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UNSW x Sydney Writers' Festival 2025

19 – 26 May 2025
8.30am – 8.30pm AEST
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From Monday 19 May – Tuesday 27 May 2025!
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UNSW Sydney is the exclusive university sponsor and proud Premier Partner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Featuring UNSW academics and researchers on Sydney Writers’ Festival stages, this partnership brings together a shared vision of creativity, curiosity and thought leadership. 

Explore the Sydney Writers’ Festival events featuring UNSW academics and researchers below.

Explore the 2025 Program & Secure Your Tickets

Psst! Students check out the bottom of this page for exclusive perks and opportunities at SWF 2025! 

Past Events

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21 May Past event
Vanishing Histories
Sydney Writers' Festival | Uncovering women disappeared from history: Miles Franklin, Mary Cecil Allen and more.
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21 May Past event
Business Behaving Badly
Sydney Writers' Festival | The latest scandals, sackings and stocktakes of Australian businesses.
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21 May Past event
CANCELLED – Best of the Fest
Sydney Writers' Festival | Let the Festival buzz begin with insights from literary aficionados.
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21 May Past event
Anne Summers: 50 Years of Damned Whores and God's Police
Sydney Writers' Festival | Feminist icon on 50 years since and 50 years more.
Art and Culture
Centre for Ideas
Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics and Society
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21 May Past event
The Art and Science of AI
Sydney Writers' Festival | What happens when human creativity and artificial intelligence collide?
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22 May Past event
Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI
Sydney Writers' Festival | Everything to know about the origins and future of artificial intelligence.
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22 May Past event
Adam Bayes on Mind-Altering Mental Health
Sydney Writers' Festival | The cutting-edge medical research and treatment of severe mental illness.
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22 May Past event
Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects
Sydney Writers' Festival | Is taking an object the best way to keep a community alive?
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22 May Past event
Kerrie Davies on Miles Franklin’s Little-Known Years
Sydney Writers' Festival | Legendary Australian Miles Franklin’s lost years uncovered.
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22 May Past event
Psychedelia 
Sydney Writers' Festival | Exploring personal stories and the latest research on psychedelic treatment.
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22 May Past event
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time
Sydney Writers' Festival | Bending space, time and genre with a spy thriller rom-com.
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22 May Past event
SWF Great Debate: True Friends Stab You in the Front
Sydney Writers' Festival | Hilarious Festival favourite that gets provocative, pithy and personal.
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23 May Past event
Luke McNamara on Hate Speech and the Law
Sydney Writers' Festival | What do we know about the impact of the law on the harms of hate speech?
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23 May Past event
Andrew Leigh and Richard Holden on Inequality
Sydney Writers' Festival | How economics underpins change for the worse and the better.
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24 May Past event
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
Sydney Writers' Festival | Uncovering the connection between brutal 20th-century regimes.
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24 May Past event
STEMMinist Book Club
Sydney Writers' Festival | Which Is mightier: the pen or the stethoscope?
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25 May Past event
The Business of Beauty
Sydney Writers' Festival | What could women be without the expectation of beauty?