The False Friends of Democracy
Nadia Urbinati, one of Italy's most distinguished scholars, analyses the main forces that are nowadays tearing apart more than a few democracies around the world, Italy included. In an unusual twist, ...
17 Apr 20181h 33min
Digital Rights and Governance in Asia: The State of the Arts
A panel of distinguished international visitors and Australia-based experts discuss and debate the ‘hot button’ issues being raised by Asian digital transformations. Held as part of Sydney Ideas on ...
12 Apr 20181h 22min
Cultural diversity in leadership: where does Australia sit in 2018?
Australia is widely celebrated as a multicultural triumph, but any such success remains incomplete. The findings of a new report, produced by the Australian Human Rights Commission in partnership with...
11 Apr 201855min
Inverse problems and Harry Potter's cloak
Can we make objects invisible? Professor Gunther Uhlmann explores inverse problems, and the progress scientists are making to achieve invisibility.
26 Mar 20181h 6min
The Rise of Authoritarianism
Authoritarian populists have disrupted politics in many societies, as seen in the U.S. and the UK. This event brings two leading scholars to discuss their new books and the power of populist authorita...
22 Mar 20181h 31min
Interlocutors in the archive: Aboriginal women and the collection of anthropological data
Ngarigu woman Professor Jakelin Troy discusses intimate details of the lives, language and knowledge of the Aboriginal women she has discovered among the anthropological archives. Co-presented with S...
15 Mar 20181h 1min
Strange physics: drones, artificial intelligence and quantum computers
From the atom bomb to the microprocessor, physics produced many of the great transformations of the 20th century. In the 21st, a convergence of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and quantum ...
15 Mar 20181h 22min
Outrage: The Psychic Life of Trump's America
Outrage. Is it an affect? An agency? A meme? This talk by Professor Robyn Wiegman attempts to decide whether outrage offers political instruction or if it's an instrument of democratic destruction. H...
13 Mar 20181h 21min
