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

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A fascinating conversation with novelist and journalist Ahdaf Soueif who witnessed first-hand the Eg

China is undergoing a radical transformation that is changing the lives of everyone who lives there

The incoming Director of University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre Professor Kerry Brown explores

Journalist Stephen Crittenden chairs a fascinating and robust conversation about the current state o

Many of those who engage with the Chinese world encounter the stories that are told about China–ther

Les Malezer is from the Butchulla/Gubbi Gubbi peoples in southeast Queensland. He has extensive expe

Pablo Picasso painted his large scale Guernica (1937) in response to the bombing of the Spanish town

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda charts an agenda of hop

What do we learn when we revisit scientists' past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Ch

Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that

The award-winning author and University of Sydney Alumna Kate Jennings, with her brother, Mambo foun

How to modernise art for a modern China? What ideas and practices should China adapt from the West?

This forum and open discussion with Australia’s leading China commentators was hosted by Dr James Re

Confucius (traditional dates 551-479 BCE) lived during the waning years of the Zhou dynasty. He was

In 2004, construction began in Jerusalem on the local branch of the Los Angeles-based Museum of Tole

SPEAKER: Professor David Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, and Director, Institute of Social S

How does the past shape the present? Should history play a role in shaping politics today? Should we

Artist, curator and producer Fiona Winning discusses the often problematic relationship between the

Dr Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard Universit

Prominent Palestinian-British author and academic, Dr Ghada Karmi, had just released her book - Marr