14 across Melbourne.

On Wednesday 26 April, a panel of experts will discuss EXIT and the provocative issues it raises:
Erika Feller - Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, on Refugees and forced displacement;
Professor Brendan Gleeson - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, on Population shifts and the growth of cities;
Professor Lesley Head - School of Geography, on Natural Disasters and their impacts;
Dr Celia McMichael - School of Geography, on Climate change, rising seas, displacement;
Professor Andrew Walter - Melbourne School of Government, on Global funding flows and remittances.

You are urged to see EXIT before attending this event.

IMAGE: EXIT 2008-2015 - View of the installation EXIT
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. Photo © Luc Boegly

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UQ in flashback to 1955

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Celia McMichael, Ms Erika Feller, Professor Brendan Gleeson, Professor Lesley Head, Professor Andrew Walter

Seminar presented by the School of Geography, with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and CLIMARTE.

Globalization has always been contested. Its economic and cultural transformations have been promoted and welcomed by some, its incursions bitterly resisted by others. Meanwhile, the pace of globalization is accelerating. Its instabilities and impacts are intensifying. We are leaving one world behind and entering others.

How can we think about the interwoven drivers of exit and entry? How best to represent, understand and respond to them? Can art play a role here?

In a time of increasing anxiety about globalisation and its impacts, the installation EXIT at the Ian Potter Museum of Art provides a vibrant representation of some of the processes which link us, sometimes inextricably, planet-wide.

In an immersive 360-degree projection, EXIT visualises global human migratory trends associated with increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, and natural disasters. Data gathered from over one hundred sources are presented visually by a panoramic video projection of a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the exhibition space.

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, EXIT is based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. It was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith.

Showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, EXIT is the central feature of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Festival, which runs from April 19 until May 14 across Melbourne.

On Wednesday 26 April, a panel of experts will discuss EXIT and the provocative issues it raises:
Erika Feller - Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, on Refugees and forced displacement;
Professor Brendan Gleeson - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, on Population shifts and the growth of cities;
Professor Lesley Head - School of Geography, on Natural Disasters and their impacts;
Dr Celia McMichael - School of Geography, on Climate change, rising seas, displacement;
Professor Andrew Walter - Melbourne School of Government, on Global funding flows and remittances.

You are urged to see EXIT before attending this event.

IMAGE: EXIT 2008-2015 - View of the installation EXIT
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. Photo © Luc Boegly

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Namib Naukluft (Namibia) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Celia McMichael, Ms Erika Feller, Professor Brendan Gleeson, Professor Lesley Head, Professor Andrew Walter

Seminar presented by the School of Geography, with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and CLIMARTE.

Globalization has always been contested. Its economic and cultural transformations have been promoted and welcomed by some, its incursions bitterly resisted by others. Meanwhile, the pace of globalization is accelerating. Its instabilities and impacts are intensifying. We are leaving one world behind and entering others.

How can we think about the interwoven drivers of exit and entry? How best to represent, understand and respond to them? Can art play a role here?

In a time of increasing anxiety about globalisation and its impacts, the installation EXIT at the Ian Potter Museum of Art provides a vibrant representation of some of the processes which link us, sometimes inextricably, planet-wide.

In an immersive 360-degree projection, EXIT visualises global human migratory trends associated with increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, and natural disasters. Data gathered from over one hundred sources are presented visually by a panoramic video projection of a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the exhibition space.

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, EXIT is based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. It was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith.

Showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, EXIT is the central feature of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Festival, which runs from April 19 until May 14 across Melbourne.

On Wednesday 26 April, a panel of experts will discuss EXIT and the provocative issues it raises:
Erika Feller - Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, on Refugees and forced displacement;
Professor Brendan Gleeson - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, on Population shifts and the growth of cities;
Professor Lesley Head - School of Geography, on Natural Disasters and their impacts;
Dr Celia McMichael - School of Geography, on Climate change, rising seas, displacement;
Professor Andrew Walter - Melbourne School of Government, on Global funding flows and remittances.

You are urged to see EXIT before attending this event.

IMAGE: EXIT 2008-2015 - View of the installation EXIT
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. Photo © Luc Boegly

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As Trump Targets H-1B Program, Canada Stands to Benefit

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to consider tightening visa regulations for foreign workers, arguing for a “long overdue reform of H-1B visas.” The H-1B program allows American companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations, including fields like science, engineering, and information technology. Many of the approximately 85,000 H-1B workers who come […]

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Express Entry CRS Requirement Continues to Tumble: 415 in April 19 Draw

More Invitations to Apply issued so far in 2017 than in entire year of 2016 More and more Express Entry candidates for immigration to Canada are receiving Invitations to Apply (ITAs) for permanent residence, and the number of Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points required has decreased to a new record low of 415 in the […]

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The Role of Integrated Palliative Medicine in Best Cancer Care

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

Presenters: Professor Jennifer Philip

VCCC MONDAY LUNCH LIVE EVENT

Modern comprehensive cancer care involves the rapid and systematic translation of research findings from the laboratory bench to the bedside of the person with cancer. Best cancer care is up to date, evidence based and peer reviewed. Recent evidence suggests that palliative care has benefits for patients’ well-being and quality of life, with improvements extending to the patient’s family and to the ways which patients engage with health care systems. Yet despite this evidence, palliative care integration remains, at best, patchy.

Professor Jennifer Philip, VCCC Chair of Palliative Medicine at The University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital and VCCC, will discuss current patterns of cancer care as people approach the final stages of life in Victoria. The current role of palliative care will be explored, along with the challenges that recent palliative care evidence raises for cancer care clinicians nationally. Professor Phillip will also discuss the steps that must be negotiated to ensure that high quality cancer care includes palliative care as a matter of course.

Light lunch served from 12.30pm with the presentation scheduled from 1:00pm - 2:00pm.

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Freebairn Lecture 2017: Fiscal outcomes in a time of increasing political spin and unanticipated economic change

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Professor Bob Gregory

Professor Bob Gregory will explore federal budget outcomes, primarily tax revenue shortfalls over the last decade and a half, to explain why tax revenue forecast errors are so large, why budget deficits have become so persistent and why the implicit tax policy of government is leading to an inexorable and significant rise in personal income tax rates. This discussion is linked to economic misjudgements of Treasurers and the unanticipated structural changes that are occurring in the Australian economy. The lecture will also contain asides on how Treasurers too often divert discussion away from major longer run budget issues and how political spin, focused on the short run, has made the development of good fiscal policy difficult and weakened governments’ ability to understand the tax implications of the large structural changes occurring in the Australian economy.

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Expedia | Train 30

Venue: Seminar Room, Lab14, 290

Presenters: Mr Raif Sarcich

Since the State and Federal governments committed themselves to building a national electricity grid in 1991, and industry restructuring began to introduce competition, the regulation of the energy sector in Australia has moved from being a matter of state managerial control to a national problem of how to regulate a complex and diverse industry that must operate a single system reliably and efficiently. To do this, a set of national institutions and laws has been established under the Council of Australian Governments. This seminar outlines the development of this system, what it has achieved, and what is challenging it in the 21st century.

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Valle Dei Templi (Italy) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Seminar Room, Lab14, 290

Presenters: Mr Raif Sarcich

Since the State and Federal governments committed themselves to building a national electricity grid in 1991, and industry restructuring began to introduce competition, the regulation of the energy sector in Australia has moved from being a matter of state managerial control to a national problem of how to regulate a complex and diverse industry that must operate a single system reliably and efficiently. To do this, a set of national institutions and laws has been established under the Council of Australian Governments. This seminar outlines the development of this system, what it has achieved, and what is challenging it in the 21st century.

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In The Land Of The Silent Dawn (South-Korea) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Seminar Room, Lab14, 290

Presenters: Mr Raif Sarcich

Since the State and Federal governments committed themselves to building a national electricity grid in 1991, and industry restructuring began to introduce competition, the regulation of the energy sector in Australia has moved from being a matter of state managerial control to a national problem of how to regulate a complex and diverse industry that must operate a single system reliably and efficiently. To do this, a set of national institutions and laws has been established under the Council of Australian Governments. This seminar outlines the development of this system, what it has achieved, and what is challenging it in the 21st century.

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San Francisco (USA) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Seminar Room, Lab14, 290

Presenters: Mr Raif Sarcich

Since the State and Federal governments committed themselves to building a national electricity grid in 1991, and industry restructuring began to introduce competition, the regulation of the energy sector in Australia has moved from being a matter of state managerial control to a national problem of how to regulate a complex and diverse industry that must operate a single system reliably and efficiently. To do this, a set of national institutions and laws has been established under the Council of Australian Governments. This seminar outlines the development of this system, what it has achieved, and what is challenging it in the 21st century.

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Lowest Ever Express Entry CRS Threshold of 423 in April 12 Draw

The lowest ever Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) point requirement has been reached in the latest draw in Canada’s Express Entry immigration selection system. Candidates with 423 or more CRS points were issued an Invitation to Apply (ITA) following the draw that took place the evening of April 12, marking the fifth time so far this […]

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Interpreting a Sculptured Cave on the Banks of the Euphrates in Syria

Venue: Old Arts Theatre D, Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Heather Jackson

View of the north wall of the sanctuary

It is important, in these days of destruction of the ancient heritage of Syria, to bring this site, excavated by the University of Melbourne and Australian National University in 1996-1998, into the limelight. This spectacular sanctuary, now irrevocably damaged, was carved out of the local limestone cliff above the Euphrates and could be accessed only from the river by steep steps. It housed two zones of near-life-size figures around the walls, nearly all women apparently carrying offerings. Larger figures include a seated mother with child; a full-sized stone bull in a niche waiting to be led to the blood altar in the middle of the floor; two large animals, either lions or horses, framing a lost centrepiece; and on the west wall, three possible tombs. The floor was originally covered in mosaic tesserae. The emphasis on women suggests a predominantly female cult or occasion, while the arrangement of the figures and the presence of the burials may suggest that this is the tomb of either a local queen or a high-born priestess. Certain features date it to the 2nd century AD, a period when the Romans were much in evidence on the Euphrates. However, the frontal stance of the figures and their style of dress are reminiscent of the sculptures of Palmyra, further south, as well as the ‘Parthian’ figures at Hatra. This is a truly multi-cultural monument, providing a glimpse of the knowledge we have lost about the resilience and vigour of the indigenous Syrian population, and their local culture.

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

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Learning about Human Learning: How to Know More and Why We Will Never Know Enough

Venue: Theatre Q230, 234 Queensberry St. Room 230

Presenters: Professor Anna Sfard

What is human learning, what makes it distinct, and how can we account for its uniqueness? Professor Anna Sfard will briefly review the widely differing answers that have been given to these questions by generations of thinkers, and reflect on lessons that can be learned from the history of research on learning. She will make observations on next steps that can or should be taken in that research. The point of departure for these reflections will be the acknowledgement of one special feature that sets human learning apart from any other: human learning occurs not only in individuals, but also on the societal level. The fact that the society learns as a whole, that is, that people’s activities grow in complexity from one generation to another, can be shown to be the primary source of all human uniqueness. These observations will lead her to the question of how to think about learning to acknowledge the constant interplay between changes on individual and societal levels and to understand its primary role in making us who we are.

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Miegunyah Public Lecture - Chemical Separations: A Critical Area in the World's Energy Budget

Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, Woodward Conference Centre

Presenters: Mr David Sholl

At this lecture, Professor David Sholl will speak about the processes used to separate chemicals into pure forms, which accounts for an astonishing 10-15% of all energy used by our global society. The products of these processes underpin all aspects of modern life. This lecture will explain where this energy goes and describe the approaches being developed that can radically reduce the energy associated with chemical separations.

David Sholl is the John F. Brock III School Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research uses computational materials modeling to accelerate development of new materials for energy-related applications, including generation and storage of gaseous and liquid fuels and chemicals and carbon dioxide mitigation. He has published over 300 papers and is a Senior Editor of the ACS journal Langmuir.

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Our New Renaissance: Navigating Technological, Economic and Social Change

Venue: Theatre 1, 207 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Professor Ian Goldin

The extraordinary growth of the past thirty years is due to unprecedented globalization and accelerating technological change. Connectivity has been associated with rising creativity and accelerating change. The speed, scale and complexity of this integration has far-reaching implications for business and for individuals and societies.

Professor Ian Goldin identifies the drivers of global growth, showing why emerging markets are likely to continue to grow at high levels for the coming decades. Rising life expectancy and collapsing fertility around the world has dramatic consequences for pensions, retirement, dependency and employment patterns. Meanwhile, advances in artificial intelligence and robotics is transforming the nature of work and has the potential to replace significant numbers of jobs and widen inequality.

Globalization spreads not only opportunities but also creates a new form of emergent systemic risks. Pandemics, cyberattacks, climate change and financial contagion are among the systemic risks increasing uncertainty. This is associated with growing extremism and threatens to reverse integration and globalisation. Ian Goldin identifies future trends, identifying opportunities and strategies for seizing the opportunities and mitigating the risks.

Professor Goldin’s talk will draw on his latest book, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our New Renaissance published by Bloomsbury.

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Organisation and Responsibility

Venue: The Craig Auditorium, The Gateway Building Trinity College

Presenters: Professor Rob Phillips

Trinity College and the Gourlay Family take pleasure in inviting you to attend the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business Public Lecture.

Professor Rob Phillips will discuss how in a time where innovations in economic activities have caused profound changes, our ability to assess and motivate responsible business practices has lagged behind. In the process creating, in many cases, a ‘rule of no one’ when it comes to assessing the accompanying ethical challenges. Professor Phillips explores how to better understand responsibility in a world of complex value chains and radically diffuse corporate responsibility.

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Love, Individuality and Dignity

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

Presenters: Professor Raimond Gaita

Professor Raimond Gaita argues that love plays both a constitutive and revelatory role in our understanding of the idea that human beings are, as we sometimes say, unique and irreplaceable. In addition, he takes love to play an important role in explaining what we are getting at when we talk about the Dignity – or the inalienable Dignity – of humanity or of individual persons. He stresses that there are different forms of love, all of them forms of the ethical, but not thereby of morality, and that some forms of love conflict with morality – or at least with non-moralistic conceptions of it.

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Quebec Skilled Worker Applicants May Now Update Online Applications

Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. Quebec’s Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion (the Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion, or MIDI) has announced that individuals who have submitted an online application for immigration to Canada through the Quebec Skilled Worker Program (QSWP) may now update certain information in their […]

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Little Differences | Expedia

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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Ontario Releases Occupation List, Resumes Issuing Express Entry Notifications of Interest

The government of Ontario has resumed issuing Notifications of Interest (NOIs) to applicants who meet the criteria for the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities (HCP) Stream of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). NOIs will resume being issued to eligible candidates in the Express Entry pool the week of April 10-14, 2017, and, according to […]

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Cecilia Vicuña, About to Happen.

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

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.

Her lecture will discuss 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 coordinated with the University of Sydney and supported by the Keir Foundation.

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Demystifying Professionalism: The Barefoot Gandhian Model

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

Presenters: Mr Bunker Roy

Development projects the world overrun into one crucial point: For a project to live on, it needs to be organic, owned and sustained by those it serves. In 1972, Sanjit “Bunker” Roy founded the Barefoot College, in the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan, India, with just this mission: to provide basic services and solutions in rural communities with the objective of making them self-sufficient. These “barefoot solutions” can be broadly categorised into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, communication, women’s empowerment and wasteland development. The Barefoot College education program, for instance, teaches literacy and also skills, encouraging learning-by-doing. (Literacy is only part of it.) Bunker’s organisation has also successfully trained grandmothers from Africa and the Himalayan region to be solar engineers so they can bring electricity to their remote villages.

Bunker says, Barefoot College is "a place of learning and unlearning: where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher."

Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient.

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Is City Leadership the Answer to Global Cancer Control?

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

Presenters: Professor Sanchia Aranda RN, PhD

With 1 in 3 people directly affected by the disease, cancer is one of the world’s most pressing health concerns, killing more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined each year. Cancer is estimated to cost world economies as much as US$1.16 trillion annually - a figure that is projected to grow exponentially if action is not taken now to reduce the spiraling growth in the number of cases and the impact on both individuals and healthcare budgets.

On World Cancer Day 2017, UICC (Union for International Cancer Control) launched its City Cancer Challenge in collaboration with the World Economic Forum aimed at establishing a cancer center in every city over 1 million inhabitants.

Professor Sanchia Aranda, CEO, Cancer Council Australia and President, Union for International Cancer Control will present the City Cancer Challenge, including the aims and objectives, how it is being enacted, the relevance for Australia, and how might VCCC (Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre) and partners be both part of, and supporter of, this ambitious global program.

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

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Architecture, Relationality and Autonomy

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

Presenters: Professor Andrew Benjamin, Professor Gerard Reinmuth

Each of these terms and their connections begins to define the locus for another configuration of the architectural. Rather than begin with the object the object emerges as an after effect of a network of relations within which it is itself to be understood relationality. Shifting focus to the relation allows for an identification of the architectural with the urban. Moreover, by holding to the relational, as opposed to the object, as a starting point, the potential for a repositioning of the discipline within the making of the city starts to emerge. Integral to the development of relationality is a repositioning of autonomy. A fundamental part of the lecture will involve the presentation of a conception of autonomy that emerges from the displacement both of the primacy of the object and the naturalization of connectivity.

Andrew Benjamin is a Professor of Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne and has taught for the last 13 years at the University of Technology in Sydney where he currently holds the position of Professor of Architecture.

Gerard Reinmuth is a Founding Director of TERROIR, an architectural practice that emerged from conversations around the potential for architecture to open up questions of cultural consequence.

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Skill Development for Rural Prosperity - UDAY Skills’ ‘Project Mooo’

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

Presenters: Param Singh, Aashna Singh

According to World Bank figures, 67 per cent of India’s population live in rural areas with over 58 per cent of the rural households depending on agriculture as their principal means of livelihood. The rural population, especially women, have been bound by traditions, customs and societal obligations since time immemorial and only recently can we see rural youth and women try break the societal shackles with their aspirations and determination.

The Government of India is trying to support the capacity building of the rural population as less than 3% of India’s total population are formally skilled. There is a need for private enterprises to complement the Government’s efforts and UDAY is trying to do just that.

UDAY is a social enterprise involved in empowering disadvantaged youth, women and farmers in India through skills education and vocational training. UDAY's first project ‘Project Mooo’ under its Rural Prosperity initiative is developing an innovative holistic solution where selected rural youth and women will act as ‘Village Level Entrepreneurs’ to provide skill training using a ‘Bootcamp’ approach and offer extension services (market linkages, credit/insurance etc.) to dairy farmers. Village Level Entrepreneurs will drive a fully equipped world class Mobile Dairy Van that will travel to villages to provide hands-on skills training to the dairy farmers.

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Fire Canyon (USA) Vacation Travel Video Guide

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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Bhaktapur (Nepal) Vacation Travel Video Guide

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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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy

Venue: Theatre A, Old Arts

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.

This event has been organised by the Australian Institute of Art History.

Image: Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016

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Energy Regulation in Australia, Cooperative Federalism and Unilateralism

Venue: Seminar Room, Lab14, 290

Presenters: Mr Raif Sarcich

Since the State and Federal governments committed themselves to building a national electricity grid in 1991, and industry restructuring began to introduce competition, the regulation of the energy sector in Australia has moved from being a matter of state managerial control to a national problem of how to regulate a complex and diverse industry that must operate a single system reliably and efficiently. To do this, a set of national institutions and laws has been established under the Council of Australian Governments. This seminar outlines the development of this system, what it has achieved, and what is challenging it in the 21st century.

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In The Land Of The Holy Monks (Tibet) Vacation Travel Video Guide

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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EXIT - Globalisation, Climate Change, and Art

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Brendan Gleeson, Professor Lesley Head, Dr Celia McMichael, Ms Erika Feller, Professor Andrew Walter

Seminar presented by the School of Geography, with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and CLIMARTE.

Globalization has always been contested. Its economic and cultural transformations have been promoted and welcomed by some, its incursions bitterly resisted by others. Meanwhile, the pace of globalization is accelerating. Its instabilities and impacts are intensifying. We are leaving one world behind and entering others.

How can we think about the interwoven drivers of exit and entry? How best to represent, understand and respond to them? Can art play a role here?

In a time of increasing anxiety about globalisation and its impacts, the installation EXIT at the Ian Potter Museum of Art provides a vibrant representation of some of the processes which link us, sometimes inextricably, planet-wide.

In an immersive 360-degree projection, EXIT visualises global human migratory trends associated with increasing urbanisation, economic displacement, political disruption, climate change, and natural disasters. Data gathered from over one hundred sources are presented visually by a panoramic video projection of a rotating globe that translates statistics into maps, texts, and trajectories as it orbits the exhibition space.

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, EXIT is based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. It was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith.

Showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, at the University of Melbourne, EXIT is the central feature of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Festival, which runs from April 19 until May 14 across Melbourne.

On Wednesday 26 April, a panel of experts will discuss EXIT and the provocative issues it raises:
Erika Feller - Former UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne, on Refugees and forced displacement;
Professor Brendan Gleeson - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, on Population shifts and the growth of cities;
Professor Lesley Head - School of Geography, on Natural Disasters and their impacts;
Dr Celia McMichael - School of Geography, on Climate change, rising seas, displacement;
Professor Andrew Walter - Melbourne School of Government, on Global funding flows and remittances.

You are urged to see EXIT before attending this event.

IMAGE: EXIT 2008-2015 - View of the installation EXIT
Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan and Ben Rubin, in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. Photo © Luc Boegly

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New Record Low Express Entry Minimum CRS Requirement: 431

For the fourth time this year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has set a new record low point requirement for Express Entry candidates to receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Canadian permanent residence. In the latest draw, which took place on April 5, candidates with 431 or more Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points […]

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Express Entry Quarterly Review: Number of ITAs Issued Skyrockets

The opening months of 2017 have been a groundbreaking period in the history of Canada’s Express Entry immigration selection system. More candidates are being invited to apply than ever before, processing times remain short, and successful applicants continue to land in Canada as permanent residents. This quarterly review will take stock of the year so […]

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Atlantic Immigration Pilot Project Witnesses Early Successes

As the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP) gains momentum in the early weeks of its implementation, further details are emerging about the program’s operation and popularity. On Friday, March 31, 2017, Canada’s Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced that 50 employers have already been designated to recruit foreign workers and international graduates to become Canadian permanent […]

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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. Hi David, I need your input on something. […]

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CanadaVisa Social: Where Immigration Springs into Action

Welcome to CanadaVisa Social. Our range of social media outlets is carefully curated to bring you the information you need, on the platform you love. Check us out today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram — we always love to hear from our community, and we hope you’ll get in touch. If you or your friends and family […]

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Townsville Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia

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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At What Price? Quantifying the Social Cost of Carbon

Venue: Theatre 2, Level 2, Business and Economics Building

Presenters: Associate Professor Antony Millner

Since the early 1990s economists and energy modelers have used Integrated Assessment Models to estimate the social cost of carbon (SCC), the most important number in climate economics. The SCC measures the global welfare cost of a unit of greenhouse gas emissions, and thus summarises how "big" the climate problem is in dollar terms. Until recently the SSC has largely been of academic interest, but quantitative estimates of its value are increasingly finding their way into regulations that have the potential to affect billions of dollars of investments globally. This seminar will examine recent debates on the scientific status of these quantitative estimates and look at potential impacts if their incorporation into regulation frameworks continues to grow. Are integrated assessment models up to the task of providing policy-relevant estimates?

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