Hi , Thank you for your continued support of The University of Tasmania's Public Lecture Series. This program provides an opportunity for the University to engage with the broader community and provide a platform for ideas, debate and discussion. To catch up on past video recordings please visit our Livestream Channel
It's all Chinese to me! Asia literacy has been embedded in the Australian Curriculum Framework but establishing the study of Chinese is a tall order. Is Chinese really hard? What can we do to ensure that everyone knows a little more about the ‘Chinese’ and support future communities? Venue: Harvard Theatre 1, Sandy Bay
Time: Wednesday 12 June 5.30pm
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A Liferaft to a New Future for Manufacturing in Australia? Could the Liferaft Systems Australia story be a model for the future of niche manufacturing in Tasmania and elsewhere in Australia and what are the implications for the nation’s international trade relations and related policy development? Venue: Law Theatre 1, Sandy Bay
Time: Tuesday 18 June 6.00pm
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A New Journey to the Centre of the Earth: J-waves and the Earth's inner core An Australian Institute of Physics public lecture on how we can study the centre of the Earth using observations of seismic waves. Join the Australian National University’s Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić for a lecture on the “holy grail of body wave seismology”. Venue: Physics Theatre 1, Sandy Bay
Time: Tuesday 18 June 8.00pm
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A Season at the Sørsdal: Operating an AUV beneath an Antarctic ice shelf The University of Tasmania’s world-leading polar Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and its support crew have returned home after a successful first deployment in Antarctica. Join us to hear about this important expedition and what it found out from beneath the Sørsdal Glacier ice
shelf. Venue: Rory Spence Theatre, Inveresk
Time: Wednesday 19 June 6.00pm
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Lessons from the mortuary / Professor Roger Byard How can the dead help the living? Forensic pathologist Roger Byard delivers the University of Tasmania’s Arthur Cobbold Memorial Lecture. This event is BOOKED OUT but will be broadcast live and available to watch after the event via the University of Tasmania Livestream channel. Venue: Medical Science Precinct, Hobart
Time: Thursday 20 June 6.00pm
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Menzies Institute Seminars: Lessons from Forensic Pathology On a day-to-day basis forensic pathologists are in a key position to identify illnesses and accidents in the mortuary that may have a significant impact on family members and the community. 2019 Cobbold Lecturer professor Roger Byard presents a second lecture discussing “preventive pathology". Venue: Medical Science Precinct, Hobart
Time: Thursday 20 June 1.00pm
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The Rhythms of Earth and Life through Time Professor Ross Large challenges the Darwinian concept that evolution is a random process. He will outline recent research on the trace element composition of sedimentary pyrite that demonstrates that the chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere has varied significantly through geologic time in a rhythmic fashion, which has greatly influenced the course of evolution on Earth. Venue: Meeting Room, QVMAG Inveresk
Time: Sunday 23 June 1.30pm
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Sea Rescue: Marine species partnerships restoring our coastal ecosystems Coastal habitats and the valuable services they provide humans have been degraded worldwide. Policy makers and practitioners are now asking whether large-scale habitat restoration can be used to counter these losses. This event will explore how mutually beneficial interactions between species could potentially double restoration outcomes. BOOKED OUT - Watch via Livestream
Time: Tuesday 25 June 6.00pm
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NAIDOC Week Forum | Voice, Treaty, Truth Join influential Tasmanians in a conversation at the University of Tasmania on the theme VOICE. TREATY. TRUTH. for NAIDOC Week 2019. Venue: Rory Spence Theatre, Inveresk
Time: Monday 8 July 6.00pm
Venue: Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay
Time: Tuesday 9 July 6.00pm
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Coyote Made the Rivers: 2019 Japanangka errol West Lecture Native American scholar and musician Chad S. Hamill presents songs, images and stories on Indigenous ecological continuity in the era of climate change. Venue: Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay
Time: Tuesday 23 July 6.00pm
Venue: Arts Theatre 9, Newnham
Time: Thursday 25 July 6.00pm
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How do Social Enterprises affect our Wellbeing? International and Australian researchers will share insights into how social enterprises impact on the lives of their participants by providing spaces of well being that promote realisation of capability, integration, security and therapy. Venue: Rory Spence Theatre, Inveresk
Time: Tuesday 23 July 5.30pm
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2019 Giblin Lecture: Professor John Hewson Economist, former Liberal leader and media commentator Professor John Hewson presents the 2019 Giblin Lecture. Professor Hewson was a Shadow Treasurer, Shadow Finance Minister and led the Coalition as Opposition Leader for four years. Venue: Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay
Time: Thursday 25 July 6.00pm
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