Past lectures
2009 lectures
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Professor Graham Smith
Dates:15 Dec
Indigenous Knowledges
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Key Thinkers
Dates:2009
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IQ2 Debate. Too Many People go to University
Dates:10 Dec
1Q2 Debate
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Michael Wesley
Dates:29 October
Getting China Right
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Professor Saree Makdisi
Dates:22 October
Excavating Memory in Jerusalem
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John Corigliano
Dates:7 September
Building Music
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Michael Cathcart
Dates:20 August
The Water Dreamers
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Alana Valentine
Dates:10 August
Captivated by Reality
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Why History Matters
Dates:28 July
A Sydney Ideas Forum
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Professor Jill Tarter
Dates:21 July
Extremophiles and Exoplanets
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Professor Margaret Levi
Dates:30 June
A Challenge to the Hip Pocket
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Clive Hamilton
Dates:7 July
The Rebirth of Nature
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Dr Anna Tibaijuka
Dates:18 June
Sustainable Urbanisation
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Professor Darius Rejali
Dates:2 June
Torture And Democracy: What Now?
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Paul Gilding
Dates:29 April
Economic Growth Version 1.0 is Finished: The great disruption has begun
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Bill McKibben
Dates:6 May
350: The important number in the world?
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Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Dates:22 April
Rewriting the Narrative of American History
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Professor Peter Skilling
Dates:7 April
Did the Buddha invent Asia?
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Mark Schapiro
Dates:17 March
Reporting on the Environment: A study of science or power?
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Fiona Winning
Dates:2 March
Rex Cramphorn Annual Lecture
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Professor Michael Ruse
Dates:17 Feb
Is Darwinism past its ‘Sell By’ Date?
All 2009 Sydney Ideas lectures are recorded and made available as MP3 audio podcasts and MP4 videos, free to download from this site, soon after the lecture.
MP3 audio podcasts of all 2008 lectures are now available and can visit the University's podcast pages for 2007 and 2006 lectures as well.