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  • Turning the Tide - The Faculty of Education & Social Work's new series with Indigenous Australian writers and thinkers.

    17 May, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Writers Festival
    Artist:
    Larissa Behrendt, Lionel Fogarty, Ali Cobby Eckermann and chair Peter Minter

    Join Larissa Behrendt, Lionel Fogarty, Ali Cobby Eckermann and chair Peter Minter for an incisive discussion about the state of Indigenous Australian literature. The panel will consider the role of literature in education, literacy, and the place of Indigenous women in literature along with readings from with these searingly talented writers.

  • Occupy

    17 May, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Writers Festival
    Artist:
    Loretta Napoleoni, Chad Harbach, John Keane, Simon Tormey (facilitator)

    Ever since Occupy Wall Street began, the idea of 99 per cent standing up against the 1 per cent has taken off around the world. Will this movement last? Can it change the world? How can writers engage? Loretta Napoleoni, Chad Harbach and John Keane talk to Simon Tormey. Presented with the University of Sydney.

    • 1 hour, 28 mins
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  • Buddhism and Neuroscience: A problematic dialogue

    27 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Bernard Faure, Columbia University

    Professor Faure is the fourth holder of the Visiting Professorship sponsored by the University Buddhist Education Foundation (UBEF). He provides an overview of the relationship between science and Buddhism, particularly in studies of meditation. Faure believes the current dialogue with neuroscience initiated by the Dali Lama and his Western disciples is important and necessary, but it has not been able to achieve as much as it participants initially hoped.

    • 1 hour, 23 mins
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  • Chinese Exceptionalism in International Relations

    14 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Dr Feng Zhang, Murdoch University

    Dr Zhang's lecture for the China Studies Centre Distinguished Speaker Lecture series is a captivating and critical look at the origins of the myths around exceptionalism in China. His purpose is "to identify, describe and explain what ...can be thought of as Chinese exceptionalism in intellectual and policy discourse on China's foreign relations emanating from the PRC.

    • 1 hour, 25 mins
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  • Insights 2012: Inaugural Lecture Series: Politics in a Climate-Challenged Society

    8 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Alumni
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor David Schlosberg

    David Schlosberg, Professor of Government and International Relations. From the threat of growing vulnerabilities, to evolving forms of environmental governance, to the creation of new material relationships with the natural world, climate change offers a range of political challenges.

  • What Do Human Rights Demand from You and Me?

    7 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Thomas Pogge,Yale University

    Political Philosopher Thomas Pogge works as an activist scholar and is at the forefront of our thinking of how we design ethical institutions at the global level. If one third of human lives are lost due to poverty, what obligation do we all have to make sure that all social, national and international institutions do not violate the human rights listed in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to a standard of living that is adequate for the health of a person and their family?

    • 1 hour, 34 mins
    • Download (MP3, 43.3Mb)

  • The Culture of Surveillance: Who's watching whom, now?

    1 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor David Lyon, Queen's University Canada

    As marketers and advertisers draw on vast data sources supplied by individuals, and create social profiles that remain undisclosed and about which most of us our ignorant, what are the consequences for daily life choices? Sociologist David Lyon has been researching the social and political dimensions of surveillance for decades, and the symbiotic relationship that has developed between those 'surveilled' and those doing the surveillance.

    • 1 hour, 29 mins
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  • An Anatomy of Writing and Politics, Memory and Democracy

    29 February, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Javier Cercas

    The celebrated contemporary Spanish Writer Javier Cercas talks to University of Sydney Professor of Politics John Keane, in a wide-ranging conversation that explores the contentious relationship between history and fiction, especially around memories of the Spanish Civil War.

    • 1 hour, 30 mins
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  • Dangerous animals? A history of snakes, sharks and spiders in Australia

    21 February, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Peter Hobbins, Department of History, University of Sydney, Christopher Neff, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

    When, and how, do animals 'become' dangerous? Perhaps surprisingly, human fear and loathing of particular animal species is a recent phenomenon in Australia. Neither sharks nor spiders were considered serious hazards to human life until the late 1920s. The subsequent stampede to science and policy to quantify, control and exterminate these beasts illustrates how readily 'dangerous' animals have been constructed in line with cultural sensitivities rather than biology. But what makes an animal dangerous?

    • 1 hour, 44 mins
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  • The Precariat: the new dangerous class

    9 February, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Guy Standing, University of Bath

    Labour economist Professor Guy Standing identifies one of the alarming impacts of globalisation on the labour market; the rise of a new class of insecure workers - the precariat. He calls for governments world-wide to address the inequalities this new class suffer from, as we can't sustain what is happening without major threats along the way.

    • 1 hour, 36 mins
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