http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:42:31 +1000 http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/images/sydneytalks_rss.gif http://www.sydneytalks.com.au 88 http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8701&Itemid=25 Well-known for his life-long concern with landscape, Peter Sculthorpe reflects on writing music at a time when there is much debate on climate change. ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8795&Itemid=25 Kate Grenville pays tribute, and honours what she describes as a novelist's debt, to the Mitchell Library as she delivers the 3rd David Scott Mitchell Memorial Lecture and describes the riches avail... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8804&Itemid=25 Fethiye Çetin, a human-rights lawyer from Turkey who represented Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist assassinated in Istanbul in 2007, discusses her book My Grandmother, which has been pub... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8751&Itemid=25 Designer Liane Rossler and TV Presenter Nell Schofield, members of Al Gore's Climate Change Leadership Project, talk about how artists are addressing climate change. ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8883&Itemid=25 What does biodiversity have to do with the Arts? Novelist Alexis Wright; Cosmologist Bryan Gaensler; Cultural Theorist Brett Neilson; Philosopher Nikolas Kompridis; and Biologist George (Buz) Wilson ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8813&Itemid=25 Curator Kerrie Dougherty tells the story of the women who did the tedious mathematical calculations for the missile and rocket projects at the Woomera Rocket Range, before and during the early days ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8888&Itemid=25 Two Members of the Legislative Council - Sylvia Hale, Greens, and Linda Voltz, Labor - report on their recent visit to Gaza and the West Bank, where they visited Hebron. Also hear an update on the ki... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8808&Itemid=25 Social anthropologist and writer, Alice Aslan argues that Islamophobia is a contemporary form of racism that has emerged from general opposition to multiculturalism and migration as well as in respo... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8889&Itemid=25 A necessarily unnamed speaker from Starfish Ministries Australia, reaching out to women/children affected by commercial sexual exploitation, and a Criminologist talk about the global, national and l... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8724&Itemid=25 A conversation with author Boyd Anderson about one of the 20th Century's greatest unknown stories, the real events his book is based on. ...