Centre for Ideas | UNSW Sydney

Past Events

25 Sep Past event

Ivan Coyote: Playlist

Shedding light on life beyond the binary with award-winning author, film-creator, and LGBTQIA+ advocate Ivan Coyote.

4 Sep Past event

Karen Hao: Empire of AI

Wallace Wurth Lecture | Will AI be a force for good or a force to be reckoned with? Empire of AI author Karen Hao weighs in.

2 – 6 Sep Past event

Part game show, part Turing Test, part existential crisis. Can you spot the bot?

12 Aug Past event

John Vaillant: Fire Weather

Jack Beale Lecture | There is no longer a bushfire season, but instead they are a year-round reality. So how do we adapt to our rapidly warming world?

15 Jul Past event

Donna Strickland: Laser Jock

Lasers, quantum leaps and breaking barriers. Join us for an evening with Nobel laureate Donna Strickland.

5 Jun Past event

Climate Warriors

Time is running out, but collective climate action can still change the future.

25 May Past event

The Business of Beauty

Sydney Writers' Festival | What could women be without the expectation of beauty?

24 May Past event

STEMMinist Book Club

Sydney Writers' Festival | Which Is mightier: the pen or the stethoscope?

24 May Past event

Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street

Sydney Writers' Festival | Uncovering the connection between brutal 20th-century regimes.

23 May Past event

Andrew Leigh and Richard Holden on Inequality

Sydney Writers' Festival | How economics underpins change for the worse and the better.

23 May Past event

Luke McNamara on Hate Speech and the Law

Sydney Writers' Festival | What do we know about the impact of the law on the harms of hate speech?

22 May Past event

SWF Great Debate: True Friends Stab You in the Front

Sydney Writers' Festival | Hilarious Festival favourite that gets provocative, pithy and personal.

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