Past Events

CHAST Lectures

• 2012: Syd Kirkby: Why Do It the Hard Way? Reflections of an Antarctic Explorer
• 2011: Helen Verran: Numbers: Their Human Aspects. Perspective from Indigenous Cultures
• 2011: Bert Meijer: Why We Cannot Make Life
• 2011: Nigel Lovell: The Science Fiction and Science Fact behind an Australian Bionic Eye
• 2011: David Chalmers: The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis
• 2010: James E Hansen: After Copenhagen: Looking for Real Solutions. [Video now on Uni TV]
• 2010: Saul Griffith: An award-winning inventor examines strategies for a climate-friendly life. [Video now on Slow TV]
• 2010: Hugh Durrant-Whyte: The Robots are Coming!
• 2009: Lee Felsenstein:The Social History of the Personal Computer
• 2009: David Eagleman: Hearing Colours, Tasting Sounds: The Kaleidoscopic Brain of Synesthesia
• 2009: Steve Jones:Is Human Evolution Over?
• 2008: Mike Morwood: Little Lady with Big Implications: Life, Times and Extinction of the Hobbit (H. floresiensis)

Templeton Lectures

• 2011: Joe LeDoux: The Emotional Brain. [Video now on Slow TV]
• 2010: Frans de Waal: Is man a wolf to man? Morality and the social behaviour of our fellow primates
• 2010: David Sloan Wilson: Evolving the city: using evolution to understand and improve the human condition Charles Birch Memorial Templeton Lecture.
• 2009: Sean Carroll: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time [Video now on TED]
• 2008: Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-Expanding Universe
• 2007: Jack Copeland:Alan Turing and the Curious Birth of Artificial Intelligence
• 2006: Jorgen Randers: Global Collapse - Fact or Fiction?
• 2005: Jill Tarter: Seeking Extraterrestrial Physics and Intelligence During the International Year of Physics
• 2004: Ian Lowe: Values for Sustainable Futures
• 2003: Vandana Shiva: Beyond Corporate Globalisation; Towards Global Democracy
• 2002: Richard Butler: Science, Weapons, Politics: The Ethics, The Hard Choices?
• 2001: Lord Robert May: Science Advice, Policy Making, And Public Trust
• 2000: Philip Kitcher: Creating Perfect People? The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities
• 1999: Paul Ehrlich: Ethics and Environmental Crises
• 1998: Tim Flannery: 'Australia Unlimited' or Meganesian Legacy: What Future for Australia?
• 1997: Richard Lewontin: Biology as a Social Weapon
• 1996: Evelyn Fox Keller: Gender Language and Science
• 1995: Barrie Pittock: How 'dangerous' is climate change?
• 1994: Margaret Boden: Creativity: Inspiration, Intuition or Illusion?
• 1993: Stephen Boyden: Nature, Culture and the Future
• 1992: John Cobb: The Cosmos and God
• 1991: Paul Davies: The Birth of the Cosmos