Sydney Ideas

UK activist, historian and author Tariq Ali took the Sydney Ideas audience through a world divided between privilege and poverty and demonstrated the situation in Latin America could not be more different to the Arab world. Both Latin America and the Arab world have sparked intense hostility from the West by challenging neoliberalism, but according to Ali, the resistance in the Middle East is divided and without the social vision to unite people.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1795

In Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, eminent Israeli academic, author and linguist Tanya Reinhart argued that speaking out against Israel's handling of the Palestinian conflict is the best act of solidarity one can show towards Israelis and the Jewish people.

"When I think of Edward Said, I not only think about a voice of reason and justice, but also a life in exile, losing the landscape of your childhood," she said.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1333

In Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, eminent Israeli academic, author and linguist Tanya Reinhart argued that speaking out against Israel's handling of the Palestinian conflict is the best act of solidarity one can show towards Israelis and the Jewish people.

"When I think of Edward Said, I not only think about a voice of reason and justice, but also a life in exile, losing the landscape of your childhood," she said.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1333

In Australia to deliver the University of Adelaide's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, eminent Israeli academic, author and linguist Tanya Reinhart argued that speaking out against Israel's handling of the Palestinian conflict is the best act of solidarity one can show towards Israelis and the Jewish people.

"When I think of Edward Said, I not only think about a voice of reason and justice, but also a life in exile, losing the landscape of your childhood," she said.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1333

Dr Jordi Bonet, the Spanish architect who is completing the Sagrada Família Church, Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece in Barcelona, shares his incredible knowledge of the ongoing renovation project.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1083

Dr Jordi Bonet, the Spanish architect who is completing the Sagrada Família Church, Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece in Barcelona, shares his incredible knowledge of the ongoing renovation project.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1083

Dr Jordi Bonet, the Spanish architect who is completing the Sagrada Família Church, Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece in Barcelona, shares his incredible knowledge of the ongoing renovation project.

For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=1083

Are we running out of planet? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? How do we meassure our footprint and what do we do once we know this?

In this 2006 Sydney Ideas lecture Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint concept explored these questions and demonstrated how the meassuring tools can help in better management of our ecological assets.

Are we running out of planet? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? How do we meassure our footprint and what do we do once we know this?

In this 2006 Sydney Ideas lecture Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint concept explored these questions and demonstrated how the meassuring tools can help in better management of our ecological assets.

Are we running out of planet? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? How do we meassure our footprint and what do we do once we know this?

In this 2006 Sydney Ideas lecture Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint concept explored these questions and demonstrated how the meassuring tools can help in better management of our ecological assets.