Our Languages Matter – Kulinin?

Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts

Presenters: Dr Sam Osborne, Ms Karina Lester

The 2017 NAIDOC week theme ‘Our Languages Matter’ provides opportunity for reflection on the place of Aboriginal languages in Australian society and advocacy for a renewed focus within education.

Building on the work of Remote Education Systems, a five year research project within the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP), ‘Red Dirt Thinking’ argues the need for culturally responsive pedagogies that are grounded in the context of remote communities.

In Anangu (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara) communities, strong local languages and kin structures, Anangu cultural codes and values continue to frame the nature of Anangu engagement with schooling and non-local educators. Current remote education policies are focused on resourcing school attendance strategies, pedagogies for English language instruction and ‘remotely located’ (metropolitan) boarding school programs.

In this lecture, the need for effective teacher preparation and ongoing professional engagement opportunities towards strengthening the capacity for 'Red Dirt' culturally responsive pedagogies is argued. This includes metropolitan boarding programs where preparing young people to take up what continue to be 'Red Dirt' aspirations, located within the context of their home communities, is often unaccounted for. Finally, a Pitjantjatjara language frame for ‘ethical listening’ is proposed as an ethical/methodological tool in dual language and epistemological education contexts.

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Keynote address: President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building

The University of Melbourne will present the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, with an honorary Doctorate of Laws during his official visit to Australia in October 2017. Following the conferring ceremony, President Higgins will deliver a keynote address in celebration of The University of Melbourne’s strong ties to Ireland and Irish culture.

Michael D. Higgins is the ninth President of Ireland, and has been in office since 2011. He was Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997 and President of the Labour Party from 2003 until his election as President. Prior to his political career, he was a Lecturer at University College Galway and Visiting Professor at Southern Illinois University.

President Higgins’ honorary degree will be conferred by the University of Melbourne Chancellor Allan Myers AC QC.

Doors will open at 5.15pm.

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Molecular Biology of Parasites and its Implications

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

Presenters: Professor Robin Gasser

This lecture explores the expanding parasite genome universe from a parasitologist's perspective.

Parasites cause major disease in billions of humans and animals worldwide, but current control methods are often inadequate. Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Robin Gasser will discuss how modern molecular and computational methods are being used to understand the biology of parasites and the disease that they cause, with a perspective of developing new treatments and diagnostic tests.

Compounded by massive global food and water shortages, diseases caused by parasitic worms have a devastating, long-term impact on hundreds of millions of people and animals worldwide.

As no vaccines are available against most parasites, control often relies on the use of anti-parasitic drugs. However, the excessive and widespread use of such chemicals has led to serious drug resistance problems around the world, such that there is an ongoing need for the development of new interventions.

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

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Hindi in Australia: The Story So Far

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

Presenters: Dr Ian Woolford, Ms Mrinal Pande, Ms Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal, Ms Kumud Merani Merani

Hindi, one of the world's most widely spoken languages, has a firm foothold in Australia. This year's census data reveals what many in Australia's Hindi community already knew: the story of Hindi is part of the story of Australia. How shall we tell this story?

From the perspectives of media, literature, and education, this panel of Hindi specialists from India and Australia will grapple with the questions, Why Hindi? And why now?

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Traumatic Memory, Legacies of the Past, and Contemporary Ruptures: The Cry of Nomonde Calata

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

In 1985, Nomonde Calata’s husband was one of ‘the Cradock Four’ activists killed by apartheid security police in South Africa. She is known for her heart-wrenching scream at the opening of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s public hearings.

Against this backdrop, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela will explore the promise and limits of the TRC’s public testimony process and illustrate how it became a site for connecting the individual and political dimension of trauma. Using a Kleinian psychoanalytic lens, she will explore how witnesses’ traumatic memories transformed public spaces into intimate spaces. This enabled human rights criminals and bystanders to confront their guilt and shame, which created opportunities for change and transformation.

In this public lecture, Pumla will propose the concept of ‘post-apartheid trauma’ and argue that it can be used to analyse the various intersecting dimensions of traumatic memory and its intergenerational repercussions in contemporary South Africa.

This public lecture is part of the Global Network for Justice. Conflict. Responsibility symposium being held at The University of Melbourne.

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Internationalisation Process, Strategies and Competitive Advantages for India

Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute

Presenters: Associate Professor Mohan Thite

Is there a distinctive ‘India Way’ of doing business? This query finds resonance not only among corporate leaders but also in academic studies focusing on emerging market multinational enterprises (EMMNEs).

The speed and spread of EMMNEs has caught the world by surprise, and prompted a need to understand whether, why and how multinationals from emerging economies are different from the ones in developed countries.

Based on research and in depth interviews over 90 senior management personnel in the headquarters and subsidiaries of eight Indian multinationals, leading to an edited book Emerging Indian Multinationals – Strategic Players in a Multipolar World published by Oxford University Press (2016), this seminar presents the voices of Indian corporate leaders to provide evidence on the internationalisation process and the country and firm specific advantages of emerging multinationals. Specifically, it will identify innovation-focused differentiation, entrepreneurial ambition, compassionate capitalism and employee commitment as the core competitive advantages of Indian multinationals. In the process, the seminar will underscore the need for cross national transfer of emerging management models and practice to facilitate the ‘travel of ideas’ in multiple directions.

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Reframing Medicine: Cure Sometimes, Treat Often, Comfort Always

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer (YHM) Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr MR Rajagopal

Described by the New York Times as 'The father of palliative care in India', Dr MR Rajagopal is in Melbourne for the launch of a new film, Hippocratic, which explores his life story and his mission to spark a revolution in healthcare around the world. During the lecture Dr Rajagopal will give a presentation, share an excerpt from the film and take time for questions from the audience.

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The October Lecture by Her Excellency, the Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria

Venue: Q230, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: The Honourable Linda Dessau AC

In this special edition of the 2017 Dean's Lecture Series, we host the Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria.

The Honourable Linda Dessau AC became the 29th Governor of Victoria on 1 July 2015, being the first female in the role.

The Governor had a distinguished career in the law as a solicitor, a barrister at the Victorian Bar, Senior Crown Counsel in Hong Kong, and a magistrate in the Children’s Court, the Coroner’s Court and the Magistrates’ Court. Her final 18 years on the bench was as a judge in the Family Court of Australia.

Throughout her career, the Governor was involved in a wide range of community organisations, including as a Commissioner of the AFL, President of the Melbourne Festival and a Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria.

In 2010 the Governor became a member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to family law, and to the community.

In 2017 the Governor was made a Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the people of Victoria through leadership roles in the judiciary, to the advancement of economic ties and business relationships, and as a supporter of charitable, sporting and arts organisations.

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Soils as Living Systems

Venue: Lyle Theatre, Redmond Barry Building

Presenters: Professor Tony O'Donnell

The Professor GW Leeper Memorial Lecture

Australian soils have formed on a contrasting geological landscape and in Western Australia ancient, highly weathered, lateritic landscapes dominated by kaolinite predominate. Western Australia’s wheat belt sits on the Yilgarn Craton, one of the world’s oldest land masses where extensive and prolonged weathering of the underlying parent material has given rise to infertile soils deficient in essential elements such as phosphorus, molybdenum, zinc and copper. Extensive weathering of these parent materials can also result in soils that are acidic, high in available iron and deficient in copper.

In this presentation, Professor Tony O’Donnell will discuss the impact of these distinct soil physiochemical properties on the structure and functioning of the soil microbiome in Western Australia and show how some of the key biogeochemical processes that support plant growth really can be different in the West.

The Professor G.W. Leeper Memorial Lecture is an annual public lecture hosted by the Victorian branch of Soil Science Australia and the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences.

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India: Its Early History, Empires and Architecture

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Mr Oliver Everett

This lecture starts from the Indus Valley civilisation (3000BC to 1500BC) and continues with the Aryan invasion from 1500BC and with the brief but significant invasion by Alexander the Great in 326BC. The Mauryan Empire (320 to 180BC) was the first full scale indigenous empire in India. Its most powerful Emperor, Ashoka, spread Buddhism over much of the country with his famous columns, rock inscriptions and stupas.

The second great Indian Empire, the Guptas (320 to 480AD), created a sophisticated society with flourishing arts, architecture, sculpture, literature, sciences, economics and administration. Cave and rock temples are described and illustrated, including the remarkable wall paintings at Ajanta and the sculpture at Ellora and Elephanta. Hindu temples developed all over the country from the 5th century AD onwards and became increasingly complex and extraordinary. The Muslim invasion of India at the end of the 12th century introduced new forms of architecture and art.

Oliver Everett is Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. His visit to the University of Melbourne is made possible via the generosity of the Macgeorge Bequest.

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Human Musicality

Venue: 103 (Lowe Theatre), Redmond Barry Building

Presenters: Professor Jeremy Begbie, Dr Joseph Jordania

Professor Jeremy Begbie will present a live lecture transmitted from Cambridge University followed by a response from Dr Joseph Jordania, from the Conservatorium at The University of Melbourne. The topic is whether human musicality is an evolutionary extension, with cultural glosses, of the remarkable sounds made by other animals (birds, dolphins,...) or does something new also come to light in human musicality that discloses something new about human beings and about the kind of world in which we live?

YAMAHA MUSIC AUSTRALIA is providing the piano for Dr Jordania https://au.yamaha.com/en/products/musicalinstruments/pianos/premiumpianos/index.html

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Out of Common Humanity: Humanitarianism, Compassion and Efforts in Australia to assist Jewish Refugees in the 1930s

Venue: Forum Theatre 153, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Joy Damousi

2017 Greg Dening Memorial Lecture

In June 1935, Edith Roll, a 13-year-old Jewish girl from Vienna, wrote to her Australian pen-pal Jean Doig, aged 10, from Colac, Victoria. The correspondence was short as Edith and her family were swept up in the violence of the Holocaust. Though Jean’s parents, Keith and Louise Doig, helped the Roll family apply to migrate to Australia, these efforts tragically failed.

Why should the attempt of one family in an Australian country town to assist another in Europe be considered of broader relevance to the monumental events of the mid-20th century?

Unsuccessful efforts to evacuate refugees are cursorily dismissed. A different focus, however, would direct our attention to the motivations of people who were not otherwise politically engaged to act. We miss an opportunity to return to the past – as Greg Dening put it – its own present. From this perspective, the Doig family efforts are part of the complex story of Australian migration history. If we choose not to tell these stories, we cannot fully chart how a history of compassion, and more broadly humanitarianism, can be written.

Joy Damousi is Professor of History and ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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The Russian Revolution after 100 Years

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Mark Edele

On 25 October 1917, the Bolsheviks took power in Petrograd. For the following 74 years this date would mark one of the foundational events of global history: the establishment of the world's first socialist state.

Red October inspired high hopes in some and terrible dread in others. For better and for worse it shaped the 20th century in fundamental ways. But what does the revolution mean over a quarter century after the breakdown of the Soviet Union?

In this lecture, historian Mark Edele argues that in order to understand the significance of the Russian revolution today, we need to broaden our view well beyond the events in Petrograd in 1917. The October uprising was but one moment in a larger, violent process of destruction and reforging of empire. The results continue to shape the region, and indeed the world.

This lecture is co-hosted by the Australian Book Review.

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The Arts after Conflict: Reflections on Cambodia

Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Presenters: Dr Rachel Hughes, Mr Rithy Panh, Mr Phloeun Prim, Professor Margaret Kartomi AM FAHA Dr Phil

This panel will discuss and celebrate the Melbourne Festival world premiere of A Requiem for Cambodia: Bangsokol, as well as reflect on the wider role of music and film in post-conflict contexts.

Panellists:

• Award-winning Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Phan
• Executive Director of Cambodian Living Arts Phloeun Prim
• Musicologist of southeast Asia Professor Margaret Kartomi
• Cultural geographer Dr Rachel Hughes

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Mapping wellbeing: Expanding our horizons through ‘untranslatable’ words

Venue: Room 230, 234 Queensberry Street

Presenters: Dr Tim Lomas

Are there positive experiences which can't be expressed in English, but which there are words for in other languages? If so, what is the significance of these so-called untranslatable words? These are the questions that will be explored in this presentation, in which Tim Lomas will share the latest updates on his ‘positive cross-cultural lexicography’ project which aims to explore untranslatable words relating to wellbeing from across the world’s languages.

Dr Tim Lomas has been a lecturer in positive psychology at the University of East London since April 2013. Tim completed his PhD at the University of Westminster in 2012, where his thesis focused on the impact of meditation on men's mental health.

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Work: In Play

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

Presenters: Mr Dylan Brady

MSD Alumni Survey Series

For Dylan Brady, architecture is a study and reflection on society, culture and people. It is playing at your very best, with passion and intensity and courage and reverence. It is understanding and awareness – of your brief, your environment, your urgency to present the future. It is an ambition to inspire, to challenge and enrich, to question and learn and test and reflect and create and immerse yourself in experience. It is a calling to travel and explore, to discover and pioneer, to advocate and prospect and conjure and transform and to conduct a little joy. Join him in this lecture to hear more.

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Urban Hallucinations

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

Presenters: Ms Julie Eizenberg

KoningEizenberg takes on the idyll of local and neighbourhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region in Urban Hallucinations. They bring a fresh eye to placemaking and community building in an urban area that is ambivalent about development, yet conscious of regional issues — notably sustainability, affordability, and housing shortage. Believing opportunities hide in plain sight, the architects sift through the context of increasing regulation, differing opinions on responsible growth, and priorities for quality of life to extract their own unexpected and compelling approach to the architecture of the day.

Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, RAIA is a Founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg and graduate of the University of Melbourne. She brings design vision, leadership, and expertise in working with cities, non-profit agencies, institutions and private developers to generate inventive master plans and public places.

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An evening with Charles Gaines

Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Charles Gaines

Learn about the work of this significant artist who over 40 years has explored the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Charles Gaines’ groundbreaking work serves as a critical bridge between the first generation conceptualists of the 1960s and 1970s and those artists of later generations exploring the limits of subjectivity and language.

Since the 1970s, Gaines has produced highly formal conceptual works that bring into play disparate artistic and political positions through a disciplined system or set of rules. Gaines’ interest in systems aesthetics can be related to the systematised work of minimalist, Fluxus and early conceptual artists, yet his works differ in their preparedness to engage directly with prosaic, social, political and philosophical propositions. As a result, his work evokes the far-ranging sets of relationships that shape humanitarian concerns and social justice.

Gaines' art has explored the relationship between aesthetics, politics, language and systems. He employs rule-based methodologies to investigate ways in which meaning can be experienced in images and words. Informed by sources as varied as Tantric Buddhist drawings, the systemized work of Hanne Darboven, and John Cage’s notions of indeterminacy, Gaines creates work that often employs plotting and mathematics to organize visual components.

Working serially in progressive and densely layered bodies of works, Gaines explores the interplay between objectivity and interpretation, the systematic and the poetic.

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What Future for Authors in Copyright?

Venue: Federal Court of Australia, Court 8A, Level 8

Presenters: Professor Jane Ginsburg, The Honourable David Yates

For the fourth event in the 2017 Judges in Conversation series, the Honourable Justice David Yates (Federal Court of Australia) will be in conversation with Professor Jane Ginsburg (Morton L Janklow Professor of Literacy and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University) on the topic 'What Future for Authors in Copyright?'

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US exit from the Paris Agreement: Kyoto Revisited?

Venue: Australian-German Climate and Energy College, 257

Presenters: Dr Jonathan Pickering

The United States’ recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (unless it can re-engage on more favourable terms) has rattled international consensus on the need for cooperation to avoid dangerous climate change. Yet it remains contested whether the overall effects of the US decision on global climate policy will be good, bad or largely indifferent.

To help tease out the likely implications of the decision, Dr Jonathan Pickering compares and contrasts US non-participation in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. He will focus on four key areas that may condition the influence of US treaty decisions on international climate policy:

• Global momentum on climate change mitigation
• The timing and circumstances of the US decision to exit
• The possibility of US non-participation giving rise to alternative forms of international collaboration on climate policy
• The influence of treaty design on countries’ incentives to participate and comply.

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Artist to Artist: Gareth Sansom

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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Does the European Union Have a Future?

Venue: Auditorium, Peter Doherty Institute

Presenters: Professor Loukas Tsoukalis

Europe has been buffeted by a succession of crises in recent years, notably the crisis of the euro, the refugee crisis, the decision of the UK to leave and more recently the arrival in the White House of a new US President who sides with those militating for disintegration on the European continent.

What has gone wrong with the European project, a revolutionary political experiment that was meant to deliver (and in fact did deliver for many years) peace, democracy, open borders and constantly rising living standards through the gradual sharing of sovereignty? What are the main challenges facing Europe and the European project and what if anything can be done to relaunch the project? What would be the consequences of failure for Europe and beyond in times when globalisation and the liberal global economic order can no longer be taken for granted?

Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, will chair and moderate this seminar, with opportunity for audience Q&A.

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Antipodean Prints: Joseph Burke and the Development of the University of Melbourne’s Print Collection

Venue: Leigh Scott Room, first floor, Baillieu Library

Presenters: Dr Angelo Lo Conte

This presentation investigates the early development of the University of Melbourne’s Print Collection.

Beginning with the exceptional donation of over 3500 Old Master prints bequeathed in 1959 by Dr Orde Poynton, the collection was enriched in the early 60s thanks to the cooperative effort of legendary figures in the Australian art world such as Professor Joseph Burke, Dr Poynton and Dr Ursula Hoff.

Predicated on new archival discoveries, the presentation focuses on the period 1959-1964 outlining the background of the Collection’s most important acquisitions. The examination of unpublished private correspondence as well as departmental documents, uncovers the teaching function of the university collection and emphasises how its development was supported by an exceptional synergy between art historians and local philanthropists, namely the Lindsay family and the Society of Collectors.

The presentation also unveils the acquisition strategy adopted by Joseph Burke and highlights how he intentionally used a different collecting approach from that of the National Gallery of Victoria, acquiring reproductive engravings that would complete the NGV’s Old Masters collection.

Dr Angelo Lo Conte is the Ursula Hoff Fellow 2017.

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Creating effective innovation ecosystems

Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2 , Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Leo Goedegebuure

Innovation has always been a driver for socio-economic growth. With the shift from closed to open innovation the ecosystem analogy is quickly gaining prominence. Tertiary education institutions are key players in these systems, both as providers of new knowledge through the various forms of research they are engaged in as well as through the provision of highly skilled professionals.

This lecture will explore how our tertiary institutions can optimise their contribution to Australia’s innovation agenda. In particular, it will focus on differentiation and collaboration as the fundamentals of effective ecosystems.

Professor Leo Goedegebuure is Director of the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.

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Holding States and Corporations to Account: Successes and Challenges in Redress for Human Rights Abuses

Venue: Level 2, Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Keren Adams, Shen Narayanasamy, Richard Hermer QC

How do we hold governments and corporations to account for human rights abuse?
This panel will feature experts engaged in seeking accountability for human rights abuses by states and corporations from the perspectives of both strategic litigation and campaigning.

It will explore how the law is increasingly called upon by individuals and communities to hear evidence of the harm perpetrated by governments and corporations, for example against citizens in detention, through corporate and business activities, and under colonial rule.

It will also consider how other strategies beyond the courts are used to try to prevent such abuses occurring in the first place, and how law and legal institutions are used strategically to create accountability both against our corporations and our governments.

Panelists include Richard Hermer (QC, Matrix Chambers), Karen Adams (Human Rights Law Centre) and Shen Narayanasamy (GetUp!). The panel is hosted by the School of Social and Political Science's Research Cluster on Conflict, Development and Justice together with the Human Rights Law Centre and the Corporate Accountability Research Network.

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Feedback for Learning: The Challenge of Design

Venue: Theatre B, Old Arts

Presenters: Professor Elizabeth Molloy

Feedback is a challenging but important business in higher education. Despite compelling evidence that it is important for learning, feedback is seen as one of the most problematic aspects of the student experience.

Learners report that they do not receive enough feedback, and when they do, it is difficult to use. This finding is consistent across both classroom and workplace settings.

Educators in the classroom struggle with turn-around time for comments on work, as well as the pressure to provide personalised and individualised comments on students’ work. Educators in both settings also anticipate the emotional impact of their feedback on students, and can approach these encounters with a tentative stance that reinforces to learners that feedback is a practice to be feared.

This seminar explores recent frameworks proposed by Boud and Molloy (2013) called Feedback Mark 1 and Mark 2. Feedback is re-conceptualised as an activity driven by learners, rather than an act of ‘telling’ imposed on learners.

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The Rule of Law in a Post-Truth Era

Venue: David P Derham theatre , Law

Presenters: Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs

2017 Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture Presented by Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs

As the internet and social media provide unprecedented access to information and commentary, a curious and probably unforeseen consequence has been that responses to contemporary problems are increasingly emotional and ideological. Research reports, scientific evidence and balanced reports are often ignored in favour of subjective, entrenched views. If facts don’t matter, how can public policy and laws be developed to address today's challenges? This public lecture will consider the implications of a “post- truth” era on the rule of law in the context of marriage equality, indigenous policy and vulnerable children.

About the Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture Series

The Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture honours the Fourth Dean of the Melbourne Law School, Kenneth Hamilton Bailey, who played a significant part in Australia's contribution to the formation of the United Nations. Kenneth Hamilton Bailey was born in Melbourne in 1898, was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for Victoria in 1919 and graduated Oxford with a degree in Law and Arts. Bailey returned to The University of Melbourne in 1924, where he became a Professor of Jurisprudence, and later, a Professor of Public Law. When he succeeded Harrison Moore in 1928, Sir Kenneth Bailey became Melbourne’s first Australian-born Dean of Law. The Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture was inaugurated at the Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference on 19 February 1999 at the University of Melbourne.

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The Diamond Quantum Revolution

Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Presenters: Professor Jörg Wrachtrup

Miegunyah Lecture

Modern devices, from smartphones to cars, are packed with sensors. And environmental monitoring, biochemical analytics, disease diagnostics and medical imaging rely on precision sensors.

Quantum technology promises a dramatic increase in sensitivity and energy efficiency of sensors, giving us the ability to detect the otherwise undetectable. But look in your phone, your car, or your local hospital’s MRI machine, and you won’t see any quantum sensors. Where are they?

We are on the cusp of a revolution in precision quantum sensing technology, but we need industry to step up with large-scale investment in quantum sensor manufacturing to make this a reality.

Join Miegunyah Fellow Professor Jörg Wrachtrup from the University of Stuttgart Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology as he illustrates the imminent real-life quantum applications that will revolutionise our digital future.

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Securing Australia's Energy Future

Venue: Theatre, Elisabeth Murdoch

Presenters: Audrey Zibelman

The Melbourne branch of the Alternative Technology Association (ATA) presents this lecture from Audrey Zibelman, CEO, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Audrey will discuss the pivotal role that AEMO occupies in delivering energy security and reliability amid the energy transition and the work AEMO is doing in this regard, as well as touch on the Finkel recommendations.

She will also briefly discuss her experience in the use of distributed energy in New York state, and touch on AEMO’s joint pilot project with ARENA on demand response.

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Towards a Disability Inclusive India: Changing Attitudes

Venue: Arole Room, The Nossal Institute

Presenters: Ms Fairlene Soji, Dr Anto Maliekal, Dr Nathan Grills, Mr Lawrence Singh, Ms Prerana Singh, Shailaja Tetal

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has been vocal in promoting disability inclusion and last year passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. There has been widespread support for the act as an important step forward in including the 20 to 80 million people living with disability in India. However, there continues to be issues around usage of language, stigma, cultural attitudes and implementation and policy. What is the role of reservations, research data and policy in shaping thinking on disability inclusion in India?

In August 2017, the Australian High Commission (New Delhi) launched a disability campaign. Several of the key people involved in this campaign will be in Australia under a DFAT Australian Award Fellowship (AAF). These leaders from CBM India, the Public Health Foundation of India, Uttarakhand Cluster and Catholic Health Association of India will discuss the current situation for people living with disability in India. The round table discussion will explore how to best promote a disability inclusive India.

This event is being run with the support of the Nossal Institute and the Catholic Health Association of India.

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Indigenous Sovereignty: Activism and the Imagination

Venue: Theatre B, Ground Floor, Old Arts

Presenters: Professor Philip Mead FAHA

2017 Returning Harvard Chair of Australian Studies Lecture

The recent Uluru Statement from the Heart (May 2017) and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June 2017), the result of dialogues across Aboriginal Australia, are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia. For some groups and individuals, pursuing Aboriginal sovereignty has been the only basis on which Indigenous rights can be properly pursued. The original crime on which white Australia is founded is the violent imposition of sovereignty, without cession or extinguishment.

For other Aboriginal activists and intellectuals, thinking in terms of sovereignty has been a delusion or ‘injusticeable’; Aboriginal rights are to be pursued through existing institutions of the law and government. Currently these strands within Aboriginal political life are being transformed by the discourse of Makarrata (truth-telling and agreement) and constitutional recognition of a ‘First Nations Voice'.

As someone who spent decades working in Aboriginal politics in Central and Northern Australia, Alexis Wright has been an activist for Aboriginal sovereignty but has carried this commitment into the literary sphere. Her novel The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are superseded by global rule? What if the social contract that holds sovereignty intact through institutions collapses in anarchy? The Swan Book explores these scenarios, including Indigenous leadership, in a complex interplay of utopian and dystopian modes.

Although in recent years there has been development in ideas such as republics of letters and world literary systems, within these models of literary governance, citizenship and mobility, the question of sovereignty has been largely absent. This lecture argues that Alexis Wright’s work is an instance of how the literary imaginary can address real world issues of Indigenous rights and national sovereignty within the Indigenous world novel.

Presented by the Australian Centre with the Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies, and the Harvard Club of Victoria.

from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/9372-indigenous-sovereignty-activism-and-the-imagination