Alcohol and cancer: do discussions in clinic reflect the research?

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

Presenters: Dr Anna Boltong

Monday Lunch Live with Dr Anna Boltong.

Public health recommendations for upper limits of alcohol intake do not align with findings from systematic reviews of cancer risk. What does this mean for conversations with cancer patients in the clinic, and how can we best support clinicians to deliver lifestyle advice to patients in an accessible and practical way?

Dr Anna Boltong is Head of Division, Strategy and Support at Cancer Council Victoria. In this role she leads a team of 50 health, research, education and marketing professionals and oversees a portfolio including cancer information and support services, research governance, consumer policy and advocacy, and the Victorian clinicians network. Anna overseas research activity in the areas of clinical practice; clinical trial uptake; health service systems; and patient and family support provision, including cancer survivorship.

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Feed the World: Q&A panel and exhibition

Venue: B117, Basement Theatre, Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Mr Tony Rinaudo, Ms Ronni Kahn, Professor Uma Kothari, Professor Herbert J. Kronzucker

Billions of people struggle every day to get enough food to meet their basic energy and nutrient requirements, while those of us in wealthy countries generally eat too much and waste huge amounts of food. Add the impacts of climate change and the situation looks grim. How can science, technology, and society work together to solve these interconnected problems?

An expert panel of researchers and activists from the university and not-for-profit sectors, including OzHarvest and World Vision will discuss how we might feed the world now and into the future, and answer your questions about the future of agriculture, food distribution, nutrition and consumption.

The panel will be followed by a reception with vegetarian food from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and displays and activities to inspire further conversation.

The panel will be moderated by Professor Uma Kothari, Director of the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Melbourne, and includes:
Ms Ronni Kahn CEO of food rescue charity OzHarvest
Professor Herbert Kronzucker Global agriculture researcher and Head, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne
Mr Tony Rinaudo Natural Resources Management Specialist, World Vision Australia
Dr Seona Candy Future city researcher, CRC for Low Carbon Living, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

This event is part of the University of Melbourne's Science Festival.

Students, staff and the general public are all welcome to attend. Registrations required.

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Capturing value – how is science boosting development in Victoria?

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

Presenters: Dr Amanda Caples PhD

Monday Lunch Live with Dr Amanda Caples.

The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre building is the largest single investment ever made by the Victorian Government in a research-clinical service facility.

Amanda will discuss the economic development perspective behind this huge boost to cancer facilities in Victoria and talk about her role and aspirations as Lead Scientist.

Dr Amanda Caples PhD was appointed to the Victorian Lead Scientist role in mid-2016. The Lead Scientist works across the Victorian Government to foster linkages and identify opportunities for economic outcomes by engaging with business, the research sector and the Australian government. Amanda brings to the role broad experience in technology commercialisation, public policy development and governance of public and private entities. Previously as Deputy Secretary Sector Development and Programs, Amanda was responsible for the development of Future Industries strategic sector growth plans and for support of the Victorian science, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Women in the Engineering Profession

Venue: Engineering C1, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Level 4, Engineering C1 Theatre

Presenters: Professor Emeritus Edie Schmidt

Professor Edie Schmidt will discuss the role of women in engineering and in particular her career development beginning in Aerospace Engineering and then industrial engineering specialising in supply chain and logistics.

Professor Edie Schmidt is an emeritus professor of Engineering at Purdue University and will take up the Department Chair position in Decision Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. This free lecture will be of interest to young professionals in engineering, transport and logistics.

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Withdrawing from International Law?

Venue: Theatre G08, Ground Floor, Law

Presenters: Judge James Crawford AC, SC, FBA

2017 Sir George Turner Memorial Lecture

The international legal system has been showing signs of instability and insecurity. States have been withdrawing from multilateral treaties – for example, South Africa from the Rome Treaty for an International Criminal Court, the United Kingdom from the European Union, the United States from the Paris Agreement. Some states have been withdrawing from their investment protection treaties. Other signs of insecurity include non-appearance before international tribunals, rejection of unfavourable decisions, a weakening of the Optional Clause mechanism and denial of responsibility for refugee flows.

What does this portend? Are states entirely free to choose from the smorgasbord of international legal rules on offer? Are they free not to dine at all, to reject the underlying institutions and with them their commitments to each other?

About the Sir George Turner Memorial Lecture

The Sir George Turner Memorial Lectures were established in 1944 when Grace Melvin Turner bequeathed in her will the establishment of a lectureship in memory of her father, Sir George Turner. Sir George was admitted to practice in 1881. He was Mayor of St Kilda from 1887 to 1888, elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1889 and became Solicitor-General for Victoria in 1892. In 1894 he became Premier of Victoria. He died on 13 August 1916.

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Indian Traditions of Storytelling compared with 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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‘Measuring and Reporting Performance’

Venue: Copland Theatre, Business and Economics

Presenters: Mr Andrew Greaves

Mr Andrew Greaves, Auditor-General of Victoria will deliver the 78th CPA Australia - University of Melbourne Annual Research Lecture, the longest running lecture series at the University.

The annual report on operations and the general purpose financial statements therein are intended to be key accountability documents. Yet there has been increasing debate about whether they fulfil this purpose as effectively as they should.

Alternative performance measures have become a feature of corporate profit reporting, and public sector agencies increasingly also are reporting underlying results to moderate user assessment of their financial stewardship.

Service performance measures have also been a feature of most public sector jurisdictions, in various guises, and in some cases for at least three decades, yet they too remain an under-developed and under-utilised accountability mechanism.

Andrew will explore the development of service performance measures, assess their current state, and discuss their future role in the context of recent trends toward better integrated reporting.

Refreshments will be served at 7pm after the lecture.

When registering for this event at link below, after selecting location and book, please select Annual Research Lecture from side menu

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Taking Australian Research to the World

Venue: Theatre 1, Basement Level, 221 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Dr Damien Williams

Dr Damien Williams, Director of Lantana Lane Productions, will introduce a screening of his 2017 short film, Regeneration: Lantana's constant gardeners, during Science Festival.

The film will be followed by a discussion between key historians and geographers of the Australian landscape. Regeneration tells the story of four people from the northern rivers region of New South Wales and the different approaches that they each take to living with lantana, a declared noxious weed. In doing so, the film asks whether 'bush regeneration' blurs the boundaries between the garden and the bush. Join the filmmaker and others from the School of Geography at this exclusive viewing.

Dr Damien Williams is an award-winning historian with a wide range of experience as a researcher, editor, broadcaster and film maker. His idea for Lantana Lane came about in 2016, while working as a freelance producer at ABC Radio National and the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne.

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A Forgotten History of how the Study of International Affairs came to India

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

Presenters: Dr Alex Davis

This talk will explore a lost narrative of how the study of international affairs came to late colonial India. By exploring the intertwined lives of two institutions, it unearths colonial India’s ideational fight over the study of international affairs.

The first Chatham House affiliated institute of international relations in India was the Indian Institute of International Affairs (IIIA), established in 1936. Headed by Zafrulla Khan, the IIIA comprised Indian liberals and civil servants. In the early 1940s a rival emerged – the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA). The IIIA saw the ICWA as an institutional rival and a propaganda front for the Indian National Congress. The two institutes were divided on communal lines. The IIIA became dominated by Muslims and the ICWA by Brahmin Hindus. A battle for legitimacy and recognition ensued over participation in international conferences and the production of research. The ICWA successfully organized the Asian Relations Conference in March 1947. This sealed the fate of the IIIA, which moved to Pakistan with Partition and subsequently closed down unceremoniously.

Dr Alexander Davis is a New Generation Network Scholar with La Trobe University and the Australia-India Institute.

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Ageing: Past, Present and Future

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor Nancy Pachana

Alice Barber Lecture 2017. Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years, upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow older we are bombarded with advice on ways to overcome, thwart, resist, and, on the rare occasion, embrace, one’s ageing. Have all human beings from the various historical epochs and cultures viewed aging with this same ambivalence?

In this lecture, Professor Nancy Pachana discusses the lifelong dynamic changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning involved in ageing. Increased lifespans in the developed and the developing world have created an urgent need to find ways to enhance our functioning and well-being in the later decades of life, and this need is reflected in policies and action plans addressing our ageing populations from the World Health Organization and the United Nations. Mental health and ways to decrease risk of cognitive decline and dementia will be discussed.

Looking to the future, she considers innovative advancements in the provision for our ageing populations, including revolutionary models of nursing home care such as Green House nursing homes in the USA and Small Group Living homes in the Netherlands. She shows that understanding the process of ageing is not only important for individuals, but also for societies and nations, if the full potential of those entering later life is to be realised.

Dr Nancy A. Pachana is a clinical geropsychologist, neuropsychologist and professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland, and is co-director of the UQ Ageing Mind Initiative, providing a focal point for clinical, translational ageing-related research at UQ.

She has an international reputation in the area of geriatric mental health, particularly with her research on late-life anxiety disorders. She is co-developer of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory, a published brief self-report inventory in wide clinical and research use globally, translated into over two dozen languages.

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This is your Brain on Virtual Reality

Venue: Auditorium, Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Dr Greg Wadley, Dr Jenny Waycott, Dr Jeanette Tamplin

No longer within the realms of science fiction, virtual reality technologies are advancing neurological and cognitive development and rehabilitation. Virtual reality has already been used successfully to treat youth and adult mental health conditions such as phobia, and it may also be beneficial for young people suffering a broader set of conditions such as psychosis and depression.

Whether it be used in conjunction with transcranial stimulation to improve cognitive ability in people with Parkinson’s disease, or used on its own to deliver telehealth group singing interventions for people with quadriplegia to improve respiratory function, voice, mood and social connectedness, augmented and virtual reality programs have opened up a new world of research.

This lecture is hosted by the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute and the Melbourne Networked Society Institute as part of Science Week at the University of Melbourne.

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The Safe Asset Scarcity Conundrum

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot Level 1 Lecture Theatre

Presenters: Professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

The David Finch Public Lecture 2017

Safe real interest rates in advanced economies have declined by more than 6% since 1980, revealing a major increase in the demand for safe assets. This lecture explores the sources and consequences of this safe asset 'scarcity' for global imbalances, economic activity, currency wars, financial stability and the future of the international monetary system.

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Conscience and Commerce: The Place of Equity in Commercial Law

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

Presenters: The Honourable Jennifer Davies, Professor Ben McFarlane

For the third event in the 2017 Judges in Conversation series, the Honourable Justice Jennifer Davies (Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Ben McFarlane (Professor of Law at University College London) to discuss the following topic: 'Conscience and Commerce: The Place of Equity in Commercial Law'.

There is an ongoing debate, in England as well as in Australia, as to the proper role of equitable doctrines and principles in commercial law. There are indications, in the law of penalties, estoppel and remedial constructive trusts, for example, that at least some Australian courts are willing to give equity a more prominent role than their English counterparts. These and other topics may feature as we consider if equity still has a distinctive and useful role to play both in commercial law and in private law more generally.

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Shifting Global Perspectives on the Private Art Museum: From Private Delectation to Public Benefit and Beyond

Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Georgina Walker

The Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates (2010) belongs to a new model of private art museums that have emerged in the 21st century and indicate an acceleration of the privatisation of art and culture on a global scale. Founded by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, it holds an extensive collection of modern and contemporary Arab art, dating from the 1900s to the present day.

The fast-growing number of art collectors emerging in the Persian Gulf region and many parts of Asia, continue in an upward trajectory. This is due to a broader economic context, the growth in newly wealthy individuals, and the rapidly changing global centres of commerce, power and influence that are shifting away from the West. The continuing growth in the wealthy middle classes places greater emphasis on art collecting as an elite activity. Therefore we can expect to find increasingly more significant private museums and collections situated outside the West – hence the rise of private art museums in the Persian Gulf region and Asia.

This lecture will seek to situate the Barjeel Art Foundation, and other cultural institutions of its type, within the global enterprise of the ‘private’ museum in this rapidly emerging cultural landscape. This will allow for a critical and informed examination of the history and future direction of the private museum and the relationship between private, public and corporate.

Dr Georgina Walker is Sessional Subject Coordinator in Art History and Museum Studies at The University of Melbourne. Her research connects the rising popularity of private museums with new models of philanthropy and a reconfigured relationship between private and public space.

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Migrant Workers, Gig Workers and the Role of Competition Law in Labour Markets

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Professor Allan Fels

Foenander Public Lecture 2017

In recent times, much media attention has been given to the exploitation of workers, especially migrant workers, in Australia. This lecture will identify the extent and implications of the underpayment of migrant workers in the Australian labour market. It will examine the rise of gig work (temporary positions and short-term contracts) and the implications for workers and organisations. It will also discuss whether competition law should apply to labour markets, especially with respect to secondary boycotts.

Allan Fels is the Chair of the Migrant Workers Taskforce (Australian Government), Member of the Uber Global Advisory Board, and the former Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi and the 21st Century Art Museum

Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Associate Professor Christopher Marshall

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is scheduled to open its doors to the public in November 2017 following 10 years of planning and development. One of the most high-profile and eagerly anticipated international museum projects of the past 50 years, this initiative has the potential to redefine what we mean by a public art museum in the 21st century.

The modern art museum was launched during the Enlightenment as a space to ‘ennoble’ the citizens of the state by bringing them into contact with the great achievements of artistic and cultural expression. Though founded on the ideal of a supposedly ‘universal survey’ of culture, in practice this has always meant that museums have reinforced a peculiarly Western notion of cultural distinction from Ancient Greece through to the European Renaissance and so on.

Now, thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the French Government, a new type of ‘universal museum’ is set to rise in the rapidly emerging cultural landscape of the United Arab Emirates.

This lecture will seek to situate the Louvre Abu Dhabi project in its historical and museological contexts with a particular focus on the new concept of a ‘global vision of the history of world art’ that will be displayed within the galleries of Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi when it opens at the end of this year.

Christopher R Marshall is Associate Professor in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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The Extraordinary Link between the Gut and the Brain

Venue: Copland Theatre, The Spot

Presenters: Professor John Furness

Our gut and brain are linked by an expansive network of neurons, chemicals and hormones that provide feedback about our mood, whether we are hungry, or if we’ve ingested a disease-causing microbe. The relatively new appreciation of how gut health can affect our brains is leading to a shift within medicine, and specifically a shift towards maintaining and improving healthy gut bacteria. The 'brain in your gut' provides us an emerging and remarkable glimpse into the enteric nervous system and its role in regulating brain development and behaviour.

In this seminar, we will look at how diet and nutrition can affect the treatment and prevention of mental disorders, the link between the gut bacteria and various disabilities, and digestive tract disorders.

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Working with families: Then and Now

Venue: Ground Floor Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Dr Robyn Miller

Len Tierney Lecture 2017

This year, MacKillop Family Services is celebrating 20 years of service to the community. In this lecture, Dr Robyn Miller will explore an early intervention model of care, influenced by Dr Len Tierney, and how it has critically shaped contemporary family-centred care.   Dr Miller will also explore some of the challenges of providing this support, and her vision of what can be achieved through an approach built on primary prevention and early intervention. 

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The Race to Precision Medicine

Venue: Ground Floor Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Professor Qimin Zhan MD

One of the important common goals in the field of health worldwide is to reduce the incidence and mortality of the major chronic non-infectious diseases, such as malignant cancers, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes, to improve human health globally. However, conventional medical approaches in both the diagnosis and treatment for those diseases are thought to have reached a ceiling, and have now shown limitations in conquering these health problems.

In recent years, the concept and practice of precision medicine appears to offer hope for providing better medical approaches for health management, clinical diagnosis and treatment in improving quality of life. Development of precision medicine appears able to solve the tough clinical issues, including disease prevention, earlier diagnosis, improving efficacy of targeting drugs, eliminating drug resistance, and prediction of prognosis.

In this lecture, Professor Qimin Zhan will discuss how integrative efforts among biologists, clinicians and genomic scientists, as well as big-data engineers, would be an effective working model in conducting precision medicine for customised health care, including disease prevention, clinical diagnosis and treatment.

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The Last Tim Tam

Venue: The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture

Presenters: Rod Quantock

Join Rod Quantock OAM, Chief Investigator of creative research project the Last Tim Tam, to explore everyday life in Australia in the 2030s.

Rod Quantock has spent the last decade increasing the public's awareness of climate change through performance. In the Last Tim Tam, Rod collaborates with leading researchers in climate science, popular culture and the humanities and social sciences from the University of Melbourne to imagine the not-too-distant future.

The Last Tim Tam project draws on the archive of Australian popular culture in order to reimagine the scientific, environmental, economic and political predictions about Australia's future. How will Kath and Kim's suburban Melbourne lifestyles be impacted by rising average temperatures, resource scarcity and regular wild weather events? What ingredients will be available to contestants on Masterchef in 2030? Where, and how, will we 'Getaway' in the future?

The Last Tim Tam makes climate change very personal, and encourages us to think laterally and creatively about how our collective future might look, sound and feel.

Rod Quantock is a pioneer of Australian comedy. In 2015 he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his contribution to the performing arts, the environment and sustainability. Rod has spoken to Nobel Prize-winning scientists, science journalists, researchers and activists. He is up on the latest research because he believes that a smattering of physics, chemistry, biology (and history!) are essential to the understanding of climate change and its consequences.

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Global Policing: a Research Agenda for a New Generation

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Professor Ben Bowling

The 2017 John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology

In recent years, there have been radical changes in the form and function of modern policing at both the local and global level. This shift has been brought about by the growth of international policing networks; blurring boundaries between police, border control, the military and private security; advances in information and communication technologies; and pressure to respond to the transnational nature of criminal and security threats. These changes pose serious questions for scholars, policymakers, practitioners and the broader community.

This lecture calls for a new interdisciplinary research agenda on the globalisation of policing and will consider:

• How local police adapt to new technologies and respond to transnational threats such as terrorism
• The role of law and local democratic institutions when police power transcends national borders
• The theories and methods required to understand these changes
• How the visibility and trajectory of global policing can be shaped into the future.

Professor Ben Bowling is an expert in criminal justice and policing with a special emphasis on transnational law enforcement. He is Deputy Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London.

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Climate Change in the Age of Trump

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Katerina Gaita

Just as it seemed the world was starting to make serious efforts towards halting climate change, the United States – a country always considered essential to an effective international response – has elected a leader openly hostile towards climate science and climate action and who is already acting on that hostility.

What does the election of President Trump mean for worldwide attempts to limit warming to well below two degrees Celsius? Where can we find hope? What can Australians, particularly the intelligentsia, learn from his election and the local and international responses to his efforts to unravel US action on climate change? How can and should we respond?

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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Trump and the Death of the Media Class

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Helen Razer

Trump has declared open war on 'mainstream' press, banishing many representatives from his briefing room. This lecture will not endorse that hostility, but will contend that the keenest injury to media is produced by friendly fire.

Outlets have not only adopted technologies and employment techniques that ultimately damage their revenue models, but have largely elected to offer a diminished analysis that appeals to a class itself diminished in size. As public trust and profits in media shrink, so has the horizon of media content providers.

Trump is so rarely seen by press as a policymaker; he is a fool, a narcissist and a pass to suspend the Goldwater rule. This lecture is a call for true scrutiny.

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto: Projects and their Consequences

Venue: B117 Theatre, Basement , Melbourne School of Design

Presenters: Ms Nanako Umemoto, Mr Jesse Reiser

The work of Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto spans more than 30 years of practice at the forefront of architectural innovation. It comprises rigorous research and experimentation across both built and unrealised projects.

Their firm, RUR Architecture DPC, won proposals for both the Taipei Pop Music Center and the Kaohsiung Port Terminal, now under construction in Taiwan. Their building O-14, a 22-story exoskeletal office tower in Dubai, was completed in 2012 and has received numerous international honors.

This lecture will be framed around one of the central concepts of their forthcoming study, Projects and their Consequences.

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International Law in the Age of Trump

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Professor Sundhya Pahuja

The attitude of the Trump administration to international law and institutions is being greeted with shocked outrage. And there is much cause for concern in relation to the temper and style of the current US President’s international engagements. However, the shock of the new is producing a nostalgia for the old in ways that might cause us to underestimate the continuities between this new form of engagement and older forms. It is not clear that the US before Trump had an unambiguously virtuous relationship to international law and institutions. But nor is it clear that a diminution in US prestige would be a bad thing for most of the world. Are we witnessing ‘the greatest presidential onslaught on international law and international institutions in American history’ (Goldsmith), or are we watching the decline of American Empire with all the attendant dangers?

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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Trumped! The Rise of the Populists and the Great World Shift

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Mr Guy Rundle

Brexit, Trump, the rise of Le Pen, Putin, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Geert Widers and even Pauline – the rise of the populists has been taken as a measure of the failure of 'progress', and a surrender to irrationalism.

But is this the case? Or do these political earthquakes represent a shift in the basic social and political structure of the west, that we need to understand, prior to passing judgement?

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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Universities in the Age of Trump

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Associate Professor Timothy Lynch

At least two claims have been made against universities in the age of Trump. First, that their academics failed to predict and subsequently explain Trump’s victory. Second, that the contemporary American campus has become so unfriendly to Trump supporters it actually increased their determination to vote for him. This lecture will interrogate both claims. In doing so, we will review the state of intellectual discourse in the United States and ponder how far universities are responsible for it.

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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Truth and Truthfulness in The Age of Trump

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Professor Raimond Gaita

In politics, concepts of left and right are contentious. Think instead of Australia’s culture wars and those who refer to their opponents as the chattering classes, the Sandalista brigade or slaves to political correctness. They are the majority at writers festivals or festivals of ideas. For many years they were sceptical of any robust conceptions of fact and truth. The warriors of the culture wars scorned them for it. 'Cultural relativists' they called them. Trump turned things around. Now it is his side of the culture wars that makes a mockery of concepts such as truth, facts, evidence and reason.

Trump’s disdain of facts and argument has become so persistent and extreme that it threatens to erode the conceptual space that allows for the application of concepts of fact, evidence and argument. Or, more precisely, to where argument can make, or fail to make, evidence out of facts. His demagoguery took from reason, not the calm necessary for its operation, but the concepts necessary for its application. This lecture will reflect on this interesting turn of events. Even in politics, it will argue, truth is a need of the soul.

This lecture is part of a series: The Wednesday Lectures 2017: The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump, hosted by Raimond Gaita.

It began with Brexit and entered another dimension with Donald Trump's election campaign. Many of the intelligentsia – those who choose or are required by their profession to comment on political affairs – were shocked. Hardly any anticipated that resentment, anger and even hatred could go so deep in parts of the British and American electorates almost unnoticed. When it was noticed few foresaw its transformative power.

In the case of Trump, many were incredulous that someone who had a good chance of becoming president of the US could be so radically disdainful of the practices, conventions and institutions that express and underpin democratic political civility, and pile lie upon lie so fast and shamelessly as to make the idea that reality mattered quixotic. He hasn't changed as president.

But commentators were not only shocked that they didn’t see Brexit or Trump coming. They were unsettled by a suspicion that some of the many reasons they didn’t played a significant role in ensuring that they did. Do we, even now, understand what has happened and why it did?

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New Techniques in Epigenomic Analysis

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

Presenters: Dr Lu Wen

We now know that epigenetics, mediated by DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation, play important roles in both developmental biology and diseases such as cancer.

Join Dr Lu Wen to explore existing and new techniques that his team at Peking University are using to interrogate the epigenome at a single-base resolution, in circulating cell-free DNA, and in single cells. Can these techniques help us to detect early signs of liver and colorectal cancer in blood samples?

Dr Lu Wen is a Research Scientist at the Biodynamics Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC) at Peking University, China.

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Drugging Differentiation: A New Paradigm for Colorectal Cancer Therapy?

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

Presenters: Professor John Mariadason

What causes colorectal cancer cells to lose differentiation and can we target this to prevent metastasis?

Learn how Professor John Mariadason’s team have discovered specific gene losses behind colorectal cancer’s lack of differentiation – findings that could be used to reintroduce differentiation and prevent metastasis.

Professor John Mariadason is Professor at the School of Cancer Medicine at La Trobe University and Head of the Oncogenic Transcription Laboratory at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute.

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The Evolving Landscape of Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer

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

Presenters: Professor Peter Black

In this Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre presentation, Canadian-based expert, Professor Peter Black, will explore the evolving landscape of immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

For some time, advances in bladder cancer therapy lagged behind those in other cancers. Recently, however, the advent of checkpoint blockade drugs has moved bladder cancer to the forefront of immuno-oncology.

Five drugs have now been approved in the US for metastatic bladder cancer and multiple trials are ongoing in earlier stage disease, guided by a focus on biomarker discovery and validation.

Professor Peter Black is a Urologic Oncologist at Vancouver General Hospital, a Research Scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, and an Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

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Frank Larkins Oration: An Evening with Sarah Ferguson

Venue: Junior Common Room, International House

Presenters: Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson is an award-winning investigative journalist currently working with the ABC. She is a reporter and presenter on ABCs Four Corners.

Ferguson began her career in newspapers in Britain, writing arts reviews for The Independent before moving to France where she worked for the BBC. In Australia, apart from her ABC career, Ferguson has worked for the SBS programs Dateline and Insight as a reporter and producer. She won the Gold Walkley Award in 2011 for her work on the Four Corners investigation 'A Bloody Business' into cruelty to animals in Indonesian abattoirs.

In 2015, she presented the critically acclaimed Hitting Home, reporting from the frontline of Australia’s domestic violence crisis. The series won Best Documentary at the 2016 AACTA Awards and the Walkley Documentary Award. And in May 2017, Ferguson presented The Siege, a two-part special investigating the siege at the Lindt cafe, Martin Place, Sydney.

Join International House for this exciting opportunity to hear from Sarah Ferguson.

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Melbourne Mandarins: ‘Modern Chinese Painters’, 1974

Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Associate Professor Claire Roberts

Join us for a lecture on the exhibition ‘Modern Chinese Painters in the Traditional Style’, which was held at the University Art Gallery, Melbourne in 1974.

The exhibition was an early and rather impressive effort to promote the appreciation of Chinese painting in Australia. It crossed boundaries in bringing together those in Australia with an interest in and knowledge of Chinese art to share their understanding with a wider public. At a pivotal moment in Australia’s changing relationship with China, it reflected a fragile but evolving cultural ecosystem that developed from the efforts of a discerning group of citizens with strong links to the University.

Dr Claire Roberts is an historian of Chinese art and a curator. She is Associate Professor, Art History and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

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Crisis, what Crisis? Healthcare Funding in the Future

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

Presenters: Professor Stephen Duckett

The current Commonwealth–state hospital funding agreement expires on 1 July 2020. It is a big deal, as it accounts for about 40 per cent of total public hospital funding. What should post-2020 hospital funding look like? Should there be rewards for safer care? Should there be a (funding) link between primary care and hospitals? If so, what/how?

Professor Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health Program at Grattan Institute. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals, to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care.

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Canada the Second-Best Country in the World to be an Immigrant, U.S. Study Finds

Canada has been ranked as the top country outside Europe, and the second-best country worldwide, to live as an immigrant. Only Sweden is ranked higher than Canada. U.S. News and World Report, which compiled the ranking, assesses 80 countries based on their economic stability, income equality, and labour markets in order to create its lists. […]

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Molens van Kinderdijk (Netherlands) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Erin Helyard

In the eighteenth century, people were enculturated from the outset to have extreme emotional responses to music. A word was coined to describe this 'deliberate cultivation of physical and emotional hyper-receptivity to tender, intimate, tearful sensation', as Elisabeth Le Guin describes it. In English they called it 'sensibility', in German 'Empfindsamkeit', and in French 'sensibilité'. As exemplified in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Tom Fielding, sensibility had tugged at the heart strings of the English middle classes for more than a generation; in the 1750s it found wider European reception through translations of English novels.

The refinement of a susceptibility to delicate passional arousal spread to the opera boxes. This talk discusses Philidor's setting of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Initially a failure, a 1766 revision resulted in a triumph that became one of the most popular and influential opéras comiques of the late 18th century.

This presentation by Senior Lecturer Dr Erin Helyard of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music includes a short recital of excerpts from the opera together with a talk that incorporates images and music from the period.

This public program is associated with Beyond Versailles: F.D. Philidor, French composer and chess master (ends 30 July 2017).

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Mesa Verde (USA) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Erin Helyard

In the eighteenth century, people were enculturated from the outset to have extreme emotional responses to music. A word was coined to describe this 'deliberate cultivation of physical and emotional hyper-receptivity to tender, intimate, tearful sensation', as Elisabeth Le Guin describes it. In English they called it 'sensibility', in German 'Empfindsamkeit', and in French 'sensibilité'. As exemplified in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Tom Fielding, sensibility had tugged at the heart strings of the English middle classes for more than a generation; in the 1750s it found wider European reception through translations of English novels.

The refinement of a susceptibility to delicate passional arousal spread to the opera boxes. This talk discusses Philidor's setting of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Initially a failure, a 1766 revision resulted in a triumph that became one of the most popular and influential opéras comiques of the late 18th century.

This presentation by Senior Lecturer Dr Erin Helyard of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music includes a short recital of excerpts from the opera together with a talk that incorporates images and music from the period.

This public program is associated with Beyond Versailles: F.D. Philidor, French composer and chess master (ends 30 July 2017).

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Opportunities and Obstacles for STEM Education

Venue: Theatre Q230, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Jan van Driel

There is an expectation that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education will boost student interest and achievement, and that pursuing STEM studies will enhance students’ employability. Yet, implementation of STEM education poses serious challenges for schools and teachers in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and organisation. This presentation will explore the research needed to determine the impact of STEM education on students, teachers and schools.

A world-leading scholar, Professor Jan van Driel is the Professor of Science Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. His work is influential in informing the professional development of science teachers.

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Glimpses of the World

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

Presenters: Professor Benedetta Tagliabue

Renowned architect, educator and Pritzker Prize jury member Benedetta Tagliabue presents her latest projects in development, such as the Naples underground central station, the Clichy-Montfermeil metro station in Paris, an office tower in Taichung Taiwan and the Zhang Daqian Museum in Neijiang China.

She will also discuss her most notable projects, such the Edinburgh Parliament, Santa Caterina market and Gas Natural Fenosa building in Barcelona.

Benedetta Tagliabue is principal architect of Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio (Barcelona and Shanghai). Her poetic architecture, always attentive to its context, has won international awards in the fields of public space and design. Her 2010 Shanghai World Expo – Spanish Pavilion was awarded with the prestigious RIBA International ‘Best Building of 2011’ award.

This lecture is supported by MPavilion and the Melbourne School of Design.

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Panauti (Nepal) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Erin Helyard

In the eighteenth century, people were enculturated from the outset to have extreme emotional responses to music. A word was coined to describe this 'deliberate cultivation of physical and emotional hyper-receptivity to tender, intimate, tearful sensation', as Elisabeth Le Guin describes it. In English they called it 'sensibility', in German 'Empfindsamkeit', and in French 'sensibilité'. As exemplified in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Tom Fielding, sensibility had tugged at the heart strings of the English middle classes for more than a generation; in the 1750s it found wider European reception through translations of English novels.

The refinement of a susceptibility to delicate passional arousal spread to the opera boxes. This talk discusses Philidor's setting of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Initially a failure, a 1766 revision resulted in a triumph that became one of the most popular and influential opéras comiques of the late 18th century.

This presentation by Senior Lecturer Dr Erin Helyard of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music includes a short recital of excerpts from the opera together with a talk that incorporates images and music from the period.

This public program is associated with Beyond Versailles: F.D. Philidor, French composer and chess master (ends 30 July 2017).

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Professor Melissa Brown, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science

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

Presenters: Professor Wallace Krisop

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

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

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Nova Scotia Reopens Express Entry Stream, Closes Within Hours

On the morning of July 5, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia reopened a popular category of its Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry immigration stream. Through this stream, eligible candidates in the Express Entry pool may apply for a provincial nomination through the Nova Scotia Nominee Program (NSNP), one of Canada’s Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs). […]

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Canadian PM Trudeau “Jealous” of Immigrants who get to Choose Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated that he is jealous of individuals and families around the world who make the decision to immigrate to Canada, emphasizing that people, like him, who are born Canadian take for granted the advantages of being Canadian. Trudeau was speaking with CTV journalist Anne-Marie Mediwake in a broadcast that aired […]

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CanadaVisa News Briefs for July, 2017

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

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David’s blog: A lot done, more to do

Canada Day took place last weekend. This year, it was an extra special occasion as the nation celebrated its 150th birthday. The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now […]

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Duden waterfall ( Düden şelalesi ) - Antalya, Turkey

Canada Day took place last weekend. This year, it was an extra special occasion as the nation celebrated its 150th birthday. The current Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is approaching two years in office, and with a relatively new Minister of Immigration and a swathe of new approaches within the department, now […]

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Planning and Designing Greater Paris in the 21st Century

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

Presenters: Professor Jean-Louis Cohen

The planning and design of the city of Paris and its surrounding region has been a difficult issue since the middle of the 19th century. This lecture discusses the shaping of a new creative scene for the region inspired by innovative strategies from 2007 to today.

Class issues and political conflicts have long prevented the development of a comprehensive metropolitan strategy for Paris. A 2007 closed competition launched by then president Nicolas Sarkozy was a significant turning point, with the goal of defining powerful projects around the central city.

In 2009 dozens of architects – from Yves Lion to Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers and Bernardo Secchi – along with landscape designers and social scientists proposed a series of innovative strategies, which are now slowly being implemented. The central municipality also engaged a ‘reinvention’ program of several key sites in 2015, while many new transit hubs emerged in the suburbs.

Against the threat faced by the French capital of becoming a vast open-air museum, the projects inspired by these policies are shaping a new creative scene, which will be discussed in this lecture its many dimensions.

Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H Solow Chair for the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and a guest professor at the Collège de France.

The lecture will be introduced by Philip Goad, Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne.

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Ontario Provides List of Targeted Occupations for Express Entry Immigration Stream

A range of candidates in the Express Entry pool who have work experience in one of many Information and Communications Technology (ICT) occupations were prioritized by the province of Ontario under a new initiative that began on June 26. Now, Ontario has clarified which candidates have been targeted for selection by the province. Under this […]

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Seeking Asylum: A Global Discussion

Venue: Macmahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Arnold Zable

This panel addresses global trends and Australian Government policies on refugees, research, advocacy and Australia’s role in the global conversation on the refugee crisis.

The cultural mosaic that makes up Australia was founded upon global migration over the centuries. Refugees have been coming to Australia since the early 19th century. Having sought protection in Australia these vulnerable people, despite facing many barriers including language difficulties, financial hardship and cultural differences, go on to contribute to our economy and the community both here and in their country of origin. They contribute to social development and cultural diversity, reinforce our humanitarian values and provide a connection to other parts of the world.

The panel will discuss the innovative ways in which we as community can engage in these discussions through imaginative projects, art, and even speed dating.

Arnold Zable, award winning writer, storyteller, educator, human rights advocate and Honorary in the University of Melbourne's School of Culture and Communication, will convene the panel.

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Aftermath of the Grenfell Fire: Are Australian Buildings Safe?

Venue: Brown Theatre, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Presenters: Dr Jonathan Barnett, Professor Priyan Mendis

The Grenfell Tower fire was a tragic disaster that has touched many lives. The incident resonates particularly with Australians, as our population is concentrated in urban centres and many of our medium-rise and high-rise buildings have been constructed with non-compliant products.

In London, lives have been lost and many people have been hospitalised, and the burnt tower is leading many to question fire safety and fire protection systems in buildings. The Grenfell Tower fire was amplified thanks to the combined failure of many critical elements of fire safety. We have been assured that help is being provided to all the homeless survivors, but this catastrophic fire is a warning for the occupants, developers, architects, engineers and all others involved in the construction industry in Australia and around the world.

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Paradise on Earth 3 Vacation Travel Video Guide

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

Presenters: Professor Monica Slavin MBBS, FRACP, MD

Compelling evidence shows that infection in cancer patients is a leading cause of death and a significant cost to the healthcare system. However, to date, no group has systemically addressed this problem in national cancer strategies.

Professor Monica Slavin, Head, Immunocompromised Host Infection Service, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & Royal Melbourne Hospital, will present on The National Centre for Infections in Cancer (NCIC) that has been recently launched to translate the best available evidence into better management of infections in cancer. By harnessing big data, linking surveillance networks, implementing guidelines and piloting new technologies, NCIC will offer a new national approach to infection in cancer.

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Express Entry Report: A Canada Day Special Review of 2017 So Far

Canada Day, held every July 1, marks the half-way point of the year. It is a time to reflect on the first six months of the year and look forward to what the second half may bring. In the context of Canadian immigration, 2017 has so far been a standout year, particularly with respect to […]

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