Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences- The University of Sydney

2013 Sydney Film Festival

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will reunite with one of Sydney’s most exciting cultural events on its milestone anniversary by becoming a cultural partner of the Sydney Film Festival in 2013.
Lost ancient city

Our archaeologists have used revolutionary airborne laser technology to discover a lost mediaeval city, Mahendraparvata, in the Cambodian mountains from 1200 years ago. The University’s archaeology research centre, led by our Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Damian Evans, used the Lidar instrument to pinpoint the previously unknown site in the Siem Reap region.
Faculty in the Media

> The Conversation website has published an article by Professor John Keane, Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, on the Dalai Lama visit.

> Dr Adam Lockyer on the G8 meeting and implications for US Foreign Policy, Sky Business News.
Student Profiles

PHILIP CHAN - BACHELOR OF ARTS (MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS)/BACHELOR OF LAWS
From editing an international affairs magazine, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, to hitting the streets of Seoul as a reporter on a university internship, my degree has taken me further afield than I ever imagined.
Student Profiles

SARAH KOBAYASHI - BACHELOR OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCE
The Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science degree gave me the freedom to study what I wanted, but at the same time, encouraged me to broaden my horizons and consider subjects outside my major.

Not even George Orwell envisaged this

George Orwell could not have anticipated society's willing integration of surveillance with commerce, writes Associate Professor Peter Marks in ABC's The Drum.