The Art and Science of Good Conversation post Brain Injury
Good conversation is a rewarding and important part of social interaction. Professor Leanne Togher from the University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences shares her research into teaching people wit...
14 Mai 20141h 5min
The Right to World Heritage?
The year 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of UNESCO’s 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. It remains the only international instrument for safeguardin...
7 Mai 20141h 11min
Nationalism, Internationalism and the Legacies of the First World War
What lessons should we draw from the First World War? Professor Glenda Sluga will discuss the war's legacies from the perspective of its end, and the twinned principles on which a new postwar intern...
28 Mar 20141h 27min
Adventures of a New Woman: Donald to Deirdre
Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known economist and historian, was until 1995 known as Donald. She tells her story since then, of happy and unhappy endings–mainly happy–and how becoming a new woman affected...
28 Nov 20131h 20min
Anis Nacrour on France and the Arab-World Upheavals: from friend to foe
Since the fall of President Ben Ali in Tunisia, followed by those of President Moubarak in Egypt and Colonel Kaddafi in Libya, France has been one of the West’s strongest and most vocal supporters of ...
5 Nov 20131h 25min
Women, Gender, and Creative Activism in the Egyptian Revolutions (1919-2013)
Historian and commentator on women, gender and feminism in Egypt, Margot Badran joins Sydney Ideas for a conversation with the University of Sydney’s Lucia Sorbera. Held on 15 October, 2013 http://sy...
15 Okt 20131h 23min
Women's Inclusion in the History of the Chilean Public Sphere: a contemporary view
One of Chile’s leading political scholars, Professor Ana Maria Stuven, joins Sydney Ideas for an informative presentation on the changing role of women in the public sphere in her country. Held on 3 ...
3 Okt 201352min
The Call for Recognition of the Australian South Sea Islander Peoples
2013 marks 150 years since the first of 55,000 Pacific Islander labourers (known as Australian South Sea Islanders or ‘ASSI’) were brought to Australia between 1863-1901, partly by kidnapping and in s...
20 Aug 20131h 11min
