12-20 September 2026
🚨 PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologise for any inconvenience. 🚨 About Sydney Staff and Student Workshops in Anthropology, Research, and Methods (SSSWARM) is a postgraduate workshop series aiming to encourage dialogue...
Please join us for the annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. Guest Speaker: Geoff Mann is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser...
Exposing the Shark Attack Industrial Complex will examine and challenge the public's relationship with sharks, the beach, and our own identity. The way social, political, and commercial interests combine to portray all sharks in a one-dimensional manner to generate...
Description Our Stories invites community members and anyone interested in storytelling to explore how people represent their experiences and places through film. The evening features a short talk by Dr Habib Moghimi (University of Sydney) and Nick Grinpukel (Social...
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...
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...
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....