Professor Richard Peiser: Housing Affordability
International insights on achieving affordability with quality density. Real estate development expert Professor Richard Peiser at Harvard University and guests of the Cities Leadership Institute at ...
23 Feb 20171h 27min
Forum - Transgender: looking back, moving forward
How do theatre plays, such as The Trouble with Harry contribute to advancing contemporary transgender issues? A post-performance Q&A co-presented with the Seymour Centre as part of the 2017 Mardi Gra...
23 Feb 201753min
Forum - Ecological Democracy: looking back, looking forward
Efforts to reconcile theories and practices of democracy with environmental sustainability have long been central to environmental political thought. Since this first wave of scholarship on ecologic...
20 Feb 20171h 1min
Forum - Drones, Lies, and Privacy: trust and accountability in the era of mass surveillance
Contemporary governments frame surveillance and secrecy as evils necessary to ensure our security. Individual privacy has been trumped by the need for covert behaviour on the part of states and corpor...
16 Feb 20171h 25min
The Plastiki Expedition
In 2010 environmentalist David de Rothschild sailed from San Francisco to Sydney in 'The Plastiki' , a unique 18.3-metre catamaran made from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic soft drink bottles, ...
15 Feb 20171h 36min
Professor Michael Mann - The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump
With the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, it now seems climate change denial has reached into the most powerful political office in the world. In this special Sydney Id...
8 Feb 20171h 30min
Paul Mason: Can Robots Kill Capitalism?
Since the smashing of labour’s collective bargaining power under neoliberalism, how is the transition to a postcapitalist society to be enacted? Are we currently witnessing the zombie state of neoli...
6 Feb 201755min
Professor Genevera Allen: Networks for Big Biomedical Data
Cancer and neurologial diseases are among the top 5 causes of death in Australia. However, there is some good news in this battle against these as new big data technologies now allow scientists to mea...
31 Jan 201753min
