Trust in contemporary societies is in declining supply and institutions, experts, elections, established practices and information sources are all feeling the effects.
Australian minority women writers have been inventively engaged in rewriting and revisioining the history and culture of the white nation to include perspectives that have been ignored or obscured.
The UNSW Global Development Month is a jam-packed calendar of events supported by UNSW’s Institute for Global Development. Focused on exploring development discourse, redefining good practice guidelines and debating current critical development challenges the program aims to identify how to have impact for development in Australia and abroad.
The annual Inspired Learning Summit celebrates the educational innovations and partnerships that enrich education at UNSW. This year, the focus is Student as Partners - as they showcase their invaluable contributions to extending our educational collective intelligence, while demonstrating the impact it has on them and their career opportunities.
The UNSW Early Career Academic Network (ECAN) is thrilled to announce that our flagship Scientia Series event is returning for the fourth time in 2018. This year’s topic is Academia in the Age of Anti-Intellectualism.
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What have we learned in the last fifty years?
It’s one of the complex puzzles we have tried to solve; the nature of human consciousness.
Debates about free will, morality, the differences between humans and animals, and the distinction between brain and mind are staples of the explorations of consciousness by philosophers and scientists.
A Scientia Education Academy public lecture
Technology-enabled peer-to-peer sharing of goods and services has created significant disruption in the business world, and there are already hints about how it might affect education.
In 2018, the Burgundian Consort will explore the remote realms of the Nordic and Baltic states, with works from Tormis, Gjeilo, Sisask and Pärt, before rounding out the program with some traditional English madrigals from Byrd, Elgar, and Purcell.
The program will also include the premiere performance of the winner of the inaugural Willgoss Choral Composition Prize 2018.
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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.
Come and hear the best and brightest UNSW PhD candidates pitch their world-changing ideas. Participants have just three minutes to explain what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why it is important.
The relationship between Schubert and the guitar may appear tenuous at best, however it forms the basis of a beautiful program, one which draws together music from the nineteenth century with sparkling Australian chamber works for guitar.
Robert SCHUMANN | Fantasiestücke
Robert DAVIDSON | Landscape
Franz SCHUBERT | Serenade from 'Schwanengesang' D957 no.4
Phillip HOUGHTON | From the Dreaming
UNSW Faculty of Engineering has the pleasure of presenting world-renowned structural engineer, Roma Agrawal for a lecture on Emily Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge. With the release of Roma's first book Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures, this is an exciting opportunity to listen to the story behind one of the world's iconic bridges and how Emily Roebling made her mark in a male-dominated industry.