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| Sunday 1 August 2010 |
| From Sheba to Petra: Travels in Arabia Felix | |
From the time of Bilqis, legendary queen of Sheba, exotic items from India and Africa were traded to Southern Arabia. Dr John Tidmarsh considers how trade along the incense routes gave rise to the mysterious and still-largely unexplored desert cities Marib and Shabwa in Arabia Felix (modern Yemen) as well as the spectacular caravan city of Petra.
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| Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Aug 01 Cost: Free
Venue: Nicholson Museum, Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney
Bookings: Sydney University Museums sydney.edu.au/museums/whatson/public_eve.. (02) 9351 2812 |  | |
| Forensic Evidence: CCTV Images on Trial | |
With the increasing use of CCTV images in courts, is it really a case of seeing is believing? Senior Lecturer and Head of the Forensic Science program at the University of Western Sydney, Glenn Porter discusses how CCTV images are currently used in criminal courts and the issues of reliability.
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| Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm Aug 01 Cost: $10/$5 members
Venue: Friend in Hand Pub, 58 Cowper Street, Glebe
Enquiries: Partners in Crime (c/o Robyn McWilliams) www.partnersincrimesydney.com (02) 9918 3356 | | |
| The Abrahamic Faiths: Contribution and Relevance | | At an Interfaith Forum, Prof Neil Ormerod, Dr Salih Yucel and Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence explore the three Abrahamic faiths, their contribution to society and their relevance today.
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| Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm Aug 01 Cost: $20/$10 conc.
Venue: Isabel Menton Theatre, Mary MacKillop Place, 11 Mount St, North sydney
Enquiries: Affinity Intercultural Foundation www.affinity.org.au (02) 9702 0789 | | |
| Bruce Petty on Global Haywire | |
One of Australia's best-known political satirists, Bruce Petty speaks about and presents Global Haywire, his latest film which won him the AFI Award for Best Documentary Director.
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| Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm Aug 01 Cost: $10 incl refreshments
Venue: Ruby's Place, Chapel by the Sea, 95 Roscoe St , Bondi Beach
Enquiries: Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach Uniting Church www.chapelbythesea.unitingchurch.org.au (02) 9130-3445 |  |
| Monday 2 August 2010 |
| To Whom Must We Answer?: Responsibility, Community and Criminal Law | | The criminal law defines a range of public wrongs, whose perpetrators are held to account by their fellow citizens through the criminal process of trial and punishment: but does the law treat offenders as citizens? Professor Antony Duff, University of Stirling, Scotland, examines the question in the Simone Weil lecture on human values |
| Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm Aug 02 Cost: $22/$20 Senior/$15 Conc
Venue: Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of NSW, Maquarie St, Sydney
Bookings: State Library of NSW www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/ev.. 9273 1770 | | |
| Big Ideas Forum: The Future for Europe | | Join the discussion with Professor Frank Furedi, UK sociologist; John Norberg, Swedish writer and globalisation expert; Henryk Broder, German polemicist; and Dr Oliver Hartwich, German economist, on the future of a very troubled Europe.
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| Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm Aug 02 Cost: $33/$27.50 Members
Venue: Grand Lodge, Sydney Masonic Centre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney
Enquiries: The Centre for Independent Studies www.cis.org.au/events/big_ideas_f.. (02) 9438 4377 | |
| Tuesday 3 August 2010 |
| Graham Perkin and The Future of Newspapers | |
Newspapers are in crisis. Mass layoffs have failed to halt the slide. Many question whether newspapers even have a future. Walkley award-winning journalist Ben Hills looks at the crisis that hit The Melbourne Age in 1966 when TV was the predator and how the paper's editor, Graham Perkin, saved it.
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| Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm Aug 03 Cost: Free
Venue: Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
Enquiries: Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts www.sydneymsa.com.au (02) 9262 7300 |  | |
| Art and the Nanny State | |
How much should government interfere with what artists make? Do we need to be protected from artists? Or should artists protect us? Dr Phillip George, senior lecturer, COFA; Jo Holder, The Cross Art Projects; and Tamara Winikoff, Executive Director NAVA, explore the issue.
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| Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Aug 03 Cost: Free
Venue: EG02, COFA Main Lecture Theatre, Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington
Enquiries: COFA Marketing www.cofa.unsw.edu.au (02) 9385 0636 | |
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