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21 May 2024
Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and 'moral portraits'
From heroic Roman emperors to caricature and King Charles III, Professor Roger Benjamin from Art History discusses Vincent Namatjira's painting of Gina Rinehart and when or if a portrait's subject should have control over the artist's depiction.
20 May 2024
The tentacles of retracted science reach deep into social media. A simple button could change that.
On social media, health myths based on debunked science abound. A new tool could be social media's best defence against misinformation.
17 May 2024
Associate Professor Sophie Gee appointed inaugural Vice-Chancellor Fellow
The University of Sydney has appointed Associate Professor Sophie Gee as inaugural Vice-Chancellor Fellow with a focus on public intellectual discourse and collaboration.
13 May 2024
How travel 'bucket lists' help cancer patients handle life and death
Dr Leah Williams Veazey, Dr Katherine Kenny and Professor Alex Broom from the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies explore the significance and potential downfalls of bucket lists for cancer patients, and how dreams of adventure change in the face of illness.
08 May 2024
Australia's Eurovision entry is the first to sing in First Nations language: meet Electric Fields
Musicologists and linguists at Sydney Conservatorium of Music share their knowledge on Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, one of the most widely spoken Australian First Nations languages used in Electric Fields' song "One Milkali (One Blood)" performed at Eurovision 2024.
01 May 2024
The President is a brilliant revival of a play of decay, terror and revulsion
Dr Alexander Howard, senior lecturer in English, reviews The President by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, at the Sydney Theatre Company, a co-production with Dublin's Gate Theatre.
01 May 2024
Where to next in Australia's battle with Elon Musk and X?
Professor Terry Flew, in Digital Communications and Culture, says the Australian government's battle with Elon Musk and X over violent content appears admirable, but will it change anything for those vulnerable to its harm?
30 April 2024
Sydney Con Jazz Festival 2024 hosts the best of Australian jazz
Sydney Conservatorium of Music has announced the lineup for its one-day jazz festival on Sunday 2 June, 2024. Music lovers can enjoy jazz performances by Australia's best artists in six concert locations around the Con.
24 April 2024
A WW2 Spitfire was lost in the Norwegian wilderness for 76 years. Now a Sydney team is helping to rebuild it.
The University of Sydney is part of an international project that is "reverse-engineering" engine parts for a rare Spitfire that was last flown by a Great Escape pilot and recovered from a peat bog in 2018.
22 April 2024
'Strong theatre with unwavering precision': Into the Shimmering World asks us what does it mean to be good?
Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies, reviews the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Into the Shimmering World, a powerful and unsettling new Australian play by Angus Cerini.
19 April 2024
Dunera Boys theatre production recreated for 81st anniversary
Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies, is researching and recreating theatre created by the original Dunera Boys while interned as enemy aliens during the Second World War, including a musical revue titled Sergeant Snow White.
13 April 2024
AI can write you a poem and edit your video. Now, it can help you be funnier
University of Sydney researchers have developed an AI application using cartoons from The New Yorker to help people be funnier.
05 April 2024
ABBA: 50 years since Waterloo
Dr Jadey O'Regan, lecturer in Contemporary Music Practice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, recalls the magic of ABBA's Waterloo as the group releases a 50th anniversary edition of their classic pop album.
04 April 2024
Museum removes Egyptian body parts from galleries
The Chau Chak Wing Museum has this week removed unwrapped mummified body parts from its Egyptian galleries.
03 April 2024
Puppets could offer valuable support for autistic teenagers
Puppets could potentially provide autistic teens with a tool to communicate, express their identity and interact socially in ways that are uniquely their own, according to a new study by Dr Olivia Karaolis, lecturer in special and inclusive education.
22 March 2024
Svetlana Sterlin wins Australia's richest poetry prize
Svetlana Sterlin, a Brisbane poet, has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her book-length unpublished manuscript called If Movement were a Language. The prize includes $40,000 and publication of her manuscript by Vagabond Press.
21 March 2024
American Civil War: prize-winning new book reveals plight of underage soldiers
Associate Professor Frances M. Clarke, an historian in the School of Humanities, has won the Lincoln Prize, the highest American Civil War history prize, for her book exploring the importance of underage enlistment in the American Civil War era.
14 March 2024
The risks of a digital cold war
Dr Chunmeizi Su from the Discipline of Media and Communications says if we're voting yes for a TikTok ban, we're voting for a new digital cold war, further away from the globalised internet as it should be.
06 March 2024
The Lewis Trilogy is ultimately about a love for theatre
Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies, reviews The Lewis Trilogy, a sweeping tale by Australian playwright Louis Nowra, and ponders the power of a shared love of theatre in a "strange little room" between 120 in the audience.
05 March 2024
Sydney Con announces 2024 Indigenous Artists-in-Residence
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music welcomes Nancy Bates and Tim Gray as the 2024 Indigenous Artists-in-Residence. They follow a successful residency by artists Nardi Simpson and Troy Russell.
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