2015 lectures
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Professor Wendy Freedman
Dates:6 Feb
The Unexpected Universe
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David Plouffe
Dates:10 Feb
Obama 2008 Campaign Manager
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Professor Richard Maxwell
Dates:17 Feb
Media and the Ecological Crisis
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Professor Hal Foster
Dates:24 Feb
Contemporary Art and Mimetic Excess
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David Rosen
Dates:4 March
Can You Afford to Live Where You Choose?
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Professor Guy Standing
Dates:5 March
A Precariat Charter
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Spanish Literature
Dates:9 March
Marcos Giralt Torrente and Elia Barceló
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Professor Petra Chu
Dates:10 March
Chinoiserie and Japonisme
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The News Cycle and Education
Dates:10 March
Forum with Jane Caro
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Professor Neil Adger
Dates:12 March
Climate Change and Resilience
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Professor Michael Schudson
Dates:12 March
A Surprisingly Short History of the 'Right to Know'
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Configuring Light
Dates:17 March
Don Slater and Mona Sloane
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Looking West
Dates:18 March
Forum presented with Griffith Review
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Freedom not Frustration
Dates:20 March
Freedom Ride forum
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Curating Chinese Contemporary Art
Dates:24 March
In an Australian Context
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Associate Professor Peter O’Connor
Dates:24 March
The Arts, Democracy and Education
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The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Dates:25 March
A post-mortem
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Professor McKenzie Wark
Dates:26 March
Exit to the Planetarium
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Charlotte Wood
Dates:31 March
Reading Australian Literature
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Future of Fossil Fuels Forum
Dates:31 March
Forum
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Professor Andrea Ghez
Dates:1 April
Professor Walter Stibbs Lecture 2015
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Professor Richard Ryan
Dates:2 April
The (Well-Known) Secrets of Human Motivation
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Professor John Esposito
Dates:9 April
The Future of Islam, Democracy and Political Islam after the Arab Spring
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Assoc Professor May Telmissany
Dates:10 April
Nomadic Citizenship
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George Takei
Dates:16 April
Social media mega-power
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Professor Catherine Hall
Dates:20 April
Writing History, Making Race: slave-owners and their stories
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Enduring Legacies
Dates:23 April
Forum presented with Griffith Review
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Leni Schwendinger
Dates:28 April
Night-time Design
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Private Power and Public Service
Dates:28 April
A Sydney University Press book launch and forum
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On the Front Line of Humanitarian Crises
Dates:29 April
Forum presented with Human Rights Watch
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China's 3 Dreams
Dates:4 May
Film screening and panel discussion with Nick Torrens
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Professor Greg Mitman
Dates:7 May
Forgotten Paths of Empire
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STIR Lecture #1
Dates:11 May
ADDing WOMEN AND STIRring in Australian History
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Professor Irus Braverman
Dates:11 May
Wild Life
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Drones, Gender and Identity
Dates:12 May
In the New American Way of War
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Professor Judith Keene
Dates:19 May
Key Texts: Picasso's Guernica
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Competing Voices
Dates:25 May
The status of Indigenous languages in the French Pacific and Australia
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The Nepal Earthquake
Dates:25 May
One Month On
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Professor David Raskin
Dates:26 May
Hiroshi Sugimoto's Inhuman Photographs
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The Future of Music
Dates:26 May
Forum. Part of the Vivid Ideas.
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The Structure of Creative Practice
Dates:27 May
The Verge Gallery forum. Part of Vivid Ideas.
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The Obesity Epidemic
Dates:27 May
Can design help? Forum as part of Vivid Ideas.
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Enlighten
Dates:28 May
Our brightest minds reveal how light transforms your life
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Is Health Research Fully Sick?
Dates:28 May
Professor David Le Couteur and Dr Norman Swan
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I'm Not Racist, But... 2015
Dates:29 May
Forum. Part of Vivid Ideas.
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Youth Mental Health Forum - 'Can We Talk?
Dates:1 June
Presented with the Sunday Telegraph
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Professor Stephen Gaukroger
Dates:2 June
Key Texts: Reflections on Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man
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Amelia Jones
Dates:2 June
Material Traces: Performativity, Artistic 'Work', and New Concepts of Agency
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Delia Falconer
Dates:2 June
Reading Australian Literature
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The Surprising Truth about Asian Languages
Dates:3 June
Forum
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Professor Niall Atkinson
Dates:7 July
Getting Lost in the Italian Renaissance
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Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dates:23 July
Climate + Capital
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Health Forum
Dates:29 July
Cancer screening: are we harming the healthy?
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Professor Hamdy Hassan
Dates:30 July
Transformation of Islamic Discourse in the Arab World and Africa
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Edmund Capon
Dates:30 July
Contemporary Artists in China
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Dates:30 July
Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation
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Professor Steven Barnett
Dates:4 August
Who’s Afraid of Media Pluralism?
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Professor Erica Fudge
Dates:5 August
Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England
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Dr Iona Heath
Dates:5 August
Too Much Medicine: exploiting fear for the pursuit of profit
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Dr Kumi Naidoo
Dates:5 August
Peace, People and Power: social change from anti-Apartheid to the climate movement
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Eating Disorders
Dates:6 August
Forum
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Robots
Dates:7 August
The unfinished revolution
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New Asia Now
Dates:11 August
Forum
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Daphne Koller
Dates:12 August
MOOCs: What have we learned?
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The Small Changes
Dates:12 August
Beauty Without Harm
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Einstein’s Wonderful Idea
Dates:17 August
A century of space-time, black holes and expanding universes
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Bringing Science to Wellness
Dates:18 August
Forum with the Sydney Science Festival
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Professor Jay Winter
Dates:18 August
Shell Shock, Gallipoli, and the Generation of Silence
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Professor Melissa Lane
Dates:19 August
The Ethics of Communicating Climate Change
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Particle Fever
Dates:20 August
Screening and Q&A as part of the Sydney Science Festival
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STEM Teaching and Creativity
Dates:21 August
Forum as part of Sydney Science Festival
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Professor Randa Abou Bakr
Dates:24 August
The Intellectual and Revolution:
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US-China Relations
Dates:25 August
What's Ahead and What Do They Mean for Australia?
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Professor Justin E H Smith
Dates:28 August
Philosophy as a Way of Life
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What is Veiling?
Dates:31 August
Forum with Professor Sahar Amer
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Professor Dalia Nassar
Dates:1 September
Beauty, Art and Life: Kant’s Critique of Judgment
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Talking About Mental Health in the Media
Dates:8 September
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Australia and Brazil
Dates:10 September
70 years of bilateral relations
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Twitch
Dates:10 September
Genetic Testing for Huntington’s Disease
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Roads are the Solution to Congestion
Dates:10 September
Festival of Urbanism
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The Robotic Revolution
Dates:12 September
for Architecture and Design
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Malcom Knox
Dates:15 September
Reading Australian Literature
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The Shrinking Space for Freedom of Expression in South Asia
Dates:18 September
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Comprehending the “Justice” in Food Justice
Dates:23 September
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A Global Climate Deal in 2015
Dates:23 September
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Professor Katherine Hite
Dates:28 September
Politics, Human Rights and the Art of Commemoration of the Americas
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Elizabeth Broderick
Dates:29 September
Women In Leadership
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Professor Jennifer Radden
Dates:7 October
From Melancholy to Depression
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Mireille Juchau
Dates:13 October
Reading Aust Literature
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What does it mean to die well?
Dates:14 October
Health Forum
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Professor Herman Lebovics
Dates:15 October
The Future of France Foretold in its New Museums
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We Need to Talk about Spain
Dates:16 October
A Festival of Democracy forum
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Climate Change and Capitalism
Dates:19 October
Forum
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21st Century Medicine
Dates:26 October
The Future of Cancer Care
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Professor Mordechai Feingold
Dates:27 October
Science and Satire in Early Modern England
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Omar Offendum
Dates:28 October
Rhythms, Rebels and Resistance
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Sydney Story Factory
Dates:28 October
Forum
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Painful Husband-ry
Dates:28 October
Forum
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21st Century Medicine
Dates:2 November
The Future of Health Care
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Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Dates:2 November
Curating Between Hope and Despair: Jewish museums in Europe today
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Liu Cixin
Dates:3 November
The Future of China through Chinese Science Fiction
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Professor James A Serpell
Dates:3 November
Why Animals Have Become a Social Issue
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Bassem Youssef and The Chaser
Dates:4 November
The Perils and Power of Political Satire
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Professor Caroline Bruzelius
Dates:5 November
Digital Thinking and Art History
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Accountability
Dates:5 November
Why do we need it and how do we get it?
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Melanoma Up Close
Dates:10 November
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The Dismissal
Dates:10 November
40 years later
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Professor Howard Kunreuther
Dates:12 November
Who Should Compensate the Victims of Climate Disasters?: The Role of Insurance
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Mobile and Social Media
Dates:12 November
In Southeast Asia
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Professor Julie Guthman
Dates:23 November
Lives versus Livelihoods?
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21st Century Medicine
Dates:26 November
The Future of Medical Research
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The 2015 CPC Oration
Dates:4 December
Professor Paul Davies on The Deep Evolutionary Roots of Cancer
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What is Recognition?
Dates:8 December
Noel Pearson and Jonathan Lear in conversation
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Surviving Ebola: facing the challenges
Dates:10 December