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 Food Evolution Film Screening Food Evolution is a documentary film focusing on genetically modified foods, and explores the debate over whether they're healthy to eat or good for the planet. Event: Film Screening Child Friendly Youth Justice The last two decades have seen the growth and spread of actuarial forms of youth justice across many Anglophone countries. Over this period these forms of youth justice have been critiqued. Alternative models of youth justice and youth justice practice have been explored. This seminar discusses one of them: child or youth ‘positive’ or ‘friendly’ youth justice. It asks what this means and whether it presents a truly alternative form of justice for young people in trouble with the law. Speaker: Professor Jo Phoenix The Scholar as Educator, the Educator as Disruptor In NAIDOC Week, Professor Marcia Langton AM will present the 2018 Japanangka errol West Lecture. Professor Langton AM is an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. This event will be held in Newnham on the 11th July and Sandy Bay on the 12th July. Please click through for further information. Speaker: Professor Marcia Langton AM Companies Behaving Badly? This address will discuss the various ways that companies engage in misconduct from an ACCC point of view; why this may be happening, and what can be done about it from the perspective of Australia’s national competition and consumer law regulator. Speaker: Rod Sims How to Side-Hustle Want to build a side business and make extra money without quitting your day job? Fancy yourself an entrepreneur but don’t know where to start? Find out what help there is out there, and hear from those that have taken the plunge. Speakers: Joey Crawford, Karina Dambergs, Dr Rose Kling, Kelsey Thomas.
Facilitator: Steve Henty “What are Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ objectives and what are his strategies for realising them?" Rowan Callick will bring all his knowledge and experience of the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific and China in his address on the future that President Xi Jinping is seeking for China and his strategies for realising it. Speaker: Rowan
Callick, Asia-Pacific Editor, The Australian A City of Tree Lined Streets Hobart is a city of green where tree-lined streets are a valued component of our quality of life - this is the vision for the City of Hobart endorsed by Council last year. This event will discuss the state of play in Hobart, the aspirations of the strategy and how to achieve the City's vision with the success of Melbourne in turning policy into practice as an exemplar. Speakers: Ian Shears, Jerry de Gryse Shoot, Catalogue, Eat: Interacting with nature at a Tasmanian penal station The early history of the Port Arthur penal station (1830-77) was filled with scientific exploration that manifested in a variety of ways that we would consider somewhat outside the accepted scientific regime. This event will discuss some of the early and lesser known scientific work undertaken at the settlement, the sometimes questionable methods of collection, and how the knowledge gained then continues to influence both the scientific and historical fields today. Admission: $6 General Public, $4 Students, QVMAG Friends and members of Launceston Historical Society. Free for members of The Royal Society of Tasmania Speakers: Dr Caitlin Vertigan, Dr Richard Tuffin Lasers and Super Exciting Research: It's all in the name! Lasers are the greatest multi-taskers; from telecommunications to surgery, from space missions to cutting through steel, they’re used everywhere! We’ll explore how lasers are key to providing for our rapidly growing energy demands, how they will help spot and treat cancer and how they can be used for safe handling of nuclear waste. Speaker: Dr Ceri Brenner The Future of Feminism and Diversity Sara Mansour is the founder and host of Bankstown Poetry Slam in Sydney and a founding board member of NOW Australia, a non-profit organisation focused on ending sexual harassment, intimidation and abuse in the workplace. Join Sara and ISC Deputy Director and gender equity expert, Dr Meredith Nash, as they discuss slam poetry, #metoo, feminism, diversity in communities, and Sara's experiences as a Muslim woman of Arab background. Speaker: Sara Mansour, Dr Meredith Nash (World) Heritage sites as ambassadors for peace The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was founded immediately following the horrors of the Second World War in 1945. In the late 1990s the World Heritage in Young Hands project incorporated peace as one of its main strands. This talk will discus the use of Heritage sites as ‘ambassadors for peace’. Speaker: Peter Stone Australia's Founding Ideals: The living wage and economic justice When challenged by employers about the cost of wage increases for Australian workers, HB Higgins, the distinguished President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration replied that if employers could not afford to pay workers a ‘living wage’ they had no right doing business in Australia. Professor Marilyn Lake draws on her recent research to discuss the Australian living wage. Speaker: Professor Marilyn Lake |