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Alumni Events Calendar 2008
For the latest on general UNSW Events, check the UNSW Events Calendar. For events specific to a Faculty try our UNSW Events - Faculty listings.
Brain Food
The UNSW Alumni Association presented the first Brain Food forum on 30 April 2008. The topic was "A Future Free of HIV: the Scientific and Social Implications of making it happen".
Facilitated by the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, the speakers were:
Daniel Tarantola MD, UNSW Professor of Health and Human Rights
Juliet Richters PhD, UNSW Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine
David Cooper AO FAA, Director of the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at UNSW
6 lectures were presented in the popular Brain Food series during 2007.
The final lecture, on 24th October, was:
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKET:
a Critical Appraisal of the WTO, World Bank and IMF
The speaker was Professor Ross Buckley from the Faculty of Law at UNSW. Professor Buckley has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade and Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance. He is founding Series Editor of the Global Trade Law Series published by Dutch multinational Kluwer and Series Co-Editor of Kluwer’s International Banking and Finance Law Series.
The earlier lectures in 2007 were:
THE BIGGEST, WEIRDEST AND OLDEST FOSSILS IN THE WORLD: 30 years of extraordinary discovery at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site
Speaker: Professor Mike Archer, Dean of the Faculty of Science at UNSW, who talked about flesh-eating kangaroos, the biggest dinosaur ever known and bizarre creatures that go way back to the dawn of life in a review of the incredible discoveries from Riversleigh, in Queensland, where he has headed a team that for three decades has been exploring what he described as the best and most important fossil field in the world. (February).
FROM RED SQUARE TO THE LEFT BANK
Speaker: Dr Ludmila Stern, Coordinator of Russian Studies in the School of Modern Language Studies, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW, where she is also coordinator of the MA in Interpreting and Translation Studies (MAITS). Dr Stern examined the situation in the 1920s-30s when many western intellectuals of high repute supported Stalin's USSR despite its alarming record of political repressions and showed how recently opened Soviet archives have helped uncover the operations of Soviet cultural propaganda and the way the Soviet Union fostered and manipulated its western supporters. (April).
POROSITY: the revision of public space in the city using public art to test the functional boundaries of built form.
Speaker: Professor Richard Goodwin from the College of Fine Arts at UNSW, one of Australia’s most renowned sculptors and a leading figure in the ongoing debate over public art and the urban space, investigated the functional boundaries ascribed to the physical dimensions of public spaces and redefined the terms on which they are experienced. (May).
CITIES TODAY: are they destroying our health?
Speaker: Associate Professor Susan Thompson, Head of the Planning and Urban Development Program in the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW, explored the links between city form and health and illustrated her talk with different practice and research examples showing how built environment professionals (including planners and designers), health professionals (both policy makers and medical practitioners) and the community are working together to make cities healthier and happier places in which to be. (July).
FROM STELLATE CELLS TO SOUTH WEST SYDNEY: an unusual journey for a scientist
Speaker: Professor JEREMY WILSON from the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW, a practicing gastroenterologist and clinical leader in Sydney’s fastest growing Area Health Service, talked about his unusual career path from basis sciences research into the pathogenesis of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer through to the particular problems of delivering healthcare in emerging communities on the outskirts of Sydney. (August).
For details of the 2008 lectures, starting in February, watch this space!
Facilitated by the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, the speakers were:
Daniel Tarantola MD, UNSW Professor of Health and Human Rights
Juliet Richters PhD, UNSW Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine
David Cooper AO FAA, Director of the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at UNSW
6 lectures were presented in the popular Brain Food series during 2007.
The final lecture, on 24th October, was:
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKET:
a Critical Appraisal of the WTO, World Bank and IMF
The speaker was Professor Ross Buckley from the Faculty of Law at UNSW. Professor Buckley has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade and Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance. He is founding Series Editor of the Global Trade Law Series published by Dutch multinational Kluwer and Series Co-Editor of Kluwer’s International Banking and Finance Law Series.
The earlier lectures in 2007 were:
THE BIGGEST, WEIRDEST AND OLDEST FOSSILS IN THE WORLD: 30 years of extraordinary discovery at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site
Speaker: Professor Mike Archer, Dean of the Faculty of Science at UNSW, who talked about flesh-eating kangaroos, the biggest dinosaur ever known and bizarre creatures that go way back to the dawn of life in a review of the incredible discoveries from Riversleigh, in Queensland, where he has headed a team that for three decades has been exploring what he described as the best and most important fossil field in the world. (February).
FROM RED SQUARE TO THE LEFT BANK
Speaker: Dr Ludmila Stern, Coordinator of Russian Studies in the School of Modern Language Studies, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW, where she is also coordinator of the MA in Interpreting and Translation Studies (MAITS). Dr Stern examined the situation in the 1920s-30s when many western intellectuals of high repute supported Stalin's USSR despite its alarming record of political repressions and showed how recently opened Soviet archives have helped uncover the operations of Soviet cultural propaganda and the way the Soviet Union fostered and manipulated its western supporters. (April).
POROSITY: the revision of public space in the city using public art to test the functional boundaries of built form.
Speaker: Professor Richard Goodwin from the College of Fine Arts at UNSW, one of Australia’s most renowned sculptors and a leading figure in the ongoing debate over public art and the urban space, investigated the functional boundaries ascribed to the physical dimensions of public spaces and redefined the terms on which they are experienced. (May).
CITIES TODAY: are they destroying our health?
Speaker: Associate Professor Susan Thompson, Head of the Planning and Urban Development Program in the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW, explored the links between city form and health and illustrated her talk with different practice and research examples showing how built environment professionals (including planners and designers), health professionals (both policy makers and medical practitioners) and the community are working together to make cities healthier and happier places in which to be. (July).
FROM STELLATE CELLS TO SOUTH WEST SYDNEY: an unusual journey for a scientist
Speaker: Professor JEREMY WILSON from the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW, a practicing gastroenterologist and clinical leader in Sydney’s fastest growing Area Health Service, talked about his unusual career path from basis sciences research into the pathogenesis of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer through to the particular problems of delivering healthcare in emerging communities on the outskirts of Sydney. (August).
For details of the 2008 lectures, starting in February, watch this space!
Young Alumni Drinks and Networking
Popular Young Alumni Drinks and Networking evenings are held, approximately quarterly, in the Sydney CBD.
Between 5.30pm and 7.30pm alumni have the opportunity to end their working day or start their evening by networking with UNSW classmates and to meet other young graduates from UNSW. Snacks are provided and door prizes given away on the night.
The next of these fun events will be held on Thursday, 29 May 2008 in the Attic Bar of the Art House Hotel, 275 Pitt Strret, Sydney.
Between 5.30pm and 7.30pm alumni have the opportunity to end their working day or start their evening by networking with UNSW classmates and to meet other young graduates from UNSW. Snacks are provided and door prizes given away on the night.
The next of these fun events will be held on Thursday, 29 May 2008 in the Attic Bar of the Art House Hotel, 275 Pitt Strret, Sydney.
For more information about these events, telephone the Alumni Association on +61 (2) 9385 3279 or email: alumni@unsw.edu.au
Note: This Calendar is up-dated regularly so please continue to check.
For information on alumni activities within specific faculties go to Faculty Alumni Contacts.
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