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

Episodes

Total: 503

Can Mindfulness Save the World?

2016/10/10

A panel of the University of Sydney experts and practitioners discuss the possible benefits and risk

Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human be

The Rise of the Populists

2016/10/10

What is happening in the US election campaign and where does the support for this ‘populist’ politic

Don Watson and fellow Quarterly Essayist James Brown discuss the strangest election campaign the US

Approaching death is an opportunity for individuals and those who care for them to reduce unnecessar

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a number of authoritarian regimes – China, Cuba, Iran, No

Humans are superorganisms with two genomes that dictate phenotype, the genetically inherited human g

Indonesia has struggled with corruption in its natural resource sector, with unchecked environmental

Legal academic Professor Annalise Acorn argues that criminal punishment, devoid of all emotions of b

Pluto: the pugnacious planet

2016/9/23

Lecture by Professor Fran Bagenal, Co-investigator and Leader of the Plasma Teams for NASA’s New Hor

What happens in China today – from economic to political and cultural events – already has an impact

Professor Richard Salomon from Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Was

Following its military successes in Iraq and Syria, and especially after the terrorist attacks in Pa

Retiring from the city to the country is a popular Australia dream. But what are these retirees’ liv

For several decades after the Second World War, capitalism regulated by democratic politics proved s

Each year around 55,000 Australians suffer a heart attack, and almost 9,000 will die as a result. W

Western democracies have seen a resurgence in far-right populist movements. Alongside disaffection w

As a modern idea, national conscience dates back to the anti-slavery campaign of the late eighteenth

For more than half a century, the fragile and frozen continent of Antarctica has been protected by ‘

Professor Sabine Lee, the University of Birmingham. Starting from a drawing ‘Schattenkinder ‘ by th