Episodes
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Professor Andrew Schultz: The minor fall and the major lift - Music, power and the composer's black art
What is it about those rare and fleeting moments of musical beauty that fully captivate a listener’s attention? Does a composer calculate such junctures or are they happy accidents? How could a composer shape and guide the listener’s experience to create these events? Does detailed analysis of…
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Professor Vanessa Lemm: What do we owe one another? New directions in thinking about community ?
The globalization of social (economic, cultural, environmental) relations has generated a new need for people who have little or nothing in common with others to create community with each other without giving up their differences. The traditional understanding of community was that people want…
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Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald: There's no place Like home: Child migrants in world cinema
In a world maimed by war, climate change, economic dysfunction and political failures, the flows of migration are as intense as they have ever been. Child migrants are central actors in this movement of people across borders and continents. As those in receiving countries such as Australia know...
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Professor Manfred Frank: Early Romantic Philosophy: So, What Is It?
There is a long-standing prejudice that early romantic philosophy developed in the footsteps of Fichtean foundationalism, and that it was uncritical of the totalitarian seizure of power of subjectivity over Being or Difference allegedly characteristic of J.G. Fichte’s thought. Drawing on the...
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Professor Philip Pettit: Corporate Persons, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Political
Why should incorporated bodies count as legal persons? And what rights and responsibilities should they have? Should they enjoy rights that may trump the rights of individuals? Should they be able to compete with individuals for political influence? Should they be held responsible for the...
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Professor Peter Aggleton: Sex, Sexuality and Sex Education: What have we learned, what needs to be done?
What is sex education? Who should teach it? What are the most effective strategies? When and where should it be taught? These are just some of the questions to be examined in this lecture. After three decades research and international experience, much has been learned about how to best to teach...
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Professor David Armitage: Horizons of History: Space, Time and the Future of the Past
Big is back across a wide range of historical fields. More historians are stretching space, to create international, transnational and global histories. Others are expanding time, to pursue Big History, Deep History and the history of the Anthropocene. What explains this broadening of horizons?…
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Professor Steven Connor: Rustications: Animals in the Urban Mix
When animals become audible in the city, it is often annoying, sometimes unnerving, but also now and again a kind of annunciation. Animals are an anomaly in the urban soundscape, which seems to be populated and made intelligible to itself exclusively by sounds of human origin. And yet cities have...
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Ela Gandhi: Building a culture of nonviolence: the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of nonviolent resistance, social justice, and respect for the environment is only increasing in its relevance given our current global challenges. His granddaughter Ela Gandhi has continued this legacy. Her lecture will discuss the importance of strategic interventions in...
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Professor Fredric R. Jameson: Allegory and Dramaturgy in Wagner's Ring
Aside from its musical genius, Wagner’s Ring cycle remains one of the most staggering achievements of the 19th-century stage, and has continued to stimulate innovative dramaturgy amidst the present Wagner revival. This lecture will focus on two interrelated topics: the relationship between the...
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Professor Quentin Skinner: So, what does freedom mean to us?
Perhaps the most widely accepted understanding of the idea of personal freedom is that it can be defined in negative terms as absence of interference. My lecture begins by noting that, because the concept of interference is such a complex one, this general agreement has turned out to be…
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Dr Michele Bruniges: Teaching matters: The role of universities and education systems in lifting educational quality
We all know that education matters. In Australia, as elsewhere, an individual’s educational attainment is a significant predictor of success and wellbeing throughout life. At the same time, we know through experience just how hard it is to lift educational outcomes in a sustained way, and for all...
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Rory Medcalf: Grand Stakes: Australia's future between China and India
For Australia, the rise of China and India combines vast economic gain with challenges in security and values. The Asian giants have become principal markets for Australia's resources, major sources of human capital, and critical strategic players in the region. China brings Australia greater...
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Professor Eileen Baldry: Disabling justice: Social justice, human rights and mental and cognitive disability in the criminal justice system
Across the western world, since the latter part of the twentieth century, people with mental and cognitive disabilities have been funneled into criminal justice systems, remanded, sentenced and imprisoned in larger numbers than previously and in far higher proportions than their presence in the...
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Professor John de Wit: Beyond the 'magic bullet': Social and behavioural approaches to the complexities of HIV prevention in an evolving epidemic
As the world enters the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, progress is finally noted in the fight against this global pandemic. Access to effective treatment has in particular increased, with beneficial effects on the health and life expectancy of people living with HIV. At the same time, in...
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Professor Scott Lash: Urban Justice and the Crisis of Neo-liberalism
Three decades of neo-liberal privatization has meant the systemic destruction of the public sphere. The global economic crisis presents new possibilities for fundamental mutations of public/urban space, driven by 'emerging' cities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Lagos. If the global city was...
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Professor Julian Murphet: Modernism, Now and Then
?The academic thesis of 'postmodernism' is some thirty years old, but in the three decades since it was declared dead, Modernism has shown distinct signs of life, if not 'undeath'. On the one hand, a new academic industry has emerged, under the banner of the 'New Modernism Studies', resurrecting...
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Professor Fiona Williams: Who cares? Migrant workers in the transnational care economy
Increasingly the richer world has become dependent on migrant women workers from the poorer regions to do their care and domestic work. As developed countries face a 'care crunch' with an ageing population, more women in paid employment and a squeeze on public expenditure, they are turning, by...
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Professor Ronan McDonald: Beyond Ireland: cultures of encounter and exchange
Often marketed as a rural idyll, with all the comforts of tradition, Ireland has also been modelled as the crucible of high literary modernism and, more recently, the high-tech gateway to Europe. Through consideration of the anomalous branding of ‘Ireland’, and the increasing involvement of the...
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Professor Ann Orloff: Can we support care and gender equality?
Across the rich democracies, social policy changes over the last two decades have been driven by a concern with "activation" and economic self-sufficiency, for women and mothers no less than for men and fathers. This is an epochal shift in social policy, politics and gender relations. Earlier...
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Professor Patrick Dodson: So what now? Dialogue and nation building in contemporary Australia
The relationship between Indigenous people and the nation state is framed by two opposing forces within the assimilationist approach: On the one hand there is an aggressive polemic, often masquerading as scholarship, which portrays traditional culture and the structures that protect and support...
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Associate Professor Kate Crawford: Always with me: how mobile and social media are changing us
The mobile phone is no longer just a personal telecommunications device; it is a portal to multiple social spaces that are constantly in flux. Sites such as Facebook, and Twitter are accessed throughout the day by mobile users, as they tune in to with their different networks and share updates…
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Eileen Pittaway: Innocent victims, Illegal migrants or political pawns?
Refugees escape from persecution, conflict, death threats and torture. The majority of refugee women and girls survive rape and sexual abuse in transit and in camps. Boys and girls are taken as child soldiers. Refugee camps are dangerous and services are inadequate to fulfil basic needs. Despite...
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Adam Kahane: Power and love: the theory and practice of social change
The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems - relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise - are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches - power, the desire to...
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Dr Grace Karskens: The heritage of Aboriginal Sydney: Placing lost histories
Dr Grace Karskens from UNSW's School of History and Philosophy speaks on her recent research relating to The heritage of Aboriginal Sydney: placing lost histories.
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