The latest Express Entry draw for immigration to Canada has seen candidates with 413 or more Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Canadian permanent residence, making this the lowest ever CRS cut-off point for candidates under the Federal Skilled Worker Class (FSWC) and Canadian Experience Class (CEC). Most Express […]
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Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Global Change, Sustainability and Pacific Islands as Models
Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West North Wing
Presenters: Professor Peter Vitousek
We are living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, when our species shapes many features of how Earth functions. We can show how the ultimate causes of change (growth in size of and resource use by our species) entrain enterprises that directly alter important features of the world, and how those direct changes in turn cause further changes. Many of the direct changes (CO2 concentrations, land use change) are well advanced and their causes are unequivocal. Moreover, we can follow these changes back into the enterprises that create them and to their ultimate drivers, the growth of the size of and resource use by our population. We can also follow the direct effects forward, to their consequences – which include climate change and the loss of biological diversity. The consequences of these changes necessitate a transition to sustainability – but working on such a transition would be a quixotic effort if the drivers continued to accelerate. However, they are slowing down in some important ways.
This is not the first time human societies have faced the need to become more sustainable. In the Pacific, the Polynesian people discovered and colonized every habitable island over much larger area than US and Canada combined. They arrived on very different islands with a coherent material culture and ideas – but to thrive, they had to adjust to the land, making this an ideal place to understand how humans and land interact. Most developed intensive agriculture and complex societies. They then faced the challenge of dealing with the fact that some pathways of intensive agriculture degrade the resource base, and threaten the persistence of the productive system. Polynesian islands include explicit and straightforward successes in making a transition to sustainability (notably Tikopia), and examples of the consequences of failing to do so (Mangaia, Rapa Nui). A third path is ongoing innovation that got around resource/demographic crunches and continued to do so until contact with the rest of the world (Hawaii).
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Finding Home: Personal stories of seeking asylum
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Mr Muzafar Ali, Mr Jolyon Hoff
The Potter’s latest exhibition suite Not As The Songs of Other Lands, Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict, Tom Nicholson “I was born in Indonesia”, EXIT and John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea offer critical insights into the current mass movement of people, shifts in territories and borders, identity and place, self-representation and advocacy.
Join us for lunchtime discussions with guest speakers sharing their lived experience seeking asylum and coming to Australia. Be part of the conversation and hear from refugees and immigrants who have come to Australia, from different parts of the world, at different times in history, and made this country their home. Hear about their struggles, success and hopes for the future.
Jolyon Hoff, co-founder of the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre, and Muzafar Ali discuss the school and the community (featured in The Potter's latest exhibition Tom Nicholson: "I was born in Indonesia") at the centre of the The Staging Post film. This discussion will include short screening of parts of the film. A real-life, real-time, multi-platform documentary. The Staging Post is about friendship, connection and the power of community.The Staging Post follows Muzafar Ali and Khadim Dai, two Afghan Hazara refugees who were stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats'. Facing many years in limbo they built a community, co-founded the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre and changed UN refugee policy.
Free, Bookings not required.
This program is supported by the Refugee Council of Australia.
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Coming soon: QS World University Rankings 2018
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Mr Muzafar Ali, Mr Jolyon Hoff
The Potter’s latest exhibition suite Not As The Songs of Other Lands, Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict, Tom Nicholson “I was born in Indonesia”, EXIT and John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea offer critical insights into the current mass movement of people, shifts in territories and borders, identity and place, self-representation and advocacy.
Join us for lunchtime discussions with guest speakers sharing their lived experience seeking asylum and coming to Australia. Be part of the conversation and hear from refugees and immigrants who have come to Australia, from different parts of the world, at different times in history, and made this country their home. Hear about their struggles, success and hopes for the future.
Jolyon Hoff, co-founder of the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre, and Muzafar Ali discuss the school and the community (featured in The Potter's latest exhibition Tom Nicholson: "I was born in Indonesia") at the centre of the The Staging Post film. This discussion will include short screening of parts of the film. A real-life, real-time, multi-platform documentary. The Staging Post is about friendship, connection and the power of community.The Staging Post follows Muzafar Ali and Khadim Dai, two Afghan Hazara refugees who were stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats'. Facing many years in limbo they built a community, co-founded the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre and changed UN refugee policy.
Free, Bookings not required.
This program is supported by the Refugee Council of Australia.
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Monday, 29 May 2017
VCE Physics Lecture: Electric Power
Venue: Hercus Theatre, Hercus Theatre
Presenters: Associate Professor Jeffrey McCallum
This lecture looks at magenetism and how it relates to electric power generation and the founding role of Nikola Tesla in AC power generation and transmission.
Associate Professor Jeffrey McCallum will deliver this VCE lecture, Unit 3 Study Areas 1 & 2.
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UVic students talk about Canada 150
Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot
Presenters: Mr Grant Thompson, Dr Greg Dickson
Northern Australia has been identified as a global hotspot of endangered languages. In many parts of the remote north, Aboriginal people have not shifted to speaking English but rather new varieties that draw heavily upon English but are systematic, rule-governed language systems in their own right. Known as contact languages, some of them, such as Kriol, are now over a century old and well-established. Kriol’s short history has seen it misunderstood and denigrated by insiders and outsiders and this continues today to some extent. Perceptions persist that the existence of Kriol has a negative effect on traditional languages and economic development. A converse perspective presented in this lecture demonstrates that Kriol can be a valuable resource and source of pride to its speakers and that it conveys rich cultural underpinnings found in traditional languages that are not present in English, which in turn can support the strengthening of endangered Indigenous languages.
Presented by Dr Greg Dickson and Mr Grant Thompson.
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Sunday, 28 May 2017
The New Global Disorder and the Rise of Despotism
Venue: Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute
Presenters: Professor John Keane
There’s a widespread feeling that we’re living in times of a new global disorder that works in favour of the wealthy, media manipulators, populists, strategists of war and other anti-democratic forces.
Professor John Keane, University of Sydney, analyses one of the most salient of these global trends: the birth of political regimes that are a serious alternative to the ideals and practices of power-sharing monitory democracy as we have known it during the past generation.
Drawing on evidence and field work from China, Hungary, the UAE, Poland, Iran, Russia and the Central Asian republics, he shows how these regimes mobilise democratic rhetoric and make use of election victories. They forge public support and workable forms of government by means of patron-client relations, economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance and selective armed crackdowns on their opponents.
The lecture pays special attention to the inadequacy of such descriptive terms as dictatorship, autocracy and authoritarianism. It makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old concept of despotism, to make better sense of why these 21st-century regimes seem both crisis-ridden yet remarkably resilient, why they tend to cooperate both regionally and globally, feeding upon each other’s resources, and why they breed global insecurities and threaten the norms and institutions of power-sharing democracy.
Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne will introduce our guest speaker.
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What makes us healthy? A disability perspective
Venue: Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building
Presenters: Julie McCrossin
Join writer and performer Emily Dash, journalist and appearance activist Carly Findlay, and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Alastair McEwin in conversation about what keeps us healthy and happy whatever abilities or disabilities we have.
One in five Australians have a disability. On traditional indicators of health such as mental health and mortality, people with a disability have poorer health than everyone else. We know that people with disabilities often live on low incomes and have one of the lowest employment rates of all the OECD countries. So how does this level of disadvantage impact their health? Does disability equal poor health, or is it more complex than that?
Join our dynamic speakers and host Julie McCrossin for a conversation about what good health means from a disability perspective. The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health will be formally launched by the Disability Discrimination Commissioner Alastair McEwin at this event.
Drinks and nibbles provided. Free, but registration is required.
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Abuses in the Fight Against ISIS
Venue: Room 106, Law 106
Presenters: Belkis Wille
Iraqi and US-led coalition forces launched operations to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in October 2016. Since then all sides have carried out serious laws of war violations. The situation for civilians has worsened considerable since February, with the push on the densely-populated west Mosul.
ISIS are using civilians as human shields, firing indiscriminate weapons into civilian areas, carrying out car bomb and other suicide attacks, and have planted landmines, killing and injuring civilians. Government forces are engaging in destruction of homes, looting, and abuses against civilians including torture, enforced disappearances and executions. Despite promises made by the government to investigate allegations of abuses, there has been no accountability for these abuses. The US-led coalition has reduced checks and balances for Iraqi commanders calling in airstrikes, leading to civilian casualties.
Join Human Rights Watch Senior Iraq Researcher, Belkis Wille, as she discusses the worsening situation for civilians in Mosul, the prospects of justice for victims of ISIS abuses, the prospects for reconciliation in Iraq, and why the international community including Australia should do more to ensure respect for human rights in Iraq.
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A fresh take: Can editing epigenetics help us change cancer stories?
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Presenters: Professor Mark Dawson MBBS (Hons), BMedSci, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD (Cantb)
Increasingly research is looking beyond the script of life, our DNA, to the stage directions in the margins - forming the epigenome. We now know that a misplaced molecular scribble is central to the development of cancers such as acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). So can we edit epigenetics and rewrite cancer stories?
Join Professor Mark Dawson, Group Leader and Consultant Haematologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, to learn about the new epigenetic therapies currently being evaluated in clinical trials. Mark will focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of these therapies and the pre-clinical evidence for their efficacy, as well as the emerging challenges of potential resistance to this new class of targeted therapies. Professor Dawson has recently been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholar, in recognition of his work as a leading early-career scientists working outside of the G7 group of countries.
Light lunch served from 12.30pm Presentation: 1pm- 2pm
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Villa Adriana (Italy) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Presenters: Dr Dishan Herath MBBS, FRACP
In a world of ever-advancing technology, where robots and self-driving cars are no longer the stuff of science fiction, the impact of technology is all around us. While there are definite benefits, how much of technology is a threat? What does the future hold? Will clinicians be replaced by machines in 2050?
Dr Dishan Herath, Joint Chief Medical Information Officer, Peter Mac; Medical oncologist, Western Health and Peter Mac; Nuclear Physician, Royal Melbourne Hospital, will outline the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) from a clinician’s perspective, the current state of AI for clinical cancer care, the hype versus outcomes and the challenges and opportunities. Join us for a thought-provoking presentation as we gaze into the future of medical technology.
Light lunch served from 12.30pm Presentation: 1pm- 2pm
Can't join us in person? Join us online via our Webinar - details on registration page.
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Saturday, 27 May 2017
Monumental Treasures of the World 2 Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Dr Heather Jackson
Join Dr Heather Jackson, co-curator of Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict as she uncovers three decades of field work in the middle and upper Euphrates River valley by The University of Melbourne and illustrates the key findings of the University’s research projects and the contribution they have made to our understanding of the archaeology of this historically important area.
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Friday, 26 May 2017
May 26 Express Entry Draw Invites Candidates With CRS Scores As Low As 199
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has conducted a new type of Express Entry draw, with two separate Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) cut-off thresholds for Federal Skilled Trades Class (FSTC) candidates and provincial nominees, respectively. The CRS cut-off threshold of 199 for FSTC candidates is the lowest ever by some margin, and the threshold of […]
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Drawing law from the land - Indigenous Law program at UVic
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Dr Heather Jackson
Join Dr Heather Jackson, co-curator of Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict as she uncovers three decades of field work in the middle and upper Euphrates River valley by The University of Melbourne and illustrates the key findings of the University’s research projects and the contribution they have made to our understanding of the archaeology of this historically important area.
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Thursday, 25 May 2017
Luang Prabang (Laos) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Professor Brabara Creed
The Ian Potter Museum of Art and The Power Institute are pleased to present a talk by Barbara Creed, followed by a book launch celebrating her latest publication Stray: Human–Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene.
Barbara Creed’s timely polemic Stray explores the relationship between human and animal in the context of the stray.
To celebrate the launch of this new publication, Creed, with respondent Dr lynn mowson, Vice Chair of the Australasian Animal Studies Association, will discuss the concept of the stray through the visual arts, film and literature, introducing the concept of the anthropogenic stray and exploring the contradictions it embodies. Following the talk, Stray will be officially launched by curator Victoria Lynn, Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art.
A stray, to stray, the act of straying
The stray is the outsider, other, exile, refugee—the one who lives apart from the mainstream or isolated in foreign lands. The idea of straying offers an unusual but rich concept with which to think about the shared animal–human condition and the possible fate of the earth and all species in the Anthropocene. Why do societies label certain animals as strays? How do human animals become strays? Barbara Creed will explore the concept of the stray from earliest times to the present with particular reference to the visual arts, literature and film.
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Cross Cultural Comparisons of Inclusion
Venue: Malaysian Theatre, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Professor Yolanda Moses
Universities as Sites of Transformative Societal Change
Diversity and Inclusion initiatives on university campuses in the U.S. have been occurring since the 1970’s but how successful are they in achieving their goals? Australian Universities have been pursuing a similar agenda for at least a couple of decades. Professor Yolanda Moses argues that diversity programs alone are not enough to guarantee institutional transformation and sustainability around the values of inclusion and excellence that embracing diversity and inclusion could offer both in the U.S. and in Australia.
What is needed is a paradigm shift both in higher education and in society. This shift would include a comprehensive institutional change strategy that involves a rethinking and reformulation of what it means to treat diversity and cultural competence as core institutional commitments. This requires articulating a clear link between the value of diversity and the mission of the institution; and putting that commitment into practice at all levels. In such a model, our institutional missions of research, teaching and service would be looked at through a critical framework. In other words, the status quo will not get us where we want to be. We would ask the critical questions of research for what? And for whom? Whose lives are being made better? We would ask is our teaching focused on who our students are and how do they learn, and are we equipped to help them with their own learning outcomes? And is the service we provide to our communities and stakeholders for all of those in our communities or just for some? A shift to this frame means that the roles of research, teaching and service are then organically tied to the needs of all of the people (especially the most vulnerable ones- students and staff) who attend our universities, and to the critical issues that affect people in civil society such as a more nuanced public understanding of indigenous and Torres Strait Islander rights here in Australia, the volatility behind migration and immigration issues, the very recent abolishing of 457 Visas, and significant new constraints on temporary entrance visas both in the United States and Australia.
Dr. Moses is currently a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Competence at the National Center for Cultural Competence, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Her appointed is from January to June, 2017.
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Rare Maps of India
Venue: Seminar Room, 394
Presenters: Joe Arthur, Philip Kent, David Jones
Since the 1960’s the University of Melbourne Library has distinguished itself as a major collector of maps including 15,000 rare and historical maps. A recent digitisation project has exposed some significant early maps featuring the Indian sub-continent.
This presentation provides an opportunity to learn more about the collection, to view some original treasures as well as hearing about the process to digitise them including devices, standards and the challenges and opportunities of digitisation.
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The ABC: Save or Sell?
Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Arts West
Presenters: Jonathan Green, Dr Chris Berg, Dr Margaret Simons
A discussion on the future of our national broadcaster ... and these views are poles apart. Margaret Simons and Chris Berg in conversation, moderated by Jonathan Green.
Margaret Simons is the author of the lead essay in the June edition of Meanjin. She thinks the ABC is the country’s most significant cultural institution, and one that might help heal the divisions in an increasingly divided and partisan community.
Chris Berg thinks the ABC is a biased drain on the public purse and all options should be on the table, beginning with privatisation. Join us for a lively debate about the future of Aunty.
This event will launch the Winter 2017 edition of Meanjin, copies will be available to purchase after the event.
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Pacific and Asian Studies at UVic
Venue: Seminar Room, LAB-14, 290
Presenters: Ms Purdie Bowden
This seminar will shed light on one of the most important and controversial aspects of United Nations climate talks: Climate Finance. Developed countries have agreed to mobilise US$100bn per year by 2020 to help developing countries reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. This is a sizeable task, but the Paris Agreement set an even more ambitious goal: to make all finance flows consistent with low-emissions, climate resilient development pathways. What is needed to achieve this transformation in global finance flows? Who are the key actors, and what tools are at their disposal? Where are the big challenges and how can they be overcome so that investment decisions align with the urgent imperative to ensure a healthy global climate system?
The seminar aims to facilitate an open, academic debate on international climate governance. Views presented are personal and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.
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Saturday, 20 May 2017
Cape Peninsula (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Seminar Room, LAB-14, 290
Presenters: Ms Purdie Bowden
This seminar will shed light on one of the most important and controversial aspects of United Nations climate talks: Climate Finance. Developed countries have agreed to mobilise US$100bn per year by 2020 to help developing countries reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. This is a sizeable task, but the Paris Agreement set an even more ambitious goal: to make all finance flows consistent with low-emissions, climate resilient development pathways. What is needed to achieve this transformation in global finance flows? Who are the key actors, and what tools are at their disposal? Where are the big challenges and how can they be overcome so that investment decisions align with the urgent imperative to ensure a healthy global climate system?
The seminar aims to facilitate an open, academic debate on international climate governance. Views presented are personal and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.
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Jaipur (India) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Mr Tom Nicholson
Join Tom Nicholson as he discusses his latest exhibition “I was born in Indonesia”, which shares the lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia through interviews and dioramas of their memories.
Tom will explore the diorama making process, different ways of approaching narrative, the relationship between drawing and monuments, and how the act of listening figures in the project. He will explain how Indonesia itself shaped the work, and how it provides a cue for the future monument that the work attempts to imagine.
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Friday, 19 May 2017
Monumental Treasures of the World 1 Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne
Presenters: Associate Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
South Asia Research Seminar
India’s gigantic informal, or the ‘unorganised’ sector as it is called, provides livelihoods for an innumerable people, including those toiling in small mines and quarries. Strangely, the NCEUS report (2007: 3) omitted the quarry workers. Such omissions add to the invisibility of the labouring figure of the rural migrant who ekes out a precarious living in one of the most difficult, dirty and risky jobs. What could be the reasons for this invisibility? The opposition to all kinds of mining by strong environmental lobby groups who are often based in metropolitan centres? The official tendency to conflate ‘informal’ with ‘illegal’ in India? State’s absolute ownership rights over mineral wealth and its bias towards the corporatised mineral enterprises?
The field – of small-scale mineral extraction by local entrepreneurs - has so far been a ‘theory wasteland’. If the macroeconomic theory of 'resource curse' or ‘resource conflicts’ failing hopelessly to realistically account for and explain the diverse and detailed assemblage of factors rooted in the local context, the broader questions posed above are also not adequately examined by political economists. In this seminar, Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt will discuss her researcgh - funded by the ARC - into this extractive wasteland of informal labour, and carried out in partnership with local-level civil society organisations that are helping the informal quarry labourers to improve their lives.
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Thursday, 18 May 2017
Increasing Urban Resilience
Venue: B117 Theatre, Basement level, Melbourne School of Design, Masson Road, University of Melbourne
Presenters: Professor Christine Wamsler
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Planning and Governance
The concept of mainstreaming climate change adaptation to foster sustainable urban development and resilience is receiving increasing interest. It is widely advocated by both academic and governmental bodies. Adaptation mainstreaming is the inclusion of climate risk considerations in sector policy and practice. It is motivated by the need to challenge common ideas, attitudes, or activities and change dominant paradigms at multiple levels of governance. The process works toward sustainability and resilience by expanding the focus – from preventing or resisting disasters and hazards – to a broader systems framework in which we learn to live and cope with an ever-changing, and sometimes risky, environment. It thus addresses the root causes of risk and failed approaches to sustainable development.
This lecture provides an introduction to the field of disaster risk management and how it is linked to the issues of climate change adaptation and urban resilience. It presents the origins of the mainstreaming concept, current theories, and their application in urban planning practice. The importance of combining different approaches to reduce risk with complementary strategies to mainstream climate change adaptation into municipal planning and governance is highlighted. In this context, the increasing role of creating city-citizen collaborations is highlighted.
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Steps Towards Eliminating Malaria: What Can Basic Scientists Contribute?
Venue: Auditorium, David Penington Building
Presenters: Professor Carol Sibley
Mosquito-borne Plasmodium parasites are responsible for millions of human deaths yearly. Hear about our efforts to eliminate malaria and how basic science studies have played a crucial role in preventing deaths and disease from malaria. The need to deepen our basic understanding of the parasite remains a key component to overcoming roadblocks to eliminating malaria.
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Climate Finance
Venue: Seminar Room, LAB-14, 290
Presenters: Ms Purdie Bowden
This seminar will shed light on one of the most important and controversial aspects of United Nations climate talks: Climate Finance. Developed countries have agreed to mobilise US$100bn per year by 2020 to help developing countries reduce emissions and adapt to climate change. This is a sizeable task, but the Paris Agreement set an even more ambitious goal: to make all finance flows consistent with low-emissions, climate resilient development pathways. What is needed to achieve this transformation in global finance flows? Who are the key actors, and what tools are at their disposal? Where are the big challenges and how can they be overcome so that investment decisions align with the urgent imperative to ensure a healthy global climate system?
The seminar aims to facilitate an open, academic debate on international climate governance. Views presented are personal and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government.
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The Science of Travel with Bill Nye | Personalization
Venue: Map Collection, ERC
Presenters: David B. Jones
Join David B. Jones for a tour of the Map Collection in conjunction with the exhibition, Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster.
This exhibition navigates real and imagined voyages in the exploration of Australia. While Indigenous inhabitants had a deep connection to this island, in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and opportunity for territorial expansion. Plotting the Island strives to study the changing identities of Australia and islands as a result of European exploration.
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May 17 Express Entry Draw Invites Candidates With 415 or More CRS Points
The latest Express Entry draw for immigration to Canada has taken place, bringing with it the joint-lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) cut-off threshold of all time. A total of 3,687 candidates in the Express Entry pool — each of whom had at least 415 CRS points — received an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent […]
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Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Saskatchewan Express Entry Sub-Category Reopens
The province of Saskatchewan has reopened its International Skilled Worker – Express Entry sub-category of the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) and will accept up to 600 new applications. This sub-category allows eligible candidates in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s Express Entry pool to obtain 600 additional Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points, and an Invitation to Apply […]
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The Jewish Cronenberg: A Cinema of Therapeutic Disintegration
Venue: Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts
Presenters: Professor Adam Lowenstein
What is to be done with David Cronenberg? Although widely considered one of world cinema’s most original and significant contemporary directors (and perhaps Canada’s most famous), many critics have a difficult time describing just what sort of filmmaker he actually is. This talk by Macgeorge Fellow Professor Adam Lowenstein, argues that Cronenberg’s cinema is a philosophical reflection on and cinematic enactment of the desire for a therapy that works – both its necessity and its inevitable failure. Lowenstein's exploration of this discourse of “therapeutic disintegration” in Cronenberg’s films will touch on psychoanalysis (his A Dangerous Method [2011] deals with Freud and Jung explicitly), but will also address a recent “Jewish turn” in Cronenberg’s cinema.
To theorise this turn, he will engage strands of Jewish philosophical thought most famously associated with the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as well as the Weimar-era debate between film theorist Siegfried Kracauer and the religious thinker Martin Buber. If therapy often connotes “talking heads,” then Cronenberg’s early visions of exploding heads have sought to restore the body to this territory of the mind. Lowenstein's contention is that even though his images of exploding heads have disappeared in his later films, Cronenberg is still “blowing our minds” by refiguring cinema’s relation to what therapy might mean in contemporary culture.
Adam Lowenstein is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (Columbia University Press, 2015) and Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Columbia University Press, 2005). Supported by the Macgeorge Bequest
Image: "Scanners" directed by David Cronenberg
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Monday, 15 May 2017
Trump, fake news, and the 'crisis' of American political reporting?
Venue: Copland Theatre, Copland Theatre
Presenters: Mr Dana Milbank
Since Donald Trump’s election, public concern has intensified about 'alternative facts', his self-proclaimed 'war' on journalists, and the prevalence of fake news in a ‘post-truth’ era. Not only does this create confusion about what is real and what is not, but trust in news media is falling in many countries including the US and Australia. This is compounded by the fact that the internet makes it easier for misinformation, whether deliberate or not, to spread. Inaccurate reporting has consequences for news media's role in democracies to provide a well-informed citizenry and critical scrutiny of political elites.
In this climate, powerful figures like Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are outwardly hostile to journalists and mainstream reporting processes. US National Intelligence alleged that Russia created fake news to manipulate the 2016 Presidential election and Trump further fuelled public mistrust by calling journalists “the most dishonest human beings on earth”. If the current President of the United States does not respect professional journalists, is American political reporting in ‘crisis’? And what are the implications of ‘fake news’ and loss of trust in the media for other democracies like Australia? To answer these questions the University of Melbourne welcomes an insider of the American political press corps, highly distinguished op-ed columnist with The Washington Post, Dana Milbank.
Dana Milbank has been a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post since 2005. Generally appearing 4 times a week, his opinion column is the most popular on the Post’s website and also runs in 275 other newspapers.
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Business and Human Rights in an Age of Anti-Globalism
Venue: Courtroom 1 (8A), Level 8, Federal Court of Australia
Presenters: Professor Joanne Bauer, The Honourable Mark Kranz Moshinsky
For the second event in the 2017 'Judges in Conversation' series, The Hon Mark Kranz Moshinsky (Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Joanne Bauer (Senior Researcher, Business and Human Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA) to discuss business and human rights in an age of anti-globalism.
Justice Mark Moshinsky was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in November 2015. Prior to that he practised as a barrister at the Victorian Bar from 1995, including as senior counsel from 2007, specialising in constitutional and administrative law, taxation, superannuation, competition law, private international law and human rights.
Joanne Bauer is Senior Researcher, Business and Human Rights Program, at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA. She is also Adjunct Professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and is the Faculty Lead of the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic.
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Sunday, 14 May 2017
Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa 2017 (HD 1080p)
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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Saturday, 13 May 2017
Vilnius (Lithuanian) Vacation Travel Video Guide
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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The Heart Of The Ancient Silkroad (Uzbekistan) Vacation Travel Video Guide
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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Friday, 12 May 2017
The Benedictines: In The Netherlands • Abbeys and Monasteries
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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Episode 8: Food Preservation
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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Thursday, 11 May 2017
Indian traditions of storytelling in comparison to western traditions
Venue: Seminar Room, 388
Presenters: Ms Vayu Naidu
Join us as Vayu Naidu discusses Indian storytelling in comparison to western traditions. In this talk, she will be investigating Indian, western and African oral and literary traditions. Vayu will branch out on how the imagination works, and how migration keeps these traditions alive.
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Development: Keywords for India
Venue: Malaysian Theatre, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Associate Professor Emma Mawdsley
South Asian countries have until recently been predominantly framed within the international development community as recipients of aid and development interventions. Commentaries and criticism concerning donor-recipient relations from across the spectrum have therefore focussed on a classic 'North-South' axis, whether validating neoliberal adjustments (e.g. the IMF) or contesting mainstream development in a variety of ways (e.g. dependency theorists, postcolonial scholars). In fact, since the early 1950s, India has been a provider of 'development assistance', which while modest in scale, has been symbolically significant. Over the last decade or so, India in particular, has powerfully dismantled and re-worked its 'recipient' status, while rapidly and substantially increasing its own development partnerships in the South Asian region and beyond. Other South Asian states are also experiencing and leading changes in their identities, modalities and partnerships as recipients and partners with a variety of development providers. This seminar will focus primarily on India to critically appraise the changing contributions it is making to the concepts, practices and politics of international development.
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The Future of India’s Electricity Sector: Moving away from Coal?
Venue: Seminar Room, 388
Presenters: Professor Rangan Banerjee
The Indian electricity sector has grown significantly since Independence. In the early 80’s the share of large hydro in electricity generation was about 40%. Over the last three decades the share of fossil in the electricity generation has increased to more than 80%. Coal accounts for about 75% of the total electricity generation. At present the Indian power sector uses about 500 million tonnes of coal and 38 million tonnes of lignite. Though India has significant reserves of low sulphur high ash coal, the increasing demand for electricity has resulted in an increase in coal imports (currently about 150 million tonnes from Indonesia, Australia)
India’s nationally determined contribution based on the Paris agreement commits to having 40% non fossil power installed capacity by 2030. India has a target of installing 175 GW of grid connected renewable power capacity (solar PV, Wind, biomass by 2022). India has been successful in creating a policy regime to attract investments in large solar power plants and the tariffs have reduced significantly.
This talk will examine the challenge of moving away from coal. What is the minimum share of coal in the power sector in 2035? What are the challenges of high renewable energy penetration? How would we account for variability? What will be the impact on the economy and growth? What are the implications on affordability of electricity and access? We discuss these issues in the context of India.
Rangan Banerjee is the Forbes Marshall Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – a Department that he helped found in 2007. He has been involved in setting up a MW scale solar thermal power plant cum testing facility and has been the mentor to Team Shunya-India’s first team in the Solar Decathlon final. He works on energy efficiency, modelling of energy systems, energy planning and policy.
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Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Diagnosis & Therapy: Rise of the Machine of False Dawn?
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 7, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Presenters: Dr Dishan Herath MBBS, FRACP
In a world of ever-advancing technology, where robots and self-driving cars are no longer the stuff of science fiction, the impact of technology is all around us. While there are definite benefits, how much of technology is a threat? What does the future hold? Will clinicians be replaced by machines in 2050?
Dr Dishan Herath, Joint Chief Medical Information Officer, Peter Mac; Medical oncologist, Western Health and Peter Mac; Nuclear Physician, Royal Melbourne Hospital, will outline the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) from a clinician’s perspective, the current state of AI for clinical cancer care, the hype versus outcomes and the challenges and opportunities. Join us for a thought-provoking presentation as we gaze into the future of medical technology.
Light lunch served from 12.30pm Presentation: 1pm- 2pm
Can't join us in person? Join us online via our Webinar - details on registration page.
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Don't just learn physics, do physics!
Venue: Hercus Theatre, Physics South Building, Hercus Theatre
Presenters: Dr Syd Boydell
Dr Syd Boydell will deliver a VCE lecture titled "Don't just learn physics, do physics!" about the importance of experimentation in mastering physics.
Dr Boydell lectures in Science and Education at the University of Melbourne. He believes that experimental work is crucial to physics education, and hence approves of the emphasis on student-designed experiments in the new VCE Physics course.
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How To Affect Change
Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Arts West
Presenters: Associate Professor Sara Wills, Dr Bronwyn King
Bronwyn King has championed a world without tobacco, whose harrowing consequences are all too clear in her work as a cancer clinician. The catalyst was discovering in 2010 that her industry super fund was invested in tobacco companies. Bronwyn’s work has lead from the boardrooms of international pension funds and banking institutions to the child labour tobacco farms of Malawi.
Since establishing Tobacco Free Portfolios, Bronwyn has played an integral role in the decision of over 30 Australian Superannuation Funds to divest tobacco stocks worth approximately $2 billion dollars. This work inspired the Global Task Force for Tobacco Free Portfolios, a 2015 initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control, backed by the World Health Organisation.
Bronwyn will join Associate Professor Sara Wills, to discuss the strategies she has employed to affect change through cross sector collaboration by uniting health, government and finance sectors, and will present issues of global relevance and where solutions can be found.
Bronwyn is the Inaugural Joint Distinguished Fellow in Australian Studies facilitated by the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and the Menzies Centre, Kings College, London
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Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Canada ‘Competing to Attract Global Talent’ — Immigration Minister
Canada is competing with other nations for international talent, and must do even more to attract and retain newcomers, says Minister of Immigration Ahmed Hussen. Hussen made the remarks during a wide-ranging opening address on the opening day of the Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Immigration Summit 2017: Innovating at 150 and Beyond. The summit […]
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The Augustinian Family • Abbeys and Monasteries
Canada is competing with other nations for international talent, and must do even more to attract and retain newcomers, says Minister of Immigration Ahmed Hussen. Hussen made the remarks during a wide-ranging opening address on the opening day of the Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Immigration Summit 2017: Innovating at 150 and Beyond. The summit […]
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Curator's perspective: Syria: Ancient History - Modern Conflict
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Dr Heather Jackson
Join Dr Heather Jackson, co-curator of Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict as she uncovers three decades of field work in the middle and upper Euphrates River valley by The University of Melbourne and illustrates the key findings of the University’s research projects and the contribution they have made to our understanding of the archaeology of this historically important area.
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Book Launch - Stray: Human–Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Professor Brabara Creed
The Ian Potter Museum of Art and The Power Institute are pleased to present a talk by Barbara Creed, followed by a book launch celebrating her latest publication Stray: Human–Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene.
Barbara Creed’s timely polemic Stray explores the relationship between human and animal in the context of the stray.
To celebrate the launch of this new publication, Creed, with respondent Dr lynn mowson, Vice Chair of the Australasian Animal Studies Association, will discuss the concept of the stray through the visual arts, film and literature, introducing the concept of the anthropogenic stray and exploring the contradictions it embodies. Following the talk, Stray will be officially launched by curator Victoria Lynn, Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art.
A stray, to stray, the act of straying
The stray is the outsider, other, exile, refugee—the one who lives apart from the mainstream or isolated in foreign lands. The idea of straying offers an unusual but rich concept with which to think about the shared animal–human condition and the possible fate of the earth and all species in the Anthropocene. Why do societies label certain animals as strays? How do human animals become strays? Barbara Creed will explore the concept of the stray from earliest times to the present with particular reference to the visual arts, literature and film.
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Artist Floor Talk: Tom Nicholson - "I was born in Indonesia"
Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Mr Tom Nicholson
Join Tom Nicholson as he discusses his latest exhibition “I was born in Indonesia”, which shares the lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia through interviews and dioramas of their memories.
Tom will explore the diorama making process, different ways of approaching narrative, the relationship between drawing and monuments, and how the act of listening figures in the project. He will explain how Indonesia itself shaped the work, and how it provides a cue for the future monument that the work attempts to imagine.
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How To Affect Change: In conversation with Bronwyn King
Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Arts West
Presenters: Dr Bronwyn King, Associate Professor Sara Wills
A Leadership Event
Inaugural Joint Distinguished Fellow in Australian Studies
Bronwyn King has championed a world without tobacco, whose harrowing consequences are all too clear in her work as a cancer clinician. The catalyst was discovering in 2010 that her industry super fund was invested in tobacco companies. Bronwyn’s work has lead from the boardrooms of international pension funds and banking institutions to the child labour tobacco farms of Malawi.
Since establishing Tobacco Free Portfolios, Bronwyn has played an integral role in the decision of over 30 Australian Superannuation Funds to divest tobacco stocks worth approximately $2 billion dollars. This work inspired the Global Task Force for Tobacco Free Portfolios, a 2015 initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control, backed by the World Health Organisation.
Bronwyn will join Sara Wills, to discuss the strategies she has employed to affect change through cross sector collaboration by uniting health, government and finance sectors, and will present issues of global relevance and where solutions can be found.
The Joint Distinguished Fellow in Australian Studies facilitated by the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne and the Menzies Centre, Kings College, London.
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Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Guided Tour
Venue: G08, Law
Presenters: David Watts, Professor Abigail Payne, Dr Vanessa Teague, Dr Pompeu Casanovas
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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The Extractive Peasants of India
Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne
Presenters: Associate Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
South Asia Research Seminar
India’s gigantic informal, or the ‘unorganised’ sector as it is called, provides livelihoods for an innumerable people, including those toiling in small mines and quarries. Strangely, the NCEUS report (2007: 3) omitted the quarry workers. Such omissions add to the invisibility of the labouring figure of the rural migrant who ekes out a precarious living in one of the most difficult, dirty and risky jobs. What could be the reasons for this invisibility? The opposition to all kinds of mining by strong environmental lobby groups who are often based in metropolitan centres? The official tendency to conflate ‘informal’ with ‘illegal’ in India? State’s absolute ownership rights over mineral wealth and its bias towards the corporatised mineral enterprises?
The field – of small-scale mineral extraction by local entrepreneurs - has so far been a ‘theory wasteland’. If the macroeconomic theory of 'resource curse' or ‘resource conflicts’ failing hopelessly to realistically account for and explain the diverse and detailed assemblage of factors rooted in the local context, the broader questions posed above are also not adequately examined by political economists. In this seminar, Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt will discuss her researcgh - funded by the ARC - into this extractive wasteland of informal labour, and carried out in partnership with local-level civil society organisations that are helping the informal quarry labourers to improve their lives.
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Monday, 8 May 2017
Cistercians: Abbaye De Lerins, St.Honorat (France) • Abbeys and Monasteries
Venue: Parkville Building, Conservatorium of Music
Paul Watt is senior lecturer in musicology in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, working on music and social reform in the nineteenth century. His publications include the edited volumes Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), besides numerous articles and book chapters.
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Sunday, 7 May 2017
Episode 12: Coagulation and denaturation
Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
Presenters: Dr Susan Lowish
The richness and diversity of rock art is celebrated through this illustrated lecture covering creative responses through the medium of print. Drawing upon many years of engagement with artists in remote Indigenous communities, Dr Susan Lowish reveals some of the complexities surrounding this aspect of the history of printmaking in Australia.
Dr Lowish’s talk will be in conjunction with the exhibition, Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster. The exhibition navigates real and imagined voyages in the exploration of Australia. While Indigenous inhabitants had a deep connection to this island, in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and opportunity for territorial expansion. Plotting the Island strives to study the changing identities of Australia and islands as a result of European exploration.
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Hungary (Europe) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
Presenters: Dr Susan Lowish
The richness and diversity of rock art is celebrated through this illustrated lecture covering creative responses through the medium of print. Drawing upon many years of engagement with artists in remote Indigenous communities, Dr Susan Lowish reveals some of the complexities surrounding this aspect of the history of printmaking in Australia.
Dr Lowish’s talk will be in conjunction with the exhibition, Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster. The exhibition navigates real and imagined voyages in the exploration of Australia. While Indigenous inhabitants had a deep connection to this island, in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and opportunity for territorial expansion. Plotting the Island strives to study the changing identities of Australia and islands as a result of European exploration.
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Saturday, 6 May 2017
Czech Republic (Europe) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library
Presenters: Dr Susan Lowish
The richness and diversity of rock art is celebrated through this illustrated lecture covering creative responses through the medium of print. Drawing upon many years of engagement with artists in remote Indigenous communities, Dr Susan Lowish reveals some of the complexities surrounding this aspect of the history of printmaking in Australia.
Dr Lowish’s talk will be in conjunction with the exhibition, Plotting the Island: dreams, discovery and disaster. The exhibition navigates real and imagined voyages in the exploration of Australia. While Indigenous inhabitants had a deep connection to this island, in the Western mind it was shrouded in mystery and opportunity for territorial expansion. Plotting the Island strives to study the changing identities of Australia and islands as a result of European exploration.
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Friday, 5 May 2017
Ontario’s Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream to Invite Candidates Weekly
The province of Ontario has announced its intention to issue Notifications of Interest (NOIs) to candidates in the Express Entry pool on a weekly basis. These NOIs will be issued under the Human Capital Priorities stream of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). This stream is aligned with the federal Express Entry system. Successful applicants are awarded 600 […]
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Thursday, 4 May 2017
A Conversation with the Chief Justice of the United States
Venue: David P. Derham Theatre , Melbourne Law School
Presenters: The Honourable John G. Roberts Jr.
The Chief Justice of the United States, the Hon. John G. Roberts, Jr., will be in conversation with Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean and Harrison Moore Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School.
This lecture is sponsored by the James Merralls Visiting Fellowship in Law, which acknowledges the contribution that Mr James Merralls AM QC has made to the legal profession in Australia. The fellowship provides funding for an annual visiting fellow to Melbourne Law School by a highly regarded international professor, lawyer or judge. The Fellow will engage in teaching and present a public lecture to the profession. This initiative has been made possible by generous donations from the Law community.
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Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Antimatter in Space
Venue: B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Associate Professor Martin Sevior
The Alpha spectrometer on the international space station and cosmological implications.
A giant magnet attached to the International Space Station is being used to look for antimatter particles in the cosmic rays that come from outside our galaxy. Some theories suggest that these could come from antimatter galaxies or exotic cosmological process. This lecture looks what these signals from space have told us about fundamental symmetries in physics.
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Humans in Space
Venue: B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Dr Katie Mack
What are the human impacts of space travel and living on other planets?
Once an applicant for the astronaut program in the United States, astrophysicist Dr Katie Mack has family connections to the space program. This lecture looks at the potential for a permanent base to be established on Mars and in the more distant future visits to the outer planets and beyond.
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Seals and Identity in Byzantium
Venue: Forum Theatre - 153, Arts West
Presenters: Professor Claudia Sode
Byzantine Seals, Photo by Prof. Claudia Sode
Given the inadequacy of other means of securing documents, individuals at almost all levels of Byzantine society used personal seals that they would change frequently to mark changes in their career or status. Some 80,000 of these survive for which the inscriptions indicate the owner’s name and title and the office held. But they also show an image which, far more than mere decoration, acts as a medium to convey identity by reference to specific iconographic subjects. By discussing how homonymity, gender, family devotions, offices, or urban affiliation have stimulated an individual’s choice of iconography, it is the aim of this paper to demonstrate what an essential body of material seals are for any investigation devoted to the question of identity in Byzantium.
This event is co-sponsored by the Classical Association of Victoria
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Minimally Invasive Wireless Neural Interfaces
Venue: Charles Pearson Theatre, Charles Pearson Theatre
Presenters: Associate Professor Rikky Muller
Smart and connected medical implants are the next frontier in the Internet of Things (IoT) and are set to revolutionize healthcare. For example, Brain Machine Interface (BMI) systems have enabled control of artificial limbs through electronic signals recorded from the brain, providing hope for patients with spinal cord injuries. However, today’s large and wired neural interfaces require substantial improvements in size, safety and longevity to transition from research labs to clinical practice. In this talk, Associate professor Rikky Muller will discuss how integrated circuit and microsystem-based implants greatly reduce size, infection risk and surgical complications, while enabling a lifetime of safe chronic use.
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South Asia Research Seminar: The Extractive Peasants of India
Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne
Presenters: Associate Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
India’s gigantic informal, or the ‘unorganised’ sector as it is called, provides livelihoods for an innumerable people, including those toiling in small mines and quarries. Strangely, the NCEUS report (2007: 3) omitted the quarry workers. Such omissions add to the invisibility of the labouring figure of the rural migrant who ekes out a precarious living in one of the most difficult, dirty and risky jobs. What could be the reasons for this invisibility? The opposition to all kinds of mining by strong environmental lobby groups who are often based in metropolitan centres? The official tendency to conflate ‘informal’ with ‘illegal’ in India? State’s absolute ownership rights over mineral wealth and its bias towards the corporatised mineral enterprises?
The field – of small-scale mineral extraction by local entrepreneurs - has so far been a ‘theory wasteland’. If the macroeconomic theory of 'resource curse' or ‘resource conflicts’ failing hopelessly to realistically account for and explain the diverse and detailed assemblage of factors rooted in the local context, the broader questions posed above are also not adequately examined by political economists. In this seminar, Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt will discuss her researcgh - funded by the ARC - into this extractive wasteland of informal labour, and carried out in partnership with local-level civil society organisations that are helping the informal quarry labourers to improve their lives.
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Is Europe Worth Celebrating? Reflections on 60 Years of the European Union
Venue: Chisholm Theatre, Chisholm Theatrette
Presenters: Professor Philomena Murray, Dr Gosia Klatt, Dr Margherita Matera, Associate Professor Michael Longo, Dr Lachlan McKenzie, Ms Tamara Tubakovic
On Europe Day, we bring together a panel of experts to explore the European Union as it marks its 60th year. The EU is dealing with multiple challenges: the refugee crisis, increasing instability along its borders, threats to internal security, populism and Brexit - all sounding the death knell of the European project. Europe Day is an opportunity to reflect on the EU since its creation 60 years ago. What does the future hold for the EU?
Our panel of experts will examine these issues. The event will be in a format of a Q&A session, with opportunities for the audience to ask questions of the panel for a lively analysis of the EU.
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Tuesday, 2 May 2017
French at UVic
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQtTyHB_js
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZMYokojGw
Monday, 1 May 2017
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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.
from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcV-pUO5pw
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