Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, led a panel discussion between three experts on China and the state's rapid ascent to international attention.
A photographic journalist, an artist, and an art critic make a well-rounded panel of speakers on this bright and sunny Saturday at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Against the industrial backdrop of the Main Stage of the Sydney Writers' Festival sits a panel of four brilliant women; intellectual heavyweights, speaking on the topic of women's sexuality and its representation in society.
Dr Alastair Blanshard, from the Department of Classics and Ancient History, shares his thoughts on the question 'What the Classics Teach Us' ahead of his Sydney Writers' Festival event next Saturday 25 May.
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) collection of audiovisual archives of endangered cultures in the Pacific region has been recognised as being of international significance at a special award ceremony on Tuesday 14 May.
Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications)/Laws student, Philip Chan, shares his experiences of being involved in the national Roadtrip to End Poverty.
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.
PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Nancy Lee, is examining the gender politics at play in the realm of masculinity and celebrity chefs.
Master of Art Curatorship alumna Sarah Vandepeer has taken up a prestigious placement at Christie's London as part of a unique internship offered by the Department of Art History and Film Studies.
Just over a week before the federal budget announcement, a special 'Economics Q and A' event featuring industry, media and academic experts will tackle the audience's big economic questions.
Bill Adair, founder and editor of PolitiFact.com, will share insights from his Pulitzer Prize-winning website and discuss the growing importance of fact-checking at a special Media@Sydney seminar on Monday 6 May.
In the first of The Conversation's new series of video collaborations with SBS, Dr Phillip Toner, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, gives his view on Australia's manufacturing industry.
Dr Richard Miles from our Department of Classics and Ancient History is the host of a new show called 'Archaeology: A Secret History', which premiered on BBC Four in the UK last night.
Dr Bruce Isaacs, from the Department of Art History and Film Studies, examines the shift from celluloid film to digital film in his cutting-edge research.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is on the lookout for a team of talented interns to assist at the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) 'Media Hub' from Monday 20 - Sunday 26 May 2013.
Professor Colm Harmon, Head of the School of Economics, comments on the Federal Government's proposed funding cuts to higher education to pay for the Gonski reforms.
Professor David Schlosberg, from the Department of Government and International Relations, is investigating the social aspects affecting climate change to help address environmental challenges into the future.
On Wednesday evening in Maclaurin Hall, past students of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences were welcomed back to the university as guests of the Dean, Professor Duncan Ivison, at the annual Dean's Reception.
The United States Studies Centre is once again offering students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences the chance to study at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) over the winter break.
When Arts student Sam Johnson discovered he had taken out third place in a China Studies Centre essay competition, he used the prize money to help fund a trip to China to experience the themes covered in his essay first-hand.
As official sponsors of the Sydney Writers' Festival, our academics and alumni will feature heavily across this years' newly unveiled festival program under the theme of 'Storytelling'.
A special Media@Sydney seminar on Friday 12 April will reveal the results of the largest study of its kind into what sorts of news stories are shared most frequently on social media and why.
First-year Arts and E12 student, Lauren Pearce, was awarded an inaugural Future Direction Network scholarship to support her studies at a special ceremony last week.
Professor James Der Derian has joined the University of Sydney from Brown University to become the Centre for International Security Studies' new Director.
It was a shock to look at the Sydney Morning Herald website this week, and see one of my doctoral students being racially abused by an apparently drunken man.
Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations, Trevor Cook, argues that Labor's attempted superannuation reforms could damage the ALP's longstanding brand, in The Conversation.
PhD Candidate Joseph Brennan's research examines the growing popularity of Slash Fiction - a subset of fan fiction - and how this genre is helping homosexual narratives gain widespread visibility.
In a special reception on Thursday evening, amid the prized relics of the Nicholson Museum, postgraduate research students gathered to meet new colleagues and celebrate the newly appointed Teaching Fellows for 2013.
Thomas Crow, Professor of Modern Art at New York University, will deliver an illuminating Sydney Ideas lecture on Tuesday 19 March on the widespread absorption of Pop Art into mainstream culture.
Rosie Findlay, PhD candidate from the Department of Performance Studies, is shining an academic spotlight on personal style blogs, and discovering that this growing area of the fashion industry is worth taking seriously.
For Emidio Vicente Mavila, a Mozambican student at the University of Sydney, education is the key to lifting himself, his family and his country out of poverty.
On Thursday night Professor Pippa Norris will deliver the inaugural Insights lecture 'Why Elections Fail' in order to answer some of the key questions surrounding electoral integrity.
Arts students will now have a unique way to help them decide what courses to study with the launch of the faculty's new 'Staff Spotlight' video series.
As part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' O-Week Undergraduate Welcome, first year students packed into Wallace Theatre to listen to five University of Sydney scholars debate the concept of love.
Arid Gulf states looking to secure their future food supply should work with farmers in neighbouring countries for mutual benefit rather than acquire the land farmers rely on to survive, recommends a PhD candidate from the University of Sydney.
The treatment of Quevenzhane Wallis at this year's Oscars highlights prejudices that still exist in Hollywood, writes Dr Helen Young in The Conversation.
Professor Iain McCalman will lead pioneering global research in the Environmental Humanities with the support of a prestigious A.W. Mellon Foundation Award.
Sunday's annual Academy Awards ceremony will demonstrate Hollywood's growing commitment to the digital area, according to Dr Bruce Isaacs in a new book.
Hunger is a political problem and its resolution cannot be divorced from an analysis of competing political and economic interests, write Dr Bill Dunn and Claire Parfitt in The Conversation.
Associate Professor Catriona Elder from the Department of Sociology and Social Policy has been appointed Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo, a position she will commence this October. The role sits within the Japanese University's Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS).
When news broke that the Refugee Language Program at the University of Sydney was threatened with closure, it struck a chord not just with students and teachers in the program, but with many people in the community.
Dr Annie Herro, from the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), has taken a look at the attitudes towards the adoption of a permanent UN peacekeeping service.
For the first time ever a talented student, Thomas Wilson, has won all three undergraduate prizes in the annual Australasian Society for Classical Studies awards.
Braving sandstorms, nervous partners and conservative bystanders don't often top the list of challenges facing most directors. But for Saudi Arabia's first female filmmaker, Haifaa Al Mansour, these were just some of the hurdles confronted along the way to producing her feature debut, Wadjda.
Two Arts students will join a contingent of 20 Australian university students headed for India as part of the Australia India Institute's competitive Indian Study Tour.
Dr Carina Garland from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies responds to the Sydney Festival production The Blind Date Project, on now at the Seymour Centre until 20 January 2013.
Just because a medical system has science as its knowledge base doesn't mean that it is morally neutral or immune to the influences of culture, writes Honorary Associate Deborah Lupton in The Conversation.
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Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, led a panel discussion between three experts on China and the state's rapid ascent to international attention.
A photographic journalist, an artist, and an art critic make a well-rounded panel of speakers on this bright and sunny Saturday at the Sydney Writers' Festival. 
Against the industrial backdrop of the Main Stage of the Sydney Writers' Festival sits a panel of four brilliant women; intellectual heavyweights, speaking on the topic of women's sexuality and its representation in society. 
Media Hub intern Cindy Ngo reviews the Sydney Writers' Festival session 'Fan Fiction' featuring David Large and Joseph Brennan.
Dr Alastair Blanshard, from the Department of Classics and Ancient History, shares his thoughts on the question 'What the Classics Teach Us' ahead of his Sydney Writers' Festival event next Saturday 25 May. 
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) collection of audiovisual archives of endangered cultures in the Pacific region has been recognised as being of international significance at a special award ceremony on Tuesday 14 May. 
Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications)/Laws student, Philip Chan, shares his experiences of being involved in the national Roadtrip to End Poverty.
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.
PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Nancy Lee, is examining the gender politics at play in the realm of masculinity and celebrity chefs. 
Master of Art Curatorship alumna Sarah Vandepeer has taken up a prestigious placement at Christie's London as part of a unique internship offered by the Department of Art History and Film Studies.
Just over a week before the federal budget announcement, a special 'Economics Q and A' event featuring industry, media and academic experts will tackle the audience's big economic questions.
Bill Adair, founder and editor of PolitiFact.com, will share insights from his Pulitzer Prize-winning website and discuss the growing importance of fact-checking at a special Media@Sydney seminar on Monday 6 May.
In the first of The Conversation's new series of video collaborations with SBS, Dr Phillip Toner, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, gives his view on Australia's manufacturing industry.
Join academics and community leaders this Thursday 2 May to discuss the implications and risks of coal and coal-seam gas mining.
Dr Richard Miles from our Department of Classics and Ancient History is the host of a new show called 'Archaeology: A Secret History', which premiered on BBC Four in the UK last night.
Dr Bruce Isaacs, from the Department of Art History and Film Studies, examines the shift from celluloid film to digital film in his cutting-edge research. 
Dr Kate Lilley and Dr Tim Soutphommasane have both had their books shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award. 
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is on the lookout for a team of talented interns to assist at the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) 'Media Hub' from Monday 20 - Sunday 26 May 2013.
Professor Colm Harmon, Head of the School of Economics, comments on the Federal Government's proposed funding cuts to higher education to pay for the Gonski reforms.
Professor David Schlosberg, from the Department of Government and International Relations, is investigating the social aspects affecting climate change to help address environmental challenges into the future.
On Wednesday evening in Maclaurin Hall, past students of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences were welcomed back to the university as guests of the Dean, Professor Duncan Ivison, at the annual Dean's Reception. 
The United States Studies Centre is once again offering students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences the chance to study at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) over the winter break.
When Arts student Sam Johnson discovered he had taken out third place in a China Studies Centre essay competition, he used the prize money to help fund a trip to China to experience the themes covered in his essay first-hand.
A new documentary by the Director of the Centre for International Security Studies, Professor James Der Derian, made its debut in the US last week.
As official sponsors of the Sydney Writers' Festival, our academics and alumni will feature heavily across this years' newly unveiled festival program under the theme of 'Storytelling'. 
A special Media@Sydney seminar on Friday 12 April will reveal the results of the largest study of its kind into what sorts of news stories are shared most frequently on social media and why.
First-year Arts and E12 student, Lauren Pearce, was awarded an inaugural Future Direction Network scholarship to support her studies at a special ceremony last week.
Professor James Der Derian has joined the University of Sydney from Brown University to become the Centre for International Security Studies' new Director.
The Department of English is pleased to announce its first biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award.
It was a shock to look at the Sydney Morning Herald website this week, and see one of my doctoral students being racially abused by an apparently drunken man.
Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations, Trevor Cook, argues that Labor's attempted superannuation reforms could damage the ALP's longstanding brand, in The Conversation. 
Can men be feminists? Find out with Annamarie Jagose at a public debate this weekend at the Sydney Opera House. 
PhD Candidate Joseph Brennan's research examines the growing popularity of Slash Fiction - a subset of fan fiction - and how this genre is helping homosexual narratives gain widespread visibility.
Two MECO graduates are proving print has a future with the launch of their new international magazine, BRACE.
In a special reception on Thursday evening, amid the prized relics of the Nicholson Museum, postgraduate research students gathered to meet new colleagues and celebrate the newly appointed Teaching Fellows for 2013. 
Thomas Crow, Professor of Modern Art at New York University, will deliver an illuminating Sydney Ideas lecture on Tuesday 19 March on the widespread absorption of Pop Art into mainstream culture.
Rosie Findlay, PhD candidate from the Department of Performance Studies, is shining an academic spotlight on personal style blogs, and discovering that this growing area of the fashion industry is worth taking seriously.
Peter Fray, former publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, has been appointed an adjunct professor in the Department of Media and Communications.
For Emidio Vicente Mavila, a Mozambican student at the University of Sydney, education is the key to lifting himself, his family and his country out of poverty.
On Thursday night Professor Pippa Norris will deliver the inaugural Insights lecture 'Why Elections Fail' in order to answer some of the key questions surrounding electoral integrity.
Arts students will now have a unique way to help them decide what courses to study with the launch of the faculty's new 'Staff Spotlight' video series.
More than 300 commencing postgraduate students filled the Great Hall at last week's Postgraduate Welcome.
As part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' O-Week Undergraduate Welcome, first year students packed into Wallace Theatre to listen to five University of Sydney scholars debate the concept of love. 
Arid Gulf states looking to secure their future food supply should work with farmers in neighbouring countries for mutual benefit rather than acquire the land farmers rely on to survive, recommends a PhD candidate from the University of Sydney.
The treatment of Quevenzhane Wallis at this year's Oscars highlights prejudices that still exist in Hollywood, writes Dr Helen Young in The Conversation.
This Tuesday's Sydney Ideas hosts an evening with Egyptian writer and Booker Prize nominee Ahdaf Soueif.
Professor Iain McCalman will lead pioneering global research in the Environmental Humanities with the support of a prestigious A.W. Mellon Foundation Award. 
Sunday's annual Academy Awards ceremony will demonstrate Hollywood's growing commitment to the digital area, according to Dr Bruce Isaacs in a new book. 
Two Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences graduates are taking on the Art world from very different career paths.
Hunger is a political problem and its resolution cannot be divorced from an analysis of competing political and economic interests, write Dr Bill Dunn and Claire Parfitt in The Conversation.
Associate Professor Catriona Elder from the Department of Sociology and Social Policy has been appointed Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo, a position she will commence this October. The role sits within the Japanese University's Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS).
Professor John Keane's exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, from the Ecuador Embassy in London. 
A line-up of dynamic scholars will battle it out for disciplinary supremacy at a unique 'Ancient Greek-Style' symposium on the topic of love. 
When news broke that the Refugee Language Program at the University of Sydney was threatened with closure, it struck a chord not just with students and teachers in the program, but with many people in the community.
Dr Annie Herro, from the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), has taken a look at the attitudes towards the adoption of a permanent UN peacekeeping service.
For the first time ever a talented student, Thomas Wilson, has won all three undergraduate prizes in the annual Australasian Society for Classical Studies awards.
Braving sandstorms, nervous partners and conservative bystanders don't often top the list of challenges facing most directors. But for Saudi Arabia's first female filmmaker, Haifaa Al Mansour, these were just some of the hurdles confronted along the way to producing her feature debut, Wadjda.
French studies expert Bronwyn Winter examines France's intervention in Mali and its chequered history in Africa.
Our new video pokes fun at all the stereotypes of arts students while showing the true value of an arts degree from the University of Sydney. 
Two Arts students will join a contingent of 20 Australian university students headed for India as part of the Australia India Institute's competitive Indian Study Tour.
PhD candidate Christopher Neff on shark bite prevention in The Conversation
Dr Carina Garland from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies responds to the Sydney Festival production The Blind Date Project, on now at the Seymour Centre until 20 January 2013.
Just because a medical system has science as its knowledge base doesn't mean that it is morally neutral or immune to the influences of culture, writes Honorary Associate Deborah Lupton in The Conversation.