SYDNEY IDEAS PUBLIC LECTURE PROGRAM JULY 2009
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TUESDAY 7 JULY
The Rebirth of Nature and the Climate Crisis
Clive Hamilton
In recent times a new theory of a living Earth has captured
imaginations. According to James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, the Earth
is a living system in which the biosphere interacts with other physical
components of the Earth to maintain conditions suitable for life. To
prevent climate catastrophe, do we need a shift to a new consciousness,
one based on a rediscovery of the idea of a living Earth?
WEDNESDAY 15 JULY
Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial
Simon Singh
UK journalist, television producer and popular-science writer, Simon
Singh, turns his attention to alternative medicine. Singh's conclusions
about effectiveness vary from good to bad (including downright
dangerous). He will discuss why so many ineffective alternative
therapies have become so popular, and will consider how those that have
been shown to be effective can be incorporated within conventional
medicine.
TUESDAY 21 JULY
Extremophiles and Exoplanets
Professor Jill Tarter
Since life-as-we-know-it is so extraordinarily hardy, might it exist
today (or in the past) on any of the planets outside our solar system
that are being found? A group of scientists known as astrobiologists are
trying to answer that question. It might even turn out that our first
indication of another inhabited world will be the signals deliberately
generated by us.
TUESDAY 29 JULY
A Sydney Ideas Forum
Why History Matters: The Past in the Present
Does history matter? How does the past shape the present? Should history
play a role in shaping politics today? How do studies of race and
slavery, the American Civil War, Guantanamo Bay, the ANZACs and the
Stolen Generations affect the way we see ourselves, and others? Leading
visiting American academics join former Premier of NSW Bob Carr and
others in an open discussion on these and other issues.
VENUE AND BOOKING DETAILS
Time: 6.30pm lecture start
Venue: Seymour Theatre Centre, University of Sydney
Cost: $20 adult / $15 concession/
Free for Sydney Uni staff & students (show ID at box office)
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9351 7940 or book online
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