Sydney Ideas

Dr Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, explained how the "stunning" economic and social changes of the past decade in Israel and the Occupied Territories have undermined the possibility of peace in the region.

Dr Roy was in Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/beyond_occupation.shtml

Dr Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, explained how the "stunning" economic and social changes of the past decade in Israel and the Occupied Territories have undermined the possibility of peace in the region.

Dr Roy was in Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/beyond_occupation.shtml

Dr Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, explained how the "stunning" economic and social changes of the past decade in Israel and the Occupied Territories have undermined the possibility of peace in the region.

Dr Roy was in Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/beyond_occupation.shtml

Professor David Armitage is an internationally acclaimed historian and a world expert on empire-building and British history. In this thoughtful and well-researched lecture, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University turns his attention to the compelling area of civil war, a war he describes as one of the “most ferocious forms of human conflict” in history.

“Civil war remains a global scourge and one that shows no sign of disappearing any time soon.” – Professor Armitage

For further information and additional content see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/civil_war_rome_iraq.shtml

Professor David Armitage is an internationally acclaimed historian and a world expert on empire-building and British history. In this thoughtful and well-researched lecture, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University turns his attention to the compelling area of civil war, a war he describes as one of the “most ferocious forms of human conflict” in history.

“Civil war remains a global scourge and one that shows no sign of disappearing any time soon.” – Professor Armitage

For further information and additional content see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/civil_war_rome_iraq.shtml

Professor David Armitage is an internationally acclaimed historian and a world expert on empire-building and British history. In this thoughtful and well-researched lecture, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University turns his attention to the compelling area of civil war, a war he describes as one of the “most ferocious forms of human conflict” in history.

“Civil war remains a global scourge and one that shows no sign of disappearing any time soon.” – Professor Armitage

For further information and additional content see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/civil_war_rome_iraq.shtml

Executive Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth gives compelling evidence of the way some of the world’s greatest human rights violators are calling themselves democrats. And, he argues, it is the west’s willingness to “close one’s eye” to these regimes that allows them to do so.

“What they get away with is this label of legitimacy and in many ways I guess the question to ask is: why do we let them?” – Kenneth Roth at Sydney Ideas

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/despot_masquerading_as_democrats.shtml

Executive Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth gives compelling evidence of the way some of the world’s greatest human rights violators are calling themselves democrats. And, he argues, it is the west’s willingness to “close one’s eye” to these regimes that allows them to do so.

“What they get away with is this label of legitimacy and in many ways I guess the question to ask is: why do we let them?” – Kenneth Roth at Sydney Ideas

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/despot_masquerading_as_democrats.shtml

Executive Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth gives compelling evidence of the way some of the world’s greatest human rights violators are calling themselves democrats. And, he argues, it is the west’s willingness to “close one’s eye” to these regimes that allows them to do so.

“What they get away with is this label of legitimacy and in many ways I guess the question to ask is: why do we let them?” – Kenneth Roth at Sydney Ideas

For further info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2008/despot_masquerading_as_democrats.shtml

Prominent Palestinian-British author and academic, Dr Ghada Karmi, had just released her book - Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine, when she spoke at Sydney Ideas in 2007 to say the two-sate solution promoted by the West is no longer viable.

Dr Karmi was in Australia as the presenter of the 2007 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1974