Centre for Ideas | UNSW Sydney

Past Events

24 May Past event

Richard Holden on Money in the 21st Century

Sydney Writers' Festival – Curiosity Lecture | How will your wallet fare in this digital age?

23 May Past event

SWF Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing

Sydney Writers' Festival | Man vs machine – an intellectual battle royal.

23 May Past event

Refuge: Viet Thanh Nguyen & Shankari Chandran 

Sydney Writers' Festival | Two prize-winning novelists on the refugee’s search for sanctuary.

23 May Past event

Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham on Writing Letters

Sydney Writers' Festival – Curiosity Lecture | Uncover the letters between eminent novelists Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.

21 May Past event

The Gene Editing Revolution with Jennifer Doudna

The promise and peril of CRISPR

20 – 26 May Past event

UNSW x Sydney Writers' Festival 2024

From 20 – 26 May 2024!

11 Mar Past event

Polly Toynbee: An Uneasy Inheritance

Join a prolific Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee as she investigates the true meaning of privilege and entrenched class divide in Britain and Australia.

7 Mar Past event

Consent Laid Bare

Join a panel of experts committed to ending gendered violence, and learn how we can recentre sexual consent for everyone.

6 Mar Past event

Perumal Murugan: Resurrected Through Writing

Journey with Tamil-language author Perumal Murugan, once a target of right-wing book burnings and now longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023.

5 Mar Past event

Samuel Moyn: Liberalism Against Itself

Confront the ideas of Samuel Moyn, who diagnosed the political left’s fear of Trump as a ‘hysteria’ threatening democracy, in conversation with UNSW political philosopher Jessica Whyte.

4 Mar Past event

Bryan Washington: Family Meal

EVENT CANCELLED | Devour the writing of Bryan Washington, unpacking sex, love and food through his mind’s eye, in conversation with icon Benjamin Law.

29 Feb Past event

Anjum Hasan: History's Angel

Two of India’s luminary writers reflect on the complexities of life, love, writing history, and the power of words.

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