Centre for Ideas | UNSW Sydney

Past Events

12 Aug Past event

Rethinking Evil

Good versus evil: the dark side of the human mind.

6 – 18 Aug Past event

UNSW x SYDNEY SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2019

Unlock the secrets to living longer, take a virtual dive into Australia’s hidden reefs or discover the feminist history of the internet.

22 Jul Past event

The Politics of Mental Health: Alastair Campbell

Why isn’t providing adequate mental health services a no brainer?

17 Jul Past event

Jelani Cobb: Civil Rights in the Age of Trump

The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb delivers the annual Martin Luther King Lecture.

3 Jul Past event

Turned On: The Rise of Sex Robots

Are we going to be swiping right on robots?

20 May Past event

Factfulness: Anna Rosling Rönnlund

“A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.” – Barack Obama

14 May Past event

Julia Gillard: Women & Leadership

This event is now SOLD OUT

9 May Past event

Greek to me: Adventures of the comma queen, Mary Norris

Tales of pencils, punctuation and proofreading 'The New Yorker'.

11 Mar Past event

Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains

How did corporations come to possess rights? How did democracy come to be defined as selfish individualism? Or money as free speech? Most people would blame Trump, but the man ...

6 Mar Past event

Writing War: Kassem Eid & Mohammed Hanif

Take part in an intimate evening showcasing recent work by two extraordinary writers, who will discuss how and why they grapple with writing about the harrowing reality of war.

3 Mar Past event

Margaret Atwood

28 Feb Past event

Paul Bloom: The Pleasures of Suffering

People are hedonists, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. This view is central to much of psychology and it fits many people’s own sense of why they do what they do. ...

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