2012 lectures
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Professor Guy Standing
Dates:9 February
The Precariat
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Why Gender Matters
Dates:23 February
A Forum
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Javier Cercas
Dates:29 February
An Anatomy of Writing and Politics, Memory and Democracy
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Professor David Lyon
Dates:1 March
The Cultures of Surveillance
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Professor Thomas Pogge
Dates:7 March
What Do Human Rights Demand from You and Me?
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Dr Annalisa Zanni
Dates:13 March
New Light on Botticelli’s Beauty
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Feng Zhang
Dates:14 March
Chinee Exceptionalism in International Relations
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Professors Michael Holly and Keith Moxey
Dates:20 March
Old Art New Ideas
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All at Sea Symposium
Dates:23 March
Piracy, the Indian Ocean, and Art History
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Professor Bernard Faure
Dates:27 March
Buddhism and Neuroscience
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Gunter Pauli
Dates:3 April
Progress on The Blue Economy, New Economics and Learning for Sustainability
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Professor Geremie Barme
Dates:1 May
Telling Chinese Stories
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John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Dates:9 May
Reflections on Cultural Identity: Ethnicity, intellectual property, and the commodification of collective being
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Flock of Dodos Screening
Dates:14 May
The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus.
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Professor Chris Barrett
Dates:16 May
The Global Food Security Challenge in the Coming Decades
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Professor Yu Keping
Dates:21 May
Recent Developments in China's Civil Society
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Should the government decriminalise drugs?
Dates:21 May
A Public Forum
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Liz Ann Macgregor
Dates:22 May
Visions for Contemporary Art: Elizabeth Ann MacGregor in Conversation
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I'm not racist but...
Dates:28 May
A Reconciliation Week event
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A One Just World Forum
Dates:6 June
Feeding the World: Land, Hunger and Human Rights
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The Greek Financial and Political Crisis
Dates:7 June
A City Forum
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The US's War on Women
Dates:8 June
Rhetoric, politics, and discrimination
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Professor Poul Holm
Dates:21 June
Fishing Matters: historical perspectives on the impacts of fisheries on ecosystems and human societies
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Professor Alvin Roth
Dates:10 July
Who Gets What: the new economics of matchmaking and market design
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Why Aren't We Talking About Soil?
Dates:16 July
A panel of experts
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Jaan Tallinn
Dates:17 July
Intelligence Stairway
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Professor Michael Williams
Dates:18 July
Liberal Order in the Face of the Future: Insights from the ‘IR enlightenment’
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Professor Sir Christopher Bayly
Dates:24 July
The British Empire between reform and repression
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City Revitalisation
Dates:26 July
Lessons for Sydney and its suburbs
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Professor Sebastiano Tusa
Dates:30 July
Ancient Mediterenan Wrecks
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Professor Philip Mirowski
Dates:1 August
The Modern Commercialisation of Science is a Passel of Ponzi Schemes
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Dr Dale Jiajun Wen
Dates:2 August
China, Climate Change and Sustainability: spins, facts and realpolitik
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Antony Loewenstein
Dates:2 August
Israel/Palestine in transition: a post-Zionist future?
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Katherine Boo
Dates:6 August
Life and Death in a Mumbai Undercity
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Professor Samuel Moyn
Dates:8 August
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the History of Cosmopolitanism
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Professor Klaus Zimmermann
Dates:8 August
Challenges of the Euro Crisis
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Arnold Aprill
Dates:9 August
Putting the Arts at the Centre of Curriculum and Schooling
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Professor Sven Spieker
Dates:10 August
Un-Knowing, Getting Lost, Linking Points in Space: artists and the new archival practice
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Professor Patricia Simons
Dates:13 August
Wit and Materiality: meaning in the making of Renaissance art
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Professor Michael Lackner
Dates:14 August
How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese approaches and insights
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Professor Elizabeth Elliott
Dates:15 August
Drinking for two - stopping the harm from alcohol in pregnancy
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Professor Dale Jamieson
Dates:20 August
Living with Climate Change
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Mr Zhou Wenzhong
Dates:22 August
Australia – China at 40: The Intersection of Politics and Economics
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Professor Adrian Bauman
Dates:22 August
Don't just sit there ... stand up. The health consequences of prolonged sitting
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A Why History Matters forum
Dates:4 September
Crash and crisis in contemporary Europe: lessons from history
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Professor Ian Hickie
Dates:5 September
Adolescent pathways to depression: interventions, choice and treatments
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Margaret Wertheim
Dates:6 September
Not the Higgs Boson: Physics on the fringe and what mainstream science can learn from outsiders
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Professor Paul Ginsborg
Dates:11 September
Italy in the European Crisis: problems and prospects
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The Hon Susan Ryan AO
Dates:12 September
The Challenges of an Extra Lifetime in the 21st Century: How do we prepare for living into our nineties?
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Professor Robert Booy
Dates:12 September
Vaccine scares and successes
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Antarctica and Democracy
Dates:13 September
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Martin Jacques
Dates:14 September
When China Rules the World
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Stephanie Dickey
Dates:17 September
Rembrandt's Portraits: Picturing Personality in the Dutch Golden Age
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A One Just World Forum
Dates:18 September
Empower a girl, change the world
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Professor John E King
Dates:18 September
A Case for Pluralism
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Professor Steve Simpson
Dates:19 September
Older but wiser: the science of healthy ageing
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Professor Roger Reddel
Dates:26 September
Curing Cancer: Are we nearly there yet?
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Dr Penelope Murray
Dates:2 October
The Art of the Muses: Poetry, Inspiration and Craft
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Professor Ka Ho Mok
Dates:3 October
Bringing the State Back in: Changing social policy paradigm and governance in China during the Hu-Wen era
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Professor Wolfgang Merkel
Dates:4 October
Is There a Crisis of Democracy?
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Sir David Higgins
Dates:8 October
Innovation as a catalyst for growth
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Professor David Nethercot
Dates:9 October
Excellence in Engineering Education: The European Experience
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Professor Kerry Brown
Dates:16 October
China and the Fifth Generation Leadership: China Moves into the Era of Socio Political Change
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Professor Elizabeth Grosz
Dates:18 October
Bacon, Deleuze and Imperceptible Forces
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Professor Richard de Grijs
Dates:29 October
When Galaxies Collide
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Professor John Cawley
Dates:30 October
Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank or Pretty Woman: To What Extent do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives?
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Luke Davies
Dates:30 October
New Writing on Contemporary Art with Luke Davies
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Professor Jonothan Neelands
Dates:1 November
Shakespeare, Theatre and Democracy: Towards a playful future
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Frances Adamson
Dates:6 November
New South Wales and China in the 40th Anniversary Year of the Australia-China Relationship
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Professor Jorgen Randers
Dates:6 November
The Limits to Growth - From Forecast to Reality
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Professor Martin Rees
Dates:9 November
Big Bangs, Biospheres and the Limits of Science
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Two weeks that change the world
Dates:12 November
America and China in transition
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Maxine McKew
Dates:13 November
Tales from the Political Trenches
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Why Social Justice Matters
Dates:16 November
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Sustainable Materialism
Dates:29 November
An Environmentalism of Everyday Life
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Pavan Sukhdev
Dates:3 December
Corporation 2020
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Michael Bristow
Dates:6 December
The Joys and Difficulties of being a Foreign Correspondent in China
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What Matters For Cultural Studies
Dates:6 December
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Enough for All Forever
Dates:6 December
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Rosemary Foot
Dates:6 December
The Disruption of China's Resurgence