Events list

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 30 August 2018
  9.00am - 4.30pm
  
  

  Institute of Open Adoption Studies Annual Research-to-Practice Forum

  Taking the Long View

  All-day event for researchers and practitioners focusing on longitudinal research in adoption studies.

• 30 August 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  11th Wheelwright Lecture | The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Rising Tide of Authoritarianism

  Global neoliberalism is in crisis, especially under the rising tide of authoritarianism. Join this year's Wheelwright Lecture with Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho who will look at the causes, implications and prospects of this neoliberalism crisis.

• 5 September 2018
  5.00pm - 6.30pm
  

  Lecture | Criticism in Moving Images: The Video Essay in Theory and Practice

  School of Literature, Art and Media presents: Two video essay practitioners Dr Shane Denson (Stanford) and Conor Bateman (4:3, ABC) present recent work and discuss, from scholarly and critical perspectives, the theory and practice of the video essay form. Followed by Q&A, chaired by Dr Susan Potter.

• 5 September 2018
  6.00pm - 7.10pm
  
  

  Decoding spacetime: The quantum computational universe

  Transcribing human speech. Simulating global climate. The versatility of modern computers disguises their fundamental simplicity. Quantum computation could hold the key to explaining the origin of space itself. This lecture will discuss the remarkable confluence of the practical and the fundamental.

• 5 September 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Inclusion by design: creating an inclusive and accessible environment

  How can we develop a view of people and place that is inclusive, universally designed and that gives people with disability access, and importantly, how this can be done seamlessly with equity and dignity?

• 6 September 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Voices from the ashes

  An esteemed panel will discuss how the testimony of Holocaust survivors is used today and the problems, questions and opportunities it presents to people grappling with the legacy of the Holocaust.

• 6 September 2018
  6.30pm - 8.00pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Journalism's new bottom line: Impact

  An examination of the brave new world is public interest journalism, where the bottom line is less about dollars and more about impact.

• 6 September 2018
  7.00pm - 9.00pm
  
  

  Finding hope and courage in the era of climate change: how you can make a difference

  Finding hope and courage in the era of climate change: how you can make a difference' by Anna Rose

• 8 September 2018
  9.00am - 4.00pm
  
  

  TESOL Research Network workshops and colloquium 2018

  This annual event provides a forum for discussing and sharing research in the area of TESOL, as well as exploring possible future research collaborations.

• 10 September 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Brexit, ethnic populism and the end of the British empire as we know it

  2018 J.M. Ward Memorial Lecture co-presented with the Department of History, the University of Sydney.