Ideas at the House
Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 456
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Leymah Gbowee – The Power of Women & Girls (All About Women Festival)
Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee delivers a powerful talk about harnessing the power of African women to affect change. Moving between the personal and the universal…
00:30:20 |
Sat 18 May 2013
Martin Seligman - On Well-Being and Happiness
Martin Seligman is a bestselling author, world leading psychologist and expert adviser on wellbeing at the highest level of international public policy. According to Seligman, happiness is not the re…
00:58:58 |
Sun 12 May 2013
Panel: Is Rape Culture Everywhere? - Kiran Grewal and Dixie Link-Gordon (Chair: Clementine Ford) (AAW)
With the Delhi gang rape case in everyone's mind, focus on the specific situation of women in India and India's 'rape culture' were put into perspective by a US case in Steubenville Ohio where an unc…
01:03:55 |
Thu 18 Apr 2013
Panel: Invisible Women - Tara Moss, Nikki Gemmel, and Brooke Magnanti (Chair: Rebecca Huntley) (AAW)
A recent survey of media coverage of the US Election showed that over 70% of print stories were written by men and less than 20% percent of coverage was of women, making women almost invisible at the…
00:59:28 |
Thu 18 Apr 2013
Panel: How to Lead - Maria Atkinson, Julie White (Chair: Judith Whelan) (AAW)
The mystique of 'leadership' is such that it has become the Holy Grail for anyone trying to understand why organisations succeed or fail. But being a leader is not something where there are a series …
00:42:39 |
Thu 18 Apr 2013
Panel: Brining Up Daughters - Nigel Marsh, Maya Newell and Barbara Toner (Chair: Dannielle Miller) (AAW)
While daughters can be a learning experience for fathers, mothers with feminist convictions sometimes fall into the trap of seeing their daughter as the next stage in the march towards 'liberation' o…
01:47:34 |
Thu 18 Apr 2013
Noam Chomsky - Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
Noam Chomsky is one of the most celebrated public intellectuals of our time. He is a linguist, philosopher, historian, and social commentator among other things, and author of books influential books…
01:14:33 |
Wed 17 Apr 2013
Alain de Botton - Religion for Atheists
Alain de Botton is a best-selling author and one of the world's most celebrated philosophers. Watch as he discusses his latest book, 'Religion for Atheists,' about the parts of religion that he think…
01:09:17 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Tom Stoppard - In Conversation with Jonathan Biggins
Tom Stoppard is one of the world's greatest dramatists, with a body of work that includes 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,' 'The Real Inspector Hound,' and 'Shakespeare in Love.' Watch Stoppar…
01:18:53 |
Mon 15 Apr 2013
Alexander McCall Smith - Delivers "All the News from Everywhere"
Celebrated Edinburgh novelist Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold over a million copies in Australia. Smith is wise, witty, and full of o…
01:05:05 |
Sun 14 Apr 2013
Terry Pratchett - In Conversation with Garth Nix
Sir Terry Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series of comic fantasy novels that have been translated into 32 languages and sold 65 million copies. In 2007, he was diagnosed with early onset A…
01:14:41 |
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Germaine Greer - The F-Word: Feminism in the Global Context
Germaine Greer has been a recognisible public figure since the publication of her best-selling book, 'The Female Eunich.' Watch Greer deliver her speech on feminism in a global context as part of our…
01:03:11 |
Fri 12 Apr 2013
Naomi Wolf - The F-Word: What's Next for Feminism & Why Should I Care?
Naomi Wolf is a leading feminist and best-selling author of books such as 'The Beauty Myth.' Watch Wolf deliver her speech on the direction and importance of feminism in the future as part of our min…
00:52:26 |
Thu 11 Apr 2013
The F-Word: Feminism Forum - Clem Bastow, Germaine Greer, Eliza Griswold, Naomi Wolf
'The F-Word' at Sydney Opera House was a day of discussion and debate about the state of feminism in a global context and its direction in and importance for the future. The event culminated in forum…
01:16:37 |
Wed 10 Apr 2013
David Suzuki - The Legacy
David Suzuki is a Canadian scientist and environmental activist. Watch Suzuki's profound and moving lecture as he shares a lifetime of lessons about our impact on the planet and his hope for the futu…
01:26:44 |
Tue 09 Apr 2013
Israel & Palestine in the New Middle East - Naomi Chazan, Ghassan Hage, Peter Hartcher, Saree Makdisiand
This talk brings together a range of international and Australian experts to deiver both sides of the debate as they dissect recent events in the Middle East and consider what they mean for the futur…
01:33:35 |
Wed 03 Apr 2013
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