Alfred Deakin lectures look at importance of innovation to our society and economy
[ UniNews Vol. 14, No. 7
2 - 16 May 2005 ]
The University of Melbourne is playing a key role in the prestigious 2005 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lecture Series.
The 2005 lecture series will focus on innovation and its importance to all aspects of our economy and our society. There are 28 lectures in the series which runs from Friday 29 April to Thursday 12 May.
Prominent international thinkers and practitioners taking part in the 2005 lecture series include renowned neuroscientist Professor V S Ramachandran (who will join Australian composer and jazz pianist, Paul Grabowsky); UK human rights lawyer Baroness Kennedy of the Shores QC; founder of the Creative Commons movement and director of the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, Professor Lawrence Lessig; and Professor of Journalism at New York University, Jay Rosen.
The University of Melbourne is a university partner in the lecture series which features several University of Melbourne-linked speakers including the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis, and Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medicine, Professor Suzanne Cory, who will take part in a session on innovation and research: Critical Mass: Encouraging Institutional Innovation.
Internationally-recognised immunologist, Professor Sir Gustav Nossal, will speak on Healthy Relations: Should Global Health be on the Foreign Affairs Agenda? and University of Melbourne biomedical engineering researcher, Professor Marcus Pandy will address The Prosthetic Revolution: Sport, Technology and the Paralympics.
Looksmart co-founder and University Council member, Evan Thornley, will look at Portable Unionism: Innovations in Industrial Relations and the Workplace, and 21-year-old Shanghai-born Arts/Law student Alan Wu will join a session on Designing the Future or Tempting Fate: Long Term Scenarios to Encourage Australia’s Creative Potential.
On 11 May, the University’s Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology will host a seminar by Professor Fotis Kafatos, Director-General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). EMBL operates in five locations, employs around 1200 people including 800 scientists and technicians. It is recognised as the best performing European institute in the life sciences.
The Alfred Deakin Innovation lectures are free to the public but booking tickets in advance is recommended. Full program details and an online ticketing facility are at www.deakinlectures.com
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