• The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health
  Public Talk by Dr Maria Tanyag, Department of International Relations, Australian National University

• Emeriti Professors College Lecture Series: Plastics and Human Health
  Speaker: Emerita Professor Sarah Dunlop, The University of Western Australia and Minderoo Foundation.
  Download the e-book '7 Ways to Reduce your Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Plastics'

• From Little Things, Big Things Grow. Nanotechnology research and industry collaboration in (U)WA.
  Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia.

• Climate Change and Democracy: Perils, Promise, and Prospects?
  Speaker: Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, Melbourne Law School and IAS Visiting Fellow

• Unravelling the Early History of the Earth
  Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Vervoort, Director of the Radiogenic Isotope and Geochronology Laboratory (RIGL), Washington State University and 2024 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Self-Determination, and The Voice referendum
  The 2023 Robin Winkler Lecture by Professor Patricia Dudgeon, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA.
• Towards Gender Equality in Education: The image of maths and science and students' career aspirations in STEM.
  A public talk by Professor Elena Makarova, University of Basel, Institute for Educational Sciences and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Are we listening to the urgent call of humanity? As scientists? As citizens?
  A public talk by Professor Prajval Shastri, ICRAR Visiting Fellow
• Public health and sociology... academic disciplines focusing on despair. Can we re-focus on how to enable hope, happiness and human flourishing?
  A public talk by Professor Paul Ward, Director, Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing, Torrens University

• Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia
  The George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Professor Hans Lambers FAA FRNAS, UWA School of Biological Sciences
• Climate Anxiety in Young People: Curse or Cure?
  The Robin Winkler Lecture by Carmen Lawrence, Professor Emerita, UWA School of Psychological Science.
• Going East: Dutch archaeological research on shipwrecks of the East India Company (VOC)
  Speaker: Professor Martijn Manders (Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands & Leiden University) .

• Earthquake Landscapes of Western Australia
  The 2021 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Professor Myra Keep, UWA School of Earth Sciences
• Understanding and improving the mental health of LGBTQA+ young people
  The 2021 Robin Winkler Lecture by Associate Professor Ashleigh Lin, Program Head, Mental Health and Youth, Telethon Kids Institute
• The Archaeology of Death and Pandemics
  A public lecture by Sven Ouzman, Archaeologist and Heritage Specialist, UWA School of Social Sciences
• Plague, Pestilence and Art
  A public lecture by Dr Clarissa Ball, Head, the History of Art, UWA School of Design, and Director, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
• Dante's Divine Comedy: the journey of a lifetime
  Hosted by John Kinder, Professor of Italian Studies at The University of Western Australia. This event retraced Dante’s journey in a feast of words and pictures. Academic staff from the UWA Language Hub told the story of Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Famous extracts of the Comedy were read in the ten languages used in UWA academic programmes.

• Lethal Intersections: women, race and violence
  A public lecture by Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland.
• Trends and dangers in US philanthropy – are there implications for Australia?
  A public lecture by Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Reframing Human Rights: health, dirt and ecologies of right-making
  A public lecture by Professor Rosemary J. Jolly, Weiss Chair, Humanities in Literature and Human Rights, Pennsylvania State University and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Legal Humanism and the Automation of Everyday Life
  A public lecture by Christophe Lazaro, Associate Professor of Law & Society, Centre for Philosophy of Law, University of Louvain and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Interrogating an Ancient War on Terror: the persecution of the Christians reconsidered
  A public lecture by Dr James Corke-Webster, Senior Lecturer, Roman History, King's College London and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Deep History of Place: 50,000 years of the origins of place in WA
  The 2020 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Peter Veth, Professor of Archaeology UWA
• When Animals Talk Back. Perspectives on human-animal communication
  A public lecture by Don Kulick, Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Integrating Arts in Health
  A public lecture by Pamela Brett-MacLean, Director, Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine Program, University of Alberta and 2020 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

• Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The case of the Starachowice factory slave labour camps
  Speaker: Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina
• MindTrails: Using technology to change anxious thinking in the real world
  Speaker: Professor Bethany Teachman Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Charting courses through the Ice? Envisioning Antarctic Futures
  Speaker: Dr Daniela Liggett, Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research (Gateway Antarctica), University of Canterbury and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Right to Food: A reflection of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right to Food
  Speaker: Professor Hilal Elver, Global Distinguished Fellow, Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, UCLA Law School and UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Current Global Crises: towards a more humane global governance
  Speaker: Professor Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2008-2014) and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• With or Without Body: Feeling, Creating, & Performing Emotion
  This public event was part of the Limina 14th Annual Conference HUMANIFESTO: dissecting the human experience.
• Laparoscopes and Leonardo: unveiling the secrets of art using medical imaging
  Speaker: Professor Adam Gibson, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London (UCL) and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
• PRISON versus WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  Speaker: Barry Godfrey, Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool and Russell Ward Visiting Professor, University of New England and 2019 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
• Why "home" matters the most for people on the move
  Speaker: Paolo Boccagni, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Trento, Italy and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
  Speaker: Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
• Neural Machine Translation and the Translation Professions
  Speaker: Anthony Pym, Translation Studies (Intercultural Studies), The University of Melbourne.
• Women, Inequality and the Butterfly Effect
  The 2019 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by Antoinette Kennedy AO
• An African-American feminist visits Perth in 1960: who she met, what she saw, what she said, and what she wore
  Keynote Address of the annual Australian Women's History Network symposium 'The Female Frame: Biopolitics and Wellbeing in Australian and Global Perspective' by Emerita Professor Ann Curthoys.
• Cyber Security: why are we not safer?
  Speaker: Professor David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Margaret Cavendish's Life of Newcastle (1667), a Wifely Intervention in the Making of History
  Speaker: Dr Diana Barnes, Lecturer in English Literary Studies, University of New England and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Last Indigenous People of Europe, but for how long?
  Speaker: Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Professor of Environmental and Agricultural Economics, UWA.
• Struggles with Scale, Strategy, and Stewardship: fifty years of environmental activism
  Speaker: Graeme Wynn FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Engineering Empathy
  Speaker: Professor Philip Gerrans, Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Technology and the Future of Work: an international perspective in the shadow of the competition for talent
  Speaker: Gordon L Clark, Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford; Sir Lewis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Constructing the Baroque: women artisans on building sites in the seventeenth-century Vatican and Rome
  A public lecture by Professor Nicoletta Marconi, University of Roma Tor Vergata and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Re-presenting Islam and Muslims Post 9/11: Images, Words and Refusals
  A public lecture by Zulfikar Hirji, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto.
• Deadly Entanglements: US Imperialism and the Perils of Privatizing Security
  A public lecture by A. Naomi Paik, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• The Challenges of Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management in a Developing Country
  A public lecture by Mylene Lising, Cultural Deputy Officer, National Museum of the Philippines; Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Porn Down Under: The Politics of Consumption, Pleasure and Regulation
  Panel discussion with Associate Professor Paul J. Maginn, Urban/Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia, Professor Alan McKee, Associate Dean (Research and Development), University of Technology Sydney and Dr Zahra Stardust, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
• The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
  A public lecture by Richard Vokes, Associate Professor in Anthropology, The University of Western Australia.
• The Stanford Prison Experiment
  A screening of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), followed by a discussion with Professor Alex Haslam, UQ.
• Learning to Love Your Country
  The Barry Andrew Memorial Address 2019 by Bruce Pascoe.
• Personal Data Stores: boon or curse?
  A public lecture by Dr Nicolo Zingales, Deputy Director, Centre for Information Governance Research, University of Sussex and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Rise of Militarism in Australia and What We Can Do About it.
  A public lecture by Margaret Beavis, GP and secretary of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.

Indigenous

• The Art of Healing
  The 2019 Robin Winkler Lecture by Helen Milroy, Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Western Australia.

Italian Series

• Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music
  Speaker: Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini
• Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul
  Speaker: Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Missing Magnificence: tracing Catherine de Medici's hidden cultural legacy
  Speaker: Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia.
• Italy and the Invention of Luxury
  Speaker: Dr Catherine Kovesi, History, University of Melbourne.
• Staying in touch across distance: 100 years of Italian-Australian migration
  Speaker: Professor Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology and Sociology, UWA.
• Taking the pulse of Italy today: a creative presence in Europe and in Australia
  Speaker: H.E. Francesca Tardioli, Ambassador of Italy in Australia.
• Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): enigma and genius
  Speaker: Costantino D'Orazio, Art historian and writer, Rome.
• A cookbook for a nation. Pellegrino Artusi and the Italian language
  Speaker: Professor Cecilia Robustelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio-Emilia.

Health and Medical Sciences

• The Human Cost of Drone Warfare
  Speaker: Alex Edney-Browne, International Relations, University of Melbourne.
• Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Case Study
  Speaker: Dr Mark Engel, Associate Professor within the Medicine Department at University of Cape Town and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• From evidence to empowerment - translating UWA breastfeeding research into practice
  A panel discussion with three of UWA's leading breastfeeding researchers: Professor Valerie Verhasselt, Larsson-Rosenquist Chair in Human Lactology; Associate Professor Donna Geddes, Chief Investigator of the Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group and Melinda Boss, Senior Research Fellow, School of Allied Health.
• Pandemics and their Control in the Modern World
  Speaker: Sir Roy Anderson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London and Director, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research.
• Glaucoma: what's on the horizon?
  The Lions Eye Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies present the 2019 Ian Constable Lecture - by Professor Keith Martin, Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia.
• Physics in the Fight against Cancer
  Speaker: Professor Thomas Bortfeld, Medical Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
• Heat Therapy: An ancient practice to target modern diseases
  Speaker: Christopher T. Minson, PhD, Kenneth and Kenda Singer Professor, and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Medical Image Computing (MIC): we are living in interesting times
  A public lecture by Dr Ron Kikinis, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.
• Surgical robots – What they can and can’t do, what are they for, and the future
  A public lecture by Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Deputy Director of Health Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.

Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics

• Will the Earth become too hot for your grandchildren to handle? The science and politics of carbon emissions and storage
  The Australian Academy of Science Selby Lecture by Herbert Huppert, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.
• From Ores to Ash: the Inner Workings of Hazardous Volcanoes
  Speaker: Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
• Glass Houses: the Internet of Things and its encroachment on intimacy
  Speaker: Dr Gilad Rosner, founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Pulling Back the Big Blue Curtain: big fish and big parks
  Speaker: Jessica Meeuwig, Professor of Marine Science, The University of Western Australia and 2019 Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering Eminent Speaker.
• Pyrogeography and Fire Management
  Speaker: David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, The University of Tasmania.
• No Sense of Place?
  The 2019 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Don Bradshaw, Emeritus Professor, Zoology.
• Coping with water scarcity: Lessons from giant cacti of the Americas
  Speaker: David Williams, Professor and former Head of Botany, University of Wyoming and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Gas Stations in Space
  Speaker: Dr William Notardonato, Principal Investigator, Kennedy Space Centre Exploration Research and Technology Programs, NASA, and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Leading the Rebellious with Empathy: a new paradigm for (STEM) education
  Speaker: Dr Johannes Strobel, Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri and 2019 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Perils of Fornicating on the Beach: reproductive constraints in a keystone fish may underpin collapse of the Northwest Atlantic foodweb
  Speaker: Dr Craig Purchase, Associate Professor of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and a UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Astrochemistry
  Speaker: Professor Dahbia Talbi, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France.
• The Power of Earth: the 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and case studies
  A public lecture by Dr Lijun Deng, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
• Using the Land-Ocean Transition to Understand Past Coastal Landscapes
  A public lecture by Mark Bateman, Director Sheffield Luminescence Dating Laboratory, University of Sheffield and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• UniverCities: Investigating the influence of student accommodation on global cities
  A public lecture by Dr Mark Holton, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Onset of Plate Tectonics on Earth
  A public lecture by Chris Hawkesworth, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.

UWA Research Week Events

• A Good Night's Sleep: sleep disorders and the shape of your face
  Speakers: Peter Eastwood, Centre for Sleep Science, and Ajmal Mian, Machine Intelligence Group, UWA
• The Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture Coastal Science: Reflections on the past and present and ideas for the future
  Speaker: Bruce Thom AM FTSE FIAG, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney.

• Intellectual Tapas Series on YouTube

Rembrandt – 350th Anniversary Lecture Series

To commemorate Rembrandt's death 350 years ago, museums across the globe, from Amsterdam to the Arabian Gulf, are staging exhibitions to commemorate his artistic legacy, and a life that was far from a masterpiece.

• The Global Rembrandt
  Speaker: Arvi Wattel, School of Design (History of Art), UWA
• Finding Rembrandt in Love and Life
  Speaker: Dr Susan Broomhall, School of Humanities (History), UWA

Arts and Humanities

• ‘The Unexpected Horrible Side Effect of this Law’: the criminalization of inter-racial sex and white male suicide in South Africa, 1950-1985
  A public lecture by Susanne M. Klausen, Professor of History, Carleton University in Ottawa, Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Encountering: The Conceptual Body, or a Theory of When, Where, and How Art “Means”
  A public lecture by Amelia Jones, the Robert A. Day Professor, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.
• Reading for Little Rebels: internationalism and radical writing for children
  A public lecture by Kimberley Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Resisting the Orientalization of the Enemy: Korean Americans, Japanese American Incarceration, and Moral Imagination on the Homefront during World War II
  A public lecture by Lili M. Kim, Associate Professor of History and Global Migrations, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA and 2017-2018 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea.
• Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future
  A public lecture by Mark McKenna, Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney.
• How to Treat Persons: two anchors of moral judgement
  A public lecture by Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, US) and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Black Bodies, White Gold: cotton, art and the materiality of race
  A public lecture by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University.
• The Feeling of Eugenics
  A public lecture by Rob Wilson, Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Where did language come from?
  A public lecture by Michael Corballis, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland
• A Scandalous Empire
  The 2018 Fred Alexander Lecture by Kirsten McKenzie, Professor of History, University of Sydney.
• Dante, an iconoclast in his age, a model for our own
  A public lecture by Rodney Lokaj, Chair of Italian Philology, University of Enna “Kore”, Sicily.
• Happily Single? It May Depend on Where You Live: how families shape single women’s well-being in three East Asian cities
  A public lecture by Lynne Nakano, Professor, Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Loneliness: the silent global epidemic in an ageing world
  A public lecture by Jane Barratt, Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing (IFA).
• Permittitur tamen
  It’s Ok to Grow Artichokes There
  The ‘Civitas Pia’ of Pope Pius IV (1561-1565)
  A public lecture by Roger Vella Bonavita, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia.
• Living Flesh: splendour, sex and sickness on the surface of the skin
  A public lecture by Lisa Beaven, Lecturer in Art History, La Trobe University and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Novel and History in Australia: An uneasy friendship?
  A public lecture by Dr Jo Jones, Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies, Curtin University.
• History and Urban Agriculture: learning from our productive past
  A public lecture by Andrea Gaynor, Associate Professor of History at The University of Western Australia.
• The Explorer’s Self-discovery: Matthew Flinders’ Correspondence with Mauritian friends during, and after, his imprisonment on Isle de France (1803-1814)
  A public lecture by Professor Serge Rivière, 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• How to Make a Revolutionary Object: the drawings of Gustavs Klucis
  A public lecture by Professor Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University.
• So Duchamp
  A free public symposium presented in conjunction with the exhibition HERE&NOW18: Besides, it is always the others who die, which will be on display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery from 1 September - 8 December 2018.
• Three Kinds of Clay, Three Kinds of Antiquity?
  The 2018 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture by Ann McGrath AM, the Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor, School of History, Australian National University.
• The Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory: the challenges of writing on the artworking of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943)
  A public lecture by Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH), University of Leeds.
• Beautiful Florentines: perfumes, powders and paint in the Renaissance
  A public lecture by Professor Evelyn Welch, Provost (Arts & Sciences), King’s College London.
• Triumphant Entries during the Italian Wars 1494-1559: celebrating alliances and displaying cultural prowess in the face of unsteady peace
  Elizabeth Reid, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UWA.
• Love in Times of War: war wives and widows in Shakespeare
  Bob White, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
• Youth in Wartime: medievalist fictions for Victorian children
  Andrew Lynch, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
• Savonarola and Botticelli: the visionary prophet and the penitent painter
  Arvi Wattel, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.
• Women, Art and Violence in Seventeenth-Century Italian Art
  Dr Susanne Meurer, School of Design, The University of Western Australia.
• Allegories for Meditation and Self-Reflection in the Elite Renaissance Home
  Dr Elizabeth Reid, Researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Indigenous

• The Uluru Statement: Towards Truth and Justice
  A public lecture by Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Revitalising Indigenous Language and Law
  A public lecture by Professor John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School, British Columbia and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Collective Power and Potential of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and girls: recognising their human rights in achieving gender equity
  The 2018 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture by June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
• Gurrumul
  A film screening followed by a panel Q&A with Professor Carmen Lawrence (UWA School of Psychological Science), Professor Dawn Bessarab (UWA Medical School), Professor Patricia Dudgeon (UWA School of Indigenous Studies), and Dr Nicholas Bannan (UWA Conservatorium of Music).

Law

• Comparing the UK approach to exploiting offshore petroleum with Australia - does who dares win?
  A public lecture by Professor John Paterson, Professor in Law, University of Aberdeen and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Sciences

• Growing up Star Trek. How do we make sense of it all?
  A public lecture by Bernie Kraatz, Vice-Principal Research, University of Toronto Scarborough, and 2018 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellow.
• Fish Must Breathe!
  A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Finding our Place in the Universe
  The 2018 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.
• Sleep, Body Clocks and Health: biology to new therapeutics
  A public lecture by Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Senior Fellow Brasenose College, University of Oxford and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Promise of Quantum Computing (and how we’re going to get there!)
  A public lecture by Jeremy O’Brien, Co-founder and CEO, PsiQuantum and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Mobile Museum: botanical exchanges between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Australia
  A public lecture by Mark Nesbitt, Curator and Senior Research Leader in economic botany at Kew Gardens.
• Blue Energy: South West WA’s future as a marine renewables hub
  A public lecture by Professor Christophe Gaudin, Head of Oceans Graduate School and Director Wave Energy Research Centre.
• Antarctica Homeward Bound Voyage 2018
  A public lecture by Veronique Florec, Research Associate, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia.
• The Seeing without Light: how people with disability are embracing emerging technologies
  A public lecture by Dr Scott Hollier, Digital access specialist, lecturer and author.
• A day in the life of Sinead – how technology makes all the difference
  A public lecture by Sinead Quinn, Occupational Therapist / Assistive Technology Consultant
• Unravelling the Early History of the Earth
  A public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Vervoort, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, Washington State University and 2018 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
• Exercise and the heart: can you overdose?
  Professor Keith George, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship and Knowledge Transfer (Faculty of Science) and past Head of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University.
• Screening Athletes to Avoid Sudden Cardiac Death
  A public lecture by Dr David Oxborough, registered Clinical Cardiac Physiologist specialising in echocardiography.
• Cardiovascular Disease in Women: the Benefits of Exercise
  Professor Maria Hopman, Professor of Physiology at Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
• Exercise for the Management of the Menopause
  A public lecture by Professor Helen Jones, Cardiovascular Exercise Physiologist at Liverpool John Moores University.
• Science Communication: my journey from 3-minute thesis to Cambridge and the Naked Scientists
  A public lecture by Michael Wheeler.
• The Secret of Cultured Pearls Revealed - from the Water to your Necklace
  A public lecture by Dr Marie-Lise Schläppy, Research Associate at The University of Western Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
• The Inevitable Patterns of Rivers, Landscapes, and People
  A public lecture by Dr Kyungrock Paik, Associate Professor School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University and 2016 UWA Gledden Short Stay Fellow
• What is a Photon?
  A public lecture by Markus Aspelmeyer, Professor of Physics, University of Vienna.
  
  

Social Sciences

• How Remembering Causes Forgetting
  A public lecture by Amy H. Criss, Head of Discipline, Psychology, Syracuse University and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Personality, Values, Culture, Evolution – why are we similar and yet so different?
  A public lecture by Ronald Fischer, Professor in Psychology and Co-Director, Center for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Knowing Autism
  A public lecture by Liz Pellicano, Professor of Educational Studies, Macquarie University.
• Emerging technologies: towards responsible, ethical futures
  A public lecture by Professor Sarah Pink, RMIT and 2018 Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Ageing and Care in Mediterranean Countries: the case of Italy
  A public lecture by Giuliana Costa, Associate Professor of Sociology, Politecnico di Milano and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Duties to One’s Own Population and Combatants in War: is there an “Internal” Humanitarian Law?
  A public lecture by Frédéric Mégret, Associate Professor of Law and Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines: missionary networks and theories of racial origin in the nineteenth century
  A public lecture by Hilary Carey, Professor of Imperial & Religious History, University of Bristol; Conjoint Professor of History, University of Newcastle, NSW and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• The Idea of Peace Parks in Africa
  A public lecture by Professor Maano Ramutsindela, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• A Tale of Two Diseases: regulating immune responses in the retina
  The 2018 Ian Constable Lecture by Professor Andrew Dick, Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
• Young people’s mental health - the what, why and how of supporting young people with mental health problems
  The 2018 Robin Winkler Memorial Lecture by Debra Rickwood, Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra.
• Is Democracy Dying? Thoughts on the Present Crisis of Representative Democracy and the Importance of Hope in Dark Times
  The UWA School of Social Sciences Annual Social Sciences Week Public Lecture by John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney.
• Belonging and Displacement: experiences of people seeking asylum in Australia
  A public panel presented by the Limina 13th Annual Conference and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
• Towards Zero Hunger (SDG2) in Africa
  A public lecture by Frans Swanepoel, Research Professor, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Arts

• Fifty Years of Writing Australian History from the Periphery
  Speaker: Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania
• An Evening of Death
  Speakers: Dr Brooke Davis, Dr Fiona Jenkins and Dr Jennifer Rodger
• Mozart and the Fortepiano A Recital with Professor Malcolm Bilson, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow and Frederick J. Whiton
  Professor Emeritus of Music at Cornell University.
• Challenging justice – changing lives
  A public lecture by Estelle Blackburn OAM.
• Ice-Age Visions: A window into the original conservators of WA heritage
  A public lecture by Professor Jo McDonald, Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management (CRAR+M) at The University of Western Australia.
• Shock Room: We do as we’re told. Or do we?
  A film screening followed by Q+A panel session with Director Professor Kathryn Millard, Professor Carmen Lawrence and Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA.
• The Destruction of Memory
  A film screening followed by a panel discussion with Professor Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University; Professor Ben Smith, UWA; Dr John Taylor, UWA; Rebecca Repper, Oxford University and UWA.
• Legal responses to domestic and family violence: Gendered aspirations and racialised realities
  A public lecture by Dr Heather Nancarrow CEO, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS).
• Migrating ‘Ndrangheta: cultural bias and cultural differences in the policing of the Calabrian mafia between Italy and Australia
  A public Lecture by Dr Anna Sergi, Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex.
• In Absentia: the politics of cameraless photography
  A public lecture by Professor Geoffrey Batchen, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• History Post-Brexit: thinking through Britain, Europe and Empire
  A public lecture by Tony Ballantyne, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, University of Otago
• Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen’s lexicon of emotions
  A public lecture by Robert White, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia.
• Italy’s Fragile Unity. The North & the South: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
  A public lecture by John Davis, the Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut and 2017 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
• One Hundred Prisoners and a Lightbulb
  A public lecture by Hans van Ditmarsch, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
• ‘Hardly any women at all’? Literary landscapes at the time of Jane Austen
  A public lecture by Dr Katrina O’Loughlin, The University of Western Australia

Engineering and Mathematics

• One Hundred Prisoners and a Lightbulb
  Speaker: Hans van Ditmarsch, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France and IAS Visiting Fellow
• Coping with Grief and Loss: ancient and modern perspectives
  A public lecture by Professor Han Baltussen, the Walter Watson Hughes Professor of Classics, University of Adelaide and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.

Health Sciences

• How to Age well: creating age-friendly environments to support healthy ageing
  Speaker: Jane Barratt, Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing
• Aspirin: how long can this old dog surprise us with new tricks?
  Speaker: John Eikelboom, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario
• The Human Brain Surviving Without Oxygen
  A public lecture by Philip Ainslie, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Cerebrovascular Physiology and Co-Director, Centre for Heart, Lung & Vascular Health, The University of British Columbia.
• Acoustic Reflections: advanced medical ultrasound imaging and parallels in the mining and construction industries
  A public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Bamber, Head, Ultrasound and Optical Imaging Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research London and Institute of Advanced Studies Gledden Short Stay Visiting Fellow.

Science

• Offshore Safety in the Wake of the Macondo Disaster: business as usual or sea change?
  Speaker: Jacqueline L. Weaver, the A.A. White Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Terence Daintith, Professorial Fellow, University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Fisheries and Global Warming: impacts on marine ecosystems
  Speaker: Professor Daniel Pauly, fisheries expert and marine conservationist.
• Mining-Induced Seismicity: the importance of tiny (and not so tiny) earthquakes
  Speaker: Margaret Boettcher, Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of New Hampshire.
• Not Just Hot Water: the science, stories and importance of Perth’s ground water resources - 2017 George Seddon Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Dr Megan Clark AC.
• Numerical Modelling and Imaging in Geophysics at Different Scales: applications to the Pyrenees chain and the subsurface/laboratory scale
  Speaker: Roland Martin, National Centre for Scientific Research, Université Paul Sabatier
• A Cosmic Shooting Gallery - 2017 ATSE Lecture
  Speaker: Phil Bland, Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University.
• The Use of Charismatic Carnivores to Promote Aquatic Conservation: river and spotted-necked otters as case studies
  Speaker: Thomas Serfass, Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Frostburg State University.
• Genome Research Produces New Anti-Malarial Drug Targets: The 2017 Ian Constable Lecture
  Speaker: Simon Foote, Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University.
• Gravitational Waves, Merging Black Holes and Merging Binary Neutron Stars
  A public lecture by Professor George Smoot, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and 2017 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Neutron Stars, Gravitational Waves and the Origin of Gold
  A public lecture by Professor Tsvi Piran, Schwarzmann University Chair, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University.
• Visas, Visits and Refusals: working in the borderzones of resilience, distress and wellbeing
  A public talk by Professor Alison Phipps, the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow.
• How FinTech is Changing the Face of Business and Finance
  A public lecture by Professor David Yermack, Chairman, Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Coral Reefs in a Changing World
  A public lecture by Professor Malcolm McCulloch, UWA Oceans Institute, ARC Laureate Fellow and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
• Dating Homo naledi: the story of the surprisingly young age for a new species of hominin that lived in Africa alongside early Homo sapiens
  A public lecture by Dr Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University.
• Delve into your Experience of Time
  A public lecture by Alex Holcombe, Co-director of the Centre for Time, University of Sydney and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• How Can an Archaeologist Contribute to Biodiversity Conservation?
  A public lecture by Professor R. Lee Lyman, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
• Darcy Lecture Series in Groundwater Science - The Critical Role of Trees in Critical Zone Science: an exploration of water fluxes in the Earth’s permeable skin
  A public lecture by Professor Kamini Singha, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering and the Associate Director of the Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Colorado School of Mines.
• Resource Extraction versus Environmental Protection: oil sands and caribou in Canada
  A public lecture by Professor Vic Adamowicz, Vice Dean, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta.

Social Sciences

• The Price We Pay for Straight Line Thinking and the Battle for Beeliar
  Speaker: Carmen Lawrence, Director, Centre for the Study of Social Change, The University of Western Australia
• Families Still Seeking Asylum: Political Impacts and Community Responses in Australia - The 2017 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Caroline Fleay, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
• Challenges in Training and Educating 21st-Century Interpreters
  Speaker: Marc Orlando, Director of Translation and Interpreting Studies program, Monash University
• The Immediate Dangers of Nuclear War: consequences for, and responsibilities of the health professions
  Speaker: Sue Wareham, Medical Association for Prevention of War
• Italy’s Fragile Unity. The North & the South: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  Speaker: John Davis, the Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut and 2017 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow
• The Global Rise of Populism
  Speaker: A public forum and Q&A with academics from the School of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.
• So Far, So Good? Social Farming and Wellbeing: insights from Ireland
  Speaker: Deirdre O’Connor, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin and IAS Visiting Fellow.
• Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: the case of the Starachowice factory slave labour camps
  Speaker: Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina
• Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents and Communities through Positive Parenting: myth or reality?
  The 2017 inaugural Robin Winkler lecture by Professor Matthew Sanders, Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre and Professor of Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland.

UWA Research Tasting Night – An Intellectual Tapas

• When Time Stood Still, and Other Stories
  Dr Sam Baron, School of Humanities.
• Offshore Structures in Large Ocean Storms
  Dr Scott Draper, UWA Oceans Institute, and School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering.
• Comic Book Contracting
  Professor Camilla Baasch Andersen, School of Law.
• Lords of Creation and Petticoat Dominions
  Dr Clarissa Ball, Director Institute of Advanced Studies and Discipline Chair, Visual Arts.
• An Aboriginal Interpretation of the History of the Land now Occupied by Australian Universities
  Professor Len Collard, School of Indigenous Studies.
• Why it is Important to Restore Lost Seagrass Meadows and How We Can Do It
  Professor Gary Kendrick, UWA Oceans Institute, and Head of School, Biological Sciences.

On the two-hundredth anniversary of her death, this UWA Institute of Advanced Studies -  Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Lecture Series presented new perspectives on the life and work of Jane Austen. Drawing upon the latest literary and historical research, UWA researchers tackled key themes in Austen's work and the wider social and cultural contexts in which she created her now world-famous novels.

• 'The everyday stuff of life?': Jane Austen and the law.
  Speaker: Associate Professor Kieran Dolin, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
• Bite-Sized Austen: New interpretations in doctoral research
• Parody and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and the Literary Gothic Tradition
  Speaker: Colin Yeo, Doctoral student, English and Cultural Studies, UWA
• The Tale of the Two Janes 
  Speaker: Dr Peta Beasley, English and Cultural Studies, UWA
• Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen's lexicon of emotions
  Speaker: Professor Bob White, English and Cultural Studies, UWA
• Jane Austen and the Promotion of Virtue
  Speaker: Professor Ned Curthoys, English and Cultural Studies, UWA

On the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, this UWA Institute of Advanced Studies – Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Lecture Series reconsidered the legacy of Martin Luther, who in 1517 published Ninety-Five Theses criticising the Church’s sale of indulgences. From diverse historical perspectives, UWA researchers tackled key issues regarding Luther’s life, his thought, and his significance for the momentous changes that Europe underwent during his lifetime.

• Luther’s Image and the First Media War
  Speaker: Dr Susanne Meurer, School of Design, UWA
• Luther and the Devil
  Speaker: Professor Jacqueline Van Gent, School of Humanities, UWA
• Luther’s 95 Theses: Myth, Memory, and the Making of History
  Speaker: Dr Kirk Essary, School of Humanities, UWA