Sydney Ideas

The incoming Director of University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre Professor Kerry Brown explores the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in China. He offers an assessment of the Hu and Wen period, and suggests how the future leaders will deal with a transition into an era in which the greatest challenges will be socio-political.

SPEAKER: Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney

The incoming Director of University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre Professor Kerry Brown explores the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in China. He offers an assessment of the Hu and Wen period, and suggests how the future leaders will deal with a transition into an era in which the greatest challenges will be socio-political.

SPEAKER: Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney

The incoming Director of University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre Professor Kerry Brown explores the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in China. He offers an assessment of the Hu and Wen period, and suggests how the future leaders will deal with a transition into an era in which the greatest challenges will be socio-political.

SPEAKER: Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney

Journalist Stephen Crittenden chairs a fascinating and robust conversation about the current state of Europe. What do historians say we can learn from history about how to manage the current crisis?

Panellists include: Patricia Clavin, Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford; Professor Patrizia Dogliani, Professor of Contemporary and Modern European History at the University of Bologna; Dr Marco Duranti, University of Sydney; and Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2012/why_history_matters_forum_2012.shtml

Journalist Stephen Crittenden chairs a fascinating and robust conversation about the current state of Europe. What do historians say we can learn from history about how to manage the current crisis?

Panellists include: Patricia Clavin, Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford; Professor Patrizia Dogliani, Professor of Contemporary and Modern European History at the University of Bologna; Dr Marco Duranti, University of Sydney; and Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2012/why_history_matters_forum_2012.shtml

Journalist Stephen Crittenden chairs a fascinating and robust conversation about the current state of Europe. What do historians say we can learn from history about how to manage the current crisis?

Panellists include: Patricia Clavin, Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford; Professor Patrizia Dogliani, Professor of Contemporary and Modern European History at the University of Bologna; Dr Marco Duranti, University of Sydney; and Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2012/why_history_matters_forum_2012.shtml

Many of those who engage with the Chinese world encounter the stories that are told about China–there is the monolithic narrative of the party-state, the multiple stories of individuals, companies, communities, and then there are the array of accounts told about China, some that try to deepen understand others that evoke. Geremie R Barmé considers how some of these stories have come to be told, by whom and for whom, and what this may mean for those who pay attention. This lecture will also introduce The China Story, a publishing and Internet project being launched by the Australian Centre on China in the World.

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jma6l5o

Many of those who engage with the Chinese world encounter the stories that are told about China–there is the monolithic narrative of the party-state, the multiple stories of individuals, companies, communities, and then there are the array of accounts told about China, some that try to deepen understand others that evoke. Geremie R Barmé considers how some of these stories have come to be told, by whom and for whom, and what this may mean for those who pay attention. This lecture will also introduce The China Story, a publishing and Internet project being launched by the Australian Centre on China in the World.

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jma6l5o

Many of those who engage with the Chinese world encounter the stories that are told about China–there is the monolithic narrative of the party-state, the multiple stories of individuals, companies, communities, and then there are the array of accounts told about China, some that try to deepen understand others that evoke. Geremie R Barmé considers how some of these stories have come to be told, by whom and for whom, and what this may mean for those who pay attention. This lecture will also introduce The China Story, a publishing and Internet project being launched by the Australian Centre on China in the World.

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jma6l5o

Les Malezer is from the Butchulla/Gubbi Gubbi peoples in southeast Queensland. He has extensive experience in campaigning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights. On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, his presentation discusses how Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have greater capacity to take advantage of the legal opportunities and build social capital through ‘Indigenous Knowledges’, increasingly recognised in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/les_malezer.shtml