Today 2 events
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Ensemble Series
21 May – 7 Jun 7:30PM–9:00PM
Featuring works for all manner of ensembles, these concerts are always popular. The Ensemble Series will run from 21 May to 7 June 2013. Admission is free. Composition Concerts Exciting concerts of new works from the talented composition department at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM). Tuesdays 21, 28 May, 5 June, 7.30pm World Music Choir Concert Friday 31 May, 12.15pm World Music Combined Ensembles Concert A gala concert featuring an array of performances highlighting the vari...
Architecture, Building and Planning Alumni Survey Exhibition
17 May – 14 Jun 9:00AM–5:00PM
This winter The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) plays host to an exciting exhibition which gives rare insight into the design process of architectural practice DENTON CORKER MARSHALL. The exhibition is part of ABP’s Alumni Survey Series, an annual series which celebrates the work of faculty graduates and highlights the exceptional contribution they make to Australia's design culture and built environment. DENTON CORKER MARSHALL has practised internationally for decades....
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Monday, 27 May 2013
12:00–1:00PM
Epigenetic regulation of virulence genes and antigenic variation in protozoan parasites
This lecture forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute postgraduate lecture series running from March to August this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.
Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance: painting and illumination 1300-1350
Dr Ursula Betka, Research Fellow at La Trobe University, will talk on the exhibition and symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in February 2013, and the significance of the relationship between panel painting and manuscript illu...
5:30–7:00PM
Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative-Film Screening: Hidden Pictures
Please come join the Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative in our second monthly film screening! This month we will be screening the documentary Hidden Pictures. Hidden Pictures explores the experience of mental illnesses in India, Ch...
Obama's Foreign Policy: Second Term Success or Failure?
Public Debate Obama’s Foreign Policy: 2nd Term Success or Failure? An American presidential electionstyle debate over the future of US foreign policy. Two distinguished scholars with opposing views will face questions from each other and the au...
Festival of Ideas 2013 Preview Event - Is medicine broken? Featuring Ben Goldacre (UK)
Exclusively for the Festival of Ideas 2013, Ben Goldacre will deliver a compelling talk touching on his two favourite issues, Bad Science and Bad Pharma – exposing the misuse of science and statistics in medicine, business, government and more. F...
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U.S. Policy Priorities and the 'Rebalance' to the Asia-Pacific
Asialink, The U.S. Consulate General, Melbourne, The U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney along with ACBC and Confucius Institute are proud to present Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Senior ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
11:00AM–12:00PM
The art and science of Biomedical Animation
Two of the worlds leading biomedical animators, Graham Johnson from the University of California, San Francisco (USA) and Drew Berry from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, will explore the tension between scientific accuracy and creating conten...
Launch of the Australian Centre
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Australian Centre. The Centre will be launched by Dr Chris McAuliffe. The Australian Centre was founded in 1989 with the assistance of a grant from the Hugh Williamson Foundation. From 2013, followin...
From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye
The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...
Boosting your Brain Power - The Hype and the Hope
The Melbourne Neuroscience Institute and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health are pleased to present 'Boosting your Brain Power – The Hype and the Hope'. Join us as we take a look at current research into cognitive performance a...
6:30–8:00PM
Focus on Engineering
Do you love creating solutions to problems and want to make a difference to the world? Come along to find out how to study Engineering at Melbourne. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study eng...
6:30–8:00PM
Focus on IT
The world is awash with information. In the last five years, we’ve produced and recorded more information than in the previous 50,000 years; and almost all of this new information is digital. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent g...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
11:00AM–12:00PM
Author copyright and licensing - what is it, why does it matter and what might you need to know?
Dr Dugald McGlashan is Publisher at Nature Publishing Group and responsible for the Australasian Society for Immunology's premier titles: Immunology and Cell Biology and Clinical and Translational Immunology for NPG.
1:00–2:00PM
Plasma cells from beginning to end
This seminar forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Wednesday seminar series running from March to December this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.
Making non stick coatings out of thin air. Guiding science through to technology with the Australian Synchrotron
Non stick coatings are everywhere in nature and these have inspired numerous practical applications. For example leaf surfaces have been the stimulus for novel waterproof textile coatings and self cleaning windows. Insect wings hold the key to non...
Strawberries and port wine: disorders of vascular development
Vascular anomalies are localised disorders of the blood vessels that predominantly affect children. They range from simple vascular birthmarks like ‘strawberry naevi’ and ‘port wine stains’ to complex lesions that can be life threatening. Vascular...
Meet Melbourne Hamilton
We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Hamilton as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer.
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Do Indians really face racism in Australia? A journalist's perspective with Sushi Das
Since stories of dodgy colleges and violence against Indian students came to light a few years ago, accusations of racism have repeatedly hit the headlines. Racism is an issue that the Indian diaspora has had to deal with all over the world. While...
Beneath the surface: bravery and beauty in Afghanistan
There is an Afghanistan beyond the headlines of war and atrocities, a place of anonymous heroes and wild beauty. In 1991, Christopher Kremmer landed in Kabul for the first time. The Afghan countryside was in the grip of an Islamist insurgency, bu...
Mineral Resources Rent Tax - will it work?
Designing a mining tax that leaves enough incentive for future investment, treats past and future investments fairly, deals with Federal and State interests and collects some tax in the process is not easy. The recent Mineral Resources Rent Tax pr...
Meet Melbourne Warrnambool
We will be holding an information evening for you and your families in Warrnambool as part of our Meet Melbourne program. Please come along to hear more about what the University of Melbourne has to offer.
Sunday, 2 Jun 2013
2:30–4:00PM
A Wayward Girl - the early life of Ella Grainger
In 1928 Percy Grainger married his ‘Nordic Princess’ Ella Viola Ström in front of 25,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. They had met two years earlier sailing from Australia to the United States on the S.S. Aorangi. Grainger had been drawn to Ella ...
Monday, 3 Jun 2013
12:00–1:00PM
Nuclear structure, paraspeckles and long non-coding RNA
This lecture forms part of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute postgraduate lecture series running from March to August this year. Members of the public are welcome to attend at no charge.
3:00–4:00PM
On Wind Energy: It is About Turbulence. A Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) Seminar
In order to improve the understanding of the vertical transport of momentum and kinetic energy across a boundary layer flow with wind turbines, windtunnel experiments were performed to include a scaled down wind farm of 3x5. Particleimagevelocity ...
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Student Research Symposium 2013
The Student Symposium has proven to be a friendly environment for students to gain confidence in presenting and answering questions on their research. Thanks to the new venue this year there are over 30 speaking slots available this year. This ev...
Tertiary Education Policy Seminar - Students and Money
The University of Melbourne’s series of Tertiary Education Policy Seminars is an important platform for discussion and debate of current tertiary education issues, and the 2013 electionyear series is primed to be one of the most interesting and th...
Tuesday, 4 Jun 2013
11:00AM–12:00PM
Assembly of Therapeutic Carriers for Sustained Delivery of Neurotrophins to the Cochlear
Gradual degeneration of auditory neurons following sensorineural hearing loss is normally caused by depleted supply of neurotrophins as a result of the death of cochlear hair cells responsible for secreting the signalling proteins. Animal studies ...
12:00–1:00PM
What is CAP and What Can It Do?
Nanoscale polymeric films and interfaces are central to a broad range of advanced materials and emerging nanotechnologies, with applications including micro and optoelectronics, biomaterials, energy capture/storage and chromatography stationary p...
Governing Financial Crisis in East Asia
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. This discussion brings together some of the world’s leading exp...
Demystifying the Chinese Economy - The David Finch Lecture 2013
China’s rise is the most intriguing economic phenomenon of our time. One of the world’s poorest economies at the end of the nineteenth century, China has, for over three decades, been experiencing average annual growth of over 9 percent, with grow...
Wednesday, 5 Jun 2013
12:30–1:30PM
Why hasn’t the mental health of the population improved?
Over the past two decades, there have been large increases in the provision of mental health services to the Australian population. However, despite this, there has been no measurable improvement in population mental health. The talk will consider...
1:00–2:00PM
Refining murine models of osteosarcoma
Dr Walkley completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of South Australia in 1999 and completed a PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2003. He then undertook postdoctoral training with Prof. Stuart Orkin at the DanaFarber Cancer C...
Thomas Demand's 'Pacific Sun'
Dean's Lecture Professor Michael Fried Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore In 2011 the German artist Thomas Demand made a twominute stopmotion film called "Pacific Sun." Michael Fried will show this film and analyse it in detail, with a view to ...
Wednesday Lecture hosted by Raimond Gaita - Obligation to Need
Deepening political instability in many regions of the earth, compounded by the effects of climate change, will probably cause more people to be uprooted than were uprooted last century. Strong nations are likely to protect themselves in ways that...
Thursday, 6 Jun 2013
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education
The fouryear college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with studentloan debt surpassing the US$1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people in the U.S. are beginni...
Symposia on Contemporary Issues in Urban Landscape - Event 1 Edible Landscapes
In 2013 the University of Melbourne’s Burnley Campus is celebrating the 150th year of its historic gardens. Today, Burnley continues the rich legacy of horticultural research and teaching as part of the Melbourne School of Land and Environment. To...
The Disappearance of Emotion? Violence, Affect, and the Post-Traumatic Subject
An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory today. Among the questions to be posed are: If the 20thcentury was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will the 21st century as has been suggested be the century of the “posttraumatic”...
On the Liberal Arts in Asia
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, is pleased to present the Academy's 2013 Fay Gale Lecture In the last decade liberal arts colleges have sprung up across As...
Saturday, 25 May 2013
17 May – 14 Jun 9:00AM–5:00PM
Architecture, Building and Planning Alumni Survey Exhibition
This winter The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) plays host to an exciting exhibition which gives rare insight into the design process of architectural practice DENTON CORKER MARSHALL. The exhibition is part of ABP’s Alumni Su...
Events elsewhere
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Student theatre
The Grainger Museum