Sydney Ideas

As the online world increasingly spills into the real world, urgent questions are being asked about the need to regulate the world’s digital platforms. How do we govern and enforce internet controls? ...

23 Aug 201950min

What is the limit of our brain capacity and how can we translate potential brainpower into powerful discoveries? Fernando Calamante from Sydney Imaging talks about mapping structural networks in the...

21 Aug 20191h 14min

How does our identity determine how we use our time? Economist Daniel Hamermesh will discuss the role of income inequality and how it affects the things we buy and do. He presents a radical proposal t...

19 Aug 201936min

Polar regions are increasingly at the centre of environmental, geo-political and cultural shifts. Our panel discuss how our relationship with the polar regions has changed in the 21st century and wh...

13 Aug 201950min

As global movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp rapidly gain momentum in exposing systemic sexual assault and abuse, the military appears to have been left behind. To unpack this issue, and discuss h...

31 Jul 20191h 5min

Hear from one of the greatest astrophysicists and role models of our time. Best known for her discovery of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell has paved a path for furthering scientific knowledge and educat...

23 Jul 201959min

The world has traditionally relied heavily on the 'business as usual model' of industrial food production and supermarket-oriented consumption. However, this system is not sustainable if we’re to secu...

10 Jul 20191h 9min

Climate change, resource extraction and increasing levels of extinction present unprecedented challenges. How can the humanities and social sciences help us to respond to the biodiversity crisis in a ...

19 Jun 20191h 13min