Centre for Ideas | UNSW Sydney

Past Events

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

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

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.

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