Public lectures and forums

In keeping with Flinders University's role in the community, public lectures and events are held throughout each year and are free and open to the general public.

For updated information on events, go to our events page.

If you want to be advised of upcoming events send an email to alumni@flinders.edu.au or call (08) 8201 2752.

Recordings of some of these public lectures and forums are available below.

To view or listen to the lectures, you must download and install the QuickTime player software. This one time installation may then be re-used to view all the files in the QuickTime format (http://www.apple.com/quicktime). Apple provide a free player on their web site. The current released version is 7.1.5

2007

Title: Body, brain and the new science of communication: turns of phrase, figures of speech
Speaker: Professor Ian Gibbins, Neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy & Histology, Flinders University
Series: Flinders University & Australian Book Review Annual Public Lecture
Date: 14 November 2007
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Title: Insurmountable Opportunities: success in a resource-limited world
Speaker: Dr James Bradfield Moody, General Manager, International Development, CSIRO
Series: Investigator Lecture
Date: 21 November 2007
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Title: Future of the World
Speaker: Professor Charles Lemert, Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University, USA.
Series: Public Lecture
Date: 14 March 2007
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2006

Title: Like Youth, University is wasted on the Young
Moderator: Professor Faith Trent
Panellists: Steph Key MP; Peter Sandeman; Ian Yates; Keryn James; Gerry Considine; Jason Caton; Lejla Sarcevic, Aleecia Murray
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: Food, glorious food: from chocalate to chardonnay – the fads, facts and fiction of food
Moderator: Professor Rob Morrison
Panellists: Dr Julian Clark; Dr Lynne Cobiac; Dr Heather Bray; Duncan MacGilliway; Kaye Mehta
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: Art attack: the last arts survivor
Moderator: ‘Dr Eugenius’ – Eugene Raggahianti
Panellists: Douglas Gautier; Associate Professor Cheryl Stock; Professor Jeri Kroll; Posie Graeme-Evans; Julianne Pierce; John Schumann; Alison Wotherspoon
Judge/s: Hon Diana Laidlaw; Greg Mackie; Steve Brown; Christopher Naylor; Jane Covernton, ‘Dr Verity Smart’ – Dr Jo Caust; Sandi McMenamin
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: Our health system: doing better, but feeling worse
Moderator: Dr Rob Pegram
Speaker/s: Professor Christopher Baggoley; Associate Professor Pauline Glover; Professor Ross Kalucy; Kathy Mott; Jane Pickering; Dana Shen; Leena Sudano
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: Saddam Hussein was caught in a hole: are terrorists digging a bigger one for the West?
Moderator: Associate Professor Tina Dolgopol
Speaker/s: Les Luck, First Assistant Secretary, Americas' Division, DFAT, and former Australian Ambassador for Counter Terrorism
Panellists: Professor Andrew Goldsmith; Emeritus Professor Riaz Hassan; Anne Morris; Dr Andrew O’Neil
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: Stretching the boundaries: the dilemma facing Flinders Global Corporation – profits and ethics
Moderator: David Koch
Chair: Dr Roger Sexton
Panellists: Christine Charles, Leonie Clyne, Graham Inns, Andre Morony, Sir Eric Neal, Associate Professor Carol Tilt, Associate Professor Chris Symes; Michelle Dou; Rodrigo Santelices
Series: Mindgames
Date: 4 November 2006
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Title: A decade of difference: renewal of the ABC
Speaker/s: Donald McDonald AC, Chairman of the ABC Board
Series: Investigator lecture
Date: 2 November 2006
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2005

Title: Diplomacy in the 21st century
Speaker/s: Neil Mules AO, Flinders graduate and Australian Ambassador to Mexico
Series: Investigator lecture
Date: 10 November 2005
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Title: Strictly entertainment
Speaker/s: Posie Graeme-Evans, Flinders Graduate, Head of Drama (Nine Network Australia) and creator of McLeod’s Daughters
Series: Investigator lecture
Date: 26 October 2004
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Title: ‘Gender equality – is it fair?’ Forum
Speaker/s: Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue, AC, CBE, Indigenous Leader and Honorary Professorial Fellow at Flinders University
Date: 24 September 2004
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Title: The Scientist who came in from the cold: can science add value to South Australian life?
Speaker/s: Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield
Series: Thinkers in Residence public lecture
Date: 18 August 2004
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