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Free Community Lectures and Forums

Listed below are lectures and forums that are free and open to the public. There are other websites promoting lectures and events that may be of interest to visitors. These include ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the School of Earth & Environmental Science.

• Free Community Lectures Archives

March 2010

• Burning, burning, always burning - ATFI Seminar 
  Thursday 4 Mar 2010 3:30 pm - ATFI on Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS
• Pacific Women Leading the Way: achievements and challenges - The Cairns Institute 
  Friday 5 Mar 2010 11:00 am - JCU Campuses, CAIRNS and TOWNSVILLE
• Therapeutic approaches to child care for traumatised children - The Cairns Institute 
  Monday 15 Mar 2010 5:00 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS
• Australias Tropical Rainforest Flora - a Gondwanan museum or modern mixture? 
  Monday 15 Mar 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS
• Emerging threats to tropical forests - Inaugural Lecture Series 
  Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 5:30 pm - Rydges Esplanade Resort, CAIRNS
• From Nation State to Corporate State: A continuation of the great transformation - The Cairns Institute 
  Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 3:00 pm - JCU Smithfield and Douglas Campuses, CAIRNS and TOWNSVILLE HP
• Rainforest biodiversity in the Australian Wet Tropics: past, present and future - Inaugural Professorial Lecture 
  Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 5:30 pm - Rydges Southbank Hotel & Convention Centre, TOWNSVILLE, Australia
• 'Making History for Baluan Culture', Film screening - The Cairns Institute 
  Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 6:00 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS
• Closing the Gap - Mini Conference showcasing JCU collaborative research in closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage 
  Thursday 25 Mar 2010 12:00 JCU Smithfield and Douglas Campuses, CAIRNS and TOWNSVILLE HP
• Our World at War: A legal perspective - Eve Massingham, Australian Red Cross 
  Thursday 25 Mar 2010 2:00 pm - JCU Campuses, TOWNSVILLE and CAIRNS HP
• Archipelagos of Diversity: Island biogeography and plant endemism in the western Pacific, Micronesia - Craig Costain, ATFI Seminar 
  Thursday 25 Mar 2010 3:30 pm - ATFI on Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

April 2010

• Likely effects of climate change on Australian native forests and plantations 
  Monday 19 Apr 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS
• Regional Ecosystem mapping of Donors Hill - Gary Wilson, ATFI Seminar 
  Thursday 29 Apr 2010 3:30 pm - ATFI on Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

May 2010

• Islands of Survival? Threats and long-term changes in the worlds tropical protected areas 
  Monday 17 May 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

June 2010

• The Inventors: Farmers, engineers and chemists who changed the Australian sugar industry 
  Monday 21 Jun 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

July 2010

• Conservation and Management of Caves Worldwide 
  Monday 19 Jul 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

August 2010

• Palm Oil - scourge on the environment? 
  Monday 16 Aug 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

October 2010

• Conserving Tree Kangaroos in Papua New Guinea 
  Monday 18 Oct 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS

November 2010

• Ancient Seed Plants and Evolution in the Wet Tropics 
  Monday 15 Nov 2010 5:30 pm - JCU Smithfield Campus, CAIRNS