http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:40:07 +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=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=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=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=8761&Itemid=25 Human rights lawyer and former South African Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs speaks about his experiences at the launch of his book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, by Bob Debus.... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8767&Itemid=25 A Q A-style panel discussion on a controversial issue with international experts on refugee law: Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill, Oxford, UK; Prof Geoff Gilbert, Essex, UK; Prof Kate Jastram, Berkeley, USA; a... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8874&Itemid=25 Over dinner, Sr Susan Connelly, Mary MacKillop International Mission, a staunch advocate for the East Timorese people, and Azim Khamisa, US author, who established a program to prevent violence in sch... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8825&Itemid=25 With the fall of communism, the war on terror and the global financial crisis, does the traditional certainty of 'left' and 'right' still make sense? Waleed Aly, David Hetherington, Luke Malpass and... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8829&Itemid=25 Alexander Downer, Ratih Hardjono, George Galloway, Eric Kaufmann, Agio Pereira, and Stuart Rees debate the thorniest issues in the world to draw out what justice can mean in the 21st century. ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8837&Itemid=25 Western modernity is threatened by population expansion of the religious, decline of liberal secularism and the rise of religious conservatism says Eric Kaufmann, author of Shall the Religious Inher... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8853&Itemid=25 Although international law continues to evolve, dangerous and despotic leaders still escape the consequences of their actions. Geoffrey Robertson shares some ideas on how to make them accountable fo...