Soft soil between our toes and jagged rocks underfoot. Are they fossil fuel deposits ripe for exploitation or sacred Dreaming sites?

Women in an Era of Anti-Elitism: Responding to the challenge of rising populism and its threat to gender inclusivity

Emma Slade was taken hostage by gun point in a hotel room on a business trip to Jakarta. Over the ensuing months, the trauma following the event took hold. Realising her view on life had profoundly changed she embarked upon a journey, discovering the healing power of yoga and, in Bhutan, opening her eyes to a kinder, more peaceful way of living.

Regarding compassion, Slade told Laignee Barron of Time magazine; 

UNSW’s Women in Engineering (WIE) program is launching a new club for high school girls!

The Girls in Engineering Club is a fun, inspiring community for high school girls who are interested in STEM, study maths or science at school, or who just want to explore what engineering is all about.

To celebrate we are holding a special event to launch the Girls in Engineering Club. Join us on campus to become part of the WIE community and meet like-minded peers.

We hope you will join us in launching The Lives of Others 78.2, a special edition of Southerly guest edited by UNSW's George Kouvaras. We are celebrating a collection of fiction, poetry, memoir, essays and reviews by some of Australia's most established and newly established writers. 

Interested in seeing how emerging artists are exploring new possibilities in contemporary painting? Join us for the 2019 Jenny Birt Award exhibition opening and announcement.

Join us for a night with Sienna Brown to celebrate the launch of Sienna's debut novel Master of My Fate. Based on a true story, this is a novel about one man’s journey to become his own master, from slavery in Jamaica, through to eventual freedom in colonial New South Wales. 

Sienna will be in conversation with Jacqui Newling, The Colonial Gastronomer and author of Eat Your History.

Part of the 2019 Sydney Film Festival Public Talks Program

As a supporting partner of the 2019 Sydney Film Festival, UNSW Arts & Social Sciences is proud to present a free public talk featuring the filmmakers behind She Who Must Be Loved and Merata: How Mum Decolonised the World.