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February 2009

Changing the World through Film: panel discussion

Tuesday 24 February, 6.00pm: Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian International Documentary Conference

Level playing field? Educational disadvantage and its impact on participation in higher education - public lecture

Thursday 26 February, 5.30pm: Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with the Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, UniSA and The Smith Family


March 2009

Cities in systems of cities: Adelaide, Australia and the world - with Professor Sir Peter Hall, University College London

Wednesday 11 March, 6.15pm: Allan Scott Auditorium, City West campus, Hawke Building
Jointly presented with the Centre for Building and Planning Studies

Hawke Centre Expert Forum: Lives de-filed and statues animated....China, the passion of the political and the everyday

Friday 13 March, 12.00pm: Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

Justice for Women at Work: A discussion of Paid Parental Leave and Pay Equity

Tuesday 17 March, 5.30pm: Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with School of Management and Centre for Work + Life


April 2009

Hawke Centre Forum on Environmental Sustainability,  Work, Life and Consumption

Monday 6 April: 5.30pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with the Australia Institute and Centre for Work + Life


May 2009

Australian College of Educators 50th Celebration including the 2009 AW Jones Oration - with Professor Barry McGaw AO

Friday 22 May: 6.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Supported by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre

Women in Afghanistan: fighting fundamentalism and building their own future with Shazia Shakib, member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Thursday 28 May: 7.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan (SAWA)


June 2009

What matters in Australia today: Four perspectives

Monday 1 June: 6.00pm, Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide
Jointly presented with the Australia Day Council of South Australia

Doc[u]mentaries exhibition launch

Wed 3 June: 5.30pm, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 3

SA Refugee Week launch and book launch of Sandra Lindemann's biography of Ben Yengi - To the Beat of His Own Drum

Mon 15 June: 10.30am, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 3
Hawke Centre hosts the opening of SA Refugee Week with the Migrant Resource Centre of SA

Short term pain for long term gain: managing work life balance in a recession with Professor Linda Duxbury, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada

Thursday 18 June: 6.00pm, Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building
Jointly presented with SafeWork SA

Paul McGeough book launch: "Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit... and the rise of Hamas"

Tuesday 23 June: 6.15pm, Bradley Forum,UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Supported by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre

One Just World forum
Carbon Trading Exposed: The impact on the world's poor

Thursday 25 June: 5.30pm, Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide
Jointly presented with AusAID, World Vision Australia and the International Women's Development Agency


July 2009

Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce Luncheon - Shaping the Future: Research in Motion

With Laureate Professor John Ralston, Director, Ian Wark Research Institute, Laureate Professor of Physical Chemistry and Minerals Processing
Thursday 2 July: 12:00 noon to 2:00pm, Hilton Hotel, Victoria Square

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Public Lecture with Dr Genevieve Bell
Black Holes, Backhoes and Broadband - there's more to connecting South Australia than rolling out a cable!

Thursday 2 July: 6.15pm, Hilton Adelaide Ballroom, Victoria Square

2009 Australia-Israel Hawke Lecture: Water Security and Climate Change: Israel and the Middle East, with Australian reflections with Dr Clive Lipchin, Arava Institute, Israel

Monday 6 July: 6.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

Adelaide Festival of Ideas

Zainah Anwar's visit has been generously supported by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, Division of EASS, UniSA

Festival runs from Thursday 9 July - Sunday 12 July

Earthship Biotecture: Sustainable architecture for a changing climate

Monday 27 July: 6.30pm, Mutual Community Theatre, Hetzel Building, UniSA City East campus, Hetzel Building, Frome Road


August 2009

1.4 Billion Reasons, presented by the Global Poverty Project

Wednesday 5 August, 6.30pm, Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building

Traces exhibition launch

Thurs 6 August: 6.00pm, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 3

Work/Life Balance Policies in a Declining Economy: are they still win-win? with Professor Eileen Appelbaum, Director, Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, US

Wed 12 August: 6.15pm, Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building
Jointly presented with School of Management and Centre for Work + Life

SA Heritage Heroes 2009 award ceremony

Tuesday 25 August: 10.30am, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
followed by refreshments in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, level 3


September 2009

Hawke Conversation Series: Global Feeling? Feeling Global?  The role of emotions in the 21st century

Tuesday 1 September: 12.30pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

EcoMapping™ and Environmental Management Systems

Monday 7 September: 6.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

Friends of SASA exhibition launch

Monday 7 September: 6.00pm, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building

2nd UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture to be delivered by Unity Dow, author and Former High Court Judge of Botswana

Wed 16 September: 6.15pm, Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building
Jointly presented with the School of Law


October 2009

Editing: Words Best Practice exhibition launch

Wednesday 7 October: 5.30pm, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 3

Silk and Ochre: intercultural food journeys in Asia and Australia

Wednesday 7 October: 6.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5
Jointly presented with the OzAsia Festival

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence FREE public lecture with Professor Laura Lee
Sustainable Futures: An integrated design strategy for South Australia

Wednesday 14 October: 6.15pm, Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide

Widening participation: Supporting the transition of non-traditional groups to higher education

Monday 19 October: 5.30pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

Carers in the workforce - a new age?

Wednesday 21 October: 4.30pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5


November 2009

2009 Annual Hawke Lecture: Climate Change: The Public Interest and Private Interests in Australian Policy
To be delivered by Distinguished Professor Ross Garnaut

Wednesday 4 November: 5.45pm, Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide

Smarter Schools: CoAG National Partnerships Round Table

Monday 9 November: 5.30pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5

Ethics and Nanotechnology at the Interface

Thursday 12 November: 6.00pm, Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building level 5


December 2009

International Human Rights Day

Wednesday 10 December   


2010 events - preliminary notification

Emotional Geographies:
The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies

Tuesday 6 - Thursday 8 April 2010

Hawke Building, UniSA City West campus, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide


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The Hawke Centre reserves the right to amend any details of their program at any time

While the views presented by speakers within the Hawke Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia or The Hawke Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: strengthening our democracy - valuing our diversity - and building our future.

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