Past lectures
2009 lectures
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Michael Wesley
Date: 29 Sept
Getting China Right
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Professor Saree Makdisi
Date: 22 Sept
Excavating Memory in Jerusalem
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John Corigliano
Date: 7 September
Building Music
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Michael Cathcart
Date: 20 August
The Water Dreamers
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Alana Valentine
Date: 10 August
Captivated by Reality
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Why History Matters
Date: 28 July
A Sydney Ideas Forum
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Professor Jill Tarter
Date: 21 July
Extremophiles and Exoplanets
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Professor Margaret Levi
Date: 30 June
A Challenge to the Hip Pocket
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Clive Hamilton
Date: 7 July
The Rebirth of Nature
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Dr Anna Tibaijuka
Date: 18 June
Sustainable Urbanisation
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Professor Darius Rejali
Date: 2 June
Torture And Democracy: What Now?
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Paul Gilding
Date: 29 April
Economic Growth Version 1.0 is Finished: The great disruption has begun
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Bill McKibben
Date: 6 May
350: The important number in the world?
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Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Date: 22 April
Rewriting the Narrative of American History
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Professor Peter Skilling
Date: 7 April
Did the Buddha invent Asia?
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Mark Schapiro
Date: 17 March
Reporting on the Environment: A study of science or power?
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Fiona Winning
Date: 2 March
Rex Cramphorn Annual Lecture
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Professor Michael Ruse
Date: 17 Feb
Is Darwinism past its ‘Sell By’ Date?
All 2009 Sydney Ideas lectures are recorded and made available as MP3 audio podcasts and MP4 videos, free to download from this site, soon after the lecture.
MP3 audio podcasts of all 2008 lectures are now available and can visit the University's podcast pages for 2007 and 2006 lectures as well.