This Week: 20th Century Orgasm, Gender Equality: a lived reality?, Changing the Future, the Slow Revolution, & Mirror Neurones

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Follow us on Twitter Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host Tomorrow 11am on ABC1 - Changing the Future with Adam Kahane; the Slow Revolution - slow cities; medicine; and finance as opposed to speed walking; dating, and yoga! And lastly understanding mirror neurones at 2012 Mind & Its Potential Conference. Wednesday 11am on ABC1 - Caught Between Giants a timely discussion from the 2012 Noosa Longweekend Festival about the shifting economic, social and military dynamics of China and the US and whether Australia has needed to make a strategic choice between the two... Special archive edition of the show for the sports fans! Saturday 4.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - AFL Masters of the Universe? A look inside the culture of the AFL - in the country's footie capital: Melbourne. Two former AFL gods take part in the discussion - Brendon Gale and Alastair Clarkson, along with Father Bob Maguire and Dr Angela Williams. Adman and Gruen Transfer team member - Russel Howcroft, moderates the discussion. Saturday 10.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - an academic look at the Twentieth Century Orgasm with Professor Annamarie Jagose, head of the school of Letters Arts and the Media at University of Sydney. Jagose's work in sexuality studies and in particular her latest work titled 'Orgasmology' brought a storm of media attention and ferocious talkback traffic in Auckland. Jagose is a very interesting and not at all predictable academic and fast established an international reputation in feminist theory, and has been a key figure in developing Queer Theory. She's also very funny; so stick with this extract from her address at The University of Sydney. Sunday 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - Michelle Bachelet the first Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, and former President of The Republic of Chile gives a lecture called 'Gender equality: a lived reality?' at the ANU. This Week on TV Science and Technology The Brain, the Mind and Human Potential Neuroscience is the place where the intellectual action is these days and this talk from the Mind and Its Potential conference features Professor V.S. Ramachandran and B. Allan Wallace in conversation with Natasha Mitchell on the brain, the mind and human potential. more » Tuesday 20 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Politics Caught Between Giants: China and the USA A well placed discussion from the Noosa Longweekend Festival about the shifting economic, social and military dynamics between China and the United States and the strategic choices that Australia makes between a long time ally and its biggest trading partner. more » Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Culture and Society Annamarie Jagose on Orgasmology Professor Annamarie Jagose of the University of Sydney speaks here on her latest work, which has been drawing some fierce attention, on the topic of the 'Twentieth Century Orgasm'. more » Saturday 24 November 2012, 10.30pm on ABC News24 Culture and Society The Slow Revolution A group of thinkers and creatives who are exploring ways of bringing ‘slow’ into their lives and work. more » Tuesday 20 November 2012, 11am on ABC1 Editor's Picks Science and Technology Susan Greenfield: The Future of the Brain Is the development of the human brain being stunted by decreased human contact, sensory overload and a world without consequences? This "brainiac baroness" believes so. more » Politics Michelle Goldberg on Sex, Power and the Future of the World Throughout history, the issue of women’s rights has spent most of its time in the margins. However in her new book, "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World", author and journalist Michelle Goldberg makes a persuasive argument th more » Politics Geoffrey Garrett on China and the United States Geoffrey Garrett is a political scientist. He is currently Dean of Sydney University’s Business School. He speaks here at TEDxSydney 2012 on the US-China relationship and what that means for Australia. 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