Program
Program
Solo event,
9.30am - 10.20am | Sunday 15 July
Private citizens will soon be able to experience space travel on commercial suborbital space flights, which will revolutionise global travel (e.g. Adelaide to London in two hours). Using NASA's parabolic zero-gravity flights and the UK’s human centrifuge, Tom explores how high G forces affect the human body.
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
How is the brain, with its unique capabilities, dealing with modern global challenges? A neuroscientific perspective on our biological and cultural evolution will give a more realistic view of the dangers confronting our species. Scientific humanism may be our best chance to adapt for survival instead of failure and perishing.
Solo event,
10.30am - 11.20am | Saturday 14 July
AI systems play an increasing role in our lives: deciding what jobs we do, our insurance options, our interactions with government services. What do we pass on to the AI we create? What biases and beliefs influence the way AI systems 'think'? How do we build ethical, responsible AI?
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Saturday 14 July
This session describes the cataclysmic events that will occur when a collision between our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and its neighbour brings dramatic changes to our night sky. But don’t worry – it’s not happening for at least four billion years!
Solo event,
3pm - 3.50pm | Sunday 15 July
In 1963, Donald Horne dubbed Australia ‘the first suburban nation’. Now, demographic change, suburban sprawl, soaring house prices and the tyranny of the long commute have taken some of the gloss off that ideal. How did we get to this point? And what is the future of the suburban dream?
Solo event,
10.30am - 11.20am | Sunday 15 July
What use is history in a time of ecological crisis? In response to new, apocalyptic visions of the planetary past and future, historians are re-inventing their traditional scales of space and time and telling different kinds of stories, ones that recognise the agency of other creatures and the unruly power of nature.
Solo event,
4pm - 4.50pm | Saturday 14 July
In Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia, governments are neither freely elected nor accountable, while the freedoms indispensible to democracy are withheld. In the United States, Britain and Australia, politicians and public institutions are held in disrepute. What light can history throw on this disillusionment with democracy?
Solo event,
Session cancelled
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
Lyndall’s research and mapping of massacre sites attracted widespread media attention. She discovered that regional Australians know a great deal about frontier massacres and how they shaped modern Australia. If this is the case, how is it that there is still no national memorial to the frontier wars?
Solo event,
9.30am - 10.20am | Saturday 14 July
Where do we belong when everything is on the move? How can we combine anchorage, connection, possibility, personal growth and inspiration when everything is shifting, when the world turns to its darker face and apprehension is in the air, and when we divide the world into globalists (bad) and patriots (good).
Solo event,
3.30pm - 4pm | Friday 13 July
Has capitalism served society? Can business breakthroughs go beyond tokenism and green-washing? Explore how business can be a force for long-term good and what it takes for enterprises to be purpose-driven, empowered and flourishing, while also competing to be the best for the world.
