23 APRIL - UTS News Room

23 APRIL
Trouble-Making Science
Can Australians handle the truth?
When
Thursday 23 April
6.00pm drinks and canapés for
6.30pm start, concludes 8.30pm
Where
The Great Hall
Level 5, UTS Tower Building,
Broadway, Ultimo
Transport
UTS is only ten minutes’ walk
from Central Station, Eddy
Avenue and Railway Square bus
stops.
From the beginning, humanity has sought to discover how everything works, exploiting the
forces, forms and phenomena of the natural world to our benefit.
Our curiosity has seen superstition and science overlap or clash again and again. Yet
today, many might argue that hard, evidence-based science has emerged triumphant.
But is this true?
With science now underpinning every aspect of life – health, technology, food, war, travel,
entertainment – have we adopted an almost superstitious belief it can solve all problems?
Or has a dangerous contradiction emerged between our faith in science to solve all and an
often dogged disbelief, when the evidence confronts us with troubling and inconvenient
truths?
Parking is available for those with
a disability or special need to
drive:
Join our panellists in a lively Q&A forum that will explore Australia’s complex and
sometimes tense relationship with science.
Peter Johnson Building,
Basement Car Park, 702-730
Harris St. Ultimo.
SPECIAL GUEST MODERATOR
RSVP 22 April 2015
Register attendance with
Robert Button
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 02 9514 1734
EXPERT PANEL
--------------------------------------------UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture
series presented by UTS experts
discussing a range of important issues
confronting contemporary Australia.
UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F
Tim Dean, Science and Technology Editor, The Conversation
 Professor Derek Eamus is a plant physiologist and leads the Terrestrial Ecohydrology
Research Group within UTS’s School of Life Sciences.
 Peter Hannam is Environment Reporter with the Sydney Morning Herald.
 Professor Liz Harry leads UTS researchers with the ithree institute that is tackling the
challenges we face in understanding and controlling infectious diseases in humans and
animals.
 Professor David Booth leads UTS’s Fish Ecology Lab and is President of the
Australian Coral Reef Society.