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Some of the best conversations of the year will take place this Friday at the 2014 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas at the University Club.

Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies , eight inspiring speakers, music and an art exhibition will all focus on the theme Memento Mori . Translated from the Latin it means ‘remember you must die' or ‘remember your mortality'. The idea serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death.

The 2014 Day of Ideas will stimulate discussion on the ephemeral nature of life.

The speakers include five UWA academics: Michael Champion , Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, speaking  on A daughter's death in Byzantium: grief and memory in Psellos' funeral oration for his daughter ; David Glance , Director, Centre for Software Practice, on Digital life after death ; Katie Glaskin , Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, on Dreams, death, and the imagination ; Carmen Lawrence , Professor of Psychology, on Living with Death ; and Susanne Meurer , Assistant Professor, Art History, on The Dead Emperor: Early Modern Iconographies of Death .

The other three presenters are Diana Glenn , Dean, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University on Memento mori and sites of belonging in Dante's Commedia; JD Hill , Director of Research, the British Museum on the Archaeology of mortality ;  and Nick Mitzevich, Director , Art Gallery of South Australia on AES+F: The Revolution Starts Now ;

A musical interlude with Andrew Foote , Head of Vocal Studies, and the UWA Vocal Consort, will create a change of pace.

The Day of Ideas will run from 9.30 to 4.30 in the University Club's banquet hall. At the end of the symposium is a private viewing of the Allegoria Sacra video installation by the Russian Collective AES+F and the opening of the Memento Mori exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The Day includes lunch, morning and afternoon teas, a reception at the Gallery and, of course, the year's best discussions. Book here .

Manning Clark House Inc is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to promote, encourage and nurture the production and communication of Australian history and literature, and visual and performing art works; and to promote and encourage vigorous discussion and debate in Australian society on issues of public importance and in all areas of scholarly interest.

Perth's Day of Ideas began in 2003, with the inspiration and support of Janet Holmes à Court. It now runs with the support of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at UWA.

Manning Clark is generally remembered as Australia's greatest historian.