Name: Professor Michael Sherraden Bio: Director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University and author of Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy, 1991 Topic to be announced - 1st September 2005 Assets, Poverty and Public Policy This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in 2005 (pages 169-176) Michael Sherraden is [...]
Name: Professor Susan Greenfield Bio: Advisor to Britain's Social issues Research Centre, author of The Human Brain: A Guided Tour [Phoenix Press, 1998] and general editor or The Human Mind Explained [Cassell, 1996] The Future of the Brain - 24th August 2005 The Future of the Brain This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in [...]
Name: Jon Halliday Bio: Former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, University of London and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story Writing About Mao This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in 2005 (pages 93-101) Born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China in 1952, Jung Chang was briefly a Red Guard, then worked as [...]
Name: Jung Chang Bio: Author of Wild Swans, which sold more than two million copies and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story Writing About Mao - 21st July 2005 Wild Swans - A Personal Interpretation of the 20th Century - 26th January 1993 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.5 No.3 in 1993 (pages 1-7) [...]
Name: Professor Deborah Lipstadt Bio: Author of History On Trial and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory [Free Press, 1993] Topic to be announced - 6th July 2005 Holocaust Denial and the Extreme Right - 21st July 1994 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.6 No.4 in 1994 (pages 80-90) History on [...]
Name: Professor Maryanne Confoy Bio: Professor of Practical Theology, Jesuit Theological College, and author Morris West Literary Maverick [John Wiley] Remembering Morris West - 24th May 2005 Remembering Morris West This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.3-4 in 2005 (pages 7-23) Morris West died at the age of 84 in 1999. His heyday as a [...]
Name: Professor Herbert Huppert Bio: Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge Bio-Terrorism - A UK Perspective This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.2 in 2005 (pages 93-99) Professor Herbert E Huppert, FRS, University of Cambridge, is Chair of the Royal Society Working Group on Bioterrorism, an independent group established [...]
Name: Nahid Kabir Bio: Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communications and Multimedia at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History [Kegan Paul London, 2004] Muslims In Australia - 15th March 2005 Muslims In Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History This [...]
Name: Professor Geoffrey Bolton Bio: Chancellor of Murdoch University. Professor Cheryl Saunders, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, and Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO, Chancellor of Murdoch University, were the inaugural speakers at the first of an annual seminar, sponsored by The Sydney Institute's Founding Donor Jim Bain. Introducing the speakers, Jim Bain said, "The purpose of this [...]
Name: Professor Cheryl Saunders Bio: Professor of Law, University of Melbourne. Professor Cheryl Saunders, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, and Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO, Chancellor of Murdoch University, were the inaugural speakers at the first of an annual seminar, sponsored by The Sydney Institute's Founding Donor Jim Bain. Introducing the speakers, Jim Bain said, "The purpose [...]
