http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:46:45 +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=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=8760&Itemid=25 Alana Taylor and Ralph Townsend are local Aboriginal people with a story to tell. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, always interesting and thought- provoking as we continue to search for ways to bri... 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=8572&Itemid=25 Sandy Kondos answers questions and leads a discussion and short meditation following the screening of a talk by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee outlining Sufi beliefs and it's practices. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8785&Itemid=25 Ann Sherry, CEO Carnival Australia, speaks at the annual luncheon of the Jessie Street National Women's Library. Ann headed the Office for the Status of Women during the '90s, then joined Westpac and ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8592&Itemid=25 Professor Glenda Sluga, International History, Faculty of Arts, Sydney University, discusses Germaine De Stael's ideas on the Nation and Nationalism. ... http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8899&Itemid=25 Prof. David Sloan Wilson shows how evolutionary theory can help to solve the problems of everyday life, from the quality of life in our cities to rethinking the fundamentals of economic theory and p... 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=8827&Itemid=25 If Australia is an anti-intellectual country where politics is a blood sport, can it be dangerous to have ideas in politics? Join Waleed Aly, Annabel Crabb, Elizabeth Farrelly and Miriam Lyons as th... 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...