This Week: Paul Keating, 2012 Peace Prize Keynote: Sekai Holland, Exceptional Brains and Music & Emotion

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Follow us on Twitter Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host This is our last week of Big Ideas Series 5! Tomorrow 11am on ABC1 SHORTCUTS - Paul Keating gives the Keith Murdoch Oration and a highlight from Senator Sekai Holland's 2012 Sydney Peace Prize keynote speech. Wednesday 11am on ABC1 - Professor Marcia Langton delivers the 2012 Boyer Lectures. The theme is 'the Quiet Revolution: Indigenous people and the Resources boom'. It is the story of the Aboriginal part in this country's economic history from the protection era through to the collision between remote Australia and the miners. Saturday 10.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - Robert M Kaplan, forensic psychiatrist and historian - who wrote The Exceptional Brain and How it Changed the World, discusses idiosyncratic artistic geniuses and the odd bad guy. He's lined up Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, and at the bottom of the barrel - Adolf Hitler. Sunday 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - What happens when you listen to music? You'll get to hear some terrific music and some interesting insights into composition and emotional response with Emma Ayres the morning presenter with ABC's Classic FM; Professor Andrew Schulz - composer and head of school of Arts and the Media at University of NSW and Associate Professor Emery Schubert, who has done extensive work in music psychology. Big Ideas will be running a summer series until we return in February 2013. The team here at Big Ideas would like to wish you a safe & happy holiday season! This Week on TV Politics Paul Keating: Keith Murdoch Oration Paul Keating delivers the Keith Murdoch Oration at the State Library of Victoria. The refocus on Asia and Keating's disquiet that, in Australia we have rolled back into an easy accommodation with the US, that is the subject of this address. more » Tuesday 27 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Culture and Society Sekai Holland: Sydney Peace Prize Lecture Sekai Holland, Zimbabwean Co Minister of State for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration in the cabinet of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is the recipient of the 2012 Sydney Peace Prize and delivers the annual Sydney Peace Prize lecture here. more » Tuesday 27 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Culture and Society Marcia Langton on The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom Professor Marcia Langton gives this year’s Boyer Lectures. She examines the significant changes in Aboriginal Australia, due in part to significant changes in the mining industry as companies responded to mining on Aboriginal land and Indigenous employment in this boom economy. more » Wednesday 28 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Arts Music and Emotion What happens when you listen to music? What happens in your brain? And what makes music sad, poignant or joyful? In this conversation you’ll get to hear some terrific music and some interesting insights into composition and emotional response. more » Sunday 2 December 2012, 11.30pm on ABC News24 Editor's Picks Politics Noam Chomsky: Revolutionary Pacifism On a rare visit to receive Australia’s only international prize for peace, the godfather of modern linguistics is in activist-mode expounding the prospects for a more peaceful world while outlining some major obstacles and missed opportunities. more » Politics Paul Keating - After Words You don't have to be a true believer to recognise there are few in public life who make an idea sing the way Paul Keating does. And here, in this Sydney Writers Festival special event, he's in full stride speaking with the ABC's Kerry O'Brien. more » Arts Alex Ross: Listening to the Twentieth Century As classical music composers in the twentieth century experimented with new rhythms, tones and sounds, audiences at symphonies reacted passionately. Throughout the ages, music has had the power to evoke powerful emotional responses. In the 1900s, music wa more » Big Ideas TV| Big Ideas Radio| Contact Us You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2011 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters