Professor Peter J. Katzenstein on Why the Clash of Civilizations is Wrong
One of America’s leading political scientists, Peter Katzenstein, is particularly interested in the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics. In his lecture for Sydney Ideas...
8 Dec 20161h 8min
Loretta Napoleoni on the War on Terror and the Credit Crunch
Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises governments and international organization on counter-terrorism. In her lecture for Sydney Ideas she outlines how the response of G...
8 Dec 20161h 18min
Professor Esther M Sternberg on Emotions, the Brain and the Body
Professor Esther M Sternberg MD and Professor Ian Hickie AM How do the emotions affect our physical and mental health? What is the science that shows how brain and body interact to make us sick or we...
8 Dec 20161h 25min
Professor Michael Oppenheimer on Global Warming
Michael Oppenheimer was the Lead Author on the Third and Fourth Assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His scientific understanding of global warming provides a fr...
8 Dec 20161h 37min
Paul Gilding on Economic Growth Version 1.0 is Finished
Paul Gilding argues that we have entered a period of global ecological crisis and economic stagnation that will last for decades. This will lead to an economic and social transformation of significanc...
8 Dec 20161h 21min
Maude Barlow on The Blue Covenant
Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist and author who travels the world telling a simple and compelling truth: we are running out of water. And with that, comes devastating consequences. The author of B...
8 Dec 20161h 33min
Cormac Cullinan on Earth Rights
Environmental laws as presently conceived are incapable of addressing the fundamental challenges of the 21st Century such as climate change and the degradation of ecosystems. Cormac Cullinan makes the...
8 Dec 20161h 26min
The Dark Side of the Universe
Ordinary atoms that make up the visible universe, from the smallest molecules to planets and stars, constitute only 5% of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The remaining 95% is invisible, and compr...
29 Nov 20161h 4min
