"Environmental activism: in your neighbourhood, in your world" 

Nancy Hillier was a tireless campaigner on behalf of people and places in the Botany Bay area of Sydney. This annual lecture series acknowledges Nancy’s legacy by providing a forum to discuss social and environmental issues that resonate with and extend her work. In 2018 the event will feature two presenters.

Please join us for a public talk with visiting Academic Distinguished Professor Barbara Risman from the Department of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, as she discusses her latest book Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure.

UNSW Built Environment with the Australian Institute of Architects is delighted to host the AS Hook Address by 2018 AIA Gold Medallist, Emeritus Professor Alec Tzannes AM.

Under the guidance of piano legend Sonya Lifschitz, students of Performance Lab 8 have collaborated with each other to produce a Scratch Orchestra - a large group of people with varying sets of skills, abilities and interests working together for music-making. The night will consist of music from the 20th century to excite, challenge and inspire.

UNSW’s partnership with Matraville High School is ushering in a new era of teacher education. In a first-of -its-kind school-based university education program, UNSW Sydney is working with students, teachers, parents, and other key stakeholders to build a collaborative, inclusive and sustainable educational community for all. 

A UNSW Scientia Education Academy public lecture

Students’ learning is reminiscent of a building’s life cycle. It entails erecting and dismantling scaffolds, building the “products”, engaging with relevant stakeholders, and monitoring their performance. 

Kevin Rudd, Ken Henry, Richard Holden and Gordon de Brouwer with Jennifer Hewett (chair).

Gustatory gumption. 
Muffin topped misogyny. 
Coffee order. Milk disorder. 
Operatic backlash.

Experience the live in a night of outrageous experiment as ten solo performance makers take us into the guts of it all and show us how to really eat the world. 

Wear protective clothing... 

The UNSW Wind Symphony was founded in 1991 to perform works specially composed for wind ensembles with or without percussion. The Wind Symphony provides repertoire, largely dates from after 1900, with arrangements of works from all eras and styles, including jazz, popular and art-music forms. The Wind Symphony is home to many of the woodwind and brass players on campus, and comprises about 50 players at any one time.

The Collegium Musicum Choir’s second program for the year includes the liturgical works of Alexander Grechaninov and Anton Bruckner. 

Grechaninov Et in Terra Pax
Arensky Three Quartets 
Bruckner te Deum

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Location: Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW (Building C24) Venue Map

Improving the health and life expectancy of Australian people with intellectual disability.

Imagine waking up every day knowing that your life expectancy is on average more than 25 years less than the rest of the population. And that you are twice as likely to die from a potentially avoidable cause than someone in the general population!

That’s the reality for Australian’s living with an intellectual disability.

Please join us for the final Utzon Lecture for 2018 and Annual Judith Neilson Lecture

Reducing risk, building resilience

This two-day international conference, co-hosted by UNSW, Arup, Australia Red Cross and the South Asia Institute at Harvard University; invites practitioners, researchers and decision-makers from all disciplines to present, discuss, debate and recommend realisable social, physical, political and economic measures that build resilience in the Asia Pacific region.

In his plays, William Shakespeare often refers to objects visible in the night sky. He talks about stars, planets, comets and meteors, and makes great use of astronomical imagery. But what did Shakespeare know about the astronomical thought of his own time – a time when science as we know it today was only just coming into existence? Was he influenced by Galileo and Copernicus? Did he directly, or indirectly, bring the new ideas of science into his works?

UNSW Creative Practice Lab is pleased to co-present LINK Dance Company 2018 from WAAPA with a selection of dance works by Australian choreographers Richard Cilli, Emma Fishwick, Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Michael Whaites.