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20 Feb 6:00pm 8:00pm
Featured
RSNSW Liversidge Lecture
Professor Martina Stenzel was awarded the 2018 Archibald Liversidge Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. Join us for her lecture on 'The journey from simple polymers to nano-footballs'.
Medicine and Health
Science
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26 Feb 6:30pm 7:30pm
Featured
Chernobyl and the Fall of the Soviet Union: Serhii Plokhy
Was the biggest peacetime nuclear disaster and demise of the Soviet Union inevitable?
Campus events
Centre for Ideas
Grand Challenges
Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics and Society
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5 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm
Featured
Democracy in the Digital Age: Jamie Susskind
What will become of democracy in a world powered by tech?
Centre for Ideas
Grand Challenges
Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics and Society
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12 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm
Featured
The Future We Choose: Christiana Figueres
We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, so what can we do to ensure our survival?
Campus events
Centre for Ideas
Environment
Grand Challenges
Science
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18 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm
Featured
Everybody Can Be Creative: Tina Seelig
Being a creative person isn't as hard as you may think. Learn the simple tools to transform an idea into something extraordinary.
Art and Culture
Centre for Ideas
Design
Innovation
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3 - 5 Apr 10:30am 9:00pm
Featured
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
Confront the dangerous realities of the here and now with a festival program featuring more than 30 thought leaders and provocative orators.
Art and Culture
Centre for Ideas
Engineering
Environment
Grand Challenges
Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics and Society
Science
Technology
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1 Feb - 18 Apr 10:00am 5:00pm
ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa
17 JANUARY - 18 APRIL This exhibition takes its title from a Sāmoan proverb that describes the incoming rain from the Sāmoan island of Manuʻa (currently within the unincorporated territory of the United States of America) and bittersweet or melancholic moments leading to much-needed change.
Art and Culture
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1 Feb - 14 Mar 10:00am 5:00pm
Shivanjani Lal: Beta, ek story bathao
17 JANUARY - 14 MARCH This exhibition brings together new photography and video documenting Shivanjani Lal’s return to Fiji after a prolonged absence and a visit to see her grandmother’s house, alongside map works that evoke her family’s history shaped by the kālā pānī (‘black waters’).
Art and Culture
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1 Feb - 18 Apr 10:00am 5:00pm
OFO HAKE: Koe Ngatu Teuteu 'o 'Akesa mo 'Isileli Fifita
17 JANUARY - 18 APRIL This special project features a ngatu (painted bark cloth tapestry) created in Tonga and New Caledonia by artist and curator Ruha Fifita with help from friends and family, and a second one made collaboratively with her extended family in Vaimalo and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Art and Culture
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1 Feb - 18 Apr 10:00am 5:00pm
Wansolwara: One Salt Water
17 JANUARY - 18 APRIL A series of exhibitions, performances and events from across the Pacific and throughout the Great Ocean. Wansolwara – a pidgin word from the Solomon Islands meaning ‘one-salt-water’ or ‘one ocean, one people’ – reflects not a single ocean, but rather a connected waterscape that holds distinct and diverse cultures and communities.
Art and Culture
Environment
Politics and Society
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5 - 22 Feb 11:00am 6:00pm
Trepidation | Body Language
5 - 22 FEBRUARY Through Trepidation, artists Sarah Catania, Melissa Kahl, and Sandra Gunniga Thomson explore the cloud of unease that has settled over them as they confront ambiguous futures. Body Language draws upon artist Sïan Kelly's experience of bodily reception and misgendering as a non-binary artist.
Art and Culture
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19 Feb 6:30pm 8:30pm
Paris Is Burning
As part of UNSW's celebrations during the Mardi Gras Festival, we are excited to screen Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, 1990).
Art and Culture
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22 Feb 4:00pm 6:00pm
Visualising the Future
How can emergent technologies, methodologies and practices enable us to understand complex information, and harness new perspectives to help solve complex issues that we are facing right now?
Art and Culture
Design
Innovation
Science
Technology
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25 Feb - 14 Mar 11:00am 6:00pm
Epigenetic Maternal Landscapes
25 FEBRUARY - 14 MARCH Artist Clare Nicholson's Epigenetic Maternal Landscapes remakes iconic historical obstetric models and illustrations using conceptual materials to link body–environment relations with maternal lived experiences.
Art and Culture
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25 - 29 Feb 7:30pm 9:00pm
Rhinoceros
In a small village somewhere in France, a strange phenomenon is taking place. The townsfolk are turning into rhinoceroses. Written by Eugène Ionesco. Performed by students of the UNSW course ARTS2122: Performance Production
Art and Culture
Campus events
Humanities and Social Sciences
Media
Politics and Society
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26 Feb 11:00am 12:00pm
UNSW Human Rainbow
We are calling for 1,000 people to make UNSW's first - ever Human Rainbow!
Campus events
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26 Feb 5:30pm 7:00pm
Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
Join UNSW Art & Design Research Forum and UNSW Galleries for a lecture by internationally renowned Dutch artist, Jonas Staal, coinciding with the release of his new book 'Propaganda Art in the 21st Century'.
Art and Culture
Design
Politics and Society
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27 Feb 5:30pm 8:00pm
UNSW Business School Postgraduate Information Evening
Interested in a career change or looking to take the next step in your career?
Business and Economics
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27 Feb 5:30pm 7:30pm
'Every War is a Defeat': Khadim Ali in conversation

A conversation with leading artist Khadim Ali on his newly commissioned  site-specific billboard on the exterior of UNSW Galleries, Every War is a Defeat (2019). Born and raised in Pakistan, Khadim Ali’s work is heavily influence by his family’s experience as Hazara refugees, fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan.

Art and Culture
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3 Mar 3:30pm 7:30pm
The Best & Worst Countries for Women: Measuring Equality with the WPS Index
Join the Institute for Global Development for a conversation on the findings of the Second Edition of the Global Women Peace & Security (WPS) Index, which ranks countries on women's comprehensive wellbeing and analyses trends in gender equality.
Grand Challenges
Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics and Society
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4 Mar 6:15pm 9:30pm
Annual Paul Reid Lecture in Urban Design
By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities.
Architecture and Urban Planning
Built Environment
Campus events
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6 Mar 6:00pm 10:00pm
Art Month Sydney Opening Night: Paddington & Woollahra Precinct Night After Party
Grab an Art Month Sydney map and explore the local galleries of Paddington and Woollahra before kicking onto the festival's opening party at UNSW Galleries from 8pm.
Art and Culture

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