Do we need cultural change in our relation to truth? Celebrate the launch of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC). Our expert panel will discuss the role of humanities in addressing the 'post truth' crisis. Release date: 21 November 2018 ...
[audio mp3="https://posttruthinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cynthia-PTI-1.mp3"][/audio] Public trust in science depends on both real and perceived threats to the rigor and reproducibility of its methodological process. This seminar will explore common biases and statistical errors in nutrition and obesity scientific literature, as well as ways to improve transparency and reliability...
A Sydney Ideas event for Innovation Week 2018, exploring the possibility that storytelling is exactly what science needs, with a view to answering the question: Is storytelling bad for science? Featuring Professor Nick Enfield, screen-writer John Collee, dramatist Alana Valentine, Professor Geraint Lewis and Professor Jennifer...
By Sydney Uni Illustration and words by Yasodara Puhule-Gamayalage As people start to leave the Richard Wherrett Studio after the panel discussion, I am hurried by the volunteer usher who shouts ‘run!’, kindly hoping that I won’t miss Professor Nick Enfield. I hurry against the crowd, with...
This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 Rob Wijnberg, De Correspondent Chair: Professor Peter Fray Comments by Lenore Taylor, The Guardian Australia Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, Post-Truth Initiative, UTS School of Communication and Sydney Democracy Network The Great Hall, the Quadrangle | 14 September 6pm Our news is broken. It informs us most about the least...
Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion and personal belief’ (OED). Critics...
In this conversation Professor Nick Enfield, Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney joins host Dr Chris Neff to discuss striving for understanding in language and its relation to the age of fake news. Professor Enfield contributed to research showing that, worldwide, on average we...
In these quick-fire podcasts (around 7 minutes each), members of the Post Truth Initiative at the University of Sydney each give a concise insight into their perspective on the Post-Truth Crisis. “It’s finding the bull, rather than just the bullshit”: David Schlosberg on sources of environmental...
When does evidence obscure the truth? Join us for a forum on the avoidable causes of wrongful conviction. Wrongful convictions can and do happen – it's a sad fact of the Australian legal system. This panel will look at how evidence in legal proceedings can inadvertently...
BZE speaks to Dr Joy Murray, Senior Research Fellow with the multi-disciplinary Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group at the University of Sydney, about her communications work on climate change, suggesting that once producers, consumers and global corporations know the damage that is being done they...