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Professor Andrew Schultz: The minor fall and the...

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2019/05/01

What is it about those rare and fleeting moments of musical beauty that fully captivate a listener’s attention? Does a composer calculate such junctures or are they happy accidents? How could a composer shape and guide the listener’s experience to create these events? Does detailed analysis of the notes tell us all we need to know to explain them? From Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, Opus 109 to Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah, as in many other works before and since,

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Professor Vanessa Lemm: What do we owe one another?...

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2019/05/01

The globalization of social (economic, cultural, environmental) relations has generated a new need for people who have little or nothing in common with others to create community with each other without giving up their differences. The traditional understanding of community was that people want to be together because they feel that they share something, if only the same portion of the world. So what does it mean that people now want or need to be in communities without having anything in

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Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald: There's no place...

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2014/08/25

In a world maimed by war, climate change, economic dysfunction and political failures, the flows of migration are as intense as they have ever been. Child migrants are central actors in this movement of people across borders and continents. As those in receiving countries such as Australia know well, however, the child migrant is not always kindly greeted on arrival.As recently as November 2012, the current Minister for Immigration commented that 'It doesn't matter whether you're a child, it doesn't

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Professor Manfred Frank: Early Romantic Philosophy:...

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2014/04/18

There is a long-standing prejudice that early romantic philosophy developed in the footsteps of Fichtean foundationalism, and that it was uncritical of the totalitarian seizure of power of subjectivity over Being or Difference allegedly characteristic of J.G. Fichte’s thought. Drawing on the recently developed research method of ‘Constellation Research’, this lecture shows that in fact Early Romanticism was skeptical about foundationalist pretensions, respectful of subjectivity

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Professor Philip Pettit: Corporate Persons,...

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2014/04/18

Why should incorporated bodies count as legal persons? And what rights and responsibilities should they have? Should they enjoy rights that may trump the rights of individuals? Should they be able to compete with individuals for political influence? Should they be held responsible for the wrongdoing of their members or agents? And do such questions call for similar answers with corporate persons as different as companies, unions, churches, parties and states? The philosophy of incorporation, shaped

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Professor Peter Aggleton: Sex, Sexuality and Sex...

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2014/04/18

What is sex education? Who should teach it? What are the most effective strategies? When and where should it be taught? These are just some of the questions to be examined in this lecture. After three decades research and international experience, much has been learned about how to best to teach about sex, sexuality and relationships. Despite this, there remains controversy and few countries have implemented the kinds of programs that are known to be effective. The conflict between science and

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Professor David Armitage: Horizons of History: Space,...

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2014/04/18

Big is back across a wide range of historical fields. More historians are stretching space, to create international, transnational and global histories. Others are expanding time, to pursue Big History, Deep History and the history of the Anthropocene. What explains this broadening of horizons? And what does it mean for the future of history? This lecture will make a case for history as a discipline of social and political transformation amid crises of global governance, rising inequality and

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Professor Steven Connor: Rustications: Animals in the...

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2014/04/18

When animals become audible in the city, it is often annoying, sometimes unnerving, but also now and again a kind of annunciation. Animals are an anomaly in the urban soundscape, which seems to be populated and made intelligible to itself exclusively by sounds of human origin. And yet cities have never become free of animals, which are all the time finding ways of recolonising urban space, and insinuating themselves into the syntax of its sounds. I will use this talk to listen out for and amplify

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Ela Gandhi: Building a culture of nonviolence: the...

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2014/04/18

Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of nonviolent resistance, social justice, and respect for the environment is only increasing in its relevance given our current global challenges. His granddaughter Ela Gandhi has continued this legacy. Her lecture will discuss the importance of strategic interventions in education to promote positive action on nonviolence at various levels of academia by building networks of educators with a similar level of vision and commitment.

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Professor Fredric R. Jameson: Allegory and Dramaturgy...

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2014/04/18

Aside from its musical genius, Wagner’s Ring cycle remains one of the most staggering achievements of the 19th-century stage, and has continued to stimulate innovative dramaturgy amidst the present Wagner revival. This lecture will focus on two interrelated topics: the relationship between the figure of Wotan and political fields of force; and the role of Siegfried as a way into Wagnerian theatrical psychology—the composer/dramatist’s specific ‘system’ of thinking

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Professor Quentin Skinner: So, what does freedom mean...

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2014/04/18

Perhaps the most widely accepted understanding of the idea of personal freedom is that it can be defined in negative terms as absence of interference. My lecture begins by noting that, because the concept of interference is such a complex one, this general agreement has turned out to be compatible with a great deal of disagreement about the conditions under which it may be legitimate to claim that freedom has been infringed. I am chiefly concerned, however, with those writers who have wished

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Dr Michele Bruniges: Teaching matters: The role of...

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2014/04/18

We all know that education matters. In Australia, as elsewhere, an individual’s educational attainment is a significant predictor of success and wellbeing throughout life. At the same time, we know through experience just how hard it is to lift educational outcomes in a sustained way, and for all students. Research tells us the teachers are the most significant in-school influence on student outcomes, but has much less to say about how to improve teaching quality in ways that directly

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Rory Medcalf: Grand Stakes: Australia's future...

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2014/04/18

For Australia, the rise of China and India combines vast economic gain with challenges in security and values. The Asian giants have become principal markets for Australia's resources, major sources of human capital, and critical strategic players in the region. China brings Australia greater economic benefits than India, but its growing military power, combined with differences over values, poses security anxieties. Thus, Canberra has tried to intensify diplomatic engagement and economic

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Professor Eileen Baldry: Disabling justice: Social...

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2014/04/18

Across the western world, since the latter part of the twentieth century, people with mental and cognitive disabilities have been funneled into criminal justice systems, remanded, sentenced and imprisoned in larger numbers than previously and in far higher proportions than their presence in the general population. Australian criminal justice systems are no exception. The use of societal punishment and control systems in this manner is a deeply disturbing turn. People with these disabilities

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Professor John de Wit: Beyond the 'magic bullet':...

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2014/04/18

As the world enters the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, progress is finally noted in the fight against this global pandemic. Access to effective treatment has in particular increased, with beneficial effects on the health and life expectancy of people living with HIV. At the same time, in Australia and other resource rich countries, new HIV infections continue to occur at high rates and have been rising throughout the last decade. Treatment can play a role in reducing the transmission of

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Professor Scott Lash: Urban Justice and the Crisis of...

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2014/04/18

Three decades of neo-liberal privatization has meant the systemic destruction of the public sphere. The global economic crisis presents new possibilities for fundamental mutations of public/urban space, driven by 'emerging' cities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Lagos. If the global city was topographical, these mega-cities are topological, spaces of infolded atmospheres. In Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' justice was a violence that nullified the commodity and law. Benjamin's was a

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Professor Julian Murphet: Modernism, Now and Then

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2014/04/18

?The academic thesis of 'postmodernism' is some thirty years old, but in the three decades since it was declared dead, Modernism has shown distinct signs of life, if not 'undeath'. On the one hand, a new academic industry has emerged, under the banner of the 'New Modernism Studies', resurrecting and reframing countless acts of cultural Modernism; on the other, the work of key contemporary artists such as J. M. Coetzee, Michael Haneke and Gerhard Richter can scarcely be accounted for outside

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Professor Fiona Williams: Who cares? Migrant workers...

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2014/04/18

Increasingly the richer world has become dependent on migrant women workers from the poorer regions to do their care and domestic work. As developed countries face a 'care crunch' with an ageing population, more women in paid employment and a squeeze on public expenditure, they are turning, by design or by default, to this as a solution. What are the dynamics behind these international 'care chains' and 'care drains'? Drawing from her research Fiona will explain personal and political

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Professor Ronan McDonald: Beyond Ireland: cultures of...

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2014/04/18

Often marketed as a rural idyll, with all the comforts of tradition, Ireland has also been modelled as the crucible of high literary modernism and, more recently, the high-tech gateway to Europe. Through consideration of the anomalous branding of ‘Ireland’, and the increasing involvement of the Irish diaspora, this lecture examines the shifting and travelling meanings of Irishness in a global era.

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Professor Ann Orloff: Can we support care and gender...

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2014/04/18

Across the rich democracies, social policy changes over the last two decades have been driven by a concern with "activation" and economic self-sufficiency, for women and mothers no less than for men and fathers. This is an epochal shift in social policy, politics and gender relations. Earlier family and policy systems supported women's caregiving and met social care needs in ways that were accompanied by gender inequality. Today, state policies are only partly successful in supporting care needs and

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