Launceston Engagement and Development

Past Events

November 2011

  • Philosophy Cafe: "Philosophy and Religion - will philosophy be the death of religion, or will religion be the death of philosophy"?
  • Public Lecture by Professor Michael Balfour - 9th November @ Annexe Theatre, School of Visual & Performing Arts - Inveresk Campus
  • UTAS Film Society - Weekly Tuesday night showings @ the AMC Lecture Theatre, 7pm.

October 2011

  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • Marine Conservation High School Student Photography Exhibition
  • Best of British Concert - Wind Orchestra
  • UTAS Film Society - Weekly Tuesday night showings @ the AMC Lecture Theatre, 7pm.
  • Philosophy Cafe: "What is Intelligence"?

September 2011

  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • 2011 NCMCRS Marine Conservation Film Series
  • UTAS Film Society - Weekly Tuesday night showings @ the AMC Lecture Theatre, 7pm.
  • Launceston Architecture Week - Design: Medium & Scale
  • Philosophy Cafe: "Altruism and Egoism: Can every apparently unselfish act be explained by selfishness"?
  • International Food Week (19 - 23 September)
  • Sustainable Inveresk: Green Precinct Open Day (23 September)

August 2011

  • Philosophy Cafe: 'What does it take to be Ethical'?
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • The (Deductive) Logic of Scientific Discovery - Seminar
  • St Kilda Film Festival - Roadshow
  • UTAS Debate - Topic # 2: "Right to die with Dignity"
  • NCMCRS Marine Conservation Film Series: Film No. 3 - 'Sharkwater'
  • NCMCRS Marine Conservation Film Series: Film No. 4 - 'Bag it'
  • UTAS Film Society - Weekly Tuesday night showings @ the AMC Lecture Theatre, 7pm.

July 2011

  • Philosophy Cafe: 'Ethics and the non-human World'
  • NCMCRS Marine Conservation Film Series: Debut screening for 2011 - 'Papa Mau'
  • NCMCRS Marine Conservation Film Series: Film No. 2 - 'Transparent Sea'
  • 'Research Week @ UTAS' - Launceston Leg 25 - 29 July
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • Public Lecture @ Inveresk - Speaker, Associate Professor  'Cameron Tonkinwise' presents his lecture on "Design Thinking"
  • UTAS Debate - Topic # 1: "Same Sex Marriage"?

June 2011

  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • Staff Tour - School of Architecture and Furniture Design
  • Philosophy Cafe: 'I am right, you are wrong; is this logic paradigm holding back Western thought'?
  • "Living with Complexity" - Dare Shott Public Lecture

May 2011

  • Staff Tour - School of Nursing & Midwifery Simulation Centre
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • ArtsForum: FREE Public Lecture - Barbara Bolt
  • ArtsForum: FREE Public Lecture - John Cattapan
  • Wind Orchestra Concert
  • AMC Maritime Forum - 'Navigating Change'
  • "A Different View": An exhibition of photographs by Sharon Pittaway

April 2011

  • Philosophy Cafe: 'Philosophical Thinking'
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar

March 2011

  • ArtsForum: FREE Public Lecture - Professor Bob Shay
  • The Examiner: John West Memorial Lecture
  • Launceston Public Space, Public Life - Lecture
  • Philosophy Cafe: 'Philosophy out of the Hat'
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • NEW Gallery Exhibition - Land is Life: Climate Change in the South Pacific
  • Harmony Day - Newnham Campus
  • Share your Lunch: A Taste of Harmony (celebrating Harmony & Diversity in the Workplace)
  • Relay for Life: Fish 'n Ships

February 2011

  • "Goodness, Beauty & Truth in Education: Now and in the Future" - FREE Public Lecture
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar

November 2010

  • UTAS Public Lecture - World Education Forum Tasmania
  • Voice and Movement Masterclass
  • National Association of Field Experience Administrators (NAFEA) 2010 Conference

October 2010

  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor - Piano Bar
  • NEW Gallery Exhibition:  Birchalls Tertiary Art Prize, Finalists' Exhibition
  • UTAS School of Visual & Performing Arts - 2010 Showcase

September 2010

  • UTAS Public Debate Series  - TOPIC 3: In cyberspace, no-one can hear you scream!
  • UTAS Staff fundraising morning tea - funds donated to Aspire - Increasing awareness of depression
  • Singapore Students Assoc Movie night - fundraiser for the Pakistan flood relief fund
  • Moon Cake Festival: Lantern Making, Chinese Kung Fu - UniBar,  Newnham Campus
  • UTAS Public Debate Series  - TOPIC 2: It's not easy being Green!
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Annexe Theatre, Inveresk : CentrStage production - "Mr Bligh's Third Mutiny"
  • UTAS Public Debate Series - TOPIC 1:  Vegetarian vampires suck: what's good reading for young people?

August 2010

  • Marine Conservation Film: "End of the Line" - 5 August
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Hotel Grand Chancellor
  • City of Learning - UTAS Open Day
  • Marine Conservation film: "The Cove" - 19 August
  • NEW Gallery Exhibition: "Objects of Design" 

July 2010

June 2010

  • TEDxTasmania - for thinkers and doers
  • Business After Hours Cocktail Party: UTAS Alumni-Launceston Chamber of Commerce-UTAS Community Friends & Networks Program
  • NEW Gallery Exhibition" Body Exquisite" - Extremely beautiful and, typically, delicate
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Degrees, Newnham Campus
  • UTAS Staff fundraising morning tea - Funds donated to Men's Health Week

May 2010

April 2010

  • NEW Gallery Exhibition: "Sounds & Shadows from Indonesia"
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Unibar, Newnham Campus

March 2010

  • Harmony Day - Newnham Campus
  • NEW Gallery Exhibition: "DIGI" - Immersive digital Art/Human Interface Technology
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - Annex Theatre, Inveresk: CentrStage production - "Who Knows"

February 2010

  • NEW Gallery Exhibition"Tale of a Dog" - African Textiles
  • UTAS Staff Social Hour - sponsored by Community & Friends Networks Program - Degrees, Newnham Campus