http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:09:42 +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=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=8765&Itemid=25 An iconic figure in the struggle against apartheid, Albie Sachs played a key role in South Africa's road to reconciliation. In the Hal Wootten Lecture he reflects on the different meanings of truth ... 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=8890&Itemid=25 Founded in 1949 to track down KGB spies, ASIO soon came to track the lives of dissenters and non conformists. Film maker Haydn Keenan speaks about his new television series Persons of Interest 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=8830&Itemid=25 The climate is changing so why do people refuse to act in the face of one of our greatest challenges? Clive Hamilton, writer, intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applie... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8820&Itemid=25 Sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church has come to light around the world. Who should be brought to account for these terrible acts? Alan Dershowitz and Geoffrey Robertson, two of the m... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8854&Itemid=25 The science fiction battlefield is right here thanks to revolutions in robotics and the proliferation of unmanned systems, but will this threaten moral barriers and the accountability of governments... 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...