Join us at UNSW for a conversation with New York based poet, writer and performer Jenny Zhang. Zhang’s recent short story collection Sour Hearts, explores an immigrant Chinese American community through the eyes of a series of young girls.

Please join us for the second Utzon lecture for 2018 as we explore key UNSW Grand Challenges affecting our cities and built environment.

Our guest Jungyoon Kim, Founding Principal of PARKKIM will present on the topic "Alternative Nature".

Inequalities in later life, and their consequences for health and wellbeing, have been underplayed by researchers and policy makers, to the detriment of individuals and wider society. But what drives these inequalities? Class, ethnicity and gender; early life experiences; or events in later life?

James Nazroo will investigate the importance of later life events in shaping inequality and argue that research and policy need to bring these into sharper focus.

Flexibility in the workplace has been a key driver of gender equality. But existing models have failed to achieve full equality - especially in senior leadership in the public and private sector. How can models - and especially existing ideas about job-sharing - be reimagined to more fully achieve this goal?

Join the discussion with co-lead of the Grand Challenge on Inequality Professor Rosalind Dixon and Elizabeth Broderick AO.

A conversation with Pasi Sahlberg and Adrian Piccoli.

The recent release of the ambitious Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools (Gonski 2.0) report has Australia buzzing about what the future holds in reforming Australian education.

Will we see an end to NAPLAN or the HSC?

How will teachers' work change in planning for individual student needs?

Will these reforms lead us to the more equitable system we desire?

This year's lecture will be presented by Nicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

The lecture will explore the promise and peril of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and how we might realise the benefits of sustainable, responsible and human-centred innovation.

Award-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones and UNSW PVC Indigenous and Professor of Law Megan Davis will discuss civil rights, activism, race, segregation and protest in the United States and Australia.

The discussion is moderated by The New York Times' Australia bureau chief, Damien Cave.

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Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, will be in conversation with UNSW Scientia Professor Toby Walsh to discuss issues including the development and future of the internet, the Internet of Things and digital security. The event will be introduced by Professor Emma Johnston, Dean of Science at UNSW and President of Science and Technology Australia.

iGen – those born after 1995 – are the first generation to spend their entire adolescence with smartphones. What does this mean for young people today? iGen is growing up more slowly as adolescents, taking longer to engage in adult activities such as working, driving, dating, having sex, and drinking alcohol. iGen spends more of their leisure time with digital media and less time seeing their friends face-to-face; they also spend less time sleeping.

51 newly promoted and recruited Professors are taking part in the 2018 Professorial Inaugural Lecture series at UNSW Sydney to mark their achievement and showcase their specialist knowledge.

Join our researchers in optometry, quantum physics, marine biology, intelligent machines, sustainable materials, chemistry, psychology, biotechnology, and more, for tours, talks and workshops across Sydney for Sydney Science Festival 2018 during National Science Week.

How is masculinity shaped by class, race and sexuality? Michael Mohammed Ahmad's latest novel The Lebs is a frank exploration of these issues, at times excoriating and trenchant, at other times, tender, joyful and funny. This portrait of young, male muslims in the western suburbs tells us about many aspects of Australia - about young white women, about the multifaceted muslim community, about migration and belonging.