Key events

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 18 October 2017
  5.45pm - 7.15pm
  

  Sydney Science Forum 2017 @ Westmead: Life in the City: why nature persists in urban environments

  Discover the ways nature adapts to the pressures of city life and find out about new ways to conserve nature in cities. We will explore how nature in cities links to human wellbeing, and understanding the ecology of novel urban ecosystems is central to creating liveable global cities.

• 19 October 2017
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Asian Art Series lecture by David J. Roxburgh - Painting after the Mass-Produced Image: Art in nineteenth-century Iran

  The Sydney Asian Art Series presents leading international voices on early, modern and contemporary Asian art. Fourth in the 2017 series is a lecture by David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University.

• 19 October 2017
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Sydney Ideas - 60,000 years of Australian History: a plea for interdisciplinarity

  How do we understand, imagine, visualise and create narratives for 50,000 years of Australian history? The 2nd Bicentennial Australian History Lecture by Professor Lynette Russell.

• 25 October 2017
  5.45pm - 7.15pm
  

  Sydney Science Forum 2017: Breaking good: making medicines

  Imagine a scenario where a high school teacher works alongside their students to make drugs. This scenario might sound scarily familiar to anyone who watched the hit series, Breaking Bad, but the Open Source Malaria consortium have a very different plan – Breaking Good.

• 25 October 2017
  6.30pm - 8.30pm
  
  

  Raising the Bar 2017

  This year, our academics will escape their lecture theatres and laboratories to ‘raise the bar’ in various bars across Sydney.

• 26 October 2017
  1.00pm - 1.30pm
  
  

  Rare Bites 3: Dr Charlotte Wood on the "creative effort"

  Dr Charlotte Wood will talk about the Creative effort: an essay in affirmation is a long and idiosyncratic essay on creativity, written by the Australian painter and writer Norman Lindsay and published by Art in Australia in 1920.

• 26 October 2017
  5.10pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  2017 Wheelwright Lecture | Manufacturing the Future: Cultures of Production for the Anthropocene

  Professor Katherine Gibson from Western Sydney University will present on her research project which explores whether there are businesses in Australia that genuinely sustain equitable communities and healthy ecologies while remaining financially viable.

• 26 October 2017
  6.45pm - 8.30pm
  
  

  7th Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture presented by Guy Debelle

  Join us for the 7th Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture, with keynote Dr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia.

• 30 October 2017
  6.00pm - 7.30pm
  
  

  Book Launch | Nicole Curato - A Duterte Reader

  With essays by leading experts in diverse fields, this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future. The research is thorough; the writing eloquent; and the insights myriad. This is critical reading for anyone who wishes to

• 31 October 2017
  4.00pm - 5.30pm
  
  

  Social Justice Seminar Series

  Social justice: politics, practices and urgent questions

  An important disruptor
  Presenters: Debra Hayes, Valerie Harwood and Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes