2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellow | University | Host | Public Lecture Title | Lecture Details |
| Professor Andrew O'Shaughnessy | Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; The Saunders Director of the Robert H Smith International Centre for Jefferson Studies at Monticello; Professor of History, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello; The University of Virginia | School of Culture and Communication, and School of Historical and Philosophical Studies | 'The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind': Thomas Jefferson's Ideas of a University | |
| Professor Sheila Blair & Professor Jonathan Bloom | Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College/ Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Viriginia Commonwealth University | School of Culture and Communication | A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from ancient China to contemporary Australia | |
| Mx Julie McNamara | Artistic Director, Vital Xposure, Disability-led Theatre Company, London | Victorian College of the Arts | Cripping it Up. When Disability-led theatre awakens our critical consciousness to the non-normative body and unruly mind unleashed in public spaces. | |
| Professor Matthias Mehl | Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona | Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and Melbourne School of Psychological Science | Quotidian Psychology: How the Little Things in Life Matter for Our Lives | |
| Professor Nadine Foster | Professor of Musculoskeletal Health in Primary Care, Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University; Director of Keele Clinical Trials Unit; National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator, Keele University, UK | School of Health Sciences | Common pain conditions: Rising to the global challenge | |
| Professor Murray Cox | Professor of Computational Biology, Massey University | Melbourne Integrative Genomics and School of BioSciences | A Brief History of Us | |
| Professor John Lygeros | Head, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering | "Feedback everywhere" |
2018 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellow | University | Host | Public Lecture Title | Lecture Details |
| Professor Nigel Rapport | Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies and Head of School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music St Andrews University | School of Social and Political Sciences | Loving Recognition: An anthropological inquiry into the practical efficacy of love as a public virtue. | Date: Thursday 4 October 2018 Time: 7:15pm - 8:15pm Reception: 6:15pm Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick theatre, Arts West |
| Professor David O'Connor | UW Medical Foundation Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Associate Director of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Centre, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Doherty Institute | From Aids to Zika - what's next? | |
| Professor Dominic Wilkinson | Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford | Melbourne Medical School | Expensive care? Rationing costly treatment at the end of life. | Date: Monday 30 July, 2018 Time: 5:30pm Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building |
| Professor Richard Rawlings | Professor of Public Law, University College London | Melbourne Law School | Brexit: Law, Constitution and Market. | Date: Tuesday 20 March 2018 Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm Venue: Public Lecture G08 Theatre, Ground Floor Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham St, Carlton |
| Professor Edward Hinds | Chair in Physics and Director of the Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London | School of Physics | The quantum revolution in science and technology. | Date: Tuesday 26 April 2018 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Basement theatre (MSD-B117), Melbourne School of Design (Building 133) |
| Professor Johanna Schmitt | Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis | School of Biosciences | Can evolution keep up with rapid climate change? | Date: Wednesday 17 October, 2018 |
| Professor Svetlana Lutsenko | Professor of Physiology, John Hopkins University | School of Chemistry | Date: Thursday 15 November, 2018 |
2017 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellow | University | Host Department / Faculty | Public Lecture Title | Lecture Details |
| Professor Anna Sfard | Professor and Head, Mathematics Education Program, Department of Education, University of Haifa, Israel | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Learning About Human Learning: How to Know More About It and Why We Will Never Know Enough | Date: Thursday 25 May 2017 Time: 6.00pm–7.20pm Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2, Kwong Lee Dow Building, Melbourne Graduate School of Education |
| Professor David Sholl | Chair, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Michael Tennenbaum Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability, Georgia Institute of Technology | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering | Chemical Separations: A Critical Area in the World's Energy Budget | Date: Tuesday 16 May 2017 Time: 5.30pm reception for 6.00pm lecture Venue: Woodward Conference Centre, Level 10, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St, Carlton |
| Professor Ellen Townsend | Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham | Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of MDHS | Understanding Self-harm and Suicide in Young People | Date: Thursday 6 April 2017 Time: 7.00pm Venue: Basement theatre (MSD-B117), Melbourne School of Design (Building 133), University of Melbourne Registration |
| Professor Ana Maria Oyarce | Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile | Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of MDHS | Indigenous Traditional Medicine and Biomedical Care: Contradictory or Complementary? | Date: Tuesday 22 November 2016 Time: 5.30pm–6.30pm, reception to follow Venue: Prest Theatre, Faculty of Business and Economics, 111 Barry St, Carlton Registration |
| Professor Denis Baranger | Professor of Public Law at theUniversité Panthéon‐Assas (Paris II), and Co-Director, Institut Michel Villey | Melbourne Law School | The Boundaries of Public Law | Date: Wednesday 26 July 2017 Time: 6:00pm–7.30pm Venue: G08 Theatre, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton Registration |
| Professor Jörg Wrachtrup | Professor of Experimental Physics, Institute Director, Stuttgart University, and Max Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart | School of Physics, Faculty of Science | The Diamond Quantum Revolution | Date: Tuesday 3 October 2017 Time: 6:15pm - 8:00pm Venue: Kathleen Fitzpatrick theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne |
2016 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellow | University | Host Department / Faculty | Public Lecture Title | Lecture Details |
| Professor Sally Haslanger | Ford Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts | Social Practices and the Persistence of Systematic Injustice | |
| Professor Bernard Wood | University Professor of Human Origins and Professor of Human Evolutionary Anatomy, The George Washington University | Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience and Melbourne Dental School, Faculty of MDHS | Situating human evolutionary history in a global context: Progress and challenges | Date: Thursday 2 June 2016 Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm Venue: Basement Theatre B117, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne |
| Professor Judith Masson | Professor of Socio-legal Studies, School of Law, University of Bristol | Department of Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of MDHS | Understanding children's outcomes: The role of big data | Date: Tuesday, 19 April 2016 Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium, University of Melbourne. Registration |
| Professor Sheila Sen Jasanoff | Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F Kennedy School of Government, Secondary Appointment School of Public Health, Harvard University | Melbourne Law School and Faculty of Science | Citizens of the Anthropocene: Space, time, community and polity in a changing climate | Date: Wednesday 18 May 2016 Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm Venue: GO8, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton Registration |
| Professor Paul Dourish | Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California | Department of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering | The Social Lives of Algorithms | |
| Professor Lee Alan Dugatkin | Professor of Biology & Distinguished University Scholar, University of Louisville | School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science | The evolution of goodness, empathy and justice | Date: Thursday 28 April 2016 |
| Dr Paul Kildea | Independent scholar and performer | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Faculty of VCA & MCM | Chopin's Piano: A Path through the Romantic Century | Date: Thursday 19 May 2016 Time: 6.00pm Venue: Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne |
2015 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellow | University | Host Department / Faculty | Public Lecture Title |
Professor Hugo Bellen | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Distinguished Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, USA | Bio21 Molecular Science & Biotechnology Institute | What can flies tell us about human neurodegenerative disease? |
Professor John Terry | Professor of Biomedical Modelling, Director of Research (Mathematical and Computer Science), College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK | Melbourne School of Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering | The emergent rhythms of health and disease: where mathematics, biology and medicine meet |
Professor Paul Brand | Professor of English Legal History, University of Oxford, UK | Melbourne Law School | The first century of Magna Carta and the law: the diffusion of texts of Magna Carta and their use and citation by litigants, lawyers and justices, 1215-1315. |
Professor Paul Rozin | Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA | MDHS, Psychological Sciences | Why we eat what we eat (the psychology of chocolate, vegemite, meat, chilli pepper, edible insects and portion size) |
| Professor C Cecily Kelleher | Professor of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Dean and Head of School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland | MDHS, Melbourne School of Global Population Health | The long shadow of history on Irish people's health, both at home and abroad, |
Professor Joan Steitz and Professor Thomas A. Steitz | "Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, USA" | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute | ‘Lupus and Snurps: From bedside to bench and back again’, and ‘Basic science research explains how biology works and leads to new drugs’ |
| Professor Melvyn P. Leffler | Edward Stettinius Chair of American History and Faculty Associate, Miller Centre for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, USA | Faculty of Arts, Historical and Philosophical Studies | George Bush and Saddam Hussein: Why the United States went to war in Iraq in March 2003 |