Mick Gooda on Effective Engagement: the tonic for a reconciled nation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda charts an agenda of hope that can guide us towards a reconciled Australia. Commissioner Gooda argued that effective engagem...
30 Maj 20111h 15min
Writing Science Lives: why biography matters
What do we learn when we revisit scientists' past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin's? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all? Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Har...
12 Aug 20101h 17min
Why History Matters: Historians reshape the world
Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past. Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin a...
26 Juli 20101h 29min
Modernism or Realism? The question in China’s quest for modernity through art
How to modernise art for a modern China? What ideas and practices should China adapt from the West? Such questions figured prominently in intellectual debate about modernisation at the start of the tw...
8 Apr 20101h 8min
Meeting the China Challenge: Australia’s China Policy in a New Era
This forum and open discussion with Australia’s leading China commentators was hosted by Dr James Reilly, Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Participan...
11 Mars 20101h 30min
Professor Jeffrey Riegel - Confucius and the First Emperor
Confucius (traditional dates 551-479 BCE) lived during the waning years of the Zhou dynasty. He was deeply troubled by the disorder of his age and took it upon himself to teach others about Zhou virtu...
21 Okt 200942min
Saree Makdisi on Excavating Memory In Jerusalem
In 2004, construction began in Jerusalem on the local branch of the Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, designed by the leading American architect, Frank Gehry. The museum is now being built over t...
22 Sep 20091h 35min
Professor David Goodman - Mao Zedong and his thought
SPEAKER: Professor David Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, and Director, Institute of Social Sciences Mao Zedong (1893-1976) is best known as the founder of the People’s Republic of China. He l...
2 Sep 20091h 24min
