2024
Articles
26 September 2024
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship 2024 recipients announced
Sydney College of the Arts graduates Leigh Rigozzi and Szymon Dorabialski have been awarded a combined total of $40,000 as recipients of the 2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, a prize that supports mid-career and emerging artists to develop their practice through travel.
20 September 2024
Is expensive house advertising affecting the property market?
Dr James Graham from the School of Economics explores the advertising landscape of real estate - do home owners get value for what they pay on advertising fees, and what could the impact of high fees be on the housing market more broadly?
19 September 2024
Early dingoes are related to dogs from New Guinea and East Asia
The findings challenge previous claims that dingoes derived from pariah dogs from India or Thailand.
18 September 2024
What is Australia looking for in its inaugural poet laureate?
Peter Kirkpatrick in the Discipline of English and Writing asks what an Australian poet laureate will be expected to do or achieve ahead of the position's official appointment in 2025.
17 September 2024
How well is the Australian government regulating social media?
Dr Rob Nicholls from the Discipline of Media and Communications evaluates the federal government's regulation of social media companies, in light of the recent proposal to enforce age verification for social media and ban children from accessing a range of digital apps.
10 September 2024
FASS students experience the history and culture of Mumbai
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students travel to India to experience Mumbai’s culture and past with Historian Cindy McCreery and in-country experts.
02 September 2024
Zeus comes in many forms on screen - just as he did in the original myths
Craig Barker, Head of Public Engagement at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, reviews the many portrayals of the mythical god Zeus in film and television, including the new Netflix series KAOS.
29 August 2024
Why Americans do political speeches so well (and debates so badly)
While US political culture is defined by visionary speeches that can launch presidential careers, such as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream," Australia's political speeches, like Keating's Redfern address, are memorable but rare. Why? Associate Professor David Smith explores.
29 August 2024
Revisiting James Baldwin's masterpiece, Giovanni's Room
In celebration of the centenary of James Baldwin's birth, Dr Dan Dixon, Lecturer in English, returns to the significance and dazzling beauty of the American author's groundbreaking novel exploring male desire, Giovanni's Room.
26 August 2024
Young leaders from India and Australia convene at the University of Sydney
The Australia India Youth Dialogue 2024 concluded at the University of Sydney on Thursday 22 August, after a week of discussion between emerging leaders from the two nations.