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UNSW x Sydney Writers' Festival 2025

19 – 26 May 2025

8.30am – 8.30pm AEST

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From Monday 19 May – Tuesday 27 May 2025!

UNSW Sydney is the exclusive university sponsor and proud Premier Partner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Featuring UNSW academics and researchers on Sydney Writers’ Festival stages, this partnership brings together a shared vision of creativity, curiosity and thought leadership.

Explore the Sydney Writers’ Festival events featuring UNSW academics and researchers below.

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Past Events

21 May Past event

Vanishing Histories

Sydney Writers' Festival | Uncovering women disappeared from history: Miles Franklin, Mary Cecil Allen and more.

21 May Past event

Business Behaving Badly

Sydney Writers' Festival | The latest scandals, sackings and stocktakes of Australian businesses.

21 May Past event

CANCELLED – Best of the Fest

Sydney Writers' Festival | Let the Festival buzz begin with insights from literary aficionados.

21 May Past event

Anne Summers: 50 Years of Damned Whores and God's Police

Sydney Writers' Festival | Feminist icon on 50 years since and 50 years more.

21 May Past event

The Art and Science of AI

Sydney Writers' Festival | What happens when human creativity and artificial intelligence collide?

22 May Past event

Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI

Sydney Writers' Festival | Everything to know about the origins and future of artificial intelligence.

22 May Past event

Adam Bayes on Mind-Altering Mental Health

Sydney Writers' Festival | The cutting-edge medical research and treatment of severe mental illness.

22 May Past event

Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects

Sydney Writers' Festival | Is taking an object the best way to keep a community alive?

22 May Past event

Kerrie Davies on Miles Franklin’s Little-Known Years

Sydney Writers' Festival | Legendary Australian Miles Franklin’s lost years uncovered.

22 May Past event

Sydney Writers' Festival | Exploring personal stories and the latest research on psychedelic treatment.

22 May Past event

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time

Sydney Writers' Festival | Bending space, time and genre with a spy thriller rom-com.

22 May Past event

SWF Great Debate: True Friends Stab You in the Front

Sydney Writers' Festival | Hilarious Festival favourite that gets provocative, pithy and personal.

23 May Past event

Luke McNamara on Hate Speech and the Law

Sydney Writers' Festival | What do we know about the impact of the law on the harms of hate speech?

23 May Past event

Andrew Leigh and Richard Holden on Inequality

Sydney Writers' Festival | How economics underpins change for the worse and the better.

24 May Past event

Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street

Sydney Writers' Festival | Uncovering the connection between brutal 20th-century regimes.

24 May Past event

STEMMinist Book Club

Sydney Writers' Festival | Which Is mightier: the pen or the stethoscope?

25 May Past event

The Business of Beauty

Sydney Writers' Festival | What could women be without the expectation of beauty?