2006 Speeches, presentations and lectures

On this page are transcripts of some significant speeches delivered at, or on behalf of, the University of Melbourne.

"A university should always be a forum for the debate of ideas. That’s why each year, the University of Melbourne hosts around 200 public lectures and every day of each semester, faculties and departments offer seminars, symposiums, colloquiums and forums which are open to the public."
--Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor

Making the World Safe for Diversity: Forty Years of Higher Education

30 November 2006

Speech by Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis (Microsoft Word 104 kb) to "Making the World Safe for Diversity:", Annual Australian Book Review/Flinders University Lecture

Mind the Gap: how should we fund public universities?

3 November 2006

Speech by Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis (Microsoft Word 83 kb) to "Making the Boom Pay", a conference hosted by the Melbourne Institute and The Australian

International Public Lecture by Dr Jane Goodall DBE

21 July 2006

Dr Goodall is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace.

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Institutions as Ideas: Change at the University of Melbourne

17 July 2006

2006 Redmond Barry Lecture (Microsoft Word, 108 kb)
by Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne

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Menzies Oration on Higher Education

11 July 2006

Menzies Oration on Higher Education by Professor James Wilkinson, Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

New Standards for New Times? The 8 Hour Day and Beyond

22 June 2006

'Would you like choices with that?' Women, work and family under Howard' (Microsoft Word, 88 kb)
by Belinda Probert, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

International Public Lecture: Does Religion Cause Violence?

18 May 2006

Does Religion Cause Violence? (Microsoft Word, 116 kb)
by William T Cavanaugh, University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota, USA

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