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Sydney Ideas is the University of Sydney's premier public lecture series program, bringing the world

Episodes

Total: 503

From community gardens to pop-up cinemas, from outdoor art installations to mobile libraries, tempor

The winners of the Australian Book Review prestigious Calibre Essay Prize this year, Michael Adams a

Christina Lamb, a multi award-winning foreign correspondent for the UK Sunday Times in conversation

Causes of compulsive behaviour are complex and unexpected. What are they? Our researchers reveal the

Experts in law, security, and international relations consider why have cultural, religious, and nat

A multi-award Iraqi film director, producer and civil activist in in conversation with Dr Lucia Sorb

How did Jane Austen, a no-name author in her own day, become an international literary icon? It star

Portraits and Place

2017/7/19

This forum explores the shifts in assumptions, mindsets and ways of thinking that are required to ac

Millennials Strike Back

2017/7/12

Millennials, those born in the final decades of the twentieth century, have come of age in an unsett

Our culture is our identity. It is multiple expressions of plural identities. Nobody owns it. We sha

Fusion power is one of a very few sustainable options to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary

A phenomenal mathematician, Hanna Neumann achieved her success in the face of the Nazis, an imprison

The civil war in Syria has entered its seventh year. With death toll estimates ranging from 220,000

What is the impact of Hillary Clinton's loss and will it discourage or motivate women to become more

What does it mean to urbanise? Are industrialisation and urbanisation two aspects of the same proces

Belkis Wille is senior Iraq researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division, Human Rights Wa

Professor Yolanda Moses, Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Competence, National Centre for C

The challenges that face schools are not simple but there are local, national and international mode

Carlos Ghosn, one of the world’s most influential business leaders and was the first executive to ru

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn’t, have a long a