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Sydney
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Clinton Dines | Sydney | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Hosted by the Lowy Institute, Clinton Dines discusses the nature of change in the People’s Republic of China over the past three decades: the Reform & Opening Era. He assesses the significance of these changes in terms of China’s growing role in the world and for governments a... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 Hosted by the Lowy Institute, Clinton Dines discusses the nature of change in the People’s Republic of China over the past three decades: the Reform & Opening Era. He assesses the significance of these changes in terms of China’s growing role in the world and for governments... » play video
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Joseph Kosuth | Sydney | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Joseph Kosuth has been acknowledged as a pre-eminent international figure in conceptual art since the 1960s. Since creating One and three tables (1965), Kosuth has been celebrated for his outstanding text and light works in architectural settings all over the world. In this lecture t... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 Joseph Kosuth has been acknowledged as a pre-eminent international figure in conceptual art since the 1960s. Since creating One and three tables (1965), Kosuth has been celebrated for his outstanding text and light works in architectural settings all over the world. In this lecture t... » play video
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Helen Clark | Sydney | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 In recent times, the challenges of the developing world have been compounded by multiple crises: the food and fuel crises, the global recession, climatic events, and devastating natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami in Samoa, earthquakes in Indonesia and ma... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 In recent times, the challenges of the developing world have been compounded by multiple crises: the food and fuel crises, the global recession, climatic events, and devastating natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami in Samoa, earthquakes in Indonesia and ma... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 The recent vandalisation of Christian churches in Malaysia has agin focussed attention on the challenges of communal politics in modern Malaysia. In this Lowy presentation, Barry Wain discusses how these attacks reflect a deep crisis at the heart of Malaysian politics, which develope... » play video
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Michael Valenzuela | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Addressing the Mind and Its Potential conference, neuroscientist Dr Michael Valenzuela describes the concept of neuroplasticity in the brain. He cites the tangible benefits that mental and physical activity have on the development and ongoing functioning of the brain to demonstrate how our neural pa... » play video
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Ghassan Hage | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Ghassan Hage is an internationally acclaimed thinker, both as an academic and an arresting public intellectual. In this Inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the Australian Anthropological Society, he looks at the function of anthropology today. He asks, what is the discipline's potent... » play video
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In this discussion at the Mind and its Potential conference, this expert panel addresses how recent discoveries in neuroscience have changed the way we conceive of brain function. Recent thinking proposes that the brain is an infinitely malleable organ, constantly changing and heavily influenced by... » play video
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