Sydney Ideas

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda charts an agenda of hope that can guide us towards a reconciled Australia. Commissioner Gooda argued that effective engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should drive the work in the three key areas identified. His central thesis being, that without effective engagement the reconciliation agenda will stall.

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

What do we learn when we revisit scientists' past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin's? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all?

Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Harvard Professor of the History of Science Janet Browne, talks with University of Sydney historian Professor Iain McCalman, about the challenges and delights of the biographical genre for historians. In conversation with Alison Bashford, this is an evening that probes the intellectual life of these keen observers and interpreters of the world of Victorian science.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page:http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_biography_matters.shtml

What do we learn when we revisit scientists' past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin's? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all?

Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Harvard Professor of the History of Science Janet Browne, talks with University of Sydney historian Professor Iain McCalman, about the challenges and delights of the biographical genre for historians. In conversation with Alison Bashford, this is an evening that probes the intellectual life of these keen observers and interpreters of the world of Victorian science.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page:http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_biography_matters.shtml

What do we learn when we revisit scientists' past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin's? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all?

Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Harvard Professor of the History of Science Janet Browne, talks with University of Sydney historian Professor Iain McCalman, about the challenges and delights of the biographical genre for historians. In conversation with Alison Bashford, this is an evening that probes the intellectual life of these keen observers and interpreters of the world of Victorian science.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page:http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_biography_matters.shtml

Astronomical interests prompted a series of entries by European travellers into the Pacific. In studies of the complex motives and effects of these expeditions, it has been common to treat astronomical interests either as rationales for more profound political and economic enterprise, or as of a strictly utilitarian character.

Simon Schaffer, professor in the history of science at the University of Cambridge, looks at the cosmologies on which certain forms of European astronomy depended, and how the Pacific encounters changed and reoriented their meanings.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/professor_simon_schaffer.shtml

Astronomical interests prompted a series of entries by European travellers into the Pacific. In studies of the complex motives and effects of these expeditions, it has been common to treat astronomical interests either as rationales for more profound political and economic enterprise, or as of a strictly utilitarian character.

Simon Schaffer, professor in the history of science at the University of Cambridge, looks at the cosmologies on which certain forms of European astronomy depended, and how the Pacific encounters changed and reoriented their meanings.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/professor_simon_schaffer.shtml

Astronomical interests prompted a series of entries by European travellers into the Pacific. In studies of the complex motives and effects of these expeditions, it has been common to treat astronomical interests either as rationales for more profound political and economic enterprise, or as of a strictly utilitarian character.

Simon Schaffer, professor in the history of science at the University of Cambridge, looks at the cosmologies on which certain forms of European astronomy depended, and how the Pacific encounters changed and reoriented their meanings.

For further info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/professor_simon_schaffer.shtml

Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past.

Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin and Erez Manela from Harvard University, along with Sunil Amrith from Birkbeck College, University of London, in a conversation led by Glenda Sluga from the University of Sydney, as they talk about how they approach the past globally, and hear the stories that they have to tell about our round world.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_history_matters_forum_2010.shtml

Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past.

Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin and Erez Manela from Harvard University, along with Sunil Amrith from Birkbeck College, University of London, in a conversation led by Glenda Sluga from the University of Sydney, as they talk about how they approach the past globally, and hear the stories that they have to tell about our round world.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_history_matters_forum_2010.shtml

Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past.

Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin and Erez Manela from Harvard University, along with Sunil Amrith from Birkbeck College, University of London, in a conversation led by Glenda Sluga from the University of Sydney, as they talk about how they approach the past globally, and hear the stories that they have to tell about our round world.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_history_matters_forum_2010.shtml