Sessions
All sessions
These events are all free to attend, however you may need to reserve tickets beforehand.
Sessions
These events are all free to attend, however you may need to reserve tickets beforehand.
Workshop,
11.10am - 11.30am | Sunday 15 July
Dan’s mission is simple: To dare himself, and those he works with, to think differently and to use a humanistic approach towards growth in business, education and life. This performance talk, A Fine Balance, embodies the stages of research while presenting an inquiry into the balance of risk in creativity.
Book Launch,
11:30am | Sunday 15 July
The time is ripe to find a better way to value our culture – by finding a better way to talk about it. This book intervenes in an important debate about the public value of culture that has become stranded between the hard heads (where the arts are just another industry) and the soft hearts (for whom they are too precious to bear dispassionate analysis).
Panel,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Sunday 15 July
How do images of ageing make us feel about ourselves and others? Are we telling our own narrative well – through television, film, advertising, fashion – or are we failing? Or are we simply ignoring it altogether?
In conversation,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Sunday 15 July
The corporate responsibility to turn a profit often clashes with a social or environmental need to preserve a public good. Enter politics. Enter regulation. Enter conflict. Are there better ways of aligning these warring interests before the main topic of litigation becomes who should pay for the sea-walls required by global warming?
Panel,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Sunday 15 July
What can we learn from the most extreme situation? For the first time in 25 years, we’ve brought together the defence and prosecution from Australia’s European war crimes trials. QCs Michael David and Lindy Powell for the defence and war crimes investigator Graham Blewitt join author David Bevan.
Solo event,
11.30am - 12.20pm | Sunday 15 July
The impact of medical treatment upon transgender people’s fertility has received increased attention. At the heart of the topic of fertility preservation lies the question of futurity. This talk explores how transgender people negotiate decisions about fertility, focusing specifically on resistance to, and engagement with, pronatalist discourse.
