Sydney Ideas

Australian of the Year David Morrison AO leads a panel of researchers, students and academics in this topical debate. Some of the questions they explore include:

- Is this model of change the key to accelerating gender equality? Or are we just perpetuating a traditional male power-based, approach to the issue of gender equality?

- Why are we failing to have the important public debate about the role of men in caregiving which many believe is critical to achieving true gender equality? For decades now we have seen surveys of younger men wanting to spend more time with their children with little change.

- Is the business driven male CEO advocacy model really working to increase inclusion?

- Does it work in all sectors including for example culture, arts and education?

- Is a gender alliance model a more effective approach to deliver real change? Globally we have also seen the very successful UN He for She campaign emerge from the NGO sector that engaged men of all ages across the world.

PANELLISTS:

- David Morrison AO (2016 Australian of the Year) 


- Associate Professor Michael Flood, University of Wollongong


- Dr Elizabeth Hill, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney

- Associate Professor Parisa Aslani, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Sydney


- Professor Deborah Schofield, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Sydney


- Anna Hush, University of Sydney Students' Representative Council (SRC) Women's Collective


- Greg O’Mahoney, debate host

Australian of the Year David Morrison AO leads a panel of researchers, students and academics in this topical debate. Some of the questions they explore include:

- Is this model of change the key to accelerating gender equality? Or are we just perpetuating a traditional male power-based, approach to the issue of gender equality?

- Why are we failing to have the important public debate about the role of men in caregiving which many believe is critical to achieving true gender equality? For decades now we have seen surveys of younger men wanting to spend more time with their children with little change.

- Is the business driven male CEO advocacy model really working to increase inclusion?

- Does it work in all sectors including for example culture, arts and education?

- Is a gender alliance model a more effective approach to deliver real change? Globally we have also seen the very successful UN He for She campaign emerge from the NGO sector that engaged men of all ages across the world.

PANELLISTS:

- David Morrison AO (2016 Australian of the Year) 


- Associate Professor Michael Flood, University of Wollongong


- Dr Elizabeth Hill, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney

- Associate Professor Parisa Aslani, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Sydney


- Professor Deborah Schofield, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Sydney


- Anna Hush, University of Sydney Students' Representative Council (SRC) Women's Collective


- Greg O’Mahoney, debate host

Professor Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City University London

The keynote lecture in the Food Governance Conference hosted by Sydney Law School and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney

ABSTRACT

Everybody eats. Food is a lived experience. It inspires us, fills us with dread, brings us joy, and stress. It sustains us, and kills us. At the same time, food is distant, hails from the food system, out there, somewhere, causing “abstract” problems. Drought. Climate change. Obesity. Undernutrition. Foodborne disease. Exploited workers.

To open the first Food Governance conference at the University of Sydney, Professor Hawkes will contend that making connections between these ‘big’ food systems outcomes and the ‘small’ intimate ways that we all experience food is key to the solutions. She will present a new vision of a people-centred approach in which problems are addressed by starting with the reality of people’s everyday lives and then working back into the food system.

Professor Hawkes suggests that the three fundamental challenges for the food system are Language, Leadership and Alignment and show that changes to the way we talk, lead and govern will be needed to fix the global food system.

Professor Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City University London

The keynote lecture in the Food Governance Conference hosted by Sydney Law School and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney

ABSTRACT

Everybody eats. Food is a lived experience. It inspires us, fills us with dread, brings us joy, and stress. It sustains us, and kills us. At the same time, food is distant, hails from the food system, out there, somewhere, causing “abstract” problems. Drought. Climate change. Obesity. Undernutrition. Foodborne disease. Exploited workers.

To open the first Food Governance conference at the University of Sydney, Professor Hawkes will contend that making connections between these ‘big’ food systems outcomes and the ‘small’ intimate ways that we all experience food is key to the solutions. She will present a new vision of a people-centred approach in which problems are addressed by starting with the reality of people’s everyday lives and then working back into the food system.

Professor Hawkes suggests that the three fundamental challenges for the food system are Language, Leadership and Alignment and show that changes to the way we talk, lead and govern will be needed to fix the global food system.

A forum held as part of the University of Sydney Innovation Week 2016.

How can today’s research inform tomorrow’s public policy, drive technological innovation and inspire our creative sectors? For this special forum we brought together diverse voices from the fields of biology, politics, food security and energy production, and ask them to project into the future. What does their research tell us about the possibilities for our world in 25 years?

Will the obesity epidemic reach a tipping point where government intervention in individual freedom is inevitable?

Are there any signs the next generation of voters in representative democracies will soon challenge intergenerational inequality?

When will research in health and agriculture come together to empower local communities to take control of food production and ensure their own food security?

How soon will shifting global economics force the transition of the world’s economy from fossil fuels to a renewable energy era?

A forum held as part of the University of Sydney Innovation Week 2016.

How can today’s research inform tomorrow’s public policy, drive technological innovation and inspire our creative sectors? For this special forum we brought together diverse voices from the fields of biology, politics, food security and energy production, and ask them to project into the future. What does their research tell us about the possibilities for our world in 25 years?

Will the obesity epidemic reach a tipping point where government intervention in individual freedom is inevitable?

Are there any signs the next generation of voters in representative democracies will soon challenge intergenerational inequality?

When will research in health and agriculture come together to empower local communities to take control of food production and ensure their own food security?

How soon will shifting global economics force the transition of the world’s economy from fossil fuels to a renewable energy era?

Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford, talks about watching and writing about HBO’s Game of Thrones as a medieval scholar. She explains some of the medieval history and literature from which George R. R. Martin chiselled the building blocks for the construction of his imaginary world.

Game of Thrones has now become the most frequently streamed or downloaded show in TV history. Carolyne suggests some reasons for its enormous international success as the medieval fantasy epic for the twenty-first century, and undertakes a little speculation on how the show might end.

Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford, talks about watching and writing about HBO’s Game of Thrones as a medieval scholar. She explains some of the medieval history and literature from which George R. R. Martin chiselled the building blocks for the construction of his imaginary world.

Game of Thrones has now become the most frequently streamed or downloaded show in TV history. Carolyne suggests some reasons for its enormous international success as the medieval fantasy epic for the twenty-first century, and undertakes a little speculation on how the show might end.

We've created a world where information technology permeates our economies, social interactions, and intimate selves. The combination of mobile, cloud computing, the Internet Things, persistent computing, and autonomy are resulting in something different. This World-Sized Web promises great benefits, but is also vulnerable to a host of new threats. Threats from users, criminals, corporations, and governments. Threats that can now result in physical damage and even death.

Security technologist Bruce Schneier looks back at what we've learned from past attempts to secure these systems, and forward at what technologies, laws, regulations, economic incentives, and social norms we need to secure them in the future.

Sydney Ideas event information: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/bruce_schneier.shtml

We've created a world where information technology permeates our economies, social interactions, and intimate selves. The combination of mobile, cloud computing, the Internet Things, persistent computing, and autonomy are resulting in something different. This World-Sized Web promises great benefits, but is also vulnerable to a host of new threats. Threats from users, criminals, corporations, and governments. Threats that can now result in physical damage and even death.

Security technologist Bruce Schneier looks back at what we've learned from past attempts to secure these systems, and forward at what technologies, laws, regulations, economic incentives, and social norms we need to secure them in the future.

Sydney Ideas event information: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/bruce_schneier.shtml