As many Australians pull out the tinsel and reach for the sunscreen to prepare for a summer Christmas, Associate Professor Carole Cusack, from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, gives an insight into Christmas traditions including the connection to mid-winter.
The European Union has awarded the University of Sydney 1.5 million Euros to develop a program with an unprecedented approach to torture prevention, involving partnerships with universities in Sri Lanka and Nepal and the participation of the police and military in those countries.
The integration of Indigenous knowledge into university research and teaching is one of the major aims of a ground-breaking public symposium starting at the University of Sydney today.
The University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will sponsor the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2012, launching a new partnership to explore how books can transport today's 'big ideas' to a wider audience.
Four students from The Department of Media and Communications (MECO) have been awarded prestigious international internships for 2012, following a significant increase in external funding.
The election of University of Sydney scholars as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises their outstanding contributions to the disciplines of English, archaeology and history.
Jenny Blow, a talented student and sportswoman from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, jointly won the award for Academic Excellence on Thursday evening 17th November at the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) awards ceremony dinner in Randwick.
The University of Sydney has received US$1.5 million from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the nature of time and streamline worldwide academic research on the subject.
Doomsday predictions about the future of the media are premature and will be proved false by a new compact between journalists, editors and their audiences, says Peter Fray, the University of Sydney's First Decade Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications.
Tim Dwyer and Fiona Martin from the Department of Media and Communications have written an opinion piece for The Conversation on an online test for media inquiries.
Barry Spurr, the University of Sydney's Professor of Poetry and Poetics, will discuss the poetry of solitude and loneliness at an Insights lecture inaugurating his chair on 10 November.
Contrary to some media reporting, the Occupy Sydney movement has a focused and coherent political agenda, researchers from the University of Sydney believe.
Two Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) students from the University of Sydney have been awarded internships with the China Daily, based in Beijing.
The University of Sydney is ranked 18th in the world in the field of arts and humanities, according to the most recent figures from Times Higher Education.
What banks and bank regulation are for will be the topic of debate by a distinguished panel of academics, policy makers and regulators on 28 October at the University of Sydney.
Sarah Stewart has been selected in the Australian women's wheelchair basketball team that will do battle at the official London Paralympic qualifying tournament next month, the Asia Oceania Zone Championship.
This year may be remembered as the summer of the shark hunt. Following the third fatal shark attack in Western Australia in the past two months, the state government authorised a shark hunt to address the situation.
This week the Koori Centre announces a brand new Honours course in Indigenous Australian Studies, offering the opportunity for students to further build career opportunities in this dynamic field.
Labor and the Opposition have made a right political meal of the appropriate response to the offshore processing of asylum-seekers, Anna Boucher and Mary Crock write in the Canberra Times.
As Sunday 16 October marked World Food Day, Alana Mann from the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney reflected on a global social movement struggling to assert rights over food.
Three students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences recently presented talks at the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Undergraduate Student Conference in Alberta, Canada.
On 11 October in a Sydney Ideas event, Karen Lang, a Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sydney, will discuss how Buddha favoured moderation and would not have had a problem with modern monks living a comfortable life.
Christie's auction house in London is offering a rare internship opportunity for University of Sydney students that came about out of the Picasso sale that took place at Christie's earlier in the year.
Dr Robyn Veal, post-doctoral honorary in the University of Sydney's Department of Archaeology, has been awarded the Ralegh Radford Rome Fellowship for the British School at Rome (BSR).
Despite a long and diverse career in the media and an ongoing involvement with the University of Sydney, alumna Kim Anderson continues to find satisfaction in her successful online creation, literary hub The Reading Room.
Linda Connor, Professor of Anthropology and alumnus of the University of Sydney, will be giving an inaugural lecture in the Nicholson Museum on Thursday 6 October.
Work's Intimacy, by Dr Melissa Gregg, from the University of Sydney, describes the extent to which online technology has intruded into all areas of our personal lives.
One of Australia's most loved and distinguished actors and directors, John Bell, an alumnus of the University of Sydney, will reflect on his life and career at a special dinner to be held in the Great Hall on 24 September.
On 21 September Professor David Schlosberg, Department of Government and International Relations, looks at the contribution and contradictions of Murray Bookchin, who died in 2006.
SYDNEY IDEAS EVENT: You are planning on going to the movies, a restaurant, the theatre or a concert. How do you make your choice? What media do you consult online or offline and whose opinion matters?
Since graduating last year, Senthorun Raj (BA Honours 2010) has already carved out an impressive career path that far exceeds expectations for a young graduate fresh out of University.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be represented by both current students and alumni in the upcoming amateur production of The 39 Steps, to be featured as part of this year's Sydney Fringe Festival.
Hundreds of ideas on constitutional reform, gathered from Indigenous communities during a recent recreation of Charles Perkins' 1965 Freedom Ride, were today presented to a government advisory panel as part of an event at the University of Sydney.
Tim Siegenbeek van Heukelom has just returned from a six-month research trip in Kenya as part of his PhD studies into food security at the University of Sydney's Centre for International Security Studies. Tim writes about his experiences here.
August in Edinburgh means festival time - and University of Sydney alumni are making a splash on and off stage this weekend in very different ways as the city erupts with performances and new ideas.
Conversations about Hamlet, Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Romantic literature, Strictly Ballroom, and Wilfred Owen flew between high schools in western regional NSW last week when University of Sydney lecturers visited the country to talk about HSC texts.
A cover article in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs by the University of Sydney's Dr Salvatore Babones outlines why predictions by economists that China will continue to experience rapid growth throughout the coming decades may be seriously flawed.
The University of Sydney Arts Faculty will this year be represented by three distinguished staff members at the second annual Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA).
MacLaurin Hall was host to a special event on Friday evening 12th August to welcome new students undertaking the Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific).
In her Insights lecture on Thursday 18 August the University of Sydney's Professor Alison Bashford will discuss the little known fact that the new colony of New South Wales formed a founding case on which Robert Malthus, Britain's original political economist, built his late 18th-century ideas on population.
Before the age of Lady Gaga, David Beckham, and Barack Obama was the age of the beautiful, charismatic, and controversial Lord Byron (1788-1824), whom many consider the first modern celebrity.
Wednesday evening in the beautiful and intimate Art Gallery in the Quadrangle, guests gathered for the official launch of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society.
The peak industry body in Australia for publishing, the Australian Publishers Association (APA), has accredited the Department of Media and Communications Masters of Publishing program.
University of Sydney academics will throw new light onto the impact of democracy and our understanding of human difference thanks to two new Australian Laureate Fellowships announced by the federal government today.
Two new books on the impact of rapidly changing social conditions in China, written by academics from the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre, will be launched on 9 August at the University.
THE problem with full-body scanners is that almost no security measures beyond explosive trace detection, metal detectors and X-ray machines for bags - all of which already exist - make us safer from airborne terrorism.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students will engage with multiple Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman when he delivers a special guest lecture at the University on 2 August.
Hannah Donnelly is a Wiradjuri woman from the Kamilaroi communities of Tingha and Inverell, and has just finished her Bachelor of International and Global Studies at The University of Sydney. Since a fruitful Aurora Project internship in tail end of her degree, she has been asked to work part-time at the Australian Human Rights Commission in the Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander Social Justice Unit.
"To be a good designer", says Russell Emerson, "you have to understand hands-on, the functions of every production department within a production group."
Some of Australia's most accomplished screenwriters are sharing their professional insights in a Department of English course at the University of Sydney this semester.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will launch their Insights 2011: Inaugural Lecture Series with an exploration of the relationship between biography and history.
Australia's premier journal in the field of Economics, Economic Record has awarded three University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences members the Best Paper prize for 2010. Nick de Roos, Gordon Mills and Stephen Whelan from the School of Economics wrote the winning article, titled Pricing Dynamics in the Australian Airline Market.
The Journalism, Media and Communication Network (JoMeC) from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney has been funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) to strengthen learning and teaching networks over the next two years.
This week saw the opening of a much-needed new Post Graduate Arts Research Community (PGARC) space in the Woolley building. The new space has been created in response to continued requests for updated facilities for Post Graduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
On 8 July the University of Sydney's Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group is holding an event looking at our exposure, as individuals, to surveillance. This exposure is possible because of the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies and the way that surveillance has been taken up in popular culture.
With the Dalai Lama in Australia at present, Tibetan expert Dr Andrew McGarrity sheds some light on some of the recent issues surrounding the spiritual leader…
Despite Thursday evening being bitingly cold, a warm and inviting Co-op Bookshop welcomed guests through its doors, with the offer of a glass of wine and an insightful book event, the launch of Associate Professor Anne Dunn's Media, Markets and Morals.
June 3rd saw the release of the QS University rankings, where the world's universities claim their international standing in their various fields of study, and the University of Sydney has done very well to be placed in the top 20 for all subjects that fall under the umbrella of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
On 8 and 9 June the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney is holding a symposium on the influences young people have on modern societies.
June 20th will see one of the world's foremost art historians visit the University of Sydney to speak about one of Picasso's most intriguing art works, Guernica
We like to imagine the Athenians as devoted to freedom and the spirit of reason. Certainly there is much to praise about Athens, but the city could also be violent, irrational, xenophobic, misogynist, and brutally imperialist.
Whether you want an impressive verse for a speech, the ideal poem to declare undying love or simply to improve your knowledge and appreciation of Australian poetry, there is now the perfect website to assist you.
'Face to Face: Portraiture in a digital age' an exhibition curated by Digital Cultures lecturer, Dr Kathy Cleland, was opened in Korea by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the PM's recent tour of Asia.
Fourth-year honours graduates from the University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations last night stepped into the hothouse of political debate, if only for one night, when they presented their honours theses at NSW Parliament House to an audience of researchers, academics, students and members of the business community.
The Dean's Alumni Reception was held last Thursday evening at the Great Hall - a place where all alumni can reflect on their sense of pride and achievement they felt graduating within the omniscient sandstone.
Pippa Norris, from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, has won what is popularly known as the Nobel prize for political science.
From climate change to the classification of illegal drugs, the extent to which scientific opinion should prevail over other voices in determining public policy is hotly contested.
Venessa Cowell has made a name for herself in the fashion world. The 27-year-old Arts and Social Sciences alumna, who took philosophy and art history during her time at Sydney, decided in 2006 to follow her passion and start a boutique shoe label, christening it Venessa Cowell Design.
While most of us headed to the beach this summer, three students of the University of Sydney swapped sand for snow in South Korea to experience being a journalist in Seoul.
Three University of Sydney graduates have been recognised for their work in moral philosophy, international diplomacy, and women's and children's welfare with 2011 Fulbright Scholarships.
Professor John Keane's article entitled 'Democracy in the Age of Google, Facebook and WikiLeaks' appeared in the March edition of The Australian Literary Review.
For the first time ever Sydney University students have taken out first prize in all three undergraduate competitions offered by the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS).
The waves of unrest sweeping the Middle East suggest that democratic reform is spreading across the region. Or at least that's the optimistic view being peddled in Washington and other Western capitals.
17 scholars with diverse research backgrounds within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will join forces to work on the important emerging field of 'environmental humanities'.
200 years after his death, German playwright Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been the subject of a four-day conference hosted by the Department of Germanic Studies.
The 'Language and Identity Research Network' is one of seven recipients of the newly introduced Collaborative Research Scheme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
As the New Year rolls in the faculty welcomes not only a new name, but also embraces fresh leadership with the arrival of two new Heads of School (HoS) and another Acting Head of School in 2011.
An exciting new internal funding scheme is underway, providing the chance for academic staff and postgraduate students across the faculty to collaborate in innovative ways.
The Department of Government and International Relations will enjoy an invigorating change with the arrival of three distinguished new Professors in 2011.
A Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences academic is helping to bring history to life as the host of a new six-part British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) history series.
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As many Australians pull out the tinsel and reach for the sunscreen to prepare for a summer Christmas, Associate Professor Carole Cusack, from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, gives an insight into Christmas traditions including the connection to mid-winter.
An opinion piece by Dr Evan Jones from the Department of Political Economy, first published in The Canberra Times
The European Union has awarded the University of Sydney 1.5 million Euros to develop a program with an unprecedented approach to torture prevention, involving partnerships with universities in Sri Lanka and Nepal and the participation of the police and military in those countries. 
The integration of Indigenous knowledge into university research and teaching is one of the major aims of a ground-breaking public symposium starting at the University of Sydney today.
The Sydney China Business Forum, a major new initiative of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was launched in Sydney yesterday.
The University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will sponsor the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2012, launching a new partnership to explore how books can transport today's 'big ideas' to a wider audience.
Four students from The Department of Media and Communications (MECO) have been awarded prestigious international internships for 2012, following a significant increase in external funding.
The election of University of Sydney scholars as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises their outstanding contributions to the disciplines of English, archaeology and history.
Jenny Blow, a talented student and sportswoman from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, jointly won the award for Academic Excellence on Thursday evening 17th November at the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) awards ceremony dinner in Randwick.
The University of Sydney has received US$1.5 million from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the nature of time and streamline worldwide academic research on the subject.
Doomsday predictions about the future of the media are premature and will be proved false by a new compact between journalists, editors and their audiences, says Peter Fray, the University of Sydney's First Decade Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications.
Tim Dwyer and Fiona Martin from the Department of Media and Communications have written an opinion piece for The Conversation on an online test for media inquiries.
Barry Spurr, the University of Sydney's Professor of Poetry and Poetics, will discuss the poetry of solitude and loneliness at an Insights lecture inaugurating his chair on 10 November.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been awarded 16 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects grants for 2012.
Contrary to some media reporting, the Occupy Sydney movement has a focused and coherent political agenda, researchers from the University of Sydney believe.
Two Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) students from the University of Sydney have been awarded internships with the China Daily, based in Beijing.
ArtSS in the City, a new alumni program by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, was launched at the Museum of Sydney.
Three talented media students at the University of Sydney have won prized internship positions at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 
The University of Sydney is ranked 18th in the world in the field of arts and humanities, according to the most recent figures from Times Higher Education.
What banks and bank regulation are for will be the topic of debate by a distinguished panel of academics, policy makers and regulators on 28 October at the University of Sydney.
Sarah Stewart has been selected in the Australian women's wheelchair basketball team that will do battle at the official London Paralympic qualifying tournament next month, the Asia Oceania Zone Championship.
This year may be remembered as the summer of the shark hunt. Following the third fatal shark attack in Western Australia in the past two months, the state government authorised a shark hunt to address the situation. 
This week the Koori Centre announces a brand new Honours course in Indigenous Australian Studies, offering the opportunity for students to further build career opportunities in this dynamic field. 
Labor and the Opposition have made a right political meal of the appropriate response to the offshore processing of asylum-seekers, Anna Boucher and Mary Crock write in the Canberra Times.
As Sunday 16 October marked World Food Day, Alana Mann from the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney reflected on a global social movement struggling to assert rights over food.
Teaching Fellowships in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have been made available to candidates for 2012.
Three students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences recently presented talks at the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Undergraduate Student Conference in Alberta, Canada. 
On 11 October in a Sydney Ideas event, Karen Lang, a Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sydney, will discuss how Buddha favoured moderation and would not have had a problem with modern monks living a comfortable life.
Christie's auction house in London is offering a rare internship opportunity for University of Sydney students that came about out of the Picasso sale that took place at Christie's earlier in the year. 
Dr Robyn Veal, post-doctoral honorary in the University of Sydney's Department of Archaeology, has been awarded the Ralegh Radford Rome Fellowship for the British School at Rome (BSR).
Despite a long and diverse career in the media and an ongoing involvement with the University of Sydney, alumna Kim Anderson continues to find satisfaction in her successful online creation, literary hub The Reading Room.
Linda Connor, Professor of Anthropology and alumnus of the University of Sydney, will be giving an inaugural lecture in the Nicholson Museum on Thursday 6 October.
Work's Intimacy, by Dr Melissa Gregg, from the University of Sydney, describes the extent to which online technology has intruded into all areas of our personal lives.
One of Australia's most loved and distinguished actors and directors, John Bell, an alumnus of the University of Sydney, will reflect on his life and career at a special dinner to be held in the Great Hall on 24 September.
On 21 September Professor David Schlosberg, Department of Government and International Relations, looks at the contribution and contradictions of Murray Bookchin, who died in 2006.
SYDNEY IDEAS EVENT: You are planning on going to the movies, a restaurant, the theatre or a concert. How do you make your choice? What media do you consult online or offline and whose opinion matters?
Since graduating last year, Senthorun Raj (BA Honours 2010) has already carved out an impressive career path that far exceeds expectations for a young graduate fresh out of University. 
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be represented by both current students and alumni in the upcoming amateur production of The 39 Steps, to be featured as part of this year's Sydney Fringe Festival.
Hundreds of ideas on constitutional reform, gathered from Indigenous communities during a recent recreation of Charles Perkins' 1965 Freedom Ride, were today presented to a government advisory panel as part of an event at the University of Sydney.
As European society underwent the major but gradual change from medieval to modern, its food culture was also undergoing a major transition.
Tim Siegenbeek van Heukelom has just returned from a six-month research trip in Kenya as part of his PhD studies into food security at the University of Sydney's Centre for International Security Studies. Tim writes about his experiences here.
August in Edinburgh means festival time - and University of Sydney alumni are making a splash on and off stage this weekend in very different ways as the city erupts with performances and new ideas.
Conversations about Hamlet, Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Romantic literature, Strictly Ballroom, and Wilfred Owen flew between high schools in western regional NSW last week when University of Sydney lecturers visited the country to talk about HSC texts.
A cover article in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs by the University of Sydney's Dr Salvatore Babones outlines why predictions by economists that China will continue to experience rapid growth throughout the coming decades may be seriously flawed. 
The University of Sydney Arts Faculty will this year be represented by three distinguished staff members at the second annual Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA).
MacLaurin Hall was host to a special event on Friday evening 12th August to welcome new students undertaking the Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific). 
Before the age of Lady Gaga, David Beckham, and Barack Obama was the age of the beautiful, charismatic, and controversial Lord Byron (1788-1824), whom many consider the first modern celebrity.
Wednesday evening in the beautiful and intimate Art Gallery in the Quadrangle, guests gathered for the official launch of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. 
The peak industry body in Australia for publishing, the Australian Publishers Association (APA), has accredited the Department of Media and Communications Masters of Publishing program. 
University of Sydney academics will throw new light onto the impact of democracy and our understanding of human difference thanks to two new Australian Laureate Fellowships announced by the federal government today.
Two new books on the impact of rapidly changing social conditions in China, written by academics from the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre, will be launched on 9 August at the University.
THE problem with full-body scanners is that almost no security measures beyond explosive trace detection, metal detectors and X-ray machines for bags - all of which already exist - make us safer from airborne terrorism. 
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students will engage with multiple Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman when he delivers a special guest lecture at the University on 2 August. 
Hannah Donnelly is a Wiradjuri woman from the Kamilaroi communities of Tingha and Inverell, and has just finished her Bachelor of International and Global Studies at The University of Sydney. Since a fruitful Aurora Project internship in tail end of her degree, she has been asked to work part-time at the Australian Human Rights Commission in the Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander Social Justice Unit.
"To be a good designer", says Russell Emerson, "you have to understand hands-on, the functions of every production department within a production group." 
Some of Australia's most accomplished screenwriters are sharing their professional insights in a Department of English course at the University of Sydney this semester.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will launch their Insights 2011: Inaugural Lecture Series with an exploration of the relationship between biography and history. 
Australia's premier journal in the field of Economics, Economic Record has awarded three University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences members the Best Paper prize for 2010. Nick de Roos, Gordon Mills and Stephen Whelan from the School of Economics wrote the winning article, titled Pricing Dynamics in the Australian Airline Market. 
The Journalism, Media and Communication Network (JoMeC) from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney has been funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) to strengthen learning and teaching networks over the next two years.
This week saw the opening of a much-needed new Post Graduate Arts Research Community (PGARC) space in the Woolley building. The new space has been created in response to continued requests for updated facilities for Post Graduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 
The University of Sydney's Professor Ann Curthoys believes the Harry Potter novels evoke not only a magical world but also the magic of history.
On 8 July the University of Sydney's Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group is holding an event looking at our exposure, as individuals, to surveillance. This exposure is possible because of the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies and the way that surveillance has been taken up in popular culture. 
French Studies contributes to the Smith Family Experience Day with an introduction to French through cooking - Bon appétit!
International Studies student Ali Reza Yunespour is using his education at the University of Sydney as a platform to help his fellow Afghanis.
For over 40 years, Tom Austen Brown roamed the outback in a quest to explore Australia's ancient Aboriginal past.
Professor Alan Dupont argues that Australia has failed to grasp the full implications of China's meteoric rise.
With the Dalai Lama in Australia at present, Tibetan expert Dr Andrew McGarrity sheds some light on some of the recent issues surrounding the spiritual leader…
On 21 June speakers at a symposium at the University of Sydney will investigate world cinema through the twin lenses of revolution and realism. 
WikiLeaks burst into political life with revelations that shocked both the public and governments globally.
Despite Thursday evening being bitingly cold, a warm and inviting Co-op Bookshop welcomed guests through its doors, with the offer of a glass of wine and an insightful book event, the launch of Associate Professor Anne Dunn's Media, Markets and Morals. 
University of Sydney graduate Dr Delia Falconer has fast become one of Australia's most critically acclaimed writers. 
June 3rd saw the release of the QS University rankings, where the world's universities claim their international standing in their various fields of study, and the University of Sydney has done very well to be placed in the top 20 for all subjects that fall under the umbrella of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 
June 20th will see one of the world's foremost art historians visit the University of Sydney to speak about one of Picasso's most intriguing art works, Guernica
We like to imagine the Athenians as devoted to freedom and the spirit of reason. Certainly there is much to praise about Athens, but the city could also be violent, irrational, xenophobic, misogynist, and brutally imperialist.
Dr Peter Marks and Dr Sue Woolfe, both of the Department of English, featured in ABC radio programs in May.
'Face to Face: Portraiture in a digital age' an exhibition curated by Digital Cultures lecturer, Dr Kathy Cleland, was opened in Korea by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the PM's recent tour of Asia. 
The Dean's Alumni Reception was held last Thursday evening at the Great Hall - a place where all alumni can reflect on their sense of pride and achievement they felt graduating within the omniscient sandstone.
Venessa Cowell has made a name for herself in the fashion world. The 27-year-old Arts and Social Sciences alumna, who took philosophy and art history during her time at Sydney, decided in 2006 to follow her passion and start a boutique shoe label, christening it Venessa Cowell Design.
While most of us headed to the beach this summer, three students of the University of Sydney swapped sand for snow in South Korea to experience being a journalist in Seoul.
In a new collaborative project, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researchers will cross national borders and departmental boundaries alike.
Three University of Sydney graduates have been recognised for their work in moral philosophy, international diplomacy, and women's and children's welfare with 2011 Fulbright Scholarships.
Professor John Keane's article entitled 'Democracy in the Age of Google, Facebook and WikiLeaks' appeared in the March edition of The Australian Literary Review.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences officially welcomed its new undergraduate and postgraduate students during O-Week 2011.
17 scholars with diverse research backgrounds within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will join forces to work on the important emerging field of 'environmental humanities'.
The 'Language and Identity Research Network' is one of seven recipients of the newly introduced Collaborative Research Scheme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
With the removal of Ben Ali from power, archaeologists have hopes of restoring the ancient site to the people of Tunisia
An exciting new internal funding scheme is underway, providing the chance for academic staff and postgraduate students across the faculty to collaborate in innovative ways. 
The Power Institute will continue to grow under the leadership of a prominent new Director, Professor Mark Ledbury.