2017 lectures
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Professor Elizabeth Loftus
Dates:3 January
The Fiction of Memory
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Assistant Professor Genevera Allen
Dates:31 January
Networks for Big Biomedical Data
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Paul Mason
Dates:6 February
Can Robots Kill Capitalism?
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Professor Michael E Mann
Dates:8 February
The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump
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Drones, Lies, and Privacy
Dates:16 February
Forum on trust and accountability in the era of mass surveillance
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Ecological Democracy: looking back, looking forward
Dates:20 February
Forum
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Associate Professor Kyle Powys Whyte
Dates:21 February
Defeating the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock: what it means for Indigenous people and environmentalism
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Transgender: looking back, moving forward
Dates:23 February
A Mardi Gras forum
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Professor Richard Peiser
Dates:23 February
Housing Affordability: international insights on achieving affordability with quality density
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Dr Anna Bernard
Dates:24 February
Human Rights or Revolution: towards a history of Palestine solidarity
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Reverberations:
Dates:28 February
the Holocaust, human rights, and the museum
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Professor Stuart Kauffman
Dates:1 March
The Emergence and Evolution of Life Beyond Physics
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Dr. Peter J. Stoett
Dates:7 March
Plastic Plague: Global Governance and the “Plastisphere”
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Professor Julie Nelson Davis
Dates:9 March
Sydney Asian Art Series
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Dr Peter Carberry
Dates:14 March
Innovation in Australian agriculture benefits the world... and vice versa?
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Thomas Crow
Dates:15 March
What has Religion to do with Art?
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Big sugar: the new health threat?
Dates:15 March
Health Forum
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Wadah Khanfar
Dates:16 March
Speaking Truth to Power in the Middle East and North Africa
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The Destruction of Memory:
Dates:21 March
film screening and forum
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Ryan Holmes
Dates:23 March
Hootsuite founder and CEO
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Professor Pavel Pevzner
Dates:23 March
Life After MOOCs: online science education needs a new revolution
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Professor Minxin Pei
Dates:29 March
The Origins and Dynamics of Crony Capitalism in China
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Preserving the Past:
Dates:29 March
the Dawkins reforms and the University of Sydney
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Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu
Dates:30 March
Abolish Slavery in My Smartphone
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Professor Terry Hughes
Dates:31 March
Global Warming and the Mass Bleaching of Corals
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Professor Paul Arthur
Dates:31 March
Data-Rich Research in the Arts and Humanities
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Duncan Green
Dates:3 April
How Change Happens
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Professor George Sugai
Dates:4 April
Addressing the Social and Behavioural Needs of All Students
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Professor Robert L Glicksman
Dates:4 April
The Trump Administration and the Future of US Environmental Law
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Hot in the City:
Dates:6 April
climate and health in urban environments
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Justin Hastings
Dates:10 April
A Most Enterprising Country: North Korean in the Global Economy
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David Reitze
Dates:11 April
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and the Final Ballet of a Pair of Black Holes
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Trapped in/Pushed Out:
Dates:12 April
border politics in the US and Australia
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Cultivating our Campus
Dates:26 April
Food [at] Sydney forum
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Fiona Wright
Dates:26 April
The Cook by Wayne Macauley
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Peace and Security under Uncertainty
Dates:27 April
CISS Global Forum 2017
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Human Rights and the Rise of Islamophobia:
Dates:28 April
academic responses in the age of populist anger and fear
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Chido Govera
Dates:2 May
Growing Change: female empowerment through farming and social enterprise
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Professor Guy Thwaites
Dates:3 May
Bad Bugs and Bad Drugs: antimicrobial resistance in Southeast Asia
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Joan Steigerwald
Dates:3 May
Alexander Von Humboldt: views of nature
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How can we improve health literacy in diverse communities?
Dates:8 May
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Eurovision and the European Project:
Dates:9 May
a political guide to the song contest
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Pain: a symptom or a disease?
Dates:10 May
Health Forum
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Professor Ian Goldin
Dates:15 May
Renaissance 2.0: the disruptive changes shaping our world and future
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Muireann Irish
Dates:16 May
‘The time-travelling brain’: how we remember the past and imagine the future
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At Home, At Work, In Public:
Dates:18 May
archaeologies of domestic life
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Professor Joan Kee
Dates:20 May
Land Lords: Art, Property and Law in Post-Nineties China
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Susan Faludi in conversation
Dates:25 May
With Sydney Writers' Festival
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Jane Gleeson-White
Dates:30 May
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
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Professor Steve Chadban
Dates:31 May
What's Wrong with our Kidneys?
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Arts and Aboriginal Australia:
Dates:31 May
decolonisation or reconciliation?
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Professor David Armitage
Dates:5 June
Civil Wars: a history in ideas
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A Plastic Ocean
Dates:5 June
Film screening
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Sebastian Smee
Dates:6 June
The art of Mark Bradford
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Carlos Ghosn
Dates:8 June
The future of the auto industry
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How can schools be relevant in the 21st century?
Dates:8 June
A forum
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Professor Yolanda Moses
Dates:9June
Diversity, Social Justice and Inclusion in the Age of Trump
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Belkis Wille
Dates:15 June
Abuses in the Fight Against ISIS
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Eating in the City
Dates:6 June
Food [at] Sydney forum