Professor Elizabeth Loftus: The Fiction of Memory
False memories, like true ones, have consequences for people, affecting later thoughts, intentions, and behaviours. Once planted, the false memories look very much like true memories – in terms of beh...
3 Jan 201741min
The Arts and Learning Panel Discussion
The recent review of the national Australian Curriculum has recommended reducing arts learning in our schools. Many in the sector see the recommendations as a direct challenge to decades of research a...
14 Des 20161h 24min
Philosophy in the Age of Democracy
How might philosophical research into apparently non-practical matters be of general relevance to the community? What benefits might tax-payers expect to flow from public support of philosophical rese...
14 Des 20161h 26min
Dr Kieron Rooney on Sugar Sweetened Schools
Sugar Sweetened Schools: a supply chain to childhood obesity? With rates of childhood and adult obesity at all time highs, it’s time to reconsider the delivery of nutrition to children, but where sho...
14 Des 20161h 54min
Professor Glenda Sluga on Nationalism, Internationalism and the Legacies of the First World War
What lessons should we draw from the First World War? Professor Glenda Sluga discusses the war's legacies from the perspective of its end, and the twinned principles on which a new postwar internatio...
14 Des 20161h 27min
Professor Lynn Meskell on The Right to World Heritage?
UNESCO’s 1972 Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage is the only international instrument for safeguarding the world’s heritage. Professor Lynn Meskell, Direct...
14 Des 20161h 11min
Creativity: Teaching The Teachers
Find out how leading researchers are making a contribution to our understanding of creativity, while at the same time inspiring the next generation through their teaching. If the transformative poten...
14 Des 20161h 33min
Professor Samuel Moyn on The Political Origins of Global Justice
Why was the invention of the idea of 'global justice' in the 1970s, a sharp break from the theory of the social contract? Leading human rights scholar, Professor Samuel Moyn from Columbia University...
14 Des 20161h 14min
