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  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm

    Wine and Nibbles Film Night @ MCH - The Inertia Trap

    “The Inertia Trap” by local filmmaker Kathryn Kelly 

    The new documentary film “The Inertia Trap” by local filmmaker Kathryn Kelly, provides information about the effects of climate change on the ocean change in easy to understand language. The film covers issues such as increasing ocean heat, changes in ocean currents, and sea level rise and attempts to predict the effects these conditions will have on marine ecosystems, human lives and the global climate. The film is produced and directed by Kathryn Kelly, and narrated by Assoc Professor Janette Lindesay Deputy Director, ANU Climate Change Institute. Scientists interviewed in the film include James Hansen (NASA), Will Steffen (ANU), David Karoly (Melbourne University), John Church, Steve Rintoul, Susan Wijffels, Alistair Hobday, Bronte Tilbrook (all CSIRO) and Tessa Vance (UTas and Antarctic Ecosystem CRC). The film will be followed by a question and answer session with Professor Will Steffen, Assoc Professor Janette Lindesay and director, Kathryn Kelly.  

     Cost $20 / $15 for members.** (includes wine and nibbles).

    Bookings essential – please RSVP to Jenny by phone on 6295 1808 or email. 

    ** Please note, due to rising costs in hosting events, we have had to raise the event fee by $5 for all wine and cheese talks.

     


  • Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 5:30pm - 7:15pm

    The 13th ANNUAL MANNING CLARK LECTURE


    Speaker : Ramona Koval

    Topic: Fire and Ice –   On slow reading, being serious and following your nose

    As a former radio broadcaster specialising in books, writing and reading, I fondly remember the torrent of publications that came pouring into my office from all over the world. Some books managed to survive the treatment of close reading, note taking in margins and on the endpapers at the back, and then being offered to colleagues or to charities or to friends, making it back  the bookshelves in my home. 

    Inspecting my shelves, certain themes emerge. Where did my affection for explorers journals (of polar regions particularly) spring from? Why did I gravitate to these works and to travelers’ tales? And a hundred years after Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Scott expedition, why am I still thirsty for such works? 

    Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the editor of Best Australian Essays (Black Inc) and was the presenter of ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. Her most recent book was Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers ( Scribe) , a collection of her international literary interviews. She is writing a series of essays called On Reading, to be published later this year by Text.

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    Venue: National Library of Australia

     

    Time: 5:30pm registration for 6:00pm start, concludes 7:15pm

     

    Cost: $20 for members $25 non members

     

    Please Note: Pre-payment required at time of booking, no payments taken at the door.

     

    Please call Jenny on 02 6295 1808 to make arrangements to pay over the phone. Payments can be made  by credit card, cheque or direct deposit. Or Email to info [at] manningclark [dot] org [dot] au

     

    If emailing booking, please note the booking is not finalised until payment is received, so please provide phone contact details.

  • Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 12:00am - Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 12:00am

    WEEKEND OF IDEAS 2012

    Keep your diary free for this event. This year’s theme is ‘Is the Media a player in Politics?’.