Begins Thursday 9 July until 12 July
July 6th 2009 04:15
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Adelaide Festival of Ideas (1999 - 2009)
Adelaide Festival of Ideas
The sixth biennial Adelaide Festival of Ideas opens on Thursday 9 July at 8.00pm at Elder Hall with the session, Where do big ideas come from? featuring guest speakers Antonio Lazcano (Mexico), Bruce Petty (Australia), Simon Singh (UK), Rachel Webster (Australia) chaired by Phillip Adams. The 2009 Festival of Ideas with the theme of Pushing the Limits, will be dedicated to the life's work of Professor Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FAA, FRS. The first Adelaide Festival of Ideas was held in 1999.
From 9 - 12 July more than 50 free Festival sessions will be held at various venues along North Terrace, Adelaide. 38 overseas and Australian speakers will each give a solo talk, and take part in a variety of conversations and panel sessions.
An exciting addition to the program is Colin Allen Professor of History & Philosophy of Science and Professor of Cognitive Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, who replaces US philosopher Patricia Churchland who is ill and unable to travel. Professor Allen's main area of research is on the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, particularly with respect to nonhuman animals. His most recent book is Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong.
Festival Chair Robert Phiddian said, 'The Festival will be an opportunity to look at how to adapt to those limits that can be pushed no further. More than ever, in this time of flu, climate change, and economic decline, we need to use the rare opportunity the event provides to think through the directions we are heading in as global citizens.'
Other Festival sessions include:
Who cares ? the limits of health; Free Spin: Controlling the message and the limits of free speech Built to Fail: The age of Ponzi prosperity; Yes Minister: laying bare the operation of government; Origins of Life and evolution of Intelligence; Pushing the Limits: Environmental law and the role of the judiciary and citizens; Open and closed ? how to reconcile the contradictions in the Australian psyche; Pushing the limits and crossing boundaries Muslin women in the post 9/11 age; Limits of Cities; Choose your poison!; Migration-the partly open door; Sex, knowledge and society; Markets: Good Servants, bad masters; Pushing the limits of Australian politics; Freedom of speech and its limits; Is capitalism good for our health?; Dear leader ?the limits and possibilities of leadership; Indigenous health- is the gap closing?; Trick or Treatment? ? Alternative medicine on trial; Why migrant smuggling pays; Pushing the limits of a one-milligram brain; Climate change beyond the city limits?; The first and last century of global drug prohibition; You are not your brain scan!; Reach for the stars; New directions in astronomy; Darwin?s armada; You?re disgusting! Shaming mechanisms in different cultures; Beyond Evolution; The place of work in a meaningful life.
Tickets for the three evening sessions are $28, $23 (Friends of the Adelaide Festival) and $15 (concession) and may be purchased through BASS, phone 131 246 or book online via the Adelaide Festival of Ideas web site at Really Long Link or via the BASS web site at www.bass.net.au.
Free programs with information on all sessions and participating speakers are available now. Visit adelaidefestivalofideas or pick up a hard copy from BASS outlets, metropolitan libraries and bookstores.
The sixth biennial Adelaide Festival of Ideas opens on Thursday 9 July at 8.00pm at Elder Hall with the session, Where do big ideas come from? featuring guest speakers Antonio Lazcano (Mexico), Bruce Petty (Australia), Simon Singh (UK), Rachel Webster (Australia) chaired by Phillip Adams. The 2009 Festival of Ideas with the theme of Pushing the Limits, will be dedicated to the life's work of Professor Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FAA, FRS. The first Adelaide Festival of Ideas was held in 1999.
From 9 - 12 July more than 50 free Festival sessions will be held at various venues along North Terrace, Adelaide. 38 overseas and Australian speakers will each give a solo talk, and take part in a variety of conversations and panel sessions.
An exciting addition to the program is Colin Allen Professor of History & Philosophy of Science and Professor of Cognitive Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, who replaces US philosopher Patricia Churchland who is ill and unable to travel. Professor Allen's main area of research is on the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, particularly with respect to nonhuman animals. His most recent book is Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong.
Festival Chair Robert Phiddian said, 'The Festival will be an opportunity to look at how to adapt to those limits that can be pushed no further. More than ever, in this time of flu, climate change, and economic decline, we need to use the rare opportunity the event provides to think through the directions we are heading in as global citizens.'
Other Festival sessions include:
Who cares ? the limits of health; Free Spin: Controlling the message and the limits of free speech Built to Fail: The age of Ponzi prosperity; Yes Minister: laying bare the operation of government; Origins of Life and evolution of Intelligence; Pushing the Limits: Environmental law and the role of the judiciary and citizens; Open and closed ? how to reconcile the contradictions in the Australian psyche; Pushing the limits and crossing boundaries Muslin women in the post 9/11 age; Limits of Cities; Choose your poison!; Migration-the partly open door; Sex, knowledge and society; Markets: Good Servants, bad masters; Pushing the limits of Australian politics; Freedom of speech and its limits; Is capitalism good for our health?; Dear leader ?the limits and possibilities of leadership; Indigenous health- is the gap closing?; Trick or Treatment? ? Alternative medicine on trial; Why migrant smuggling pays; Pushing the limits of a one-milligram brain; Climate change beyond the city limits?; The first and last century of global drug prohibition; You are not your brain scan!; Reach for the stars; New directions in astronomy; Darwin?s armada; You?re disgusting! Shaming mechanisms in different cultures; Beyond Evolution; The place of work in a meaningful life.
Tickets for the three evening sessions are $28, $23 (Friends of the Adelaide Festival) and $15 (concession) and may be purchased through BASS, phone 131 246 or book online via the Adelaide Festival of Ideas web site at Really Long Link or via the BASS web site at www.bass.net.au.
Free programs with information on all sessions and participating speakers are available now. Visit adelaidefestivalofideas or pick up a hard copy from BASS outlets, metropolitan libraries and bookstores.
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