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

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What's Wrong with our Kidneys?

2017/5/31

What’s wrong with our kidneys? And what we are doing about it at the University of Sydney. Professo

In the last 50 years museums have slowly changed from exhibitions ‘about’ Indigenous peoples to exhi

A Sydney Writers’ Festival event presented with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Susan Falu

Associate Professor Muireann Irish, School of Psychology and Brain and Mind Centre at the University

The extraordinary growth of the past thirty years is due to unprecedented globalisation and accelera

Pain: a symptom or a disease?

2017/5/10

Pain is both personal and global and despite all that we know about its origins and treatments, coun

With an audience of over 180 million viewers each year, the Eurovision Song contest is one of the lo

From 1799 to 1804 Alexander von Humboldt made an extraordinary trip through Spanish America, a trip

Part of the 21st Century Medicine Lecture Series. Professor Guy Thwaites, an academic infectious di

Early in her life Chido Govera realised the importance of food to community. Mushroom farming enable

A special presentation by leading human right scholars, Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President

Uncertainty, like insecurity, is as much a subjective state of mind as it is an objective condition

From building walls, to stopping boats, to attempts to ‘trade’ refugees between countries, we are wi

On September 14, 2015, scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

North Korea has survived the end of the Cold War, massive famine, numerous regional crises, punishin

Sydneysiders have just sweltered through the hottest summer on record. According to the Bureau of Me

What has happened to the bipartisan consensus on the importance of protecting public health and the

Professor George Sugai is a world leader in positive behaviour support (PBS), a behaviour management

Dr Duncan Green of Oxfam joins Sydney Ideas to share the ideas in his latest book How Change Happens

The Dawkins reforms to higher education in the late 1980s roused passions at many universities acros