Seminar Program
'Fireside Chats' Seminar Series
Trinity is privileged to have, at any one time during semester, up to 5 international visiting scholars, including Nobel laureates and other distinguished academics in a variety of scholarly disciplines, in residence at the College.
Trinity encourages students to come along each Wednesday for an hour to listen to such scholars talk on topics of interest to them – try it and you may find yourself inspired and fascinated!
Information about the careers of our visiting scholars is on our portal. If you wish to meet a scholar in an area of interest to you, ask Dr Sally Dalton-Brown, who co-ordinates this program.
These all take place on Wednesdays at 7.30 in the SCR, unless otherwise stated.
| Semester One 2008 | |
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Wed 27 February |
Dr Albrecht Dümling: ‘Music and Nazism’
In the JCR – starts 7.00 pm |
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Wed 5 March |
Professor Sir James Mirrlees, ‘Do stock market crashes and housing booms really matter?’ |
| Wed 12 March |
Dr Ken Coutts, ‘Do we ever learn? The implications of the sub-prime crisis’ |
| Wed 19 March |
Dr Andrew Walter, ‘Global imbalances and the US-China relationship’ |
| Wed 26 March | Easter break |
| Wed 2 April |
Hina Jalani, ‘Human Rights and the UN’ |
| Wed 9 April |
Dr Lynne Broughton, ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ |
| Wed 23 April | Professor Doris Schroeder, 'What we owe to vulnerable research populations in Africa’ |
| Wed 30 April | Bart van Oort, 'Early music as an "attitude"' |
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Wed 7 May |
John Hopkins, ‘Dedication, Doggedness and making a Difference (my life as a Conductor)’ |
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Wed 14 May |
Grantley McDonald, 'Plato' |
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Wed 21 May |
Dean's installation; no fireside chat |
| Wed 28 May | Professor Michael Clyne, ‘The strengths and limitations of English as an international language’ |
| SEMESTER 2 PROGRAM | |
| Wednesday 30 July | Pera Wells, 'The World Federation of United Nations Associations as a peoples' movement' |
| Wednesday 6 August | Reprieve Australia - 'The ethics of death row' |
| Wednesday 13 August | Trinity ball - no fireside chat |
| Wednesday 20 August | Robyn Eckersley, 'Environmental sustainability issues' |
| Wednesday 27 August | The Wigram Allen Essay Competition - hosted by the Dialectic Society |
| Wednesday 3 September | Thataw Kunoo, 'Burma and the Karens' experience as an ethnic minority' |
| Wednesday 10 September | TCAC Awards dinner - no fireside chat |
| Wednesday 17 September | John Armstrong, topic tbc |
| Wednesday 24 September & Wednesday 1 October | Mid-semester break |
| Wednesday 8 October | Bruce Grundy, topic tbc |
| Wednesday 15 October | Philip Harris, neuromarketing (tbc) |
| Wednesday 22 October | |
| Wednesday 29 October | |
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SWOT VAC 3-7 November
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