Events for 07/12/2024

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Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System

Online event

We tend to think of Melbourne and other cities in Australia as places that are food secure; nationally, we produce enough food to support 60,000,000 people, more than twice our population, in service of our role as a major exporter of primary goods and food products. Supermarket shelves are usually filled with food, all year around. But in the last 18 months we’ve seen images of sparsely-occupied shelves, crops being dug [...]

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Our Energy Future – part two of a two-part event from RSNSW:

Online event

Our Energy Future: The Unrecognised Opportunity in Glasgow — In Two Acts Part 2: Crushed Rocks Dr Saul Griffith FRSN including a conversation with Dr Adi Paterson FRSN See here for webinar registration and further details. This year, from 1–12 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland will host the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Glasgow” is the current shorthand for this [...]

1297th OGM and Open Lecture: Taking humour and laughter seriously

Taking humour and laughter seriously: Exploring the multi-disciplinary field of humour studies Dr Jessica Milner Davis FRSN Honorary Associate, University of Sydney For registration and details...read more.  From the time of Aristotle and Plato, philosophers have speculated about humour and laughter, proposing that ridere est humanum. But we now know that chimpanzees and rats also laugh. Sociologist Norbert Elias believed that laughter evolved as an antidote to aggression; but humour can [...]

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