http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:05:42 +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=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=8745&Itemid=25 In a career spanning over fifty years, Kevin Golsby has become arguably the most widely recognised voice in Australian commercial radio and television. Join him as he discusses his latest book, Onc... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8778&Itemid=25 Curator Dr Charles Pickett tells the story of one of Sydney's most curious characters: Joso Cindric, known to many in Sydney's central business district as the 'Trolley Man', for 40 years or more he... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8775&Itemid=25 As part of History Week Dr Elizabeth Sinn, University of Hong Kong, tells the story of the thousands of Chinese migrants who came to Australia in the 19th-Century and how many of their needs while a... 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=8591&Itemid=25 How is it that a philosopher admired today by all manner of 'brain scientists' was also the hero of the Marquis de Sade? Charles Wolfe, History and Philosophy of Science, examines the ideas of Julie... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8796&Itemid=25 Stephanie Anderson's recent book, Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York, tells of a French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier and his life with the Uutaalnganu Aboriginal people of north-east Cap... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8604&Itemid=25 Professor David Goodman, Dr Yiyan Wang, Associate Professor Suzanne Rutland and Dr Yi Zheng present varying perspectives on the city of Shanghai. ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8815&Itemid=25 Joseph Fowles, a drawing teacher and board member at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in the 1850s, had a passion for Sydney's unique buildings. Mark Dunn, researcher and contributor to the Dictio... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8871&Itemid=25 Not only was E A Amphlett the principal surveyor for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, he was also one of the main men to set out the underground railway system. John Brock examines the singular excellence...