Connections...
Like currents between islands archipelagos, objects forge connections between museums around the world.... Read more
Key events
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30 July 201810.00am - 5.00pm
Bookstall Company
UNTIL 21 DECEMBER 2018. Between 1904 and 1946 the NSW Bookstall Company released 234 books. Rare Books and Special Collections hold many of the publications, contracts, and 153 original book cover designs and illustrations.
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2 August 20189.00am - 5.00pm
The Art of Mathematics: Rare works from the Fisher Collection 1500-1800
UNTIL 10 FEBRUARY 2019. This exhibition showcases Fisher Library's impressive collection of mathematical works from the years 1500 to 1800. It charts a course beginning at the close of the 1400s and relates a comprehensive narrative about the developments of mathematics through to the 19th century.
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25 October 20189.00am - 5.00pm
True to Type
UNTIL 31 JAN 2019 If you have ever created a digital document, chances are you’ve come across the terms Italic, Roman, and Sans Serif. This exhibition tells the story of these three enduring letter-form classifications, through early examples drawn from Rare Books & Special Collections.
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26 November 201810.00am - 5.00pm
The Future of Microbiome Research
Microbiome research is the study of microorganisms in their natural habitats. Some of these include the human body, where microbiomes affect physical and mental health.
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10 December 20188.30am - 5.30pm
New Directions in Animal Advocacy
Join Human Animal Research Network in this conference to examine (re)new(ed) practices in the field of animal advocacy in Australasia and more broadly.
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10 December 20189.00am - 5.00pm
Fit For Your Life Workshop
Prescribing Evidence-Based Exercise as Medicine in Older Adults - Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh, MD, FRACP presents a series of practical, evidence-based lectures for physicians and other healthcare professionals on the integration of exercise in the clinical setting for the prevention and managem
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10 December 20182.00pm - 2.00pm
Wingara Mura Bunga Barrabugu Summer Program
A week long Summer Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from around Australia.
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12 December 20181.00pm - 2.15pm
Libya's 2011 Uprising: What Really Happened?
The Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) invites you to attend a special lunchtime seminar with Alan J Kuperman from the University of Texas at Austin.
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13 December 20189.00am - 5.00pm
Historical Materialism Sydney: Contesting the Survival of Capitalism
Historical Materialism Sydney presents Contesting the Survival of Capitalism at the University of Sydney.
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13 December 201810.00am - 11.30am
Social Reproduction in the Neoliberal Era: Payments, Leverage and the Minskian Household
Please join us for the first keynote address for the Historical Materialism 2018 Sydney conference. SSPS Head of School Lisa Adkins will discuss the shifting ground of social reproduction within the post-Keynesian or neoliberal era.