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SlowTV: Synesthesia: Hearing colours, tasting sounds. David Eagleman
David Eagleman | Sydney | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Imagine a world of magenta Tuesdays, tastes of blue, and symphonies seen as well as heard. At least one in a hundred otherwise normal people experience the world this way in a condition called synesthesia, in which stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in a different sense.... » play video -
SlowTV: Graham Freudenberg on Churchill and Australasian anxieties
Graham Freudenberg | Sydney | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2In this Distinguished Speaker Series talk at the Lowy Institute, author and political adviser Graham Freudenberg AM addresses the impact of Winston Churchill on Australia's foreign policies. The title of the lecture is: 'Australasian Anxieties: How Winston Churchill shaped Aus... » play video -
SlowTV: Gaza: Morality, law and politics. Raimond Gaita
Raimond Gaita | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 The Wednesday Lectures 2009 at the Australian Catholic University (curated by Raimond Gaita) bring together a variety of speakers on the subject Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics. In his own insightful and thoughtful contribution to the series Raimond Gaita treads the moral, legal and... » play video -
SlowTV: On Gaza and narcissistic victimhood. Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2The Wednesday Lectures 2009 at the Australian Catholic University (curated by Raimond Gaita) bring together a variety of speakers on the subject 'Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics'. In this lecture Ghassan Hage raises the pitfalls for any academic trying to speak meaningfully a... » play video -
SlowTV: The Jewish state on trial. Mark Baker
Mark Baker | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2The Wednesday Lectures 2009 at the Australian Catholic University (curated by Raimond Gaita) bring together a variety of speakers on the subject 'Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics'. In this lecture Mark Baker looks at the way this issue is framed around the world, and what the... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Glyn Davis on Donald Horne
Glyn Davis | Melbourne | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In this lecture from the University of Melbourne's Key Thinkers series, Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis looks at the life and work of Donald Horne.Donald Horne was an Australian journalist, writer social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellec... » play video -
SlowTV: Dealing with war crimes. Florian Westphal
Florian Westphal | Sydney | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Florian Westphal, the head of media at the International Committee of the Red Cross, addresses the question of how the media and humanitarian organisations frame our perceptions of war crimes; and how they can responsibly draw the attention of policy-m... » play video -
SlowTV: Beneath the surface: the new Defence White Paper. Alan Dupont
Alan Dupont | Sydney | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Is the Rudd Government's new Defence White Paper more of the same or a significant departure from the previous strategic orthodoxy? More importantly, is it affordable, and will future governments commit to the level of spending necessary to ensure that the White Paper's ambiti... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: David Holm on Han Feizi
David Holm | Melbourne | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2In this Key Thinkers lecture from the University of Melbourne series, Professor David Holm (Professor of Chinese) addresses the life and work of Han-era Chinese philosopher Han Feizi. Along with Li Si, Han Feizi developed Xun Zi's mutualism into the doctrine known as Legalism.Melb... » play video -
SlowTV: The holocaust and genocide: Remembering the 20th century. Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov | Melbourne | May. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2This inaugural Wallenberg lecture is presented by Professor Omer Bartov, John P Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide.Bartov argues that the very recognition of the Holocaust'... » play video
