Key events

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 16 May 2016
  9.00am - 5.00pm
  
  

  Exhibition: Striking Chords 19 May -30 Nov 2016

  This exhibition is a celebration of the University Library’s Rare Music Collection, on the occasion of its relocation from the Conservatorium Library to Fisher Rare Books & Special Collections.

  #RareBooks #Sydney_library

• 14 September 2016
  9.00am - 5.00pm
  
  

  Myanmar Schools Photo Competition

  Grab your cameras! The University of Sydney is holding its first ever photography competition for high school students in Myanmar.

• 4 October 2016
  10.00am - 10.00pm
  
  

  Chinese Prints

  Join us these school holiday at the University Art Gallery.

• 4 October 2016
  12.00pm - 1.30pm
  
  

  Through the looking glass: Austerity and the left in Britain

  In this seminar Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield and University of Queensland) will look at the role and legacy of the left in Britain, and the current political climate.

• 4 October 2016
  12.00pm - 1.00pm
  
  

  Visualising the Everyday in Asian Art

  Working with VisAsia, China Studies Centre and the School of Languages and Cultures are delighted to announce a series of four lectures to be held through October on each Tuesday beginning at 12.00 noon to on education and furthering an understanding of the countries of Asia through art.

• 4 October 2016
  5.00pm - 6.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Who’s packing your lunchbox?: Eating at School and Work

  The food environment we experience most is not at home; it is the one we find around the places we work or study. To what extent should school administrators and employers be responsible for creating healthy food spaces or it is up to you - or mum - to pack a healthy lunchbox?

• 4 October 2016
  6.00pm - 8.00pm
  
  

  Pluralism by Default: weak autocrats and the rise of competitive politics in Ukraine and the rest of the former Soviet Union

  Why do some countries that lack preconditions for democracy nevertheless see the rise of democratic political competition? Professor Lucan Way from University of Toronto proposes that pluralism in Ukraine and other“new democracies” is often grounded less in democratic leadership, an emerging civil

• 4 October 2016
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Professor Liping Zhao

  Poorly balanced diets can turn the gut microbiome from a partner for health to a pathogen in chronic diseases. Microbiolgist Professor Liping Zhao explains his research into traditional Chinese medicinal food plants that could possibly alleviate obesity and diabetes with gut microbiota.

• 5 October 2016
  9.00am - 8.00pm
  
  

  SCA Fauvette Loureiro Finalist Exhibition // 5-29 October

  The 2016 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship Finalist Exhibition features the works of the five scholarship finalists.

• 5 October 2016
  12.30pm - 2.00pm
  
  

  SDN Democracy Futures | Podemos: a new beginning for progressive politics – or dead end?

  The Spanish political movement Podemos rose to prominence in the elections to the European Union Parliament in May 2014. Their discourse of ‘the people’ against ‘la casta’ of the established parties and institutions resonated with Spanish citizens in the aftermath of the economic crisis and the 15M