Duncan Green: How Change Happens
Dr Duncan Green of Oxfam joins Sydney Ideas to share the ideas in his latest book How Change Happens, exploring the topic of social and political change from the perspective of international developme...
3 Apr 20171h 10min
Preserving the Past: the Dawkins reforms and the University of Sydney
The Dawkins reforms to higher education in the late 1980s roused passions at many universities across the nation, over fears for the academic enterprise and Australia’s system of free, public universi...
29 Mar 201752min
Professor Minxin Pei: the origins and dynamics of crony capitalism in China
Corruption in the post-Tiananmen era exhibits distinct characteristics not found in the 1980s, such as astronomical sums of money looted by officials, their family members, and their cronies in the pr...
29 Mar 20171h 30min
Professor Pavel Pevzner: Life After MOOCs: online science education needs a new revolution
Professor Pavel Pevzner from the University of California, San Diego, shares the concerns about the quality of early, primitive MOOCs, which have been hyped by many as a cure-all for education. At the...
23 Mar 201751min
Making dough with Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite founder and CEO
A Sydney Ideas conversation co-presented with the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship A serial entrepreneur, Ryan Holmes started his first business in high school, ultimately opening a string of ventur...
23 Mar 20171h 7min
Wadah Khanfar: Speaking Truth to Power in the Middle East and North Africa
As Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network from 2008 to 2011, Wadah Khanfar was in a unique position to observe war, uprisings and revolution in one of the most turbulent regions in the world, th...
16 Mar 20171h 16min
Professor Stuart Kauffman: The Emergence and Evolution of Life Beyond Physics
Professor Stuart Kauffman is one of the most distinguished scholars of complexity and the author of several acclaimed books, including The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolutio...
1 Mar 201759min
Forum - Reverberations: the Holocaust, human rights, and the museum
A panel presents fresh perspectives on museums approaches to human rights and the Holocaust, exploring and explicating contemporary international debates. Experts from various disciplinary background...
28 Feb 20171h 15min
