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July 91011fri sat sun 1999 North Terrace Allelaid, e South pie ented by sponsored by N. K, A (^:I^;:%^:I^ welcome himy 0' I"I, Sat", day @ I"Iy Sunday I July I 1.00. in 10.00, in 10.30. in Welcome to the official program guide for the Bonython Hall Eld. r Hall Bony. hon Hall Eldor Hal Art Gallery Auditorium inaugural Adelaide Festival of Ideas - three days just Wartr ajust War h conversation Thinking tintk, ud Thinking OutloLrl Thinking Outloud of stimulating public forums, conversations and Paul Collins Malcolm Walter The Changing Nan" David Brooks Gerard Heriderson Andrew Knoll of Community solo presentations covering a wide range of 12.00 topics and featuring speakers from Australia and Hanan Ashrawi Beatrix Campbell Eld. r Hall Bony, han Hall around the world. New thinking, ideals and 12.45pm 11.30am 'in kit:lit or Am I Righ Richr or PCx, rer issues all play a part in the program for this Elder Hall The Irisltu, e Ledure Theatre Eld. r Hall Bony. hon Hall Good and Evil in a Income distribution, event. We invite you to join with us to celebrate Thin, ing OURl, ,ud Thinking Our bud Scionce Friction Intellectual Colonisation Post-Rollsiou, Society winn. r, and losers. and be a part of Adelaide's public intellectual Envi"ging a Ethical issues airing from Worn. n In Scionce Global"rsus local. Globalisatio Phillip Adams Mark Cully culture. With the exception of three ticketed sustainable future. doning. surrog. cy, sperm Where are the girl. ? VCmus tho PMedlon of Paul Davies David Brooks keynote addresses, the program is entirely free Molly Hamss 01son and cytoplasmic inj. don. Stetu. of Women in of cultural identity. Beamx Campbell Catherine Lumby to the public - a distindly Adelaide Nancy Lane Science and Policy. Barry Jones Peter Sellars Ed Tin, eddell phenomenon which follows in the tradition of Nancy Lane David Brooks 2.15pn 1.45, m our internationally acclaimed Adelaide Festival Kathy Sykes Mary Kalantzis of Arts Writers' Week. For this to be possible Elder Hall Bony, hen Hall Elder Hall Art Gallery Auditorium Catherine Lumby Srieja Gunew we are particularly indebted to our major rinT, ting Link, ad Thinking Outk, ud Thinking Outlot"I Thinking outloud sponsors - Nokia, the City of Adelaide, and the Mufti-Multi-Culturis"I Barry Jones 1.15pm Christopher MCKay Technological Furur. , Government of South Australia through ArtsA Srieja Gunew Eld. r Hall Bony. heri Hall Bob Bishop and Australian Major Events. Without their Thinking Outlowl Thinking Outloud 3.45pm 3.15pm belief in the idea. and that of a raft of other Bre. k. hroughs come from Margaret Somerville Art Gallery Auditorium Bony. hon Hall Elder Hall Alt Gallery Auditorium way OUR in loft field sponsors and supporters listed on the Thi, Iki^g Our nilrl Deep Time New Techi, ,Ingies Allan Sriyder Thinking Outloud acknowledgements page, this event would riot The Cal. rid. n How it Origins. earth .denc. .. ami tl, . Workforce Anef Budiman be as accessible to you. produc. d an English economic cons. qu. nc" 2.45pm Who', f, .ding *I. speaking world. Will the planet look Elder Hall Bonython Hall hand that bytes. Grej; Machie Duncan Steel aftor itself? wi", :,-K, uni I I^lieve Tlie End of Science Mark Cully Chair Mony Harris 01son Truth in ^I. media: Marvel or Barry Jones 1999 Adelaide Festival of Ideas Paul Davies the madi. and ir, role Millennial Madness MCKenzie Wark Paul Collins in a vibr. nt a. incaacy Larry Ford 5,001im O Festival Theatre Maicolm Walter Catherine Lumby Duncan Steel Festival Theatre @The Institute LOCIur. Theatre David Brooks 8.00pm Chris MCKay MCKenzie Wark Hello lit}11y @ Art Gallery Auditorium Festival Theatre @ Elder Hall donlng, sthic, and tho law I, em, ,cracy, Survival and Co, operation Beatrix Campbell O Bony, hon Hall Margaret Somerville Paul Collins Hanan Ashraw Gemid Henderson 4.30pm @ Art Gallery C. f6 Nancy Lane Danid Brooks Elder Hall Pau108vies - indicates main entrance Phillip Adams Beatr x Campbe Art Gallery Auditorium Anef Bud inari Thinking Outloud Thinking outloud Peter Sellars Some Ideas that did riot work, ^I Western Intell. dual, and I, ^^I the 20th eontury .^} Gerard Henderson 3< . Ariau , Z U Bu. .rigs . Z 8.00pm The taking of o Z or Elder Hall ^ -I photographs Soulh a onh F o and the use of =. A1, ". .n stir^Iin Life, TIE Universe and Everything > 2 Mugeum Malcolm Walter Christopher MCKay any recording =, Andrew Knoll Duncan Steel device Iaudio Z > C Paul Davies Nancy Lane or video) at o in Berry Jones an Festival NORTH TERRACE N o r h Te r r a C e Mobile telephone and of eas ,, a paging devices must be e I Z > o ^ F swithed off during I 17 ^ in ^ . t~I ; F sessions. forbidden f^^tml of ideas presents ^,qil, , rindl, co. "I'd Adelaide has established an enviable international reputation as a festival by, .,"""" o1 S. un Aun". city - it has lead the way with the Festival of Arts, the Adelaide Fringe, Come Out, the Barossa Music Festival and Adelaide Writers Week. The Government is proud to support all these - and many other - cultural events. I know how excited Arts Minister Diana Laidlaw was when the idea for the Adelaide Festival of Ideas was first presented to her. That excitement continues with realisation of the present program. Intelligent public debate about new ideas, new technologies, and the sp^I^^akir!g my had of ethical, scientific, SOCiological. spintual and CUIttiral issues confronting us has generally not been accessible to large numbers of people. The Adelaide Festival of Ideas will provide a forum for such debate thei^'^a 11!^"dmind and discussion - and an opportunity for us all to look at the big issues . As we approach a new millennium, the South Australian Government is pleased to support this new Festival through ArtsA, Australian Major Events and the Information Economy Policy Office. The Adelaide Festival of Ideas promises to be stimulating, passionate, diverse and relevant to matters that impact on all our lives - I encourage you nanocrac ,, Survival to be part of this unique and important event. and Co, operation 101m 01seri MP Hanan Ashrawi Premier Gerard Henderson South Australia Phillip Adams Beatrix Campbell Anef Budiman Festival TIEatre I' dE th' , Maicolm Walter Friday 9 July Chris MCKay 8pm Andrew Knoll N. K, A Duncan Steel CONS:EonNG PEOPLE Nokia^ sponsorship of The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is part of a Paul Dayies commitment to the arts in Australia. Nokia encourages innovation and the Nancy Lane sharing of ideas and is excited to be able to further promote this credo to Elder Hall the wider community. Saturday , O July Nokia has a strong focus in information sharing, in particular the sharing of 8pm ideas. As with any new idea, innovation and thinking "outside the box" is a key element in the development of Nokia products The relationship with The Adelaide Festival of Ideas demonstrates Nokia^ Hello liony commitment to support innovation on a local level and encourage people Cloning, ethics and the law to communicate through the sharing of thoughts and philosophies Margaret Somerville Nokia celebrates new ideas and their ability to connect people around the Paul Collins globe. We are proud to be sponsoring the Melaide Festival of Ideas Phillip Adams Danid Brooks Martti Malka Paul Davies Managing Director Festival Tileatre Nokia Mobile Phones Sunday, , July Spin

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GREY 2720 Fed". 1,611 Record Board. Courtesy N, damlUbr. Iy o1 Aumall. un, w. redera, 10.2000i. gov. .u Molly Harriss 0150n Barry iones Ms 01son is Director of ECo Bany Jones is a Labor politician, writer and broadcaster. Elected Futures, an Australian based as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences (FAA) in 1996, international policy firm wo^ing on a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and building sustainable strategies with Engineerlng (FTSE) in 1992 and the Australian Academy of the business, government and civic leaders. Humanities (FAHA) in I993. As Science Minister (1983-90) he She was founding President and CEO of The created the National Science Centre and the Commission for the Natural Step, a Us non-profit environmental education Future, His book Sleepers, Wake!; Technology and the Future of organisation. She worked in the White House as Executive Work (1982) has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Director of the President's Council on Sustainable Development. Swedish and broille, is now in its 24th impression. His other books Appointed by President Clinton in 1993 the Council submitted include the Dictionary of World Biography (1994). He was its report Sustainable Amen'ca: A New Consensus in March 1996. created an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1993 She was Chair of King Cad Gustav^ Environmental Symposium, and is a member of the International Council on Stockholm, Sweden and the Myerhoff Visiting Scholar; Series on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and Vice Global Responsibility, Goucher College and Baitimore, MD. In President of Australia ICOMOS and Director of 1995 she was selected as a member of the World Economic CARE Australia. He has been a Visiting Forum^ Global Leaders for Tomorrow program. Professor at the University of Wollongong and the Victorian University of Technology and will be Adjunct Professor at Monash University in I999, He was Deputy Chair of the Constitutional Gerard Hand son Convention and in 1998 became a 'UVing National Treasure' one of 100 people nominated by the National Gerard Henderson is Executive Director of The Sydney Institute. Trust as Australian icons. In March 1999 he was elected as a He writes for The Sydney Morning Herald, Visiting Fellow of Thaity College, Cambridge. (Melbourne), Courier Mail(Brisbane), Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart) and weekly commentator on ABC Radio National. He is the author of Mr Santamaria and the Bishops (1982), Australian Answers (1990), Getaid Heriderson Scribbles On (1993), Menzies' Child: The Liberal Party of Australia (1994) and A Howard Government? Inside the Coalition (^)^ (1995) as well as numerous articles and essays The Sydney Institute is a privately funded . policy forum. It publishes two journals (The . . 0.0 Sydney Papers and The Sydney Institute Quarterly incorporating Media Watch) holds 60 policy forums per year and conducts a major 238a Rundle St, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 0882232335 F: 0882325558 annual lecture. The Institute enjoys good relations with both sides of mainstream Australian politics. Open Monday to Saturday loam-lopm and Sunday loam-6pm CaS if ideas Mary Killantzis Professor Mary Kalantzis is Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services. She was born in Valcouvina, Greece and arrived in Australia in 1953. Her work has been at the interface between community, industry and university. Prior to her arrival at RMIT University, Professor Kalantzis was Professor of Education at James Cook University of North Queensland and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. Professor Kalantris' extensive record of research and scholarship covers the fields of school education, adult and vocational education and training, and multicultural studies. She is the author or co-author of six major books, four of which have been published internationally, 20 research reports, 37 refereed journal articles. UNIBOOKS Official supplier of books to the Festival of Ideas South Australia's leading supplier of academic texts, Andrew Knoll reference and quality general reading material,

Andrew Knoll, Professor of Unibooks is located at: Biology at Harvard University has a long and distinguished career The studying early life on earth. He is a North Terrace Campus member of the Us Academy of Sciences and Telephone: (08) 82234366 has involvement in the Us Space Exploration Program through The University of South Australia membership of the Space Science Board, the major Us City West Campus government advisory body in Space exploration. Telephone. (08) 8302 0844 The F1inders University of South Australia Southern (Main) Campus Telephone: (08) 82768464 ^!^ open to the public . ,0% cash discount UNIBOOKS f ideas Nanc Lane 'hristopher I' MCKay Dr Nancy Lane OBE is a scientist in cell biology at Cambridge Dr Christopher MCKay, Planetary University and does research on cell-cell interactions. She is a Scientist with the Space Division of non-executive Director of an international health care NASA Ames since 1982. His current company, involved in tissue engineering, is a fellow of the research focuses on the evolution of the Institute of Biology, and serves on the Council of the solar system and the of gin of Iffe and Zoological Society of London. Nancy was appointed by the UK planning for futile Mars missions including human settlements. His Prime Minister to his 6-member Citizen's Charter Advisory polariesearch involves travelling to the Antarctic dry valleys and to Panel in 1991 and Technology (SET) for the Cabinet Office. the Marslike environments of Siberian and Canadian Arctic. She is a member of UNESCO's Scientific Committee for Women in Science and Technology and serves on several national commissions to improve the position of women in SET. She has lectured Peter Salars widely to raise the public awareness and understanding of cell biology and to forge Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera, and

, links between the artistic and the scientific television directors in the world today, having ..... communities. directed more than 100 productions, large and small, across America and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University, he studied in Japan, China, and India before becoming Artistic Director of The Boston Shakes peare Company. At 26 he was made Director of the American National Theatre at the Kerinedy Centre in Washington, D C. He is a recipient of the MacArrhur Prlze Fellowship and was recently awarded the Erasmus Prize at the Dutch Royal Palace for contributions to European culture. Peter has Catherine Luml, y collaborated with The Wooster Group and was featired in Jean- Luc Godard^ film of King Lear. He has also appeared on Bill Catherine Lumby has worked Moyers' A World of Ideas, Miami Vice, and The Equalizei; directed as a journalist and columnist a rock video for Herbie Hancock, and produced a series of radio for The Sydney Morning Herald episodes for The Museum of Contemporary Art^ The Territory of and The Age. She is Director of Art series. His first feature film, The Cabinet of Dr Rainirez, is silent Media and Communications at in colour starring Joan Cusack, Peter Gallaghei; Ron Vawteij and Sydney University and a senior Mikhail Baryshnikov. He was Artistic Director of the 1990 and writer for The Bulletin. Catherine 1993 Los Angeles Festivals, a large-scale, grassroots, international, Lumby's book Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in intercultural, and interdisciplinary civic experiment mobilising the the 1990s was published in 1997. arts, and he is currently a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. He has recently been appointed Artistic Directc r of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts ad""" i C S Allan W Sriyder Duncan Steel Allan Sriyder received the, , Dr Duncan Steel is a space International Australian prize from researcher and author. His first book Rogue and and was featured as one of Australia^ Doomsday led to his I O most creative minds in the Bulletin/ appearance in many TV Newsweek magazine in 1998. He is Foundation documentaries on the cosmic hazard Director of the Centre for the Mind at the Australian National to life on Earth, and the movies "Deep University, where he holds the Peter Karmel Chair of Science and Impact" and "Armageddon". In 1999 he has two books the Mind. He is also Head of the Optical Sciences Centre and being published: Marking Time; The Evolution of Our Professor of Visual Science and Optical Physics. Currently he is Calendar Miley, New York) and EClj9se: The Path of the publishing on creativity, especially "mindset breaking" as inspired Celestial Shadow (Hodder Headline, London). by his research on the astonishing abilities of autistic savants. He is also investigating the curious phenomenon of light guiding light for photonic devices of the future. He holds degrees fom Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University College London, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and is the recipient of numerous awards and honours. Kathy Sykes Kathy Sykes is Head of Science at a project that is building a new hands-on science centre for the public, called "Explore" Margaret Somerville as part of the Landmark Millennium project at Bristol, which Margaret Somerville holds professorships in both Law and has other components which deal with Nature and the Arts. As Medicine and is active in the worldwide development of Head of Science she will manage the development of an bioethics and in the study of legal and ethical aspects exhibition called 'You are Amazing' on the Brain, Body, Senses of medicine and science and consults to various and Reprodurtion. She has a PhD in Physics from Bristol governments and non-government bodies. In University and has over the past six years worked particular she has consulted to the Global as a communicator of science to the public Programme on AIDS of the World Health and in 1996 worked at Tomorrow^ World, Organisation, UNAIDS, the United Nations BBC, researching how the media Human Rights Secretariat in Geneva, law communicates science. reform commissions in Canada and Australia and has been a speaker at UNESCO in Paris. She is the recipient of many honours and awards, including the Distinguished Service Award of the American Society of Law and Medicine, the Pax Orbis ex Jure Gold Medal of the World Jurists Association for support and dedication to the cause of world peace through law. 'deas I: Twedd, ,11 MCKenzi, , Wark

Dr Ed Tweddell BSC, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP is MCKenzie Wark's most recent the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive book is Celebrities, Culture and Officer of the healthcare and pharmaceutical Cyberspace (Pluto Press). With Brad group F H Faulding & Co Limited and Miller, he produced the multimedia joined the board in 1989. Prior to this he cd-Torn " Planet of Noise". His column spent 10 years living and working in appears in the Higher Education Supplement of Canada, Africa, The Middle East, Asia and The Australian and he is senior lecturer in media studies at the United States primarily involved in medical affairs and drug development, and in 1986 he was appointed President and CEO of a consumer products and healthcare company in Japan. Dr Tweddell serves on the board of the National Australia Bank, is a member of The Business Council of Australia and the Premier's Business Roundtable - South Australia and The C^I^11.1"a,t^I Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council. He is Chair of the Adelaide Festival. with us! The Friends of the

. Adelaide Festival , . Millcolm winter are celebrating a Renaissance Born in Adelaide in 1944, Maicolm Walter has worked on many . ,59'0 Discount On aspects of the early biological history of Earth. This has ranged Tickets from describing some of the earliest evidence for life on earth, . Exclusive use of the to looking at relationships between evolving life and the surface Friends Club environment, through to economic consequences of ancient . Meet the Artists and writers ecologies. This has lead to the involvement . Inside involvement, in the search for life on Mars, as a contractor for NASA. Since 1989 he participation and information about the has been at Macquarie University in Premier Cultural Event Sydney and has published in Australia scientific papers, several books, To become a member. please ring Friends of and is a frequent commentator in Sonia Laidlaw on 82,64444 or drop the media on matters to do with in at to5 Hindley Street, Adelaide for the Adelaide Festival Inc. early life on Earth, and the more information exploration for life on Mars. acknowledgments

Addaide Festival Corporation The inaugural Adelaide Festival of Ideas wishes to thank the following people and organisations for their support.

11.13rd major sponsor Dr Ed meddell (Chairman) Ms Rosalba Clemente The British Council Mrs Nicola Downer N. KIA Centenary of Federation, Mr Frank Ford CONNECTING PEOPLE South Australia Councillor A1fred Huang Information Economy Policy Offic Mr Jim Sharman Guerilla Advertising and Design Dr Ian Sinylie The Investigator Science upported by Ms Janet Worth and Technology Centre tier". I Man'ser The State Library of South Austinl United States Information Service Nicholas Heward ERecu, ive Secretary @ inch, ..~ Adohide Festival of Ideas S Bev Prosser ., bO, ,. I" dB. *, I'mIb Execu, ive Producer !:j, "un, ,lip M. nager Kiin Baker Rose Wight A, ,i. tant Srim", r, hip Cultd:, usI, r . -I^;^I byn Wags, aff Jeanette MCLeod PrL"lusti. in Manager fe, sf!. a a e ai C fe sfi Marketing C, cordinator c, *^... THE uruvERsrrY Ton Moreton Penny Bailey 125, OF ADELAIDE 3~t9 march 2000 Publicist Marketing Secretary Nat Ward Jeanne Eves ^letstr" (Xfici"IRIX, kgeller rria. Is Cmw, hat'" ^, THE FUNDERS UNIVERSITY The 21st biennial Adelaide Festival. OF SOUTH AumALiA Unibooks Sonia Laidlaw Adelai, Ie Festival of Me a, Millennial in its themes The Telstra Adelaide Festival Ing. ti, "u Direct*w Advi, Lay C, *amit, ee 3rd Puttj;ram Momj;or David Malacari Greg Mackie (Chair) 2000 offers an adventure in contemporary Art. ^ Phillip Adams CIM"flung Seere, ary UNrvrRs, rYOF Anne Gale (until April 1999) SOUTH AUSTRALIA A truly daring program exploring the essence of Artin Lesley Newton Paul Davies TabicalInrecoor Nicholas Heward our lives and celebrating its awesome possibilities. Justn O Brien Geo\ Cobham official suppliers Rober, Phiddian Finer, "I Controller Eleanor Rainsay , David Hepper Rose Wight rag ANSErrAusrRALiA I^:I ^,"*"^,,.^^^ ,,, OMR FIN, reial Assistant rinkl We ridy Bennett Cath Kerry Art Gallery Cafe For program details contact the Adelaide Festival Executive officer Writers Week @^ ^I^;: c> 105 Hindiey Street. Ade!aide PC Box 81/6 Station Arcade Adelaide SA 5000 Rose Wight ing^g, ^,, lit"kin Darren Piitzner Tcl: +61 882164444 Fax: +61 882164455 Reception'st Email; aid@adelaidefestival. netau \vww. adclaidefestival. letsira. comau A4Art Bronte De Young ^!' UNmOOKS N. KIA Cowlcri, "i Pro"E

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