2015 Calendar

The Hawke Centre event and exhibition program offers ideas and solutions for a sustainable 21st century.

January

2014 Industrial Design Graduate Exhibition

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 25 November - 4 February


February

 

Book Launch: Transforming Rural Communities in China and Beyond

Allan Scott Auditorium, Tuesday 17 February, 5.30pm 
Followed by a celebration of Chinese New Year in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Australian Centre for Asian Business

2015 DocWeek In-Conversation

Mercury Cinema, Tuesday 24 February, 6.30pm
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Mercury Cinema and Media Resource Centre


March

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Connell: Xenosceptica 3

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 12 February - 31 March

Savage Harvest: a tale of colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art

Allan Scott Auditorium, Tuesday 3 March, 6.00pm
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts

The river of lives: Olwen Fouere on the genesis of riverrun from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Wednesday 4 March, 6.00pm
Presented by the Hawke EU Centre, supported by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Hawke Research Institute

In-conversation with oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle and eco-hero Simran Sethi

Allan Scott Auditorium, Wednesday 11 March, 6.30pm
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and WOMADelaide's Planet Talk Series

Catastrophic futures? 2050 and beyond

Barbara Hanrahan Building, BH2-09, Wednesday 25 March, 6.00pm
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Hawke Research Institute as part of the InConversation series

In-conversation with Nisha Agrawal, CEO, Oxfam India &
Consuelo López-Zuriaga Hernández-Gil, Executive Director, Oxfam Mexico

Barbara Hanrahan Building, BH2-09, Tuesday 31 March, 6.00pm
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Oxfam Australia

April

Sue Michael: Mid Northern

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 8 April - 1 May

A humanitarian in the front line: International protection of people displaced by ISIS in Dohuk, Kurdish Region of Iraq

Allan Scott Auditorium, Thursday 9 April, 6.00pm

 May

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Centenary Exhibition

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 6 May - 5 June 

Inaugural University of South Australia Reconciliation Lecture:Understanding and Resolution with Dr Ros Kidd

Allan Scott Auditorium, Thursday 28 May, 6.00pm

June

       

Creative Learning Initiative: Examining Creative Learning and Community in the Education Space

Allan Scott Auditorium, Thursday 4 June, 6.00pm

Bryan Dawe as Sir Murray Rivers QC

Allan Scott Auditorium, Friday 5 June, 6.00pm

Marzha/Borders - Artist discussion

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Thursday 11 June, 5.00pm

ARA 40th Anniversary Oration with Dr Tim Soutphommasane

Allan Scott Auditorium, Friday 19 June, 7.00pm

Greece and the Eurozone Crisis: Past, Present and Perspectives for the Future

Allan Scott Auditorium, Wednesday 24 June, 6.30pm

Rehabilitation: co-creating new lives

Allan Scott Auditorium, Friday 26 June, 6.00pm

2015 Youth Poster Exhibition - Celebrating SA Refugee Week

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 9 - 30 June

Practising Democracy as if the Public Matters

Allan Scott Auditorium, Tuesday 30 June, 6.00pm

July 

 

 

 

Jaali

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 3 - 17 July

Youthworx: Development of a Creatively Driven Film Production Social enterprise

Bradley Forum, Wednesday 8 July, 6.00pm

The Art of Pain

Keynote lecture and discussions, 21 and 22 July

The Art of Pain

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 20-30 July

 August

 

 

CACSA Contemporary 2015

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 4 August - 3 September

Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) Launch

Bradley Forum,  Tuesday 11 August, 5.30pm

Inaugural AFFLIP Oration
2015: A Year of Decision on the Global Education Agenda

Allan Scott Auditorium, Tuesday 25 August, 5.30pm

September

Can Christianity and Islam Co-Exist? A National Dialogue

Allan Scott Auditorium, Wednesday 2 September, 6.30pm

Tim Flannery: Atmosphere of Hope
Searching For Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Presentation and Book Launch

Brookman Hall, City East campus, Thursday 3 September, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Birth of the Cool: Exhibition, Floor Talk & Jazz evening

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Thursday 3 September, 5.30pm

2015 Annual Hawke Lecture: with Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK, AFC (Ret’d)

Adelaide Town Hall, Monday 14 September, 6.00pm

Mark Butler: Advanced Australia: The Politics of Ageing

Allan Scott Auditorium, Thursday 24 September, 6.00pm

Landscape of Longing - Jumaadi

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 9 - 30 September

The Story Behind Shedding Light

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 9 - 30 September

October

       

Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture:
After the Fall: content, context and co-creation after the decline of print media

Allan Scott Auditorium, Wednesday 7 October, 6.00pm

The Rosie Batty Story
With 2015 Australian of the Year Rosie Batty

Allan Scott Auditorium, Saturday 10 October, 2.00pm

The future of higher education in Australia

Allan Scott Auditorium, Tuesday 13 October, 7.00pm

The cunning of uncertainty: with Professor Helga Nowotny

National Library Board, Singapore, Monday 19 October, 6.30pm

Are you wearing a slave? An exhibition for the abolition of slavery

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 7 - 30 October

Dark Water: Cambodia's UXO Divers

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 7 - 30 October

Keating: Kerry O’Brien

Allan Scott Auditorium, Thursday 29 October, 6.30pm

November

Can the inequality gaps be closed?  An exploration of the challenges and solutions

With Professor Tom Calma AO

Allan Scott Auditorium, Wednesday 11 November, 6.00pm

 

2015 UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture
The Good Citizen of Australia: Human rights and citizenship in the twenty-first century 

With Professor Hilary Charlesworth

BH2-09, Thursday 12 November, 6.00pm

 

Memoir launch: Speak Up, Reach Out - A life to reckon with by Graham F. Smith 

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Thursday 26 November, 6.00pm

December

One Thousand Lifetimes in One Lifetime

Exhibition: Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 4 November - 9 December

International Conference on Social Theory, Politics and The Arts

Allan Scott Auditorium, Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December

 


 

 

While the views presented by speakers within the Hawke Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia or The Hawke Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: strengthening our democracy - valuing our diversity - and building our future.

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While the views presented by speakers within The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia, or The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: Strengthening our Democracy - Valuing our Diversity - Building our Future. The Hawke Centre reserves the right to change their program at any time without notice.