November
Articles
25 November 2020
On breaking barriers and overcoming your greatest challenges
Economics and Law alumna, Kerry Chikarovski shares her pathway into politics and the leadership lessons she has learnt along the way.
25 November 2020
Bigger Brother is watching
George Orwell鈥檚 Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, is more famous than ever today for its predictions of political surveillance, censorship and disinformation. Despite its prescience, Peter Marks, Professor of English at the University of Sydney, argues that the novel should not be read as a despairing dystopia but as a universal 鈥済o-to resistance text鈥�.
18 November 2020
In-country learning online: Experiencing Italy from home
From language workshops to cultural tours, two students share how they got a taste of Italy through our first-ever virtual OLE in-country unit.
11 November 2020
How languages help you stand out from the crowd
From law to tech, public health to environmental policy, meet some of our language graduates who are making an impact across various fields in Australia and beyond.
09 November 2020
Holocaust memory: An Australian story?
75 years on since the liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust studies expert Dr Avril Alba explores the legacy of Holocaust remembrance in historical and contemporary Australian life.
02 November 2020
"I don鈥檛 like Zorba"
A conversation with Vrasidas Karalis starts with Modern Greek, his official subject at the University of Sydney, and meanders into Classical Greece, the novels of Patrick White, the cinematography of Mad Max, the streets of Glebe, and many other pathways in the cultural labyrinth of this exuberant Greek-Australian ambassador.