Events

The University of Melbourne’s Initiative for Peacebuilding launched a Conversation Series in 2021 to hold spaces for deeper listening to Australian-based peacebuilders and discussion of important dimensions of their peacebuilding work.

In 2024 these conversations continue with a fascinating range of peacebuilders connected to the Initiative for Peacebuilding from Australia and the region.

In this conversation, Associate Professor Yayah Khisbiyah will speak about Revitalisation and Institutionalisation of Pancasila Education at Muhammadiyah University, Indonesia.

In the 1970s, a silent killer invaded Australia. The amphibian chytrid fungus has since extinguished several Australian frog species and crashed amphibian populations here and globally. Are scientists winning the 50-year battle against the fungus? Are amphibians losing against larger forces of climate change and habitat destruction anyway? What does this mean for the webs of life they support? Are there more biosecurity threats massing on our borders? 

Join our experts in biosecurity, zoology, ecology, and One Health as they outline how science plans to protect our frogs and meet some of the cute critters our researchers are striving to save. 

The Science at Melbourne Lecture series is the premier public event series from the Faculty of Science. The event program seeks to share our knowledge and love of science with the wider community, engaging them in current research and empowering them to ask questions and take actions for a better world. The series runs throughout the year covering scientific research, discoveries and theories that play exciting or unexpected roles in shaping and advancing our society.

This event will be run as a hybrid presentation from our Werribee Campus. In-person guests will will be invited to join our speakers for refreshments and tours of the amphibian labs at The Melbourne Veterinary School.

Can’t make it in person? Online broadcast registrations HERE