Forum on The Challenge and Necessity of Changing our Constitution
The Australian Constitution has not been amended for more than 35 years. In fact, with only 8 of 44 total referendums successful, changing our Constitution is a notoriously difficult task. With a refe...
23 Mai 20131h 26min
Professor Rana Mitter - How China's Wartime Past is Shaping its Present and Future
Professor Rana Mitter, History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, explores how the battered China of wartime became today’s superpower in the ma...
9 Apr 20131h 29min
In Conversation with Ahdaf Soueif
A fascinating conversation with novelist and journalist Ahdaf Soueif who witnessed first-hand the Egyptian Revolution of January 2011. As the events in Egypt unfolded, she reported for The Guardian ne...
27 Feb 20131h 33min
Michael Bristow - The Joys and Difficulties of Being a Foreign Correspondent in China
China is undergoing a radical transformation that is changing the lives of everyone who lives there – and reporters have a ringside sea. Five years as the BBC’s correspondent in China have given Micha...
6 Des 201259min
China and the Fifth Generation Leadership: China Moves into the Era of Socio Political Change
The incoming Director of University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre Professor Kerry Brown explores the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in China. He offers an assessment of the Hu and We...
16 Okt 20121h 1min
Crash and Crisis in Contemporary Europe: Lessons from History
Journalist Stephen Crittenden chairs a fascinating and robust conversation about the current state of Europe. What do historians say we can learn from history about how to manage the current crisis? ...
4 Sep 20121h 23min
Professor Geremie R Barmé - Telling Chinese Stories
Many of those who engage with the Chinese world encounter the stories that are told about China–there is the monolithic narrative of the party-state, the multiple stories of individuals, companies, co...
1 Mai 20121h 22min
Les Malezer on Affirming Indigenous Knowledge as the Social Capital of Indigenous Peoples
Les Malezer is from the Butchulla/Gubbi Gubbi peoples in southeast Queensland. He has extensive experience in campaigning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights. On the occasion of Internati...
9 Des 20111h 27min
