| February 28
|
Kelly
O'Shanassy
Chief Executive Officer, Environment Victoria; A Director of
'WaterKeepers Australia'
|
Will we
outlast our rivers? |
March 28
|
Dr Bob
Birrell
Reader
in Sociology at Monash University. Joint
editor (with Katharine Betts) of the quarterly demographic journal People
and Place. |
Population
Growth versus the Environment: are the two compatible?
|
April 25
|
Bruce
Steele AM
Adjunct Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts,
Monash University;
Music Director, St Aidan's Uniting Church, North Balwyn
|
Johann
Sebastian Bach:
Why is he "Great"?
|
May 30
|
Professor
Michael Clyne AM
Honorary Professorial
Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of
Melbourne; Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Monash University |
Language,
religion and social inclusion
|
June 27
|
Michael
Shaik
Public
advocate for Australians for Palestine; formerly worked for Department
of Defence (Navy) as a
Civilian Peace Monitor in Bougainville. |
Barriers
to peace between Palestine and Israel |
July 25
|
Beth Dun
Music Therapist
and
Co-ordinator of Music Therapy at the Royal Children's Hospital.
|
Improving
the health of children with Music
Therapy
|
August 29
|
Dr Paul
Harrison
Senior
Lecturer in Consumer behaviour and Marketing, Deakin University;
currently
undertaking research for Victorian Dept of Justice and for ASIC
examining the role of
marketing in influencing rational decision-making.
|
Selling
happiness: The incremental influence of marketing
|
September 26
|
Professor
Neil Rees
Chair,
Victorian Law Reform Commission; former
Professor of Law and Dean of Law at University of Newcastle; Foundation
co-editor of Aboriginal Law Bulletin. |
Are
we sleepwalking into a surveillance society?
|
October 31
|
Dr Anna
Halafoff
Researcher
for the UNESCO Chair in
Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific and the
Global
Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political and Social Inquiry,
Monash
University.
|
Netpeace: Multifaith movements and common security
|
November 28
|
Margaret
Pont
Author
of “Arthur Boyd and St Francis of Assissi"
|
The
meaning of sainthood from a secular point of view. (Arthur Boyd’s
insights
experienced through his
St Francis works.) |