Dean's Lecture Series: Contact and Openness in Adoption
Sydney Ideas co-presented with the Institute of Open Adoption Studies, School of Education and Social Work Join us for a panel discussion to explore the complex issue of contact in the context of ope...
31 Aug 20171h 26min
Wrongful Conviction and Truth
When does evidence obscure the truth? Join us for a forum on the avoidable causes of wrongful conviction. Wrongful convictions can and do happen – it's a sad fact of the Australian legal system. This...
29 Aug 20171h 27min
Tools for Truth: A 2017 Storyology event
Forget what you think you know about fake news. Our neighbours in Asia have been dealing with fake news, lies and propaganda for years. More recently, the same technology and social media platforms th...
28 Aug 20171h 28min
Feminism in the Age of Populism
It’s the 21st century, 100 years since Australian women were lucky enough to get the vote, and we’ve arrived at the age of Pussyriot and Pussyhats. How did women get here? What does this augur for the...
23 Aug 20171h 23min
Hong Kong Twenty Years after the Handover: developments since 1997 and prospects for the future
This forum examines developments in Hong Kong in the 20 years since it became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and prospects for Hong Kong's future under C...
22 Aug 20171h 28min
An Afternoon with Glenn Greenwald
Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses his favourite subjects: power and accountability, surveillance and privacy, Trump and fake news, threats to democracy, courage, and the role of journalism in givin...
20 Aug 20171h 55min
Why we need a Universal Basic Income
Karl Widerquist discusses an idea which is increasingly viewed as the only viable way of reconciling poverty relief and full employment. A Sydney Ideas event on 16 August 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sy...
16 Aug 20171h 40min
The Future of Work
The World Economic Forum estimates that young people can expect to change careers at least seven times over the course of their lives, and 35 percent of the skills required today will be different in ...
15 Aug 20171h 23min
