11 events Coming up
27 Apr 2012
Understanding and Engaging Artists and Musicians in the 21st Century
To gain a better understanding of artists and musicians in the 21st century we must first expand the lens through which we view their artistic and musical worlds. Drawing on recent studies by Research for Youth, Music and Education (RYME) that inv...
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Free Public Lecture30 Apr 2012
Spinoza's Divine Heresy of the Mind
This is a free public lecture by Dr Colin Marshall, on the phlosophy of Spinoza. Dr Marshall is a graduate of New York University. His research interests include the nature of the mind and the foundations of morality. In this lecture Dr Marshall d...
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Free Public Lecture08 May 2012
ICT for Life Science Forum - Reverse Engineering the Immune System
Our understanding of the immune response owes a great debt to the extraordinary clonal selection theory developed by Melbourne scientist Macfarlane Burnet 50 years ago. In this lecture Professor Hodgkin will present the key historical advances tha...
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Seminar/Forum19 Jul 2012
Chicago-Husband Killing and the New Unwritten Rule
Emma Simpson, in 1919, shot her husband in a courtroom proceeding regarding alimony payments and declared that the new unwritten law would save her. Meanwhile Chicago newspapers between 1912 and 1922 decry the "march of liberated gunwomen" from th...
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Free Public Lecture02 Aug 2012
The Hon. John Brumby on The World in Transition
The Faculty of Business and Economics invites you to attend a special instalment of the Creating Future Leaders Series, featuring The Honourable John Brumby, who will share his insights into the major challenges and opportunities for businesses to...
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Free Public Lecture29 Aug 2012
6:15–7:45PM
The Gift of Tears: Gender and Emotion in the Art of Rembrandt and his Contemporaries
Literary responses to paintings and prints by Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669) and other artists of the early modern Netherlands show that art theorists and connoisseurs appreciated the artist’s ability to capture the emotional nuances of a subject. ...
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Free Public Lecture31 Oct 2012
2012 Nathan and Pamala Jacobson Lecture "The Australian justice system – the need for reform"
The Adversarial Model of Justice assumes that disputes will be decided according to their merits. In fact the model does no such thing. Not only does the model fail to achieve just outcomes, it has become so burdensome and costly that it can be ac...
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Free Public Lecture21 Nov 2012
2012 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture "Common Law Divergences"
When Sir Owen Dixon commented in 1942 that no good could come of divergences’ between the common law administered in English and Australian courts, the then orthodoxy was that the common law of England was the common law to be applied in Australia...
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Free Public Lecture14 Mar 2013
Do emotions Have a History? The example of romantic love.
Are emotions hardwired, or are they subject to cultural or historical variation? In general, emotions are not subject to voluntary control; we do not get to pick which ones we will feel. Some emotions, like fear or anger, may trigger physiological...
26 Mar 2013
12:00–2:00PM
Gillian Whiteley Forum: The Sustainability Conundrum of the Prosumer Artist
Dr Gillian Whiteley, visiting UK artist, curator and author of ‘Junk: Art and politics of Trash’ (based at Loughborough University School of the Arts), will introduce a series of talks in conjunction with the Regimes of Value exhibition. In this ...
02 Apr 2013
Brains Collide - A Melbourne Comedy Festival first!
The Florey is proud to present: Brains Collide! What happens when you get a bunch of comedians and musicians and combine them with some of Melbourne’s smartest brain researchers? Come along and hear some terrified neuroscientists tackle life’s b...