Events list

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 22 October 2018
  8.30am - 6.00pm
  
  

  2018 Sydney China Business Forum

  What does China’s urbanisation mean for Australia and our businesses? And what do we need to know to get ready for its complex and global challenges?

• 23 October 2018
  9.00am - 12.30pm
  
  

  How Do We Create a 'Culture of Inclusion'?

  As part of the University of Sydney, the Charles Perkins Centre is committed to cultivating a community that supports people from all genders and a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds.

• 23 October 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Hope on the horizon for Indigenous youth mental health

  Australians are taking the initiative with youth mental health and suicide, creating and leading strategies that are already making an enormous difference. Join us as a panel of community heroes discuss their approaches to tackling youth mental health challenges in the 21st century.

• 23 October 2018
  6.30pm - 8.00pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - The Birth of State in Greater Mesopotamia

  The 2018 Anthony McNicoll Lecture in the area of Middle Eastern archaeology will see Professor Marcella Frangipane share important new insights into the birth of early state societies in the greater Mesopotamian world.

• 24 October 2018
  1.00pm - 3.00pm
  
  

  Material school design in the making

  A School and Teacher Education Policy Research Network event in partnership with the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation, featuring Dr Lisa Rosén Rasmussen

• 24 October 2018
  1.00pm - 3.00pm
  
  

  How to get published?

  Are you a research student or early career researcher working on or with China and wondering how and where to get your work published? This workshop provides tips and guidance, helping you to understand the business of publishing.

• 24 October 2018
  4.00pm - 6.00pm
  
  

  Think Bench: Money and the Microeconomic Mode

  Think Bench brings together SSPS & SLAM to explore current intersections across their disciplines. Dr Jane Elliott kicks off the series, using the novel and film adaptation of The Revenant: A Story of Revenge, as a focus point used to explore the microeconomic mode.

• 24 October 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Why island nations' isolation on the climate change threat must end

  Climate change is a serious problem for Pacific Island nations, who often battle flooding, coastal erosion and rising sea levels on their own. How can industrialised nations like Australia assist them?

• 24 October 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - Visionary realities: documentary cinema in 20th century China

  This talk uses documentary cinema to investigate the intertwined histories of media technology, social practice and political contention in China's 20th century.

• 24 October 2018
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  2018 Paul Byrne SC Memorial Lecture: Our First Nations People in Custody; a national disgrace

  Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at arguably the highest rate of imprisonment of any group of people in the world. This memorial lecture will focus on why this disparity exists and what can be done to ameliorate it.