Skip to main content
Centre for Ideas
About
Podcasts
Contact
Subscribe
Menu
About
Podcasts
Contact
Subscribe
Past Events
Filter by year
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
28
May
Past event
Ben Newell on the Truth About Our Unconscious Minds
Sydney Writers' Festival | Professor of Psychology and author Ben Newell shares insights from his book Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind, upending commonly held notions about ...
27
May
Past event
Ok Boomer
Sydney Writers' Festival | Comedian Tom Ballard, writer Alison Pennington team up to examine why Millennials and Gen Z are getting such a raw deal and what can be done ...
26
May
Past event
Sri Lankan Stories
Sydney Writers' Festival | Booker Prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka, acclaimed playwright S. Shakthidharan, and novelist Shankari Chandran discuss the ripple effects of the Sri Lankan Civil War in the cultural ...
26
May
Past event
Stan Grant: The Queen is Dead
Sydney Writers’ Festival | Award-winning journalist Stan Grant shares insights from his book, The Queen is Dead, building an impassioned argument for an end to monarchy in Australia. With host ...
26
May
Past event
Raina MacIntyre on Past, Present and Future Pandemics
Sydney Writers' Festival | World-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre examines pandemics through the lens of history and how we can navigate the new frontiers of biosecurity.
25
May
Past event
Brigitta Olubas on the Life and Work of Shirley Hazzard
Sydney Writers' Festival | Author and English Professor Brigitta Olubas shares insight into Shirley Hazzard, her illuminating biography of one of Australia’s greatest ever novelists.
25
May
Past event
Toby Walsh on the Artificial in Artificial Intelligence
Sydney Writers' Festival | World-leading AI expert and Machines Behaving Badly author Toby Walsh delivers a Curiosity Lecture on the ethical considerations and unexpected consequences that new technologies pose in ...
24
May
Past event
Jenny Odell: Resisting the Attention Economy
Sydney Writers' Festival | In a world where our value is often determined by our productivity and busyness, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
22 – 28
May
Past event
UNSW x Sydney Writers' Festival 2023
Explore events featuring UNSW academics and researchers!
8
May
Past event
The Case for a Republic
Its 2023, why is Australia still governed by a distant monarchy?
12
Mar
Past event
Hysterical
Exploding the myth of gendered feelings.
9
Mar
Past event
How Will Climate Migration Reshape Our World?
We need to find ways of managing global migration at a far greater scale before it becomes a crisis.
Back
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Next
For first access to upcoming events and new ideas
Subscribe
Explore past events
Past Events