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  • Flock of Dodos: the Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus

    14 May, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Randy Olson, Steven Orzack, Paul Griffiths and Ben Oldroyd

    Film maker Randy Olson introduces his film Flock of Dodos: the Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, and then participates in a discussion with University of Sydney philosophers and biologists on the themes of the film, including the vital importance of science communication. How do scientists ‘sell the science’ with simple statements that are powerful but complex?

  • Telling Chinese Stories

    1 May, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Geremie Barme, Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU

    Distinguished China scholar Geremie Barme presents a China Studies Centre Distinguished Speaker lecture. "Tell a story" was a common prompt used at the end of the Cultural Revolution by those anxious for real information, or simply any description of life outside the "realm of public performance" that challenged the "singular narrative of a nation's life as told by the Chinese Communist party". Barme explores the fascinating and complex stories that China told its own people from the Cultural Revolution to today.

    • 1 hour, 22 mins
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  • Progress on the Blue Economy, new economics and learning for sustainability

    1 April, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Gunter Pauli, ZERI Network the Blue Economy

    Gunter Pauli returned to Sydney Ideas for an update on the work of the Blue Economy, a business model that develops socially responsible and sustainable enterprises by linking them with open-source scientific solutions. He throws out a passionate challenge to the environmental movement to not accept that we 'do less bad' by just reducing emissions for example, but to 'do more good' though true regeneration of ecosystems.

    • 1 hour, 32 mins
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  • Buddhism and Neuroscience: A problematic dialogue

    27 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    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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  • Old Art New Ideas: A conversation with Keith Moxey and Michael Holly

    20 March, 2012

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute and Professor Keith Moxey, Columbia University

    A wide-ranging conversation with two of Art History's most respected thinkers, who are introduced by the Power Institute Director Mark Ledbury as the two people who have "motivated a philosophically acute and important inquiry into what the discipline of art history is". If so many news ideas about how to speak about visual arts have come from outside the discipline, how have these provocations or 'irritants' encouraged us the see art old 'anew'?

    • 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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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  • There’s a quiet revolution going on in the social sciences

    1 January, 2012

    Channel:
    Business School
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Ian Wilkinson

    Professor Ian Wilkinson from the University of Sydney Business School talks about building models, using a computer, to manage future possible events in science and the social sciences. The co-author of this talk is Dr David Earnest from the Old Dominion University in Virginia, USA.

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