No Images? Click here Hi , Thank you for your continued support of The University of Tasmania's Public Lecture and Forum program. This program provides an opportunity for the University to engage with the broader community and provide a platform for ideas, debate and discussion. UPCOMING EVENTS Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences Associate Professor Lucieer will give an overview of the technology and exciting applications of UAS remote sensing, sharing his team’s practical field experiences, their ups and downs, dos and don’ts from the last nine years of operating UAS for remote sensing research. Speaker: Associate Professor Arko Lucieer Complex Trauma Northern Early Years Reference Group and Partners, B4 Early Years Coalition and the University of Tasmania, invite you to join them for a conversation about Complex Trauma. Complex Trauma is a psychological disorder that occurs as a result of repetitive, prolonged trauma involving sustained abuse or abandonment by a caregiver of other interpersonal relationship with an uneven power dynamic. Speaker: Dr Elspeth Stephenson The Future of Energy in Tassie: Electrified Transport Transport liberates and infuriates Tasmanians every day. How we travel is a crucial part of our lives and considerations of the transport of the future are essential for achieving a clean energy future. Electrified transport is evolving rapidly, and innovations will change the way we move in the world. The possibilities to create change in this sector are endless. EnergyLab is excited to be coming to Hobart to facilitate a conversation on the opportunities for electrified transport as a means to innovate the energy sector in Tasmania and beyond. Panel: Penny Cocker, Laura Jones, Ray Massie, Dr Evan Franklin. Moderated by Piers Grove Gender, Identity and Why Words Matter Join us for a conversation with young Melbourne activist and author Nevo Zisin as they discuss gender, identity, relationships and finding a sense of place. Speaker: Nevo Zisin Taiwan's New Southbound Policy: The India example The New Southbound Policy was introduced by President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016. There were four events in the international environment that led to this new orientation. They were China’s introduction of a new Labor law in 2008, India’s ICT-based Economy and Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ policy incentives. The fourth event is the tariff war initiated by US President Donald Trump against China. As a result, the New Southbound Policy can be regarded as a coping strategy of Taiwan enterprises to changing international milieu. Speaker: Professor To-hai Liou James Martineau Memorial Lecture We all apt to alter our beliefs and even our principles to suit the prevailing winds. Marshalling evidence from psychology and evolutionary theory, Professor Levy will suggest that we are designed to update our beliefs in response to social signals: as these signals change, we change our minds, often without even noticing. This event will be held in Launceston on the 19th September and Hobart on the 20th September. Please click through for further information. Speaker: Professor Neil Levy Voices from the Other Side of the Colonial Sea Frontier Most accounts of early contact relations between the Straitsmen and their Aboriginal wives, with whom they made homes on the small islands of Bass Strait during the first decades of the 1800s, are permeated with characterisations of slavery and savagery. This presentation, at stark counterpoint to those white masculine colonial narratives that pervade understandings of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, allows the voices of Islanders from the other side of the sea frontier to finally be heard. Speaker: Dr Patsy Cameron AO World History and the Tasman Sea Did Polynesians navigate to the Australian continent in pre-colonial eras? The consensus is currently no. This lecture does not so much ask ‘why’. Instead, this lecture explores the significance of the Tasman Sea for world history that is increasingly interested in deep temporal scales and ancient sea crossings. Speaker: Professor Alison Bashford Hospital Admission and Readmission for Chronic Cardiovascular Disease The 2018 Arthur Cobbold Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Tom Marwick. Professor Marwick has been the recipient of more than fifty significant research grants and several awards, including the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology, 2009 and the RT Hall Prize (2006) and Kempson Maddox Lecture (2011) of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Speaker: Professor Tom Marwick Sandy Duncanson Social Justice Lecture Reverend Tim Costello AO is one of Australia’s best known community leaders and a sought after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics. Speakers: Reverend Tim Costello AO Sir James Plimsoll Lecture Chris Seed became the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia in November 2013. Prior to taking up this position he was a Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and before that Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. His earlier career included assignments in Tehran, Canberra, London and Papua New Guinea, where he was High Commissioner. Speakers: Chris Seed |