Sydney Ideas

When a pineapple soda can becomes a ‘bomb’ and takes down a Russian airliner, the everyday objects around us provoke a sense of horror. International Relations is in need of a quantum turn so that we can understand the very real consequences of events and things whose capacities defy easy or rational explanation.

SPEAKER: Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii Center for Futures Studies

The 2016 Q Lecture was presented by the Centre for International Security Studies with the support of the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/q_lecture_2016.shtml

When a pineapple soda can becomes a ‘bomb’ and takes down a Russian airliner, the everyday objects around us provoke a sense of horror. International Relations is in need of a quantum turn so that we can understand the very real consequences of events and things whose capacities defy easy or rational explanation.

SPEAKER: Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii Center for Futures Studies

The 2016 Q Lecture was presented by the Centre for International Security Studies with the support of the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/q_lecture_2016.shtml

Renmin University Professor Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, looks back to understand how societies have dealt with energy expectations, energy needs, and energy transitions in the past. Can a look at the past help us understand the present and the future?

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_christof_mauch.shtml

Renmin University Professor Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, looks back to understand how societies have dealt with energy expectations, energy needs, and energy transitions in the past. Can a look at the past help us understand the present and the future?

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_christof_mauch.shtml

Renmin University Professor Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, looks back to understand how societies have dealt with energy expectations, energy needs, and energy transitions in the past. Can a look at the past help us understand the present and the future?

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_christof_mauch.shtml

Cancer is the most studied phenomenon in biology, with over a million published papers, yet it remains poorly understood. In the USA alone, more than a trillion dollars has been spent on cancer research, but mortality rates remain little changed in several decades. Maybe progress is so slow because we are thinking about the problem the wrong way?

For the 2015 Charles Perkins Centre Oration, celebrated theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and author, Professor Paul Davies proposes that by regarding cancer as an ancient biological phenomenon, as opposed to a modern disease, new approaches to therapy can be suggested.

A Sydney Ideas event held on 4 December 2015

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/professor_paul_davies.shtml

On 11 November 1975 the Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by the Queens Representative in Australia, Governor-General Sir John Kerr.

Three scholars share their research on the long-lasting impact of the ‘The Dismissal’ on Australian legal and political life.

Hosted by Andrew West, broadcaster and presenter of ABC Radio National’s Ethics and Religion Report. Panellists: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, University of London; Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney; Associate Professor James Curran, University of Sydney.

For more info and speakers’ biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/dismissal_40_years_forum.shtml

On 11 November 1975 the Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by the Queens Representative in Australia, Governor-General Sir John Kerr.

Three scholars share their research on the long-lasting impact of the ‘The Dismissal’ on Australian legal and political life.

Hosted by Andrew West, broadcaster and presenter of ABC Radio National’s Ethics and Religion Report. Panellists: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, University of London; Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney; Associate Professor James Curran, University of Sydney.

For more info and speakers’ biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/dismissal_40_years_forum.shtml

On 11 November 1975 the Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by the Queens Representative in Australia, Governor-General Sir John Kerr.

Three scholars share their research on the long-lasting impact of the ‘The Dismissal’ on Australian legal and political life.

Hosted by Andrew West, broadcaster and presenter of ABC Radio National’s Ethics and Religion Report. Panellists: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, University of London; Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney; Associate Professor James Curran, University of Sydney.

For more info and speakers’ biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/dismissal_40_years_forum.shtml

Melanoma is known throughout Australia, however, it is only when our family or ourselves are directly impacted that we realise the seriousness of this type of skin cancer.

Professor Graham Mann and Associate Professor Georgina Long explain firsthand the science behind the latest immunotherapy treatment for melanoma which has been heralded as "the most important development in the treatment of this disease ever and a landmark in terms of cancer treatment in general". This innovative treatment has seen life-expectancy rates triple and has made waves in the science and medical worlds.

Professor Mann and Associate Professor Long also provides details of the University of Sydney's world-class melanoma program. This includes the Melanoma Research Database - containing information on over 40,000 patients' melanomas - and the ambitious Melanoma Genome Project that is mapping the entire genome of 500 melanomas.

A Sydney Ideas co-presented with the Sydney Cancer Research Network event held on 10 November 2015

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/melanoma.shtml