Tuesday 2 October 2018
AIIA NSW | High Stakes: Will the Congressional Midterm
Elections Be the End for Trump?
Speaker: John Barron
Wednesday 3 October
2018
Sydeny Democracy Network | Four Words, Four Faces of
Democracy
Speakers: Adele
Webb, Robert van Krieken, Rick Benitez, John Keane and Benedetta
Brevini
Thursday 4 October
2018
Department of Government & International Relations |
Anatomies of Revolution
Speaker: George Lawson
Department of Political Economy | Sports and the Global
South: Work, Play and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Speaker: Janaka Biyanwila
Politics in the Pub | BDS of Israel: Successes to Date and
the Campaign to Boycott Eurovision 2019
Speakers: Mona Abu Zalaf and Hilmi Dabbagh
Sydney Policy Lab | How Australia Can Save Democracy for the
World
Speakers: Marc Stears and Annamarie Jagose
Billion Dollar Whale: the Inside Story of the Scandal That
Brought Down the Malaysian Government
Speakers: Tom Wright and Aaron Connelly
Sydney Ideas | Planet Versus Profit: Striking a Balance
Speakers: Christopher Wright, Catherine Dorey, Pichamon
Yeophantong and Bill Pritchard (Chair)
Friday 5 October 2018
China Studies Centre | Sydney Chinese Studies Postgraduate
Seminar
Speakers: Jon von Kowallis, Bonnie S. McDougall, Ying
Qian, Wanning Sun, Luigi Tomba
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre | ASEAN Forum 2018
Speaker: Lorraine Elliott
LCT Centre | Professor Karl Maton and Associate Professor
Sarah K Howard
Speakers: Karl Maton and Sarah K Howard
Sydney Law School | Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and
Organisations: 'One Belt, One Road' Initiative
Speaker: Jiaxiang Hu
Media@Sydney | Digital Housekeeping: Living with Data
Speakers: Heather Horst and Jolynna Sinanan
Media@Sydney | Oversharing, Normative Intimacy, and Gender in
‘Digital Intimate Publics
Speaker: Amy Dobson
Monday 8 October 2018
The US Studies Centre | The United States and Asia's Four
Flashpoints
Speakers: Brendan Taylor, Madelyn Creedon and Ashley
Townshend
Tuesday 9 October 2018
China Studies Centre | Views From the Grassroots:
Independent Documentary Cinema in Contemporary China
Speaker: Ying Qian
AIIA NSW | Annual General Meeting
The Glover Cottages
Wednesday 10 October
2018
China Studies Centre | How to Do Fieldwork in China?
Speakers: Shuxia Chen, Peter Jia and Olivier Krischer
UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT | AI Supremacy: Will
Australia Lead or Lose?
Speaker: Mary-Anne Williams
Sydney Democracy Network | Life after Dictatorship
Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
Speakers: James
Loxton and George Lawson
The US Studies Centre | Fear of Automation and the Rise of
Populism and Protectionism
Speakers: Peter Loewen, Simon Jackman and Claire McFarland
Sydney Ideas | Fighting Truth Decay: How to Navigate Health
in a Post-truth World
Speakers: Lisa Bero, Catriona Bonfiglioli and Stephen Simpson
Thursday 11 October 2018
Lowy Institute | The Republic and Australia’s Place in the
World
Speakers: Julian Leeser, Alex Oliver and Michael Cooney
School of Social and Political Sciences | Citizenship as
Gesture
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Outside the Square | Hackers, Breaches, Bots: How Well Do You
Understand the Internet?
Speakers: Frank Smith III, Benedetta Brevini and Alex Hogue
Politics in the Pub | Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by
Saving Human Rights
Speaker: David Kinley
Sydney Business School | 26th Annual Kingsley Laffer Memorial
Lecture
Speaker: Tanya Plibersek
Sydney Law School | Law and the Girl: Genre, Gender and
Violence in the Interpretation of Law
Speaker: Honni van Rijswijk
Friday 12 October 2018
Media@Sydney | Political Participation on Social, Civic and
Computer Networks
Speaker: Francesco Bailo
China Studies Centre | India and China in the Regional
Economic Order
Speaker: Amita Batra
Sydney Environment Institute | Sydney Environmental
Humanities Seminar Group
A Sydney Environment Institute Initiative
Monday 15 October 2018
Sydney Ideas | Reading and Writing Slowly in a Digital Age
Speakers: Mark Tredinnick, Frances di Lauro, Megan Le
Masurier, Beth Yahp and Annamarie Jagose
Tuesday 16 October
2018
Sydney Ideas | Is Art More Truthful Than Science?
Speakers: Alana Valentine, Zdenka Kuncic, Geraint
Lewis, Tara Murphy and Tricia Dearborn
Wednesday 17 October
2018
Lowy Institute | The Economics of Data: in conversation with
Google’s Chief Economist
Speaker: Hal R Varian
Sydney Ideas | Building Food Utopias: Voice, Power and Agency
Speakers: Eric Holt-Giménez, Eva Perroni and Michael
Croft
Thursday 18 October
2018
Politics in the Pub | How Should Australia Position Itself
Given Donald Trump's Foreign Policy and Us Global Interests?
Speakers to be advised
Sydney Ideas | Humannature Series: ‘Dark Emu’
Speaker: Bruce Pascoe
Monday 22 October 2018
China Studies Centre | 2018 Sydney China Business Forum
Four Seasons Hotel
Tuesday 23 October
2018
Sydney Ideas | Hope on the Horizon for Indigenous Youth
Mental Health
Speakers: Joel Thompson, Ian Hickie, Mark Spinks
and Brooke Boney
The Ethics Centre | IQ2 Debate: Capitalism Is Destroying Us
IQ2 Australia Tenth Anniversary
Wednesday 24 October
2018
Institute of Criminology | 2018 Paul Byrne SC Memorial
Lecture: Our First Nations People in Custody: a National Disgrace
Speaker: Phillip Boulten
Sydney Ideas | Visionary Realities
Speaker: Ying Qian
Sydney Ideas | Why Island Nations’ Isolation on the Climate
Change Threat Must End
Speakers: Anote Tong, Rosemary Lyster, Jennifer Newell
and David Schlosberg
Thursday 25 October
2018
Department of Government & International Relations |
Citizens and the Crash: Political Protest and the Global Financial Crisis in
Cross-national Comparison
Speaker: Sarah Cameron
Politics in the Pub | The Decline of the Us - How Real Is It?
Speaker to be advised
Monday 29 October 2018
Metropolis Conference | New Thinking on Migration Starts Here
Global Migration in Turbulent Times
School of Social and Political Sciences | Archive That
Comrade!
Speaker: Phil Cohen
Tuesday 30 October
2018
Sydney Ideas | Why Climate Change Law Is a Hot Debate
Speakers: Liz Fisher and Rosemary Lyster
Wednesday 31 October
2018
Lowy Institute | The Future of Journalism
Speaker: John Micklethwait
Sydney Ideas | Meet a Living Legend: Bruce Beresford
Speakers: Bruce Beresford and Bruce Isaacs
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