/calendar 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z wheelercentre.com /calendar/event/fed-square-book-market/ 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p><strong>Let Prof Pods boost your brain power</strong></p> <p>Do you love browsing through bookshops? Broadening your mind? Picking up something to curl up in bed with?</p> <p>Come to the Fed Square Book Market this Saturday at 1pm to see Professor Petri P Podsapoppin PhD and budding young scholarship student Tobias Manderson-Galvin.<br/> </p> <p>Marvel as they perform great moments from world literature, read exquisite poetry and teach us all valuable lessons for leading a joyous life full of meaningful frivolity.</p> <p>Join in the Book Quiz. Bring something for Show and Tell Time. Win prizes. Find yourself a literary treasure. Grab a coffee. Pick up a bargain. And mingle with Melbourne’s most ardent and honourable ‘bookies’.</p> <p>Presented by The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas with the Australian Poetry Centre</p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays7/ 2010-01-28T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays6/ 2010-01-28T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> /calendar/event/drawing-out-drawing-in-a-spotlight-on-graphic-novels/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>The graphic novel is a form that still attracts more than its share of stigma and snobbery, but its audiences are evangelical, its writers inspired and its sales enviable. And some of the most exciting developments in the form are coming out of Melbourne.</p> <p>With panel discussions, workshops and talks, and the help of some of the leading artists and writers in the field (including Bernard Caleo, Queenie Chan, W. Chew Chan, Oslo Davis, George Dunford, Nicki Greenberg, Bruce Mutard, Shaun Tan, Andrew Weldon and others) the Wheeler Centre is going to colour in the picture. Come and discover or celebrate the adult comic in all its forms.</p> <p>Further details will be announced on the <a href="http://www.wheelercentre.com">Wheeler Centre website</a>.</p> /calendar/event/iq2-debates-australia-should-embrace-nuclear-power/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>The godfather of the climate change debate, Dr James Hansen, is coming from the United States to debate this vital issue of the use of nuclear energy as an alternative to the use of fossil fuels.</p> <p>Joining him, for the affirmative, will be Dr Ziggy Switkowski, outspoken advocate of nuclear power and Dr Erica Smyth.</p> <p>The negative will consist of Molly Harriss Olson, former Presidential advisor to President Clinton on energy, Dr Mark Diesendorf, world renowned writer on climate change and Dr Jim Green.</p> <p>In the wake of grave scientific warnings about the role of carbon emissions in climate change, prominent environmental scientists like James Lovelock have called for the world to employ nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels.</p> <p>Yet, Lovelock’s call has divided the environmental movement – and sections of the wider community – where there remain deep-seated fears about nuclear hazards (disposal, pollution, accident, weaponisation and proliferation).</p> <p>But are such fears misguided or irrelevant when compared to the unfolding reality of adverse climate change?</p> <p>Given our vast reserves of uranium, our stable political economy and isolation – does Australia have an obligation to embrace nuclear power?</p> <p>Since being established in 2002, IQ² has spread from London to New York to Sydney - and now to Melbourne. Taking the traditional ‘grammar’ of Oxford-style debate seriously, with one side proposing and the other side opposing a sharply-framed motion.</p> <p><strong>Partners</strong></p> <p>IQ2 Melbourne is a project of St. James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre.</p> <p> <div class="captioned "> <img alt="iq2oz" src="http://wheelercentre.com:80/static/files/assets/9ddb6ddd/iq2oz_Size4.gif" title="iq2oz" /> <blockquote><p>Intelligence Squared</p></blockquote> </div> </p> <p> <div class="captioned "> <img alt="st_jaems_ethics" src="http://wheelercentre.com:80/static/files/assets/dc3bb8c6/st_jaems_ethics_Size2.gif" title="st_jaems_ethics" /> <blockquote><p>St James Ethics Centre</p></blockquote> </div> </p> /calendar/event/overland-mungo-maccallum/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>From Pacific Solution to Oceanic Viking: in a special Overland event, legendary journalist and raconteur Mungo MacCallum discusses what we might expect from Labor on refugees.</p> /calendar/event/griffith-review-still-the-lucky-country/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>The celebrated quarterly literary journal comes to the Wheeler Centre, with the proud launch of Edition 28: Still the Lucky Country?</p> <p>Some of Australia’s most respected writers and commentators come together to reprise the lucky country arguments of a previous generation and put them in the context of the economic and social development in Australia in the twenty-first century.</p> /calendar/event/quarterly-essay-waleed-aly-the-future-of-conservatism/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Across 2010, the Wheeler Centre will partner with the respected Quarterly Essay to launch and discuss each of their four issues.</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Waleed Aly - The Future of Conservatism</strong></p> <p>Influential and respected commentator and author Waleed Aly discusses the political Right in Australia and globally. Unravelling the terms Right and Left, Aly explores the legacies of the Howard and Bush governments.</p> /calendar/event/meanland-reading-in-a-time-of-technology/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Multimedia books and academic wikis, music and sound publishing, and the world of computer games: technological change has extended reading and writing well beyond the book.</p> <p>Chris Meade, the author of an Arts Council England report on the technological possibilities of literature, discusses his own experiments with musical, graphical and digital fiction; the ANU’s Adrienne Nicotra explains how educational wikis might replace text books; novelist and programmer Paul Callaghan demonstrates the role narrative plays in today’s computer games; and the poet/composer Klare Lanson explores the intersection of music and text.</p> /calendar/event/reading-on-vocation-with-ramona-koval-doctors/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Being a reader isn’t about sitting in an ivory tower, turning your back on the world. The relationship between life and the page is more fluid. We’re shaped by what we read; at home, in our world views and in our careers.</p> <p>In this monthly series The Wheeler Centre and Radio National’s The Book Show aim to uncover those links between work and words. Presented and chaired by acclaimed broadcaster Ramona Koval, the discussions will feature high-profile professionals – doctors and physicists, musicians and comedians – talking about the books that have been important to them and have influenced their profession.</p> <p>On the last Wednesday of each month we’ll be Reading on Vocation. Recordings of each event will be broadcast nationally on The Bookshow on the Friday following each event.</p> /calendar/event/reading-on-vocation-with-ramona-koval-lawyers/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Being a reader isn’t about sitting in an ivory tower, turning your back on the world. The relationship between life and the page is more fluid. We’re shaped by what we read; at home, in our world views and in our careers.</p> <p>In this monthly series The Wheeler Centre and Radio National’s The Book Show aim to uncover those links between work and words. Presented and chaired by acclaimed broadcaster Ramona Koval, the discussions will feature high-profile professionals – doctors and physicists, musicians and comedians – talking about the books that have been important to them and have influenced their profession.</p> <p>On the last Wednesday of each month we’ll be Reading on Vocation. Recordings of each event will be broadcast nationally on The Bookshow on the Friday following each event.</p> /calendar/event/reading-on-vocation-with-ramona-koval-comedians/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Being a reader isn’t about sitting in an ivory tower, turning your back on the world. The relationship between life and the page is more fluid. We’re shaped by what we read; at home, in our world views and in our careers.</p> <p>In this monthly series The Wheeler Centre and Radio National’s The Book Show aim to uncover those links between work and words. Presented and chaired by acclaimed broadcaster Ramona Koval, the discussions will feature high-profile professionals – doctors and physicists, musicians and comedians – talking about the books that have been important to them and have influenced their profession.</p> <p>On the last Wednesday of each month we’ll be Reading on Vocation. Recordings of each event will be broadcast nationally on The Bookshow on the Friday following each event.</p> /calendar/event/the-writer-s-mix-tape-max-barry-with-rob-jan/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Writers’ influences extend far beyond the things they read. The creative impulse is driven by experience, by people they’ve met, places they’ve been and, in many cases, the music they’ve listened to.</p> <p>In partnership with Melbourne's iconic 3RRR, The Writer's Mix Tape is an exploration of the music that has run through our writers’ lives.</p> <p>Each month a different 3RRR broadcaster will interview a notable writer about the songs that have most moved and shaped their career. Short snippets from the songs will be interspersed between intimate chat, outlining personal and writerly connections to each piece of music.</p> <p>Playwrights and poets, novelists and essayists, with some of Melbourne’s finest broadcasters we dig a little deeper to find the soundtrack to their creative and professional lives.</p> /calendar/event/the-writer-s-mix-tape-sonya-hartnet-with-donna-morabito/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Writers’ influences extend far beyond the things they read. The creative impulse is driven by experience, by people they’ve met, places they’ve been and, in many cases, the music they’ve listened to.</p> <p>In partnership with Melbourne's iconic 3RRR, The Writer's Mix Tape is an exploration of the music that has run through our writers’ lives.</p> <p>Each month a different 3RRR broadcaster will interview a notable writer about the songs that have most moved and shaped their career. Short snippets from the songs will be interspersed between intimate chat, outlining personal and writerly connections to each piece of music.</p> <p>Playwrights and poets, novelists and essayists, with some of Melbourne’s finest broadcasters we dig a little deeper to find the soundtrack to their creative and professional lives.</p> /calendar/event/the-writer-s-mix-tape-tony-birch-with-jonnie-von-goes1/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Writers’ influences extend far beyond the things they read. The creative impulse is driven by experience, by people they’ve met, places they’ve been and, in many cases, the music they’ve listened to.</p> <p>In partnership with Melbourne's iconic 3RRR, The Writer's Mix Tape is an exploration of the music that has run through our writers’ lives.</p> <p>Each month a different 3RRR broadcaster will interview a notable writer about the songs that have most moved and shaped their career. Short snippets from the songs will be interspersed between intimate chat, outlining personal and writerly connections to each piece of music.</p> <p>Playwrights and poets, novelists and essayists, with some of Melbourne’s finest broadcasters we dig a little deeper to find the soundtrack to their creative and professional lives.</p> /calendar/event/ethically-speaking-corporate-and-business-ethics/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>What do we talk about when we talk about ethics? Questions of moral philosophy affect all facets of our everyday existence. There are fundamentals of decency, of responsibility, of community, that underpin and define our society, but what are they?</p> <p>Every second month throughout 2010 Australia's finest ethical thinkers and industry experts will come together to tease out those principles that run deeper than our Codes &amp; Practices, our Rules &amp; Regulations. How might we live an ethical life in the minefield of contemporary relations?</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Corporate and Business Ethics - Chaired by Alan Kohler</strong></p> <p>While the worst of the Global Financial Crisis appears to be over, recent years have seen a striking increase in scrutiny on the corporate world. From executive remuneration to the world of hedge funds and short selling, everyone seems to have an opinion on what’s right and wrong, fair and criminal when big business is in the mix. A panel of corporate movers and shakers and keen-eyed observers come together to debate best practices: do they exist, are they followed or does anything go in the world of high finance?</p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays4/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Featuring</strong>: Kathy Charles’s wry love-letter to Los Angeles <em>Hollywood Ending</em>, Mic Looby’s travel-guide inspired <em>Paradise Updated</em>, Michaela McGuire’s humorous memoir <em>Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage</em> and <em>Loving Richard Feynman</em> a tale of a science-loving 15-year-old by Penny Tangey.</p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays3/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Featuring</strong>: Anna Goldworthy’s musical memoir <em>Piano Lessons</em>, Brendan Gullifer’s fly-on-the-wall look at Melbourne’s property industry <em>Sold</em>, Melbourne Prize for Literature winner Amra Pajalic <em>The Good Daughter</em> and Caroline Lee’s Meanjin serialised novel <em>Stripped</em>.</p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays2/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Featuring</strong>: Poetry Slam champ Ezra Bix’s <em>Dancing in the Lifeboat</em>, Christine Darcas’s debut novel <em>Dancing in High Heels Backwards</em>, <em>Alzheimer’s, A Love Story</em> by prize-winning short story writer Vivienne Ulman and Damon Young’s <em>Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free.</em></p> /calendar/event/debut-mondays1/ 2010-01-21T00:00:00Z The Wheeler Centre <p>Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let's face it, a first-time local writer isn't guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.</p> <p>Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.</p> <p><strong>Featuring</strong>: Tom Cho’s funny and original <em>Look Who’s Morphing</em>, Andrew Croome’s The Australian/Vogel Prize winning <em>Document Z</em>, memorist Lisa Dempster’s <em>Neon Pilgram</em>, and prize-winning poet LK Holt’s <em>Man Wolf Man</em>.</p>