What's On

2013

May

23 May
The Future Direction of the Australian Defence Force
General David Hurley, Chief of the Defence Force
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24 May
Thomas Demand's Pacific Sun
Professor Michael Fried, Professor, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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25 May
I'm Not Racist, But...
Co-presented with the NSW Reconciliation Council and Seymour Centre as part of Reconciliation Week 2013
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27 May
The Erasure of Sense: Violence, Affect and the Post-Traumatic Subject
Professor Ruth Leys, Professor of Humanities, with a joint appointment in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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28 May
The Challenge and Necessity of changing our Constitution
A panel discussion for Reconciliation Week 2013
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June

3 June
I'm Not Creative, But...
A Sydney Ideas and Seymour Centre presentation as part of VIVID Sydney
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4 June
Global Warming: Do the maths
Bill McKibben, award-winning author, educator, environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org
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4 June
Quotation Songs: Portable media and Pop song form in the Chinese 1960s
Professor Andrew F. Jones, Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
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5 June
Our Heart Land - a discussion on the Noongar painting Ngallak Koort Boodja
New Writing on Contemporary Art series with Kim Scott, Australian novelist
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11 June
Carrying the Torch for Children
A One Just World Forum at the University of Sydney
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11 June
Retooling: Techniques for an uncertain world
Professor Annelise Riles, Jack G. Clarke Professor of Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
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18 June
The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a pagan planet
Professor Michael Ruse, Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University
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19 June
Ageing Well: Size does matter
Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh, John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science, the University of Sydney
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24 June
The Productivity Zombie
Co-presented with the Evatt Foundation
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