PAST NCEPH Events
PUBLIC LECTURE AND BOOK LAUNCH
This lecture launched an important new book, Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, by discussing how risk and uncertainty inform the democratic politics of national security; and more specifically, how the management of national security is framed by the changing ways in which society assesses uncertainty and risk. It explores the emotion of fear in individual and social contexts, and examines how different security fears lead to different structures of national security.
Michael Wesley is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University. He is also a Program Leader and Chief Investigator of the newly established ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, as well as being chair of the panel on “Australia's Future in the World” at the 2020 Summit. Prior to joining Griffith University in July 2004, he was the Assistant Director-General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments.
At this lecture, Professor Wesley launched Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives edited by ANU Professors Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson.
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Earthscan 2008), is a wide-ranging volume drawing perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, emergency management, futures, history, intelligence, law, law enforcement, music, philosophy, physics, policy, politics, psychology, statistics and theology.
Monthly Magazine - link to video of lecture
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AILEEN PLANT MEMORIAL LECTURE
Cathy Mead delivered the inaugural Aileen Plant Memorial Lecture on Thursday 13 March 2008 - titled ' Good Public Health versus Economic Growth'.
An mp3 audio is available for download.
Overview, outcomes and next steps
"Urbanism, Environment and Health"
25-26 May 2006
The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra.
The 2006 Fenner Conference will take a broad approach to the increasingly important topic of the physical and social environments in Australia's cities, and consequences for population health. Given the centrality of urban development to human futures and to the attainment of sustainability, there is urgent need for an iinterdisciplinary exploration of the issues, and a broadly-based strategy of action.
LAUNCH OF THE "I want to be heard" COMMUNITY REPORT
On Friday 6th May 2005 Patrick Johnson launched the Communty Report of the "I want to be heard" project, an analysis of the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander illegal drug users in the ACT and region for treatment and other services.
Click here to link to the Indigenous Health Papers page, where you can find more information on this and other NCEPH projects and publications.
MAE Conference 2005
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For the speakers program click here.
Agri-Food Conference 2004
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