Editors, Journalists and Audiences: Towards a new compact

Peter Fray, First Decade Fellow, Dept of Media and Communications. 16 November 2011.

• 1 hour 16 minutes
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One Just World Forum on Faith and Development

A panel discussion that includes a video interview with Dr Catherine Hamlin AC. 19 October 2011.

• 1 hour 13 minutes
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The Role of the Reviewer in the Twitter Age

A panel discussion with reviewers and critics on the future of their profession. 20 September 2011.

• 1 hour 31 minutes
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Rebuilding communities and recovering from trauma

A conversation with Rwandan genocide survivor Leah Chishugi. 13th September 2011.

• 1 hour 27 minutes
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Non-communicable diseases and sustainable development

Sir George Alleyne, University of the West Indies Chancellor and UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean(2003-2010)

• 1 hour 28 minutes
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IQ2 Debate: We need a nanny state

Expert panellists will discuss where we draw the line between private choices and public obligations.

• 1 hour 37 minutes
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UN at the Uni

"Be bold. Be brave. Be courageous." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encourages our students to use their passion to make a difference.

• 1 hour 3 minutes
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A Journey Through Space: the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Dr Gregory Chamitoff, NASA Astronaut and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney

• 59 minutes
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How Wikileaks Will Transform Mainstream Media

Lristinn Hrafnsson, journalist and spokesman for WikiLeaks.

• 1 hour 35 minutes
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Looking again at Picasso's Guernica

Professor TJ Clark

Sydney Ideas co-presented with the Power Institute at the University of Sydney.

• 1 hour 45 minutes
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Sustained Development Systems for 3 Billion

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of Republic of India

• 48 minutes
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Governance, Corruption and World Poverty

One Just World Forum

How can the development sector help build good governance in the developing world?

• 1 hour 27 minutes
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The Spirited Voices of Muslim Women in Islamic Reform Movements

Dr Amina Wadud

• 1 hour 30 minutes
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Does understanding evolution help us to understand ethics?

Professor Peter Singer

A Sydney Ideas lecture filmed by Slow TV.

• 35 minutes
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Why Deliberative Democracy Matters

Could deliberative democracy be the key to solving some of the world's seemingly insurmountable problems?

• 1:32 hours
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One Just World: Child Health Now

Over 8 million children under 5 are dying each year. We have the solutions to make a difference, so why is this still happening?

• 1:23 hours
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Master of Molecular Imaging

Partnership demonstrates the vital role of molecular imaging in combating disease.

• 04:31 min
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Buddhism and a Sustainable World: Some reflections

Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University and 2010 Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Sydney. 20 September 2010

• 1 hr 30 min
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How the war on terror contributed to the credit crunch and to the crisis of the Euro

Italian economist and terrorist financing expert, Loretta Napoleoni at Sydney Ideas. 30 August 2010

• 1 hr 15 min
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Why history matters

Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past.

• 1 hr 28 min
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What makes a creative entrepreneur?

Kate Jennings and Dare Jennings in conversation with James Valentine. 30 July 2010

• 1 hr 1 min
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A World Court of Human Rights: how would it work?

A Sydney Ideas Open lecture by Professor Manfred Nowak, University of Vienna and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. 13 May 2010

• 1 hr 10 min
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One Just World Forum

What does it mean to be secure? Human security in our region. 5 May 2010

• 1 hr 12 min
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Writing the Future

Dr Bill Rankin discusses how how digital books will change the world. 27 April, 2010.

• 1 hr 8 min
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Going Mobile

Dr Bill Rankin talks about building for new mobile platforms. 27 April, 2010.

• 1 hr 4 min
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Michael Kirby in the Great Hall

Watch Michael Kirby in the Great Hall, 28 Feb, 2009.

• 60 min
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Sydney College of the Arts

Watch the Sydney Ideas lecture by Fiona Winning, 2 Mar, 2009.

• 60 min
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The foreign policy of Obama and McCain

Kim Beasley joins Geoffrey Garrett, Paul Kelly and Mike Chinoy. 16 Oct, 2008

• 1:26:11 minutes
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America, land of the free?

The US Studies Centre presents Columbia University's Eric Foner.

• 54:10 minutes
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The Ted Wheelwright lecture

Professor Walden Bellow discusses the America's "crisis of hegemony".

• 02:34 minutes

Civil War from Rome to Iraq

Harvard historian David Armitage talks at Sydney Ideas.

• 57:37 minutes
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Stopping disease

Sir Gustav Nossal on the challenges in health and public medicine.

• 56:33 minutes
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Economics for a crowded planet

Jeffrey Sachs launches the Institute for Sustainable Solutions.

• 1:25:62 minutes

American foreign policy after Bush

The US Studies Centre presents political philosopher Francis Fukuyama.

• 01:20:08 minutes