The European Patent System: Serving the Global Economy (Melbourne)

Venue: David P Derham Theatre, Level 1, Law

Presenters: Mr Benoît Battistelli

2017 Francis Gurry Public Lecture

While the driving force behind the innovation process is people, patents have an important role to play by opening the door to capital and business partners. A study published last year by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found that more than 40% of total economic activity and over a third of all jobs in the European Union are generated by industries that make above-average use of intellectual property.

The European Patent Office has seen an increasing demand for patents in the past five years – in 2016 alone it received nearly 160,000 applications. The attractiveness of the European patent system for innovators from Australia and elsewhere in the world will increase even further in the coming years, both through the implementation of new Validation Agreements and with the launch of the Unitary Patent system in early 2018.

In this year’s lecture, the President of the EPO will explain these developments and explore their implications and benefits for Australian innovators.

The Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property was established by Melbourne Law School, in conjunction with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, in 2009. The Lecture is named in honour of the Law School’s distinguished alumnus, Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (2008).

Presented in conjunction with The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia. Generously supported by IP Australia and International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

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The European Patent System: Serving the Global Economy (Sydney)

Venue: Lyceum Room, Wesley Conference Centre

Presenters: Mr Benoît Battistelli

2017 Francis Gurry Public Lecture

While the driving force behind the innovation process is people, patents have an important role to play by opening the door to capital and business partners. A study published last year by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found that more than 40% of total economic activity and over a third of all jobs in the European Union are generated by industries that make above-average use of intellectual property.

The European Patent Office has seen an increasing demand for patents in the past five years – in 2016 alone it received nearly 160,000 applications. The attractiveness of the European patent system for innovators from Australia and elsewhere in the world will increase even further in the coming years, both through the implementation of new Validation Agreements and with the launch of the Unitary Patent system in early 2018.

In this year’s lecture, the President of the EPO will explain these developments and explore their implications and benefits for Australian innovators.

The Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property was established by Melbourne Law School, in conjunction with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, in 2009. The Lecture is named in honour of the Law School’s distinguished alumnus, Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (2008).

Presented in conjunction with The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia. Generously supported by IP Australia and International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

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The 'Brain in a Dish': Organoids and Other Emerging Brain Technologies

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor Steven Petrou

Evenings at the Florey lecture series

Professor Steve Petrou describes the 'brain in a dish', multi-electrode arrays and anti-sense oligoneucleotide therapy, along with other emerging technologies used in his laboratory, and explains how they are leading the way to better epilepsy diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

Professor Steve Petrou is head of the Florey's Ion Channels and Human Diseases Laboratory where his team focuses on understanding the pathology of ion channel disorders, in particular epilepsy.

The lecture will begin promptly at 6.30pm and finish at approximately 7.45pm, including a question and answer session.

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Genetics and our Future Health

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Associate Professor Justin Rubio PhD

The penultimate 'Daytime at the Florey' lecture for 2017

Associate Professor Justin Rubio has been working to understand the genetic basis of neurological diseases for 20 years, with six years of this time in the pharmaceutical industry, where he used genetics as a tool to develop medicines. Justin will present a lecture about genes and the dynamic impact that gene research is having on our understanding of disease and its potential impact on health.

The lecture will begin promptly at 11am and finish at approximately 12.15pm including question time.

Associate Professor Justin Rubio is the Head of the Neurogenetics Laboratory at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.

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Nutraceuticals and the Secret World of Goji Berries

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor Phillip Beart

Evenings at the Florey lecture series

Enter the secret world of goji berries, walnuts and red wine. What are nutraceuticals and can you harness them for better health? Professor Philip Beart, Head of the Florey's Cellular Neurodegeneration Laboratory, leads us on a journey from 'super foods' to pharmacy supplements to discover the real key to healthy ageing.

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International Climate Diplomacy – The Next Steps

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Mr Jacob Werksman, Mr Patrick Suckling, Ms MJ Mace

Long-term success of the 2015 Paris Agreement negotiations will depend on implementation of the agreement. Nationally determined contributions to the mitigation and adaptation challenge are currently not sufficiently ambitious to meet the common goals of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C, or even 1.5 degree C.

What next steps can and must the international community take? How can international climate protection move forward in these times of Trump? How specifically could a process of increasing ambition work? And how can complex issues, such as loss and damage, be addressed?

An expert panel representing the perspectives of Australia, the European Union and Small-Island States will discuss the challenges, areas of contention and likely outcomes of the upcoming COP23 in Bonn, Germany.

The panel session will be chaired and moderated by Emily Gerrard, co-head Climate Change, Allens Linklaters, and a specialist environmental lawyer.

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The Frontiers of Psychology

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Professor Richard Kanaan

Evenings at the Florey lecture series

Conversion syndrome is a bizarre condition that is striking down young Australians. It is misunderstood and consequently under and mis-diagnosed.

It is defined as a condition that presents as an alteration or loss of physical function suggestive of a physical disorder, but is usually presumed to be the expression of psychological trauma, causing errors in emotional information processed in the brain. Symptoms that may present in conversion disorder are paralysis, seizures, sight or hearing impairment, and loss of speech.

Psychiatrist Professor Richard Kanaan is the co-head of the Florey's Biological Psychiatry and Mental Health division.

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Toilet Talk: Sanitation and Biopoolitics in Nepal and the Philippines

Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, 207 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Dr Celia McMichael

Building toilets and the sustained use of toilets are critical for population health. Perhaps due to the ‘great distaste’ surrounding poo, however, there has been more limited focus on sanitation and defecation as compared to safe drinking water and other hygiene behaviours. This talk explores spaces where population health imperatives – i.e. reduction of faecal-oral disease transmission – intersect with complex factors that compel and constrain improved sanitation and elimination of open defecation.

Drawing on evaluative research of water and sanitation interventions led by Red Cross societies in Nepal (2014) and the Philippines (2016/17), Celia will discuss technologies, proximate social pressures, and biopoolitical factors that influence hygiene and toilet adoption in remote rural villages (Nepal) and school-based institutional settings (Philippines).

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How Can You Defend Those People? And Other Questions of Humanity, Humility, and the Humanities

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

Presenters: Dean Strang

Every criminal defence lawyer hears, often repeatedly, the question, “How can you defend those people?” It’s an important question, not just for lawyers but for every citizen of societies that claim to value liberty. Dean Strang, (defence attorney for Steven Avery in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer), will explore some overlooked considerations that the question raises in the hope of aiding lawyers and other citizens alike come to their own answer. He will connect that common question and its answers to our individual and collective humanity, to humility and its relation to liberty, and to the ways in which legal education might help to form citizen-lawyers best equipped to answer that question.

Dean Strang is a noted US criminal defence lawyer. He practices in Madison, Wisconsin, as a shareholder in StrangBradley, LLC. He was Wisconsin’s first Federal Defender and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, five federal circuits, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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Comedy as a Super Hero in a Burning City

Venue: North Wing-153 (Forum Theatre), Arts West

Presenters: Mr Varun Grover

Comedy and satire has emerged as an unlikely bridge-builder in light of growing political instability around the world. As a professional comedian, Varun Grover has seen how comedy can dismantle barriers and bring clarity to serious discussions on issues such as climate change, religious extremism and political failure. In this talk, Varun will take the audience on a journey through his own experiences as a comedian and highlight observations on broader comedic trends around the world.

The lecture will be followed by Q&A and refreshments.

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A Tale of Two Cities: Diabetes and Cancer

Venue: Ground Floor Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Dr Jo Armes RN, PhD

Marian Barrett Lecture 2017

As more and more people live longer with long-term health conditions, co‐morbidity is a major issue facing health services globally.   As the incidence of both cancer and diabetes increases worldwide, evidence is also growing that people with diabetes are at increased risk of developing some cancers, and that some cancer treatments and medications can cause or exacerbate diabetes.

Studies investigating the consequences of cancer treatment on people with diabetes report worse outcomes and experience of care when compared to non‐diabetic counterparts. Reasons for this are poorly understood, and formal guidance on managing patients with co-morbid cancer and diabetes is limited, leaving health professionals to adopt a ‘trial and error’ approach to clinical management.   Dr Armes will review evidence investigating the prevalence, consequences and management of diabetes during cancer treatment, highlighting potential reasons for poorer outcomes when they exist. She will propose a need for increased awareness, education and research on this important health issue and greater integration of endocrinology services within the cancer setting.

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Changing our Focus on Addiction

Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Kenneth Myer Building

Presenters: Dr Erin Campbell Ph.D, Rose Crossin

Writing in the New York Times in June 2016, Maia Szalavitz wrote about her experience of drug addiction and concluded that..." We are long overdue for a new perspective — both because our understanding of the neuroscience underlying addiction has changed and because so many existing treatments simply don’t work."

In this lecture, two of the Florey's rising stars, discuss emerging treatments and fresh ways to think about the recovering brain.

Dr Erin Campbell will discuss her recent work developing new ways to model environmental relapse cues, and Rose Crossin will discuss her recent findings on the dramatic growth implications for adolescents who abuse inhalant drugs like glue and petrol, with implications for the recent AvGas sniffing outbreak in the Northern Territory.

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The Force Awakens: Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR)

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

Presenters: Professor David Ball MB BS, MD, FRANZCR, Associate Professor Shankar Siva PhD MBBS FRANZCR

SABR is a high-precision, advanced radiotherapy technique which may transform the way we approach cancer treatments in the future.

Victorian researchers have led international clinical trials in the field and been involved in developments seen in lung and other cancer.

Join us to find out the latest on SABR and its use in combination with immunotherapies.

Associate Professor Shankar Siva, PhD MBBS FRANZCR is a staff radiation oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a NHMRC ECF Fellow. He leads the stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) program at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and is a committed clinical and translational researcher.

Professor David Ball MB BS, MD, FRANZCR is a radiation oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Director of the Lung Tumour Stream across the Parkville VCCC partners. He has devoted most of his professional life to improving outcomes for patients with lung cancer. With physics and raidotherapy colleagues, he introduced the SABR technique to Australia. He has over 200 publications in the peer reviewed literature.

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Australian Materialism

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture Theatre - B101, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

Presenters: Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith

One of Australia’s contributions to the history of philosophy is something called ‘Australian materialism.’ What sort of materialism is this and why is it associated with Australia? This lecture will discuss the past, present, and future of materialist philosophies, together with the conceptions of ‘matter’ that accompany these views. Most debates about materialism concern the relations between minds and bodies; is a person no more than the biological matter that makes them up? People often suspect that a materialist philosophy will inevitably be associated with an amoral or selfish outlook. What is the connection (if any) between materialism and choices about how to live one’s life?

This lecture is the 2017 Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture.

Professor Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York), and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science (half-time) at the University of Sydney. He has previously taught at University of California San Diego, Stanford, Harvard, and the Australian National University. His main research focuses on the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind

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A Bird's-Eye View of Statistics for Remote Sensing Data

Venue: JH Michell Theatre, Peter Hall

Presenters: Professor Noel Cressie

Remote-sensing data offer unprecedented opportunities to address Earth-system-science challenges, such as understanding the relationship between the atmosphere and Earth's surface using physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and computing.

Statistical methods have often been seen by geophysicists as a hybrid of the latter two, with a lot of attention paid to computing estimates but far less to quantifying the uncertainty of these estimates.

Professor Cressie will give us a bird's-eye view of how these problems can be tackled by using conditional probability models and three states of knowledge. Examples will be given of analysing remotely sensed data of a leading greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

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Can Food Labelling Help Create More Sustainable Food Systems?

Venue: Forum Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Christine Parker, Dr Kate Macdonald, Ms Katinka Day, Mr Richard Cornish, Dr Kate Johnston

What role can labelling play in creating more sustainable food systems? What kinds of labelling would enable consumers and producers to support environmentally sustainable and ethical practices of food production and consumption?

Join food journalist and author Richard Cornish in conversation with a dynamic panel of experts, who will explore this question through case studies of food labelling for sustainably sourced fish, free range animal products and products containing palm oil.

Panel members:

• Professor Christine Parker – Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. Christine's research focuses on “free range” labelling and other higher animal welfare labelling for hens, meat chickens and pigs, and she investigates the possibilities for transformed relationships with animals and ecosystems in our food system.
• Katinka Day – A campaigner and policy specialist with Australia’s leading consumer advocacy group, CHOICE. She is responsible for CHOICE's food and health policy areas and has achieved positive change for consumers on free range eggs, dodgy health claims and country of origin food labels.
• Dr Kate MacDonald – Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the politics of transnational production, exploring how standards for products like tea and palm oil are influenced by transnational organisations, including multi-stakeholder schemes such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Fairtrade and the Rainforest Alliance.
• Dr Kate Johnson – Research Associate at the Sustainable Fish Lab. Kate’s research focuses on the relationship between sustainability discourses and the culture of fishing communities, and her PhD research explored a case study of canned tuna and la tonnara – a tuna trap fishery used for centuries in Southern Italy.

Panel facilitator:

• Richard Cornish. Richard is an award-winning food writer whose love of the land lead him to explore the issues around food, where it comes from, how it gets to us and why some foods taste better than others. He writes for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and Gourmet Traveller, and has written eight cook books.

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Artist to Artist

Venue: Federation Hall, Federation Hall

Eminent artist and former Dean of VCA Art, Gareth Sansom, discusses his work as an artist and as an art educator, with artist and Director of the VCA, Professor Jon Cattapan.

This event coincides with the exhibition Gareth Sansom Transformer, a major exhibition of over 130 of Sansom's paintings, collages and watercolours at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Image credit: Gareth Sansom, Wittgenstein’s brush with Vorticism 2016, Oil and enamel paint on canvas, 183.0 x 244.0 cm. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

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Languages for Liberty: Figuring Revolutions, Resisting Oppression

Venue: Forum Lecture Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Jean-Marie Roulin

2017 Walter Mangold Lecture

To what extent can languages be a tool for personal and political freedom and one of the most efficient ways to resist oppression and tyranny?

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire offer a privileged example to address this question. During this crucial period of European history, writers such as François-René de Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël found themselves confronted with extraordinary events. Initially, they strove to understand what a revolution is, to measure its progress and its risks. Later, they were major figures in the opposition to Napoleon’s despotism. Strikingly, they found in foreign languages and literatures powerful resources to feed their reflection on liberty and their arguments against tyranny. In this way, they show that knowledge of other languages is the indispensable, and possibly only, means to preserve our personal and political freedoms in a globalized world.

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The Archaeology of the Ancient Theatre of Nea Paphos in Cyprus: From Ancient Voices to Modern Artists

Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Dr Craig Barker

This lecture will explore the fascinating links between ancient culture and contemporary art.

The University of Sydney has been excavating the site of the ancient theatre at the World Heritage-listed site of Nea Paphos in Cyprus since 1995. The theatre, constructed around 300 BC, was used as a venue for performance and spectacle until its destruction in the late 4th century AD – more than six and a half centuries later. The theatre underwent at least five phases of architectural remodelling and renovation during the Hellenistic and Roman era, each leaving its trace archaeologically.

Through careful stratigraphic excavation we can now retrace the rich history of the site, as well as its post-theatrical life with links to the Crusaders and Venetians.

The Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project has also revealed information about the urban precinct surrounding the theatre, including wide paved roads, a nymphaeum and a colonnaded façade of the second century AD – features we now know reflect the wealth and privilege of the most important Roman city on the island.

As well as acting as a training ground for Australian archaeologists and students, one of the most exciting aspects of the excavations has been the program of working with visiting Australian visual artists. These artists, including Ian Potter Museum of Art exhibiting artist Angela Brennan, have responded to ancient Cyprus and the process of archaeology in their own creative work.

Dr Craig Barker is Manager of Education and Public Programs, Sydney University Museums.

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Keeping bees with a Flow Hive: a journey from innovation to commercial success

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre

Presenters: Mr Cedar Anderson, Mr Stuart Anderson

Stuart and Cedar Anderson are the inventors of the Flow Hive, which has taken the beekeeping world by storm. In February, 2015, they launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign with the humble goal of raising US$70,000 to develop their invention. The goal was reached within 477 seconds and so far US$3,365,284 was raised. By April 15th, 20,000 kits were ordered.

Now, the Flow Hive is exported worldwide and changed how bees are being kept and honey is harvested. The company also supports beekeeping clubs and beekeeping education.

This event is presented by the University's Sustainable Campus team.

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Indonesian Contemporary Art Inside/Out

Venue: Theatre 2 (Room B120), 221 Bouverie Street

Presenters: Agung Kurniawan

In this public lecture, internationally renowned multimedia artist, Agung Kurniawan, will discuss some of the major developments in the Indonesian contemporary art world in the period 1990-2017, with a specific focus on the vibrant Yogyakarta art scene. He will address aspects of his own career; the history and role of Kedai Kebun Forum, Cemeti and other cultural spaces in Yogyakarta; the representation of history, violence, trauma, religion and sexuality in art, and the links between visual art, comics and literature. He will explain how contemporary art, both individual studio-based art (using conventional media, such as drawings, paintings, installations) as well as more participatory art, can be used as vehicles to talk about sensitive issues. He will also demonstrate how artist initiatives can contribute to social and political change.

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Trust and Cybersecurity: In search of a multi-disciplinary theory and practice

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Presenters: Claire Vishik

Cybersecurity has become a global priority, but it encompasses a set of problems that are difficult to resolve. This is due, in part, to its multi-disciplinary nature. The broad definition of cybersecurity encompasses a range of subfields, from computer and network security to cryptography, psychology, human behavior, economics, policy, and international collaboration. The interplay of the subjects is important for the theory and practice in cybersecurity, but the underlying relationships between the components of the big picture remain elusive.

Trust is a foundational concept in cybersecurity because it provides a common thread linking its many components. But this link is not straightforward. People develop trust in other people, polices, information and conventional products in ways that don't easily translate to the models used to define trust between devices and networks or between organisations or between organisations and their employees.

For a device, an application, or a system, trust is based on the premise that the other party behaves in an expected way under the same conditions. Trust complements security requirements, enabling various security models. For people, trust may be based on their experiences and expectations, as well as the reactions of other people. In organisations, trust may be linked to the affiliations and credentials of individuals, organisational relationships, and regulations. For governments and in international relations, trust may be defined by policies, agreements, and national and international norms.

The talk will examine trust in different contexts. From the human side of trust, to cryptographically-supported trusted systems, to policies that maintain trust, a broad view of the topic will be presented. What are the foundations of the individual’s trust in technology and what are the consequences of the lack of trust? How can trust between systems depend on subtle differences in the integrated circuits in their hardware? Can technical trust be nuanced, allowing a system to trust another system a little or a lot, depending on the circumstances? How is trust misused by cyber criminals, and how can technology and cyber norms stop them? How is trust connected to privacy? We will touch upon many of these questions. Trust is complex and multi-faceted, but it is a concept that can explain many successes and failures in cybersecurity.

Claire Vishik will deliver this Dean's Public Lecture. Claire Vishik's work at Intel focuses on hardware security, trusted computing, privacy enhancing technologies, some aspects of cryptography and related global policy issues. Claire is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, Council member for the Information Security Forum, and is an advisor for numerous R&D and strategic initiatives in Asia, Europe and the US.

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Politics as Negotiations: Eroding Caste Norms in Rural South India

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

Presenters: Dr Diego Maiorano

Existing literature has theorised poor people’s politics either as a set of coping strategies or as resistance to the elite's oppression. Based on ethnographic work in rural Andhra Pradesh (South India) and building on recent scholarship that has tried to go beyond this dichotomy, this talk will recognise the way poor Indians actively engage with politics. It will conceptualise poor people’s politics as a form of negotiation for better access to resources, power and status.

Dr Diego Maiorano is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

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The Malcolm Fraser Oration - A Human Rights Legacy

Venue: The Craig Auditorium, Gateway Building, Trinity College

Presenters: Mr Julian Burnside AO QC

Malcolm Fraser was one of the most controversial Prime Ministers of Australia. When he engineered the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 he alienated a significant part of the Australian community.

But the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Whitlam overshadowed a number of important political achievements, and overshadowed one unchangeable fact about him: his devotion to the ideals of human rights. From 2001, Fraser became increasingly prominent in concerns about the Australian government’s treatment of people seeking asylum. By small steps, he was embraced by the same people who had reviled him in 1975.

In memory of Mr Fraser’s vision for Australia, the University of Melbourne has established an annual address – the Malcolm Fraser Oration.

The inaugural Malcolm Fraser Oration will be delivered by Mr Julian Burnside AO QC, human rights and refugee advocate - on the topic of human rights.

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The (Hard) Coal Phase Out: The German Experience

Venue: Seminar Room, Australian-German Climate and Energy College

Presenters: Dr Joerg Lingens

During the 1970s, German coal production ceased to be competitive on the world market due to increasing production costs. Coal mining (along with steel production) was the main industry, especially in the Ruhr area of West Germany. To cushion the mass layoffs associated with the closure of coal mines, the government installed a massive subsidy program to smoothly phase out of coal production over an expected period of around 40 years.

In this lecture, Dr Joerg Lingens uses administrative labour market data to document the career path of individuals who were affected by the closure of mines and tries to understand the wage and re-employment effects of these individuals. He discusses how young individuals that entered these 'regional' labour markets at times of mine closure were affected compared to similar individuals in other regions.

Dr Joerg Lingens has been a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Muenster since 2007.

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Grudging Rescue: the history of humanitarian evacuations

Venue: Room 553, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Ben White

EU Centre Visiting Fellow Dr Ben White examines the history of humanitarian evacuation. This practice is well known today: in Spring 2011, for example, the International Organization for Migration oversaw the evacuation of some 140,000 ‘third-country nationals’ from Libya as that country descended into violence. But it is recent – as an articulated policy, it only really dates back to the Kosovo crisis in the 1990s – and its history is not well understood. Humanitarian practitioners and researchers both refer to precedents like the Kindertransport, but usually in passing.

This public talk introduces the history of evacuations by presenting a very early example: the evacuation of well over 20,000 Armenians from Cilicia (now part of Turkey) by the French military, in little more than two weeks at the end of December 1921. It uses this case to think through the politics and diplomacy of evacuation – how pressure from a public informed by a modern humanitarian consciousness, and the international diplomacy, force policymakers to take responsibility for a threatened population. It discusses the logistical techniques that made possible the rapid relocation of tens of thousands of people. Above all, it highlights the role of evacuees themselves in shaping their own destiny. Thinking about history raises some important questions for humanitarian evacuations today.

Dr Ben White teaches history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he is also a member of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum, and Migration Network (GRAMNet).

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Brexit and Otherness: A Modest and Unsystematic Reflection

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor James Conroy

The EU Centre presents this lecture by Professor James Conroy, who will discuss how the decision of the UK to leave the EU was promoted by an exaggerated account of otherness.

This lecture analyses some of the ways in which this sense of British exceptionalism made itself manifest in the Brexit vote. From there, Professor Conroy will establish that the etatist impulses that gave rise to such an outcome, with their cultural particularity, are not uniquely British but are part of a broader reemergence of such ‘instincts’ and ‘discourse’ in a number of polities.

Moreover, they are a function of the dominance of a certain form of liberalism in education, which has in turn led to the emergence of a displaced and simplified reading of religious and cultural otherness, despite – or maybe because of – the compulsory nature of liberal religious education across much of Europe.

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Creating and Managing an Innovation Culture

Venue: North Theatre (Room 239), Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Tolga Kurtoglu

The Networked Society Institute takes an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to its research. In this spirit we are hosting a free talk by Dr Tolga Kurtoglu on how to create, nurture and manage an innovative culture. Dr Kurtoglu is CEO of Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), a Xerox company 'in the business of breakthroughs'.

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Yours Faithfully: Writing Letters for the Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1952–1961

Venue: Dulcie Hollyock Room, ground floor, Baillieu Library

Professor Jennifer Clark presents the outcomes of her research into the papers of the Council for Aboriginal Rights. These papers are one of the most important national resources for understanding recent Aboriginal History and the pursuit of indigenous civil rights.

University of Melbourne science alumnus Shirley Andrews was the Council's honorary secretary between 1952 and 1961. Her letters are rich and revealing. They reflect the thinking within the Council for Aboriginal Rights and record its actions, but they also demonstrate the importance of the letter as a mechanism to build networks and reach a wide audience.

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Clinical Trials in Palliative Care: The Science behind the Art of Care

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

Presenters: Associate Professor Brian Le

A Monday Lunch Live event

Palliative care is an aspect of care that will touch us all in some way during our lives. Our knowledge of managing common issues in palliative care remains in many regards basic, however we have learnt much and there are many opportunities to enhance what we provide. Associate Professor Le will explore these opportunities with a focus on clinical trials being key to improving the science behind the art of care.

Associate Professor Brian Le is the Director of Palliative Care in the Parkville Precinct, including the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Brian is a specialist in both palliative medicine and medical oncology, and is an Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne. He is also the current Chair of the Training Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, responsible for training of all palliative medicine specialists in Australia and New Zealand.

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An Architect’s Perspective on Cultural Developments in the Middle East

Venue: Room 553, Level 5, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Donald Bates

For at least the last 150 years, almost all emergent nations and urban developments have sought to establish a cultural and social basis of their presence and value through the creation of cultural precincts and museums and galleries. Whether as receptacles of pre-existent and historically bound artefacts and artistic production, or for captured, plundered or purchased objet d’art and recent creations, the art museum/gallery remains as a powerful social instrument for cultural substantiation and political ambition.

The emergent cultures and new metropolises of the Gulf manifest this contemporary tendency, but with distinct variation and differences. Add to this the convincing economic pitch of the 'Bilbao Effect' and enormous efforts and finances can be seen pouring into foundations and campaigns that are as much directed towards tourism as they are towards cultural edification. The ambitions, the intentions and the realisations of these projects (both the architectural object and the curatorial agenda) fluctuate with the price of oil, though the belief in the essential correctness of such efforts usually remains. Between Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and on to Doha (much less to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait) there are an array of propositions, proposals and permutations to this tendency and its successful elaboration.

This lecture is third in a series of public lectures presented by the Faculty of Arts to celebrate their new overseas study tour exploring the phenomenal rise of new and emerging art and museum cultural development in the United Arab Emirates and State of Qatar.

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Linking the Health of People, Animals and the Environment to Address Global Challenges

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

Presenters: Professor Michael Lairmore

D.C. Blood Oration

This lecture will examine how an emerging approach termed 'One Health' is uniting veterinarians, physicians, scientists, and other health and environmental professionals to address complex problems that recognise the vast interrelationships between human, animal and environmental health.

Almost daily, as a society, we experience the connection between the health of humans, animals and the environment. The Zika virus – carried by mosquitoes and spreading in many regions in the world – is suspected of causing thousands of human birth defects in Brazil and was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. As much as 75 per cent of new or re-emerging diseases affecting humans are of animal origin. New infectious diseases, climate change and a moving political landscape are some of the changes that veterinarians, physicians, scientists and other health and environmental professionals must adapt to in meeting these global challenges.

'One Health' is uniting these professionals in many parts of the world to address complex problems that recognise the vast interrelationships between human, animal and environmental health. It harnesses the power of collaborative expertise to solve the pressing issues we face in our mobile society.

It is critical that community, government and university leaders – together with veterinarians and other health professionals – support a united One Health approach to solving rapidly emerging diseases on a local and global scale.

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

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Political Disenchantment in France and the Election of Emmanuel Macron

Venue: Theatre, Elisabeth Murdoch

Presenters: Professor Arnaud Mercier

The French's deep crisis of trust regarding policy in general, and the forces of government in particular, was expressed in French voters' aspirations for what one of the candidates (Jean-Luc Melenchon, extreme-left) called 'degagisme' (get-outism), a slogan taken from the mantra of the Tunisian demonstrators during the Arab Spring.

These aspirations were strongly demonstrated during the recent French elections, by abstention, by vote for populist forces or by voting for Macron. Emmanuel Macron, who emerged on the political scene less than a year ago, embodies an unprecedented form of protest voting while being a committed defender of the European Union and a culturally open society that is liberal in terms of morals.

In a climate of opinion at a European and even international scale (in which the domino theory seemed to predict a victory of the populists in the Netherlands, Austria and then in France after the victory of the Brexit campaign and Donald Trump), Macron's victory appeared as a relief for the continuation of the project of European construction. Hence the enthusiasm that his victory has generated beyond the borders of France. But what about within France itself?

Professor Arnaud will consider the state of French citizens' political disenchantment, the motivations driving the Macron vote, the sociological and ideological divisions within France, and the partisan restructuring at work.

Misha Ketchell, Editor of The Conversation, will chair this seminar.

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Mass Atrocity, Mass Justice: Illiberal Peacebuilding and Transitional Injustice in Rwanda

Venue: Level 2, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Lars Waldorf

From 2002 to 2012, Rwanda put more than one million genocide suspects on trial through local community courts. This legal process took the new global norm of ‘accountability’ to an extreme by challenging its liberal notions of fair procedure and individualised criminal responsibility. However, despite its differences to this dominant model the process still reaffirmed the central tenets of post-conflict justice: that truth would lead to justice and that justice would lead to reconciliation. Why then did it mostly fail to achieve this in practice?

In this seminar, Lars Waldorf will examine the larger lessons of Rwanda’s experiment for the theory and practice of peacebuilding and justice in post-conflict states.

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Refugees in Syria, Syrian Refugees: Then and Now

Venue: Room 353, Interactive Cinema Space, Arts West

Presenters: Dr Ben White

Refugees from the Syrian civil war are one of the largest groups of refugees in the world today. But historically, Syria has more often been a host country for refugees, from the Iraqis of a decade ago back to the Muslim refugees from Crete, the Balkans and the Caucasus in the late Ottoman period.

This lecture explores the period when the modern Syrian state was established, under French mandate, between the first and second world wars. It shows how the arrival and settlement of refugees helped to define ‘Syria’ as a nation-state, from the drawing of its borders on the ground to the definition of a national identity in the minds of its inhabitants.

The lecture will draw out the parallels between responses to refugees in Syria then, and responses to refugees from Syria in Europe and the Middle East today.

Dr Benjamin Thomas White teaches history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he is also a member of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum, and Migration Network (GRAMNet). He is the 2017 Visiting Fellow at the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges, the University of Melbourne.

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The Spread of Lantana: An Aesthetic History

Venue: Room B1.24 (Basement), 379

Presenters: Associate Professor Haripriya Rangan

Lantana is a plant that, like ruins and vacant lots in cities, evokes contradictory aesthetic responses. Drawing on the ideas of Walter Benjamin and other urban semioticians, we argue that lantana’s aesthetic history evokes a combination of involuntary memories associated with gardening and recognition of the impermanence and abandonment associated with capitalist culture. We trace the history of lantana’s global spread in this presentation by exploring the utopian impulses and gardening trends that shaped the identities and cultural aspirations of the urban middle-classes in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Haripriya Rangan is Associate Professor and Director, Research and Academic Programs, Australia India Institute, the University of Melbourne.

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Understanding Electricity Demand: Behavioural Aspects and Policy Interventions

Venue: Theatre 4, Business and Economics

Presenters: Dr Joerg Lingens

Curbing greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change is imperative and one can think of two way to do that. First, a decrease in electricity consumption would lessen the need to burn fossil fuels. Second, a change in electricity generation technologies using renewable energy sources would also decrease emissions. For both strategies to be successful, household electricity demand must decrease and/or become more flexible.

However, the determinants of this demand, and their effect, are not easy to understand. Electricity is a very peculiar good such that many behavioral frictions affect the households' consumption choice. Households usually lack information concerning the production technology of energy services, compounded by the billing structure of electricity.

In this lecture, Dr Joerg Lingens will discuss the likely effects of behavioral issues on electricity demand, and possible policy options that could nudge households to lower electricity usage.

Dr David Byrne, the University of Melbourne, will chair the seminar with panelists from the Grattan Institute.

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Beyond Disegno: Professional Identity and Material Experimentation in mid 16th-century Italian Portraiture

Venue: Theatre C (124), Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Elena Calvillo

By 1531, the Venetian artist Sebastiano del Piombo had resettled in Rome after the Sack, received a lucrative sinecure as the keeper of the papal seals and won acclaim for his method of painting in oils on stone supports. Two decades later, Agnolo Bronzino produced a series of portraits on tin supports while working for Cosimo I de' Medici. This lecture examines the ways in which their innovative use of materials in portraiture contributed to both the painters' and patrons' identities, and how it made claims of originality and invention that might otherwise be denied to artists who excelled in the portrait genre.

Dr Elena Calvillo is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Richmond. Her research and writing focus on artistic service and imitative strategies in 16th-century Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Image: Sebastiano del Piombo. Portrait of Pope Clement VII. c. 1531. Oil on slate. Naples, Museo di Capodimonte (Photo Scala)

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Assessing the Impact of Argument Mapping on Critical Thinking Skills: Tim van Gelder

Venue: Chisholm Theatre, Babel

Presenters: Dr Tim van Gelder

Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education Teaching and Learning Seminar Series

Argument maps are just diagrams showing the structure of reasoning. A growing body of studies indicate that creating these maps can substantially enhance critical thinking skills. This talk will present a meta-analytic review of these studies, against the backdrop of one teacher's quixotic attempts, over many years, to help students reason and argue more effectively.

The Teaching and Learning Seminar Series showcases evidence-based best practice in the areas of teaching, learning and assessment in higher education.

Dr Tim van Gelder is an applied epistemologist with a background in philosophy. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, he completed his PhD in Pittsburgh and then taught at Indiana University before returning to Melbourne on an ARC fellowship.

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Science Festival: 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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Sonia Delaunay's Livid Pictures: art, fashion and poetry in the French Avant-Garde

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library

Join Dr Anthony White for a presentation on Sonia Delaunay’s Living Pictures: art, fashion and poetry in the French Avante-Garde as part of the exhibition, Art on the Page. The Ukranian-born artist Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) was a pioneer of the Parisian avant-garde. With her vivid geometric designs she aimed to break down the distinctions between fine art, applied art and literature as well as the boundary between art and life itself. This talk focuses on her co-authored book "Tableau-vivants" (or Living Pictures) which documents her extravagantly colored and designed dresses that made art come alive on the body of the wearer.

Dr Anthony White is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book, authored with Grace McQuilten, is titled "Art as Enterprise: Economic and Social Engagement in Contemporary Art" and was published in 2016 with IB Tauris.

Art on the Page showcases the astonishing, little-known book illustration work of a number of the world’s finest artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Antoni Tàpies, Marc Chagall, David Hockney and Joan Miró. Their original woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, tableaux and engravings—of the type normally found on the gallery wall—accompany the work of revered writers including Vladimir Mayakovsky, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Emily Brontë and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Press Freedom, Law and Politics in the Jokowi Presidency

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

Presenters: Dr Herlambang P Wiratraman

This presentation examines press freedom under the administration of Joko Widodo ('Jokowi'). While a free press is often regarded as one of the successes of Indonesia’s transition to democracy, Indonesian journalists remain vulnerable to various forms of violence, ranging from intimidation to criminalisation, and even extra-judicial killings.

Dr Herlambang P Wiratraman argues that this situation can be attributed to two main factors. First, decentralisation plays a role as the contestation of the political economy at the local level influences this, rather than policies at the national level. This has significantly shaped cases against journalists, where the courts have been used to retaliate against the press and to silence opposition, with this paper showing that the most targeted medias have also been those lauded for their reliability and high quality standards. As a consequence, media have adapted to this new situation, actively avoiding the judiciary. Second, the media itself have changed, with new configurations of political imperium combining media ownership and illiberal democracy have allowed for the development of a predatory system in governance and other state institutions.

Dr Wiratraman is visiting the University of Melbourne as part of the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative, a visiting scholar program that aims to further enhance teaching and research relationships with colleagues in Indonesia.

Light refreshments will be served from 5.30pm. The lecture will begin at 6pm.

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Creative Classrooms: How to Stoke Imaginative Intelligence in Students

Venue: Q230, 258 Queensberry Street

Presenters: Professor Scott Barry Kaufman

Severe ear infections rendered three-year-old Scott Barry Kaufman nearly deaf. As a result, he needed a few extra seconds to process things in real time, which landed him in a special education classroom.

Inspired by his personal experience, Scott Barry Kaufman encourages educators to take a holistic, whole person approach to evaluation that benefits all students. According to Kaufman, students who dream big – those who can imagine different, better, more satisfying lives – have a better chance of living them.

With cutting-edge research, Kaufman shows us how a renewed embrace of intellectual curiosity can prepare students for rewarding lives worth living.

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The Syrian Refugee Response with UNHCR Representative in Lebanon, Mireille Girard

Venue: Faculty of Business and Economics, Business and Economics

Presenters: Mireille Girard

Over 5 million people have fled Syria since 2011, seeking safety in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and beyond. Millions more are displaced inside Syria and hope is fading.

Join us as Mireille Girard, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Lebanon, discusses the international response to Syrian refugees, and how responsibility must be shared to address the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time.

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