22 May 2013 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the Asia Institute
This public event will feature the premiere of a documentary film about changing attitudes toward religion and spirituality in Java, Indonesia produced by Prof Thomas Reuter. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session on: Religious Change Under the Condition of Late Modernity: Indonesia and Beyond.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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22 May 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
| Hosted by the Australian Centre, School of Culture and Communication
This lecture assesses the role of imaginative literature in providing viable narrative forms of 'risk communication' (Heise 2008) in the context of current global climate challenge.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public. |
22 May 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
| Hosted by the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
When Australia recently earned a long-anticipated seat on the UN Security Council, there was some discussion of its relevance, but little recognition of its historical significance, despite the fact for more than a century Australians have been deeply involved at popular and governmental level in international institutions and international politics and in the conceptualization of international law and human rights.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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22 May 2013 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the Centre for Advancing Journalism
The threat to independent journalism has never been more intimidating. Mainstream newspapers are downsizing, journalists are losing their jobs and the media ownership debate still rages.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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23 May 2013 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
| Hosted by the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
What happened to Rome and the idea of Rome in the age of the Counter-Reformation and of the missions to America and the Indies? Even as Roman Catholicism was ‘going global’ to an unprecedented extent, that pre-eminent symbol of its claims to universality, Rome, was being re-invented to a degree which arguably had not been seen since the fourth century CE.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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27 May 2013 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
An American presidential election-style debate over the future of US foreign policy.
Two distinguished scholars with opposing views will face questions from each other and the audience as they grapple with the difficult politics and policy choices confronting Barack Obama at the beginning of his new term in the White House.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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28 May 2013 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
| Hosted by the School of Culture and Communication
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Australian Centre. The Australian Centre was founded in 1989 with the assistance of a grant from the Hugh Williamson Foundation.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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28 May 2013 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
| Hosted by the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
The act of ‘making’ artefacts and then conserving them has consequences. The ZEITGEIST lecture program has been developed to explore this proposition through the contemporary eye of the ‘maker’. The fourth speaker for Zeitgeist I is Mr Kevin O’Brien.
| Cost: $15 - $25
Open to: alumni and general public.
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29 May 2013 5:15 PM to 7:30 PM
 | Hosted by the School of Chemistry
Dr Valda McRae has written a history of the Melbourne University Chemical Society. Join us for the 1020th MUCS Lecture where the history will be launched.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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29 May 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Strawberries and port wine: disorders of vascular development
Professor Tony Penington
Jigsaw Foundation Chair of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Paediatrics
| Cost: Free
Open to:alumni and general public.
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4 June 2013 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences
East Asia’s burgeoning importance within the global political economy requires greater understanding of the peculiarities of capitalist systems and their governance within the region.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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4 June 2013 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics
"Demystifying the Chinese Economy" presented by Professor Justin Lin
Will China’s growth be maintained? Can it be replicated? What effect does rising inequality within China have on its economic prospects? The chance to hear from this highly influential speaker is not to be missed.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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5 June 2013 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Arts
Dean's Lecture
In 2011 the German artist Thomas Demand made a two-minute stop-motion film called "Pacific Sun." Michael Fried will show this film and analyse it in detail, with a view to explaining what he regards as its particular significance in and for the present situation in the visual arts.
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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6 June 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
| Hosted by the the School of Culture and Communication
An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory today. Among the questions to be posed are: If the 20th-century was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will the 21st century - as has been suggested - be the century of the 'post-traumatic' subject, whose affective indifference and profound emotional disengagement from the world mark him or her as a victim of brain damage?
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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6 June 2013 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
 | Event presented by: ARC Centre of Excellence in Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology and Quantum Victoria
Hosted by: School of Chemistry
Bring your family and friends to help us solve the mystery of which artworks in the Quantum Gallery are genuine and which are forgeries.
| Cost: $10 for individuals
$30 for team of 4
Open to: Alumni and general public.
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6 June 2013 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
| Hosted by the Australian Centre
In the last decade liberal arts colleges have sprung up across Asia. What accounts for this sudden interest in the liberal arts? What aspirations do they serve? What models are being drawn upon?
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public.
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13 June 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Dean's Lecture
Malaria parasites: sex, drugs and blood
Professor Leann Tilley
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne All welcome.
Admission is free. Bookings are required.
| Cost: Free
Open to:alumni and general public.
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26 June 2013 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
 | Hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Dean's Lecture
Professor Billie Giles-Corti
Director, McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health
More information available shortly
| Cost: Free
Open to:alumni and general public.
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26 June 2013 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics in Melbourne
Despite its illegality, most of the Australian population is exposed to cannabis use at some stage of our lives. There is so much media hype about this drug that it is difficult to tell accuracy from allegory, exactitude from exaggeration.
Professor Jenny Williams will present empirical findings about cannabis use, allowing the audience to gain evidence based insights into this topical subject.
| Cost: Free
Open to: the general public
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1 August 2013 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
| Hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics
In this lecture, Professor Daniel Hamermesh will elucidate how people use time off the job. He will share his findings on the different ways in which people use time - across countries, by income and by gender - and delve into how time use has changed over the years. Professor Hamermesh will provide the audience with empirical evidence to assist in self-evaluation; to answer the questions: “Are the activities you choose really worth the time you spend on them?” and “How could your spare time be better used?”
| Cost: Free
Open to: alumni and general public. |