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The Value of Social Science in Food Systems Research

The Value of Social Science in Food Systems Research

3 September 2025 | Public Talk or Lecture

The social sciences are too often treated as tangential, providing a background to biomedical studies, or for translating results from clinical trials for wider audiences. This can leave research prone to reifying individuals, overlooking commercial and social...

18th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture | Should we abolish universities?

18th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture | Should we abolish universities?

18 August 2025 | Public Talk or Lecture

2025 marks the 50th year of Political Economy at the University of Sydney and the 18th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture. Please join us for this most thought-provoking lecture and share in the celebratory milestone. In the last generation there has been heavy...

Panda Diplomacy Revisited: State Interests and Public Emotions

Panda Diplomacy Revisited: State Interests and Public Emotions

12 August 2025 | Public Talk or Lecture, Seminar

Existing scholarship on China’s ‘panda diplomacy’ emphasises that it is a highly successful form of modern public diplomacy, whose intended effects are not to impress or placate rulers, but to encourage positive feelings among the publics of the receiving countries....

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