Festival of Ideas, 15-20 March 2009

friday 19 june
China and the West


All sessions are being recorded and will be available on the festival website in the week following the festival

10.00am -12.00noon
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, basement Sidney Myer Asia Centre

duration: 118 mins 54 secs

China and Australia: The ‘Real' Special Relationship?

  • Will Australia have to choose between Beijing and Washington?
  • Can China have its “peaceful development” and simply be China?
  • Will China as a super-power be content to exist within its own frontiers?

Speakers:
Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore and Emeritus Professor Australian National University
Professor Antonia Finnane, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
John Garnaut, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Beijing Correspondent

Chair:
Barbara Hilder, Director, Confucius Institute, University of Melbourne

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12.15pm - 1.15pm
Ian Potter Museum of Art

** Special Festival of Ideas Lunchtime Activity: Director's Tour of the Ian Potter Museum of Art
You are warmly invited to join Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Dr Chris McAuliffe for a guided tour of the exciting exhibitions on display. (limit 40 persons)

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1.30pm – 3.00pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, basement Sidney Myer Asia Centre

duration: 86 mins 51 secs

China and the New Economic Order

  • Is China the best investor in Australia?

Speakers:
Associate Professor Mark Crosby, Melbourne Business School
Saul Eslake, Chief Economist, ANZ
Dr Pradeep Taneja, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

Chair:
Emeritus Professor Ian Harper, Access Economics

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3.30pm- 5.00pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, basement Sidney Myer Asia Centre

duration: 89 mins 59 secs

The Rise of Contemporary Chinese Art

  • Contemporary Chinese art has become the dominant international avant-garde as stealthily as China has become an economic super-power: What does contemporary Chinese art tells us about China?

Speakers:
Professor Geremie Barmé, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Australian National University
Dr Claire Roberts, Senior Curator Asian Arts and Design, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and Research Fellow, Australian National University

Chair:
Dr Chris McAuliffe, Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

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7.00pm - 8.15pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, basement Sidney Myer Asia Centre

duration: 72 mins 06 secs

Keynote: Writers in a Time of Change
Proudly Supported by Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Speaker:
Kate Grenville, leading Australian novelist and Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner

Chair:
Louise Adler, CEO and Publisher in Chief, Melbourne University Publishing

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