What's On
ARTS AND CULTURE
Wednesday 12 July
Millennials Strike Back
A forum co-presented with Griffith Review
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Wednesday 19 July
Portraits and Place
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Thursday 20 July
The Making of Jane Austen
Professor Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
Presented by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Monday 31 July
The Films of Mohamed Al-Daradji
A conversation with the filmmaker
Co-presented with the Iraqi Australian University Graduates Forum and the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures, University of Sydney
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Thursday 3 August
Letters From Baghdad film screening
A Sydney Ideas and Nicholson Museum event
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Friday 4 August
Space, Social Conflict, and the Future of Urban Society: a comparative view
Professor Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Co-presented with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the China Studies Centre, the Department of Anthropology, and the School of Architecture, Design and Planning
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Tuesday 8 August
Pop Up Justice Reflecting on Relationships in the Temporary City
Festival of Urbanism event
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Wednesday 6 September
Sydney Asian Art Series
A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art
Saloni Mathur, Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-presented by the University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney Ideas
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Tuesday 12 September
Reading Australian Literature
Sophie Cunningham on Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
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Thursday 19 October
Sydney Asian Art Series
Painting after the Mass-Produced Image: Art in 19th-century Iran
David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University
Co-presented by the University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney Ideas
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HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Wednesday 2 August
Health Forum - Addiction: is it the new normal?
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POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Wednesday 2 August
New International Orders
The Thinkers Guide to the 21st Century series
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Tuesday 8 August
Pop Up Justice. Reflecting on Relationships in the Temporary City
A Festival of Urbanism iv event
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Tuesday 8 August
Battlefields of Memory: contested narratives of the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
Professor Ayhan Aktar, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul Bilgi University
Co-presented by the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Beyond 1914: The University of Sydney and the Great War Project
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Wednesday 16 August
Why we need a Universal Basic Income
Associate Professor Karl Widerquist, SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University
Co-presented with the Department of Political Economy, School of Social and Political Science
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Tuesday 22 August
Hong Kong Twenty Years after the Hand-over: developments since 1997 and prospects for the future
A Sydney Ideas forum co-presented with the China Studies Centre and the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, Sydney Law School
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Wednesday 23 August
Feminism in the Age of Populism
The Thinkers Guide to the 21st Century series
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Wednesday 13 September
Authoritarianism
The Thinkers Guide to the 21st Century series
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Wednesday 25 October
Globalisation
The Thinkers Guide to the 21st Century series
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SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY
Tuesday 11 July
Food [at] Sydney series: The Suburban Harvest … food in our own backyard
Co-presented with the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney
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Monday 17 July
Scientific Fraud and Truth
Post Truth Initiative Series
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Wednesday 26 July
Climate Change in the City: examining the effects of climate change on urban environments
Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Geography, Durham University
Co-presented with the Sydney Environment Institute and the School of Architecture, Design and Planning
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Wednesday 9 August
The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel, acclaimed science writer
A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week
Presented by Sydney Ideas and Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) at the University of Sydney
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Thursday 10 August
The Physics and Philosophy of Time
A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week
Presented by Sydney Ideas and the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney
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Tuesday 15 August
Are your Genes your Destiny? Genomics and the science of Gattaca
A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week
Presented by Sydney Ideas and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) at the University of Sydney in partnership with the Garvan Institute for Medical Research
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Tuesday 15 August
Data Science - the Future of Better Health?
A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week
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Thursday 17 August
Scientists and Philosophers … need to talk!
Tibor Molnar, The University of Sydney
A Sydney Science Festival event for National Science Week
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Thursday 9 November
Food Justice in the City: Toward a Just and Sustainable Food System
A forum co-presented with the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney
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