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  • Early stuttering intervention: Speaking is living

    19 April, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Mark Onslow, Director, Australian Stuttering Research Centre, University of Sydney

    Professor Mark Onslow speaks about the mission of the Australian Stuttering Research Centre to support those who stutter and their families. It seeks to do this with research about the nature of the disorder, by developing new treatments, training future researchers, and providing clinical professional development for speech pathologists.

  • Share Wars: Social media and news sharing

    12 April, 2013

    Channel:
    University of Sydney
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Hal Crawford and Andrew Hunter

    Ever wondered why some news stories "go viral" on social media, and others don't? Or why Facebook news about animals is more shared than news about any other topic? Join Media@Sydney guests and Share Wars founders Hal Crawford, editor-in-chief of ninemsn, and Andrew Hunter, editor-in-chief of Microsoft Windows 8 apps, for a data-driven glimpse at what types of news we're sharing and discussion about why we share it.

    • 1 hour, 16 mins
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  • The particle at the end of the Universe: The Higgs boson and the future of physics

    28 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist, California Institute of Technology

    For decades, particle physicists have searched for the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece to the "Standard Model" that explains the world we see. In July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced that they found it. Sean Carroll provides a clear and accessible explanation of what the Higgs boson is and why it is so important.

    • 1 hour, 24 mins
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  • The social sciences and climate change: Structuring the sources of distrust

    20 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Andy Hoffman, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

    Professor Hoffman brings a different perspective to the discussion about climate change, based on his research into the corporate and business response to the debate, particularly in the USA. He reveals diverse ways of thinking about climate change in these sectors, and proposes new ways to approach the often challenging communication on the issue.

    • 1 hour, 29 mins
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  • The death and life of pop art in the 1960s counter-culture

    19 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Thomas Crow, Provostial Fellow and the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York

    American art historian and art critic, Thomas Crow, is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. For this presentation he turns his attention to 1960s Pop Art, and examines it enduring legacy beyond the international counter-culture it originally represented.

    • 1 hour, 33 mins
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  • 'Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea': Making the decision to become a 'boat person'

    14 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Jessie Taylor, filmmaker, lawyer and refugee advocate; Dr Susan Banki lecturer in Human Rights; and Dr Laura Beth Bugg lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney

    A panel discussion after the screening of ‘Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea’ examines some of the issues raised in the confronting and moving documentary.

  • Casts, imprints and the deathliness of things: Artefacts at the edge

    12 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Marcia Pointon, Norwich University College of the Arts and and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London

    Highly respected art historian Marcia Pointon provides a fascinating exploration of body casts and death masks, and their cultural significance for art historians.

    • 1 hour, 24 mins
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  • Child poverty in ‘Godzone’? Evidence and actions to reduce child poverty in New Zealand

    11 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Dr Airini, Head of the School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland

    Dr Airini was the sole education specialist invited by the New Zealand Children’s Commissioner to join the 2012 Expert Advisory Group to plan actions to overcome child poverty in New Zealand. Her research challenges many stenotypes of child poverty and her presentation is inspiring for those working in this challenging area of social policy.

    • 1 hour, 24 mins
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  • Who built the Long Wall of Quang Ngai? Territory, security and trade along a Vietnamese boundary

    8 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Dr Andrew Hardy, historian of Vietnam, associate professor at the French School of Asian Studies

    Dr Hardy outlines his research, along with that of his colleagues at the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, into the building of the 127 km Long Wall of Quang Ngai in 1891. What they discovered challenged the history documented in contemporary records from the period.

  • Earthmasters: playing God with the climate

    5 March, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University

    Can we ignore the push for geoengineering as a substitute for cutting carbon emissions? Clive Hamilton investigates the huge risks of reaching for desperate measures to save the planet, explains the science behind the ‘technofixes’ and uncovers the worrying motives of some of those promoting them.

    • 1 hour, 21 mins
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  • In Conversation with Ahdaf Soueif

    26 February, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahdaf Soueif

    A fascinating conversation with novelist and journalist Ahdaf Soueif who witnessed first-hand the Egyptian Revolution of January 2011. She talks frankly about her compatriots’ commitment to revolution, and the hopes and dreams for their country that remain two years later.

    • 1 hour, 33 mins
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  • Tasmania: The tipping point?

    19 February, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Chaired by Peter Thompson, broadcaster, author and communication consultant.

    Contributors to the recent edition of Griffith REVIEW Tasmania: the tipping point? discuss their often complex relationship with their home state of Tasmania. Panellists include Natasha Cica of the Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society at the University of Tasmania, economist Jonathan West director of the Australian Innovation Research Centre, University of Tasmania, and historian Cassandra Pybus, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney.

    • 1 hour, 18 mins
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  • Modernising health care provider education in China

    18 February, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Presented by:
    Artist:
    Professor Yifei Wang, Senior Advisor, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Professor Wang provides a detailed account of the current state of health education in China as the sector moves from a disease-management system to a better integrative health care system.

    • 1 hour, 13 mins
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  • China for the world: The globalisation of Chinese porcelain

    12 February, 2013

    Channel:
    Sydney Ideas
    Artist:
    Dr Baoping Li , Australian Research Council (ARC) Australia Future Fellow, University of Sydney

    Dr Baoping Li shares over 20 years of his research to explain the significance of Chinese porcelain to our understanding of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and the collecting of antiques in China and the world.

    • 1 hour, 21 mins
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