1993
SUSTAINABILITY FORUMS
August 3 to September 21, 1993
Two
months of weekly discourse about making
the world a better place with some of
Melbourne's freshest thinkers.
Imagine
The Future's second series of ecoversity
forums co-hosted with the Australian Conservation
Foundation and Public Radio News. With artists-in-residence
Born in a taxi, a group of Melbourne
theatre practitioners. Presenter: Merrill
Findlay.
1. August 3, 1993
WORLD
VIEWS, MIND SETS & WAYS OF SEEING
with cosmologist Rachel Webster,
Physics Department, Melbourne University;
eco-feminist philosopher Jenny Crawford,
La Trobe University's Philosophy Department;
and visual artist William
Kelly.
2.
August 10, 1993
EXPLORING
THE PAST
with Tony Dingle, an
economic historian, Faculty of Business
and Economics, Monash University, and
author of a number of books including
Vital Connections (McPhee Gribble
1991); and anthropologist Kim
Barrett. Aboriginal activist
Gary Foley was scheduled
to speak but was unable to attend on
the night because of ill health.
3.
August 14, 1993
WHAT DO
WE WANT AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?
with theologian Lesley-Anne
Curran from the United Faculty
of Theology's Caring and Teaching in
the Church program, Ormond College,
Melbourne University; sociologist Malcolm
Drysdale who teaches socio-environmental
research theory, practices and methods
at RMIT; and multicultural advocate
and deputy chair of the Ethnic Communities
Council, Mike Zafiropolous.
4.
August 24, 1993
WHAT'S ESD ANYWAY AND IS IT
POSSIBLE?
with policy analysts Helen Rosenbaum
and Felicity Wishart,
Australian Conservation Foundation;
Peter Christoff ,Political
Science Department, Melbourne University;
and former Minister for the Environment
under the Whitlam administration, Moss
Cass.
5.
August 31, 1993
THE GLOBAL
WEB
with green economist Francis
Grey; theoretical ecologist
and mathematician Alan Roberts,
Monash University and author of Hazards
of nuclear power (with biochemist
Zhores Medvedev, Spokesman Press UK
1977), The self-managing environment
(Allison & Busby, UK, 1980)
and The ecological crisis of consumerism
(Spokesman Press UK 1970); and student
activist Daniel Cass
who participated in the NGO forum at
the Rio Conference.
6.
September 7, 1993
STRUCTURAL
TRANSFORMATION
with geomorphologist Jim
Bowler, professorial fellow,
School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne University;
environmental activist Terry White;
ecologist Frank Fisher, foundation
director of the Centre for Innovation in Waste
Management, Graduate School of Environmental
Science, Monash University; and philosopher
Laurance Splitter, senior
research fellow and director of the Centre
for Philosophy for Children, Australian Council
for Educational Research in Victoria. (CSIRO
entomologist John French was
scheduled to speak but was called to Canberra
to testify against the use of organochlorins
in pesticides.)
7.
September 14, 1993
PSYCHOLOGY
OF CHANGE: WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD?
with psychologist Tony Love,
School of Psychology, La Trobe University
and co-author of I win: you win
(Penguin 1992); and ecopsychologist
Peter Cock, Graduate
School of Environmental Science, Monash
University.
8.
September 21, 1993
TRENDS,
BLUEPRINTS, VISIONS
with political scientists Paul
James and Robyn Eckersley
from the Politics Department, Monash
University. Paul's latest books are
The state in question (Allen
and Unwin Sydney 1996) and Nation
Formation (Sage London 1996). Robyn
is the author of Environmentalism
and political theory: towards an ecocentric
approach (University of New York
Press USA 1992 and UCL Press UK 1992).
Essays
based on the 1993 Ecoversity forums are available
in a stylish 88pp magazine format, as Cappuccino
Papers No 1.
Re-posted
March 2004.
