An audience of 850 attended the Ideas Lecture on 2 June 2005 to listen to the remarkable scientist, thinker and historian Jared Diamond present the Ideas Lecture.
The Ideas Lecture, presented as a special lead up event to the 2006 Griffith sponsored Ideas Festival, was hosted by Queensland’s Chief Scientist and Ideas Advisor Peter Andrews and fellow Ideas Advisor science broadcaster Bernie Hobbs. The Ideas Lecture was a night where confronting ideas were presented, discussed, challenged and generated. Jared Diamond presented his strong ideas about the choices societies make, what we will face in the future and how we can learn from the past.
Author of ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ and 'The Third Chimpanzee', Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California and widely considered to be one of the few scientists to have changed the way we think about history. His most recent work ‘Collapse’ tells of the demise of past civilizations and asks whether we are heading the same way.