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5 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm

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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

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

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

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

17 Jan - 18 Apr 10:00am 5:00pm

Wansolwara: One Salt Water

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

18 - 29 Feb 11:00am 6:00pm

The Holy Rock

This is a journalistic inquiry into the twisted, just, wicked, and beautiful mind of Rock. With unprecedented access, we follow Rock through the moments in which Rock lives in this otherwise ordinary Rock's extraordinary world. We will leave no stone unturned, but what about the rock?

Art and Culture

25 Feb - 14 Mar 11:00am 6:00pm

Epigenetic Maternal Landscapes

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

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

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

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

3 - 14 Mar 11:00am 6:00pm

Held

Held is a group show exploring tactile affects. Artists Serwah Gyekyewah Attafuah, Angus McGrath, Nolan Ho Wung Murphy, Naomi Segal, Jesse Rye, and Steph Liakos locate themselves as sites of history, intimacy, hope and protest. Touching as they themselves are touched upon.

Art and Culture

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

4 Mar 6:15pm 9:30pm

UTZON Lecture Series: Annual Paul Reid Lecture in Urban Design

Zhizhe Yu proposes that instead of designing tall buildings and cities that are simply the product of necessity, we should use the power of design to create cities unique to their local context.

Architecture and Urban Planning

Built Environment

Campus events

Grand Challenges

6 Mar 10:00am 11:30am

Sally Rugg | International Women's Day

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world? Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

Campus events

6 Mar 8:00pm 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

9 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm

AI and the Bias of Machines: Robert Elliott Smith

How do we stop the internet making bigots of us all?

Campus events

Centre for Ideas

Grand Challenges

Humanities and Social Sciences

Politics and Society

10 Mar 5:00pm 6:00pm

Keeping it Live: Conserving Performance at Tate

Join UNSW Art & Design Research Forum and UNSW Galleries for a lecture by UK based conservator, Louise Lawson. This lecture will focus on the documentation and conservation of performance artworks at Tate, exploring the notion of “liveness” within an artwork in an institutional context.

Art and Culture

10 Mar 6:30pm 7:30pm

The Science of Fate: Hannah Critchlow

Are we really the masters of our own destiny?

Campus events

Centre for Ideas

Humanities and Social Sciences

Science

11 Mar 12:30pm 1:30pm

Human-centred design for greater health outcomes

Dr Kate Dunn will share how an exciting new wave of 3D printing technologies and materials is spearheading a more accurate and human-centred design approach to healthcare.

Design

Innovation

Medicine and Health

Technology

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