Celebrating 50 Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney

Gareth Bryant | October 1, 2025

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Thursday 23 October 6:00pm
The Sibyl Centre, The Women’s College
University of Sydney

The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney invites you to a special event celebrating our 50^th anniversary.

Following a long student and staff struggle for a pluralist, progressive and practical economics education, a full undergraduate program in Political Economy was established at the University of Sydney in 1975. Over the ensuing 50 years, Political Economy has educated thousands of students who have gone on to make a significant positive difference across many facets of Australia’s economy and society. The success of Political Economy at Sydney has, in turn, served as an inspiration for the international movement for critical political economy research and teaching.

Political Economy at the University of Sydney has always been sustained by a thriving community of students, graduates and supporters. We invite this community to join us at this milestone event, which will feature a keynote address and reflections from some of our wonderful alumni. Please join us to celebrate the enormous achievements of Political Economy at Sydney and look towards a future that requires political economy ideas, methods and policies more than ever.

If you have not done so already, please RSVP today here: https://events.humanitix.com/political-economy-50th-anniversary

Details

When: Thursday 23 October 6:00pm-8.30pm

Where: The Sibyl Centre, The Women’s College, University of Sydney

Contact: ssps.events@sydney.edu.au

We look forward to seeing you there!

PS: We are putting together a slideshow of photos from the history of Political Economy to show on the night. If you have any photos of people, events or other memorabilia from your association with Political Economy, please email them to g areth.bryant@sydney.edu.au by Thursday 16 October.

PPS: The Journal of Australian Political Economy has released an open access special issue commemorating the 50^thanniversary which can be accessed here: https://www.ppesydney.net/jape-issues/issue-95-winter-2025-50-years-of-political-economy-in-australia/

Poster credit: Cemal Burak Tansel

Image credit: University of Sydney Archives [REF-00090415]

https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/143352?lsk=81b654303e7140025d802fcfc0579e43

The photo is available under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 Licence

Author: Gareth Bryant

Gareth Bryant is a political economist at the University of Sydney. He works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy and as economist-in-residence with the Sydney Policy Lab.

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