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GILBERTO C. GALLOPIN
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- 'Science
is out of control
- 3pm, Friday, August 17
'Hostility,
turbulence and disorder
- 3.30pm, Saturday, August 18
Hear audio
highlights from the session
'Australia
is not an island'
- 5.45pm, Thursday, August 16
Gilberto C. Gallopin is a biologist who specialises
in environmental and development research and practice.
Currently Regional Adviser on Environmental Policies
for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Gallopin's scientific
and professional background is interdisciplinary and
interparadigmatic.
Thematically, since his first scientific paper in 1961,
the trajectory of Gallopin's research has crossed from
biological ecology, to the interface between society
and nature, and to sustainable development. Throughout
his studies, he has applied a comprehensive systems
approach, looking for a relational and holistic perception
of the research themes. Methodologically, he has worked
with analytical mathematical models as well as with
simulation and conceptual models; experimental approaches
and scenario analysis, field studies, laboratory measurements,
statistical analysis, Delphi approaches, and policy
analysis.
Gallopin's work has taken him to Argentina, USA, Canada,
Austria, Thailand, Venezuela, Colombia, Sweden and Chile.
He has been employed as Director of the Systems for
Sustainable Development Programme of the Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI) based in Stockholm, Sweden; Leader of
the Land Use Program of the International Center for
Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) based in Cali, Colombia;
and Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires
and at the Fundacion Bariloche, Argentina. He is currently
a member of the Inter American Group for the Sustainable
Development of Agriculture and Natural Resources and
a member of the Global Scenario Group.
Having edited, written and co-authored several books
and over 100 papers addressing a wide range of environmental
concerns, Gallopin also teaches subjects such as poverty,
food production, sustainable development, science and
technology, environmental forecasting and ecology.
He obtained his degree of Licenciado in Biological
Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 1964,
and his PhD in Ecology from Cornell University in 1969.
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Lisanne Gibson
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- Is this the
comfort zone?
- 5pm, Friday, August 17
Lisanne Gibson has been investigating the relations
between culture, government and identity since commencing
work on her PhD which was awarded by Griffith University
in 1999.
She has furthered this research through postdoctoral
awards at New York University, the Key Centre for Cultural
and Media Policy and a Research Fellowship at the latter
which enabled her to complete her book 'The Uses of
Art: Constructing Australian Identities' (2001) published
by UQP.
Until the end of 2003 she is a recipient of an Australian
Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry)
to research the social, cultural, political and economic
relations between the management of public art and heritage
in the built environment
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GERMAINE GREER
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- The next
big Idea
- 2pm, Sunday, August 19
Professor Germaine Greer will be speaking on gender,
race and identity: the key conflicts, issues, and challenges
for the future.
Dr Germaine Greer is currently Professor of English
and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University,
UK. She has written many books about literature and
feminism including the landmark polemic, The Female
Eunuch published in 1970. Before this book was published,
she acted on television, wrote for journals and lectured.
With the publication of The Female Eunuch, Greer became
a prominent figure and commentator in the women's liberation
and feminist movements. In 2000, Greer did something
that she swore she would never do - publish a sequel
to that influential text. In her introduction to The
Whole Woman, Greer writes, "the price of the small
advances we have made towards sexual equality has been
the denial of femaleness as any kind of a distinguishing
character. In the last thirty years women have come
a long, long way; our lives are nobler and richer than
they were, but they are also fiendishly difficult. The
career woman does not know if she is to do her job like
a man, or like herself. Is she supposed to change the
organisation, or knuckle under it? Is she supposed to
endure harassment, or kick ass and take names? Is motherhood
a privilege or a punishment?" Throughout this text,
Greer addresses the difficulties currently faced by
women such as motherhood, female circumcision and 'medicalisation'
of the women's bodies.
Her other books include, Sex and Destiny: the Politics
of Human Fertility and The Change: Women, Ageing and
the Menopause. In 1996, The Australian Magazine named
her ninth on a list of the 100 most powerful women in
the world.
Greer currently lives in a farmhouse in Essex, England.
She completed her doctorate in 1967 at the University
of Cambridge and was born in Melbourne, Australia.
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DAVID HEILPERN
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse sessions:
- 'Working
in a system you don't believe in'
- 4pm, Friday, August 17
See the online
transcript of the session
Late Night
Ideas - Ideas that work, ideas that don't.
- 9pm, Saturday, August 18
David Heilpern is a New South Wales Magistrate who
has lectured in Criminal Law. His current interests
include Buddhism, philosophy, and the ethical concepts
of survival and change within the framework of the law.
After completing his studies at law schools in Sydney
and Canberra, he started practice with the Australian
Government Solicitor and then went into private practise
on the North Coast of New South Wales specialising in
criminal law. He undertook many high profile test cases
representing drug law reform and environmental groups.
While continuing to practice, Heilpern, as part of
a small team, successfully lobbied for a Law School
at Southern Cross University. He became a senior lecturer
in criminal law and eventually Deputy Head of School,
Academic Programs Coordinator.
David published four law books and over 20 journal
articles during his time with Southern Cross. His best
known book is Fear or Favour: sexual assault of young
prisoners. In this book, he examines sexual assault
within the prison system, interviewing inmates, recording
and reporting their experiences. The book presents an
account of the complicated relationship between incarceration
and sexuality: a relationship whose distinguishing characteristics
are violence, humiliation and assault.
In early 1999 David was appointed as a Magistrate and
is currently undertaking country service in the West
of New South Wales.
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ANITA HEISS
- Participated in Ideas at the Powerhouse session:
- 'Humanity
thinking out loud'
- 2pm, Saturday, August 18
Hear audio
highlights from the session
Award winning broadcaster and writer, Dr Anita Heiss
has worked for Koori Radio and the ABC. A Wiradjuri
woman from Sydney, she is currently publicist for the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of
the Australia Council and Principal Consultant of Curringa
Communications. She serves on the Board of the Australian
Society of Authors as Deputy Chair as well as on the
Board of Directors for Gadigal Information Services.
Heiss has also published two books, the satirical commentary,
Sacred Cows and a poetry collection, Token Koori. Currently
completing a fictional diary on the Stolen Generation
for young readers due for release in August, she has
also written for performance, radio, newspapers and
journals. The ABC has commissioned her to write two
radio plays.
In Sacred Cows, Heiss observes that "culture may
be defined as breeding and while there may be a lot
of that going on in the back seats of Australian-made
cars, Aussies certainly can't be classified as a cultivated
or refined race ... Aussies suffer from a severe lack
of protocol. There is no sense of etiquette, no knowledge
of the conventions involved in being at a social event,
with any decorum being lost in the culture of a football
match. In short, Aussies' only understanding of protocol
is known as being 'in good form'."
Heiss spent two years as Editor of Aboriginal projects
at Streetwize Comics after graduating with Honours in
History from the University of NSW. In 2000, she completed
her PhD in Communication Studies (UWS, Nepean) with
a thesis on publishing Aboriginal writing in Australia.
Heiss has given workshops, presented at writers' festivals
and undertaken writers residencies around the country.
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