2016 lectures
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Professor Christof Mauch
Dates:9 Feb
Energy Cultures in Historical Perspective: what we can learn for the future
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Jairus Grove
Dates:11 Feb
The 2016 Q Lecture: Terrorism in an Age of Quantum Insecurity
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Kim Williams
Dates:15 Feb
Australian Book Review Patrons’ Lecture
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Professor Jan Pakulski
Dates:24 Feb
Is Democracy in Poland in Danger?
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Fixing the System
Dates:25 Feb
A penel discussion presented with Griffith Review
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Professor Marion Nestle
Dates:1 March
Soda Politics
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Professor Richard Shusterman
Dates:3 March
Somaesthetics and Design
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Professor George Siemens
Dates:4 March
Neuroscience and Learning Analytics
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If You Are The One
Dates:8 March
Panel Discussion
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Professor Dibyesh Anand
Dates:9 March
China, Tibet and the Colonial Question
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Professor Federico Rosei
Dates:10 March
The Energy Challenge: Nanotechnology solutions towards sustainable development
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Professor Nick Enfield
Dates:10 March
The Conversation Machine
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Professor Alexander Nagel
Dates:10 March
The Renaissance Elsewhere
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Professor Carl Wieman
Dates:11 March
A Scientific Approach to Teaching Science and Engineering
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Brian Lobel
Dates:14 March
BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer
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Professor Ian Hodder
Dates:16 March
Understanding Çatalhöyük and the Origins of Settled Life
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Europe and the Arab Uprisings
Dates:17 March
Five Years On
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Professor Akram Khater
Dates:21 March
Arab diasporas and transnational identities
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Tegan Bennett Daylight
Dates:22 March
Reading Australian Literature: reading Helen Garner’s 'Cosmo Cosmolino'
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The Small Changes Forum
Dates:23 March
Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise
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James Watson
Dates:29 March
Discovering the Double Helix: going for gold
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The Responsibility of Philanthropy
Dates:4 April
Stephen Heintz and Bradford K. Smith in conversation
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Professor Vrasidas Karalis
Dates:5 April
Aristotle 2400 Years On: the legacy and the relevance of a Greek philosopher
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The Silent Tears Project
Dates:6 April
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China’s Grand Strategy:
Dates:7 April
regional roles and policy towards middle powers in the context of US-China relations
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Professor Yu Keping
Dates:11 April
Chinese Conceptions of Power and Authority: new perspectives
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Professor Kathy High
Dates:12 April
Waste Matters: you are my future
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Professor Nick Couldry
Dates:12 April
The Price of Connection
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The Small Changes Forum
Dates:13 April
How To Talk About Climate Change Without Talking About Climate Change
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In Defense of Food
Dates:18 April
Film screeing (Food@Sydney series)
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Professor Joanna Aizenberg
Dates:19 April
Slippery Surfaces: How nanoscience is changing our material world
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The Center Cannot Hold
Dates:21 April
Rrethinking the 1960s in America and beyond
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Human Rights in Uganda
Dates:26 April
A panel presented with Human Rights Watch
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Emeritus Professor Ian Menter
Dates:26 April
What is a Teacher in the 21st Century and What does a 21st Century Teacher Need to Know?
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Dr Natalie Batalha
Dates:28 April
Professor Walter Stibbs Lecture 2016 - A Planet for Goldilocks
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Nicholas Jose on Dorothy Hewett's Bobbin Up
Dates:3 May
Reading Australian Literature Series
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What’s the Announceable?
Dates:4 May
Co-presented with the Australian Press Council
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Light and the Illusion of Space
Dates:5 May
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Kiki Taufik
Dates:6 May
Saving Indonesia’s Rainforests: using maps, brands and politics to end deforestation
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Professor Eugene Wang
Dates:10 May
A Drop in the Ocean: How Did a Seascape Make Waves in China and Beyond?
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Warwick Holmes
Dates:10 May
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet-67P
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Sleep: why it matters and how to get more of it
Dates:11 May
Health Forums Series
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Assistant Professor Umut Azak
Dates:12 May
Turkey Under the AKP: continuity and change in Islam, secularism and democracy
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Defending the Aussie Mozzie
Dates:17 May
Health, ecology and emerging disease threats
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Plastic Water
Dates:18 May
The social and material life of bottled water
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Assistant Professor Dave Karpf
Dates:19 May
Analytic Activism
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Julian Baggini
Dates:19 May
A Sydney Writers’ Festival event
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Archaeology and Heritage
Dates:23 May
in the Tropical Pacific
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Food@Sydney
Dates:23 May
Agricultural land grabs
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Dr Richard Denniss
Dates:24 May
A Model of Confusion
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Politics, Democracy and Stability in Southeast Asia
Dates:25 May
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Professor John Furlong
Dates:25 May
The Social Organisation of Educational Knowledge in Different Jurisdictions
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Eileen Myles
Dates:26 May
I Must Be Living Twice
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Music and Contemporary Indigenous Identities
Dates:27 May
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Is Too Much Testing and Treatment Making us Sick?
Dates:30 May
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Neuroplasticity: the science behind rewiring the brain
Dates:1 June
2016 Health Forums
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Dr Stephen Whiteman
Dates:1 June
History and Memory at the Qing Imperial Mountain Estate
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Prof Shawn Michelle Smith
Dates:2 June
Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on the Social Power Photography
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I'm Not Racist, But...
Dates:2 June
2016 Reconciliation Week Forum
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Do Good, Be Good: Keynote
Dates:3 June
Co-presented with 2016 Vivid Sydney
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Data: Transforming Science and Society
Dates:7 June
Co-presented with 2016 Vivid Sydney
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Zika Virus and other Infectious Outbreaks: is Australia prepared?
Dates:8 June
A Sydney Ideas Westmead forum
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Professor Stephen F Teiser
Dates:9 June
Healing Rituals in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
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The Manifesto: from Surrealism to the present
Dates:9 June
Key Texts 2016
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Controversial Conversations
Dates:10 June
Reclaiming, Resilience and Decolonising
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Imagining the Future
Dates:14 June
Griffith Review 52
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The Middle Ages Now
Dates:15 June
Forum
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Insights 2016
Dates:16 June
The Chinese Enigma: China through European Eyes
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Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
Dates:6 July
2016 Harley Wood Lecture
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The Great War and Today’s World
Dates:19 July
The Michael Hintze lecture
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Vanessa Ogle
Dates:27 July
Tax Havens: What Can be Done? Evidence from a century of history
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Food Insecurity:
Dates:1 August
putting good food back on the table
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David Malouf with poet Michael Aiken
Dates:3 August
ABR Fellowship: Satan Repentant
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Marjorie Aunos
Dates:3 August
Parenting with Disabilities: from ‘outsider’ to ‘insider’
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Professor Peter Shergold
Dates:4 August
Re-imagining Public Service
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Is Sydney Losing Its Edge?
Dates:8 August
Presented with the Festival of Urbanism
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Educating and Enabling Girls:
Dates:9 August
A forum discussion with Dame Marie Bashir and Linda Burney MP
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Christopher Day
Dates:9 August
Teachers’ Work and Lives: understanding complexity, building quality
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investigative journalism and accountability
Dates:10 August
A Storyology 2016 event
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Linda Tirado
Dates:11 August
The Poverty of US Elections
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Prof Kristen Hawkes on Grandmothers and Human Evolution
Dates:15 August
Sydney Science Festival 2016
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Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity: a looming healthcare crisis?
Dates:16 August
Sydney Science Festival 2016
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Prof Mark Dadds on the Importance of Time-out
Dates:18 August
Sydney Science Festival 2016
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Prof Philippe Sands
Dates:24 August
A Personal History of the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
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Dr Estelle Lazer
Dates:25 August
Returning Identities to Pompeian Victims of the AD 79 Eruption
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Prof Michael Berenbaum
Dates:30 August
The Holocaust: the known, the unknown, the disputed and the re-examined
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Dessa Goddard
Dates:30 August
Dynamics of Power, Passion and Personalities in the Chinese Art Market
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The Australian Mosque
Dates:31 August
Locality, gender, and spirituality
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Professor Sabine Lee
Dates:1 September
Children born of war in the 20th and 21st centuries
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Festival of Democracy
Dates:1 September
We Need to Talk about Antarctica
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Letters To Lindy Q & A
Dates:3 September
With Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
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Alan Atkinson
Dates:5 September
How Do We Live With Ourselves? The Australian National Conscience
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Food@Sydney
Dates:5 September
Food in the high-rise city
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Festival of Democracy
Dates:6 September
Populism, Race and Democracy
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Health Forum
Dates:7 September
Five Ways Your Heart Can Kill You
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Festival of Democracy
Dates:7 September
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: Old Visions, New Realities
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Professor Catherine Driscoll
Dates:8 September
Rural Retirement Culture
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Dr Barbara De Poli
Dates:12 September
Doctrinal and Political Roots of the Islamic State
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Emily Bitto
Dates:13 September
On David Malouf's An Imaginary Life
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Forest Countercultures of Upland Laos:
Dates:15 September
Lessons for sustainability?
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Nicholas A Christakis
Dates:16 September
Social Networks for Good
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Professor Richard Salomon
Dates:20 September
reflections on the study of the oldest Buddhist manuscripts
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Understanding China
Dates:21 September
Today and Tomorrow
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Professor Fran Bagenal
Dates:23 September
Pluto: the pugnacious planet
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Professor Annalise Acorn
Dates:26 September
Punishment as Help and Blaming Emotions
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Mr Laode M Syarif
Dates:30 September
Fighting Corruption in Indonesia’s Natural Resource Sector
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Professor Liping Zhao
Dates:4 October
Gut Microbiome: a new target for managing human metabolic health
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Who’s packing your lunchbox?
Dates:4 October
Eating at School and Work
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Professor Lucan Way
Dates:5 October
Why Violent Revolutions Lead to the Most Durable Dictatorships
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Dr BJ Miller
Dates:6 October
Dying Re-imagined: designing a better way to die
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Don Watson
Dates:6 October
American Politics in the Time of Trump
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Dr Zahi Hawass
Dates:8 October
Pyramids, Mummies & Cleopatra: recent discoveries
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The Rise of the Populists
Dates:10 October
A forum on US elections
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Professor Lino Pertile
Dates:10 October
Primo Levi Reads Dante: the role of literature in our world
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Can Mindfulness Save the World?
Dates:10 October
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Ending Childhood Obesity
Dates:11 October
A Sydney Ideas, Westmead forum
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Reading Australian Literature
Dates:11 October
Debra Adelaide on Thea Astley's Drylands
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Health Forum
Dates:12 October
Professor Cheryl Jones on childhood infectious diseases
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Hong Kong and Mainland China
Dates:13 October
A public forum with Anson Chan and Martin Lee
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Rachael DeLue
Dates:13 October
Shoreline Landscapes and the Edges of Empire
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Professor Herbert Huppert
Dates:17 October
How to get it right the first time
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Generations, Gender and Eating
Dates:17 October
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Bruce Schneier
Dates:20 October
Security and Privacy in a Hyper-connected World
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Truth and Beauty
Dates:20 October
What we're talking about when we talk about the environment
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Professor Carolyne Larrington
Dates:26 October
Game of Thrones! History, Medievalism and How it Might End
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Future States
Dates:27 October
Innovation Week 2016
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Professor John Kinsella
Dates:31 October
Journaling an Activist Poetics: Activist Poetics and the Activist’s Journal
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Professor Corinna Hawkes
Dates:1 November
The Three Biggest Challenges Facing the Food System, and How we Fix Them
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Accelerating Gender Equality
Dates:2 November
Do we need Male Champions of Change?
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Professor Robert Dunn
Dates:2 November
The Secret Life of Air: why our ignorance of biodiversity poses both enormous opportunities for discovery and threats to the persistence of civilisation
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Professor John P Cooke
Dates:4 November
You are Only as Old as your Blood Vessels: what you can do to reverse vascular aging
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Professor Victoria Braithwaite
Dates:7 November
Do Fish Feel Pain and Why Does it Matter?
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Dr Apinan Poshyananda
Dates:10 November
Playful Body, Playful Politics: Southeast Asian Contemporary Art and its place amidst changes in the international art world
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Beyond Accommodation:
Dates:14 November
Muslims and the law in Australia
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Sakdiyah Ma’ruf and The Chaser
Dates:15 November
The Virtues of Self-Censorship: Islam, Comedy and the (Punch)Line
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Professor Frances Vavrus
Dates:16 November
When ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: Comparative Pedagogies and Epistemological Diversity in Education
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Professor Rajesh Thakker
Dates:24 November
Calcium Regulation and Advances in Treatment
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Dr Stephane Shepherd
Dates:24 November
Assessing the Needs of Indigenous People in Custody
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Professor Manfred Lindner
Dates:29 November
The Dark Side of the Universe
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Professor Emeritus Alan Knight
Dates:29 November
Lawless Robbery Under the Volcano: British Cultural Commentators on Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-40
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Why Are We Here? Physics and the Fortunate Universe
Dates:5 December
A Sydney Ideas, Westmead forum
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Akala, Artists and Community
Dates:9 December
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Professor Alfred R Mele
Dates:13 December
Free Will and Neuroscience