Sydney Ideas

The award-winning author and University of Sydney Alumna Kate Jennings, with her brother, Mambo founder Dare Jennings, discuss how they combine their creative passions and imaginations with a unique entrepreneurial spirit. Dare might be the most obvious entrepreneur but writers are entrepreneurial: every day the blank page, every day an act of invention. Anyone can try out an idea and throw it into the ether. But what does it take to make an idea work? ABC Radio broadcaster, writer and musician James Valentine hosts the discussion.

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

The award-winning author and University of Sydney Alumna Kate Jennings, with her brother, Mambo founder Dare Jennings, discuss how they combine their creative passions and imaginations with a unique entrepreneurial spirit. Dare might be the most obvious entrepreneur but writers are entrepreneurial: every day the blank page, every day an act of invention. Anyone can try out an idea and throw it into the ether. But what does it take to make an idea work? ABC Radio broadcaster, writer and musician James Valentine hosts the discussion.

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

The award-winning author and University of Sydney Alumna Kate Jennings, with her brother, Mambo founder Dare Jennings, discuss how they combine their creative passions and imaginations with a unique entrepreneurial spirit. Dare might be the most obvious entrepreneur but writers are entrepreneurial: every day the blank page, every day an act of invention. Anyone can try out an idea and throw it into the ether. But what does it take to make an idea work? ABC Radio broadcaster, writer and musician James Valentine hosts the discussion.

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

How to modernise art for a modern China? What ideas and practices should China adapt from the West? Such questions figured prominently in intellectual debate about modernisation at the start of the twentieth century. Within a few decades, art in China had undergone dramatic change, from conception through production to reception. This public lecture will look at Chinese art practice and art debate at the time with a focus on the first Chinese national art exhibition in Shanghai in 1929.

SPEAKER: Dr Yiyan Wang, Chair of Chinese Studies, the University of Sydney

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jyxabv3

How to modernise art for a modern China? What ideas and practices should China adapt from the West? Such questions figured prominently in intellectual debate about modernisation at the start of the twentieth century. Within a few decades, art in China had undergone dramatic change, from conception through production to reception. This public lecture will look at Chinese art practice and art debate at the time with a focus on the first Chinese national art exhibition in Shanghai in 1929.

SPEAKER: Dr Yiyan Wang, Chair of Chinese Studies, the University of Sydney

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jyxabv3

How to modernise art for a modern China? What ideas and practices should China adapt from the West? Such questions figured prominently in intellectual debate about modernisation at the start of the twentieth century. Within a few decades, art in China had undergone dramatic change, from conception through production to reception. This public lecture will look at Chinese art practice and art debate at the time with a focus on the first Chinese national art exhibition in Shanghai in 1929.

SPEAKER: Dr Yiyan Wang, Chair of Chinese Studies, the University of Sydney

For speaker's biography see: tinyurl.com/jyxabv3

This forum and open discussion with Australia’s leading China commentators was hosted by Dr James Reilly, Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

Participants included:

Professor Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Dr Richard Rigby, Executive Director of the ANU China Institute

Dr John Garnaut, China correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Chaired by Professor David Goodman, Chinese Politics, University of Sydney.

This forum and open discussion with Australia’s leading China commentators was hosted by Dr James Reilly, Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

Participants included:

Professor Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Dr Richard Rigby, Executive Director of the ANU China Institute

Dr John Garnaut, China correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Chaired by Professor David Goodman, Chinese Politics, University of Sydney.

This forum and open discussion with Australia’s leading China commentators was hosted by Dr James Reilly, Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

Participants included:

Professor Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Dr Richard Rigby, Executive Director of the ANU China Institute

Dr John Garnaut, China correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Chaired by Professor David Goodman, Chinese Politics, University of Sydney.

A Sydney Ideas lecture by James E Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

Trained in physics and astronomy, Hansen is best known for his Congressional testimony on climate change in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of global warming. He has been an active researcher in planetary atmospheres and climate science for nearly 40 years, with the last 30 years focused on climate research, publishing more than 100 scholarly articles on the latter topic.

Time Magazine designated Dr. Hansen as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2006, a tribute to his continuing efforts to serve the public through his scientific work.

For more info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/professor_james_hansen.shtml