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Below are some of the past Fireside Chats given by Visiting Scholars.
| Speaker | Institution | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Andrew Crane | Professor of Business and Society and Director of Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, University of Bath | The business of modern slavery |
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Ms Alice Pung |
Janet Clarke Hall |
It鈥檚 not a race! Diversity, privilege and cancel culture in Australian media |
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Dr Emma Shortis |
Historian of America and Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University |
US presidential election |
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Ms Tamm Kingi |
Indigenous Support Officer, 黄色app |
Socio-linguistics and Indigenous education: Cultural identity as the key to solving social issues |
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Miss Rona Glynn-McDonald |
Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO 鈥 Common Ground, Director 鈥 YLab Global, 黄色app Alumni of the Year 2020 |
The Business of Preserving Indigenous Culture |
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Associate Professor Ben Neville |
University of Melbourne, Gourlay Business in Ethics Fellow, 黄色app |
What does COVID-19 mean for business ethics and sustainability |
|
Miss Olivia Tasevski |
University of Melbourne |
Trump or Biden? The 2020 US Presidential Election |
|
Revd Professor Mark Lindsay, Revd Dr Gary Heard, Revd Dr Colleen O鈥橰eilly, |
University of Divinity, University of Divinity University of Divinity, 黄色app Chaplain |
The Importance of Ritual in Challenging Times |
|
Professor Dave O鈥機onnor |
University of Wisconsin |
COVID-19: The state of play |
|
Professor Ken Hinchcliff |
Warden, 黄色app, University of Melbourne |
Q&A with the Warden |
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Professor Tilman Ruff AO |
Nobel Prize Winner Infectious disease and public health physician, University of Melbourne |
Nuclear Non-Proliferation |
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Dr Jarrad W Paul |
University of Melbourne |
Olympia and the Original Olympics |
|
Ms Stephanie Georgiou |
Psychologist New View Psychology |
Exam Stress Strategies |
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Professor Cynthia (Cindy) A. Kiro |
Pro-Vice Chancellor (Maori), University of Auckland |
First Nation鈥檚 Knowledge and Life鈥檚 Big Questions |
|
Mr Alan Archibald QC (TC 1964) |
Esteemed Melbourne barrister and Trinity Alumni |
Lawyer X - Professional Duties and Fair Trials |
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Mr Hunter Johnston |
Co-founder and CEO of The Man Cave. |
Positive Approaches to Mental Health, Wellbeing and Respectful Relationships |
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Ms Sue Dahn (TC 1979) |
Pitcher Partners - Financial Advisor and Partner at Pitcher Partners. Leading woman on 2018 Top 50 Financial Advisors |
Post the Royal Commission: The Future for Financial Sector |
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Dr Vicki Couzens (Aunty Vicki) |
Gunditjmara Elder and Vice Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellow |
Reinvigorating Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and Being |
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Professor David Tan (TC 1991) |
National University of Singapore. Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) at Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore |
Copyright and the Unholy Trinity: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter |
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Professor Tim Lindsey AO (TC 1981) |
University of Melbourne DFAT advisor international expert on Indonesia |
Australia and Indonesia: Strangers Next Door? |
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Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith |
Professor of Indigenous education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand |
Critical Race Theory |
|
Miss Ellen Van Neerven |
Winner of the 2016 Nakata Brophy writing competition |
Read her winning piece and discussed the creative process that helps her thrive. |
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Professor Larry Gostin |
Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director, WHO Centre on Public Health Law & Human Rights at Georgetown University |
Health policies in Donald Trumps鈥 White House |
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Professor Jane Kaye |
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne |
Privacy implications of online medical data |
|
Ms Vanessa O'Neill |
The University of Melbourne |
The challenges of writing a play based on the archive of a living academic (Germain Greer) |
|
Ms Rosalie Ham |
Literature teacher and Novelist, 黄色app |
The Art of Adaptation |
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Professor Joe Klewicki |
Head of the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure, University of Melbourne |
The aerodynamics of the new "skin" swimsuits compared to nature |
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Professor Dave O'Connor |
World leading virologist from University of Wisconsin |
The suppression of HIV to zero virus load |
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Professor Chris Gosden |
Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford |
History of Magic |
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Professor Rob Phillips |
University of Richmond, Virginia |
The challenges of business ethics in the gig economy. |
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Dr Rosamund Thomas |
Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge |
Ethics Masterclass |
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Professor David Karoly |
University of Melbourne |
Climate Change: why you should be interested. |
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Professor Larry Gostin |
Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director, WHO Centre on Public Health Law & Human Rights at Georgetown University |
'Global Health Law (2014)' |
|
Laureate Professor Peter Doherty |
University of Melbourne |
Science, immunity, pandemics and infection |
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Assistant Professor Adrienne Edgar |
University of California |
Adventures in Post-Soviet Oral History |
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David Manne |
Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre |
鈥楢sylum Seekers, Refugees & the 鈥淓thics of Protection鈥 |
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Laureate Professor Sir James Mirrlees |
Cambridge and Hong Kong Universities |
The psychology of the global financial crisis |
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Laureate Professor Peter Doherty |
University of Melbourne; Fellow, Australian Academy of Science |
Reflections by a Nobel Laureate on viruses, poverty, committees, and the Alexandria project |
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Professor Larry Gostin |
Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director, WHO Centre on Public Health Law & Human Rights at Georgetown University |
Why rich countries should care about the world鈥檚 least healthy people |
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Professor Ross Garnaut AO |
Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics, University of Melbourne, Distinguished Professor of Economics, ANU |
Climate change: is the world going to make it at Copenhagen? |
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Professor Richard Immerman |
Edward J Buthusiem Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History; Marvin Wachman Director, Centre for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University; Miegunyah Fellow |
British National Intelligence |
|
Tom Mann |
Senior fellow, Brookings Institute, Miegunyah Fellow |
US Politics and Obama |
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Professor Ian Donaldson |
ANU/Director, Humanities Research Centre/Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge |
The life of Ben Jonson 鈥 the first literary celebrity? |
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Roy Neel |
Former advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore |
The forthcoming US election |
|
Dr Lisa Gorton |
Winner of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry |
A poet鈥檚 life and work |
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Professor Stephen May |
Royal Veterinary College, London; Miegunyah Fellow, University of Melbourne |
The skills needed by veterinary scientists |
|
Simon Overland |
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner |
Towards a just society 鈥 Locke and the social contract |
|
John Brumby |
Premier of Victoria 2007鈥10, Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow, Universities of Melbourne & Monash |
The Battle of ideas: Australia in 2025 |
|
Adam Bandt MP |
Deputy Leader, Greens |
Where is change and action on climate change likely to come from? |
|
Chris Lamb |
Former Ambassador to Rangoon; Principal Fellow (University of Melbourne); Special Adviser to International Red Cross and Red Crescent |
Myanmar Past, Burma Present |
|
Professor Marcia Langton |
University of Melbourne |
A conversation about Indigenous matters |
|
Professor Ken Hinchcliff |
As Dean of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne; now Warden of 黄色app |
What should vets be? Revising the curriculum at the University of Melbourne |
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Professor Doris Schroeder |
Director of the Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire |
The Right to Health: dignity and medical ethics |
|
Professor Cormac O'Grada |
University College Dublin |
The Irish Famine |
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Professor Joe Klewicki |
University of New Hampshire, University of Melbourne (former Tewksbury Fellow) |
Fluid dynamics of sports balls |
|
Martin Hosking |
Director, RedBubble |
Creating wealth by creating companies |
|
Tim Glanville |
Deputy Electoral Officer, Victoria, 1989鈥2008 |
Behind the electoral scenes |
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Professor John Alexander |
Philosopher-in-Residence, MBS, University of Melbourne |
In the Beginning鈥 (Plato and the art of curiosity) |
|
Debbie Mortimer SC |
Senior Counsel |
Making a difference: ethical lawyers and Australia today |
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Professor Harold Attridge |
Sterling Professor of Divinity, Yale |
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi |
|
Professor Laura Belmonte |
University of Oklahoma |
The LGBT rights movement in the US |
|
Professor Andrew McGowan |
Former Warden of 黄色app and Joan FW Munro Professor of Historical Theology |
Dining with the dead: Ancient Roman eating in this life and the next |
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Professor Robin Batterham |
University of Melbourne |
Australia's future 鈥 a quarry for China and India? |
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Professor Brad Simpson |
Princeton |
Barack Obama the Antichrist? How could millions of Americans be wrong? |
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Associate Professor Margaret Hellard |
Director of the Centre for Population Health, Burnet institute |
STDs and vulnerable populations |
|
Dan Mori |
David Hick鈥檚 former defence lawyer |
David Hicks and Guantanamo |
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Associate Professor David Tan |
National University of Singapore |
Public Figures, private lives: an intimate look at a supermodel, a princess and a footballer |
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Associate Professor Guiseppe-Matteo Vaccaro-incisa |
Universit脿 L. Bocconi |
The EU debt-crisis: facts, myths and proposed solutions |
|
Professor Frank Costigliola |
University of Connecticut |
An archivist鈥檚 passion |
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Professor Petra Geode |
Temple University |
Global cultures |
|
Dr Shaun Flint |
Universities of Cambridge (Addenbrookes) and Melbourne |
Epidemics, refugees and public health |
|
Dr Stephen Mills |
University of Sydney |
Polls and pollies 鈥 what was the recent election campaign really all about? |
|
Sally Stoecker |
School of Public Policy, George Mason University |
Human trafficking |
| Professor Jeffrey Greenman | President and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent College | What is the Good Life? |
| Kate Crowhurst | Financial literacy educator | Financial wellbeing |
| Dr Janet Greenman | Pediatrician at BC Children鈥檚 Hospital and medical educator | A career in Pediatrics |
| Dr Deirdre Osborne | Reader in English Literature and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London | Decolonising Literature |
| Dr Sana Nakata | Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University | The Voice: Q&A |
| Professor David Tan | National University of Singapore (NUS Law) | Why should you care about a JD law degree and Personal Branding |
| Dr Lisa Gorton | University of Oxford | Poetry reading from Mirabilia; the writer's craft/publishing |
| Justice Janak De Silva | Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka | Constitutionalism in Sri Lanka |