Sydney Ideas

This forum examines developments in Hong Kong in the 20 years since it became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and prospects for Hong Kong's future under Chinese rule.

Presentation #1: Twenty Years of Interpretation of the Basic Law by Beijing: a troubled story



Presented by: Professor Bing Ling,Professor of Chinese Law and Associate Dean (International), Sydney Law School and Associate Director (China) of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. 


Presentation #2: A Destabilising Stability: Hong Kong 20 years after 1997



Presented by: Dr Kevin Carrico, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today (2017). 


Presentation #3: Dissenting Media: post-1997 Hong Kong



Presented by: Joyce Nip, Senior Lecturer in Chinese media studies at the University of Sydney.

This forum was originally held as part of the Sydney Ideas on 22 August, 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/hong_kong_twenty_years.shtml

Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses his favourite subjects: power and accountability, surveillance and privacy, Trump and fake news, threats to democracy, courage, and the role of journalism in giving a voice to perspectives and events that are ignored and silenced by large media outlets.

He is in discussion with former WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, and University of Sydney academics Benedetta Brevini and John Keane.

A Sydney Ideas, Sydney Democracy Network, and Post Truth Initiative event held on 20 August 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/glenn_greenwald.shtml

Karl Widerquist discusses an idea which is increasingly viewed as the only viable way of reconciling poverty relief and full employment.

A Sydney Ideas event on 16 August 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/associate_professor_karl_widerquist.shtml

The World Economic Forum estimates that young people can expect to change careers at least seven times over the course of their lives, and 35 percent of the skills required today will be different in five years.

The complexity and uncertainty of the future of work means today’s graduates will have to adapt to new jobs and work environments.

In this panel discussion the University of Sydney academics and the CEO of StartupAUS discuss the future challenges and opportunities and how the education is already reshaping to prepare our students for the future.

Speakers:

- Sandra Peter, Director, Sydney Business Insights, University of Sydney Business School

- Martin Tomitsch, Chair of Design at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning and Director of the Design Lab

- Nicky Ringland, a Computing Education Specialist at the Australian Computing Academy, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

- Alex McCauley, CEO of StartupAUS

They are in conversation with Richard Miles, leader of the University’s educational engagement with the community and industry sector.

Held as part of the Sydney Ideas on 15 August 2017:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/future_of_work_forum.shtml

Alice P Albright, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Partnership for Education speaks about global education crises and how the Global Partnership for Education partnership is innovating to address the funding challenges and offer quality education at some of the poorest countries of the world.

She outlines why should businesses pay attention at education circumstances and support education, and speaks about new models of donation that will empower local governments to manage the funds and take charge of their education system.

A Sydney Ideas and University of Sydney Business School event on 10 August 2017:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/alice_albright.shtml

An exclusive Sydney Science Festival presentation by acclaimed science writer Dava Sobel. In conversation with Jessica Bloom, a young University of Sydney astrophysics PhD student, Dava speaks of her love for science and what it took for a women to break through.

Presented as part of the Sydney Ideas program on 9 August, 2017:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/sydney_science_festival_2017_dava_sobel.shtml?cid=em_si-news

From community gardens to pop-up cinemas, from outdoor art installations to mobile libraries, temporary urban interventions are increasingly visible in contemporary cities.

A burgeoning literature has highlighted ways in which these transient practices propose alternative lifestyles, reoccupy urban space with new uses, and reinvent daily life from the bottom up, in the pursuit of more just and sustainable cities.

Find out how these guerrilla intervention are really transforming our cities and whether or not they are contributing to social justice and sustainability.

Speakers: Associate Professor Lee Stickells, University of Sydney, Amelia Thorpe, UNSW and Timothy Moore, Sibling Architecture. In conversation with Professor Ann Forsyth, the Director of the Urban Planning Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

A Festival of Urbanism event for Sydney Ideas held on 8 August 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/festival_of_urbanism_pop_up_justice.shtml

Christina Lamb, a multi award-winning foreign correspondent for the UK Sunday Times in conversation with Aparna Balakumar, a final year Media and Communications student at the University of Sydney.

Christina Lamb has acted as Washington Bureau Chief for the paper and in 2009 was awarded the prestigious Prix Bayeux Calvados for her reporting from Afghanistan. She won the Foreign Press Association Award for Story of the Year in 2007, and has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards five times.

She is the author of many books including the best-selling memoir she co-authored with Afghan schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World.

Held as part of the Sydney Ideas program on 7 August 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/christina_lamb.shtml

The winners of the Australian Book Review prestigious Calibre Essay Prize this year, Michael Adams and Darius Sepehri, read extracts from their Prize-winning essays, and discuss the themes of grief and mortality found in both pieces.

Michael Adams, an associate professor of Human Geography at the University of Wollongong, won first prize for ‘Salt Blood’, a remarkable and highly original meditation on freediving and mortality, which was published in the June-July 2017 issue of Australian Book Review.

Darius Sepehri, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, won the second prize for his essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’, an essay about the many kinds of grief and their different expressions in writing and culture, as lament, testimony, or ritual. His essay will be published in the August issue of Australian Book Review.

Hosted by Peter Rose, Editor of Australian Book Review. A Sydney Ideas event at the University of Sydney on Monday 7 August, 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/australian_book_review_calibre_essay.shtml

Experts in law, security, and international relations consider why have cultural, religious, and national issues reappeared in the new international order.

Speakers:

- Professor James Der Derian, Centre for International Security Studies, the University of Sydney

- Professor Christian Reus-Smit, Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland

- Professor Anne Orford, Laureate Program in International Law at the University of Melbourne

- Professor Glenda Sluga, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of International History, the University of Sydney

This panel was held as part of The Thinker’s Guide to the 21st Century series on 2 August, 2017. http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/thinkers_guide_21st_century_2017.shtml