Is Too Much Testing and Treatment Making us Sick?
Panel discussion with audience Q&A on the topic of Wiser Healthcare We all want to be able to get good healthcare when we need it. But what would it mean to provide and consume healthcare wisely? Thi...
30 Mai 20161h 17min
Forum on Music And Contemporary Indigenous Identities
Music’s power to form, sustain and present social identities is especially relevant in today’s changing and increasingly networked world. A panel of Indigenous researchers and performers from Australi...
27 Mai 20161h 3min
A Model of Confusion: why economic modelling is ruining public policy and public debate
Economic Modelling now plays a significant role in the development of public policy development and the conduct of public debate in Australia. Modelling has been central to the case for and against th...
24 Mai 20161h 13min
Food@Sydney. Agricultural land grabs: what are their impacts in Australia and globally?
Since the global food crisis of 2007, agricultural land has become an attractive asset for large private corporations and state-owned entities wanting to secure food supplies. These investments have h...
23 Mai 20161h 21min
Archaeology and Heritage in the Tropical Pacific
To celebrate National Archaeology Week 2016 we present two talks on the topic of archaeology and heritage in the Pacific. Wasteland and Wonderland: Bikini Atoll - from atomic bomb testing ground to W...
23 Mai 20161h 16min
Analytic Activism
It is now well established that digital media has given rise to new forms of political speech. Just as importantly though, the new media environment has also created space for new types of listening. ...
19 Mai 201637min
Plastic Water: The social and material life of bottled water
A look into how bottles are impacting on tap water provision and the implications of accumulating plastic waste on environments and bodies. SPEAKERS: Professor Gay Hawkins, Institute for Culture and ...
18 Mai 20161h 37min
Turkey Under the AKP: continuity and change in Islam, secularism and democracy
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, dominated by President Erdogan, has governed Turkey for more than a decade. Its initial democratisation agenda, however, has taken an authoritarian ...
12 Mai 20161h 17min
