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Featured events
2024 Downing Public Lecture
Presented by Professor Betsey Stevenson, Professor Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan
Marriage, Family, and Work in an Age of Rising Gender Equality
Professor Betsey Stevenson will explore how economics can help us understand how the motivation for families and the behaviour within families has changed over the past several decades, how our jobs and work life have changed, and the interactions between changes in the family and the workplace. She will also talk about the role public policy has played in facilitating (or not) those changes.
Background: Downing Lecture Series
Distinguished visiting economists are invited to present at the Downing Lecture for the purpose of promoting analysis and discussion of economic and social research policy. The lectures series have been made possible by a generous fellowship that was established by friends and colleagues of the late Professor Richard Downing (BA (Hons) 1936), in memory of his life and work.
Richard Ivan Downing was Ritchie Professor of Research and Economics in the University from 1952 until his death in 1975. Not only did Professor Downing make significant contributions to economic research in this position, he also put much effort into guiding and fostering the research interests of students and staff. For twenty years he edited The Economic Record. He also played a prominent part in founding the now Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
The lecture will be delivered in-person. Join us for pre-lecture drinks from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. The lecture will commence at 6.30pm.
Numbers for this lecture are limited, please cancel your booking if you are no longer able to attend.
Everyone is talking about AI these days. But what exactly is AI? How did it evolve? And what potential does it have to influence the future?
In this public lecture Professor Leach takes you on a rollercoaster ride looking at the extraordinary – but often somewhat terrifying – potential of what is arguably the most significant invention of humankind.
The lecture concludes that we are about to face a radically different form of intelligence – an ‘alien intelligence’ – that will far exceed human intelligence, and completely transform the disciplines of architecture and urban planning.