Events list

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 26 June 2018
  1.00pm - 2.00pm
  
  

  Improving weight management services in the United Kingdom

  Dr Jennifer Logue, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, will discuss a program of work aimed at improving the entirety of the weight management pathway, from referral to weight loss maintenance.

• 26 June 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Radicalisation

  Case studies with a university student, a computer hacker, and a former drug dealer demonstrate different radicalisation experiences and suggest that radicalisation is not something done to people, but something produced by active participants.

• 27 June 2018
  5.30pm - 7.00pm
  
  

  Sinophone Challenges to Postcolonial Theory

  This lecture will examine the interlinked historical formations of the Anglophone, the Francophone and the Sinophone in an effort to consider postcolonial theory comparatively as well as relationally.

• 28 June 2018
  10.00am - 12.00pm
  
  

  Comparison as Relation: A Masterclass with Shu-mei Shih

  This masterclass will explore further a new method of comparison called “relational comparison.” The readings for the class offer two instantiations of this method that uses world historical approaches to studying world literature.

• 28 June 2018
  5.00pm - 6.30pm
  
  

  Seminar:China and global refugee Crisis: External and domestic dynamics

  This talk looks into both external and domestic factors to explain China's global refugee policy.

• 2 July 2018
  9.00am - 4.00pm
  
  

  Successful Learning Conference 2018

  Our popular annual conference featuring international and national guest speakers in quality education for students K–12 who experience difficulties learning in mainstream classes.

• 2 July 2018
  9.00am - 5.00pm
  

  Rare Books: Perspectives of an Outsider

  Drawing on historical materials from the Rare Books and Special Collections in the Fisher Library, Perspectives of an Outsider is an exhibition featuring on Thomas Allom’s 4-volume books China Illustrated which were first published by Fisher Son & Co.

• 2 July 2018
  12.01pm - 1.30pm
  
  

  Infrastructuring China’s Green Urban Future

  This talk draws attention to the critical role of infrastructure in the imagining of China’s green urban future.

• 2 July 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Making the new energy system fair

  How can we create renewable energy that is fair to everyone impacted by it, including poorer Australians who tend to pay a larger proportion of their incomes to cool their homes?

• 2 July 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Dogs helping people: In families, hospitals, colleges, and at work

  Some studies show that dog owners are happier. Could having a dog really help people to live longer, perform better at work and uni and to help patients recover in hospital? Join us for this talk to find out more about why dogs really are man's best friend.