The 18th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy was held at the University of Sydney on 10 September 2025.
The 2025 event, part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, was delivered by Emerita Professor Raewyn [...]
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In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, whether they amount to a case for abolition, and what practical processes of abolition are under way.
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The 17th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture
Dollar Hegemony as Law-Making Power, or How the Dollar Shapes the Rules of Global Capitalism
Speaker: Ntina Tzouvala (ANU)
Date and time: Thursday 12 September, doors open 5:30 pm, lecture 6-8 pm
Location: Social [...]
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2023 Wheelwright Lecture Speaker: Professor Heidi Norman, 'Not Going Away: First People and the Australian Economy'.
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The 15th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), was delivered by Jessica Whyte on Wednesday [...]
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15th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture. Hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc).
Jessica Whyte, [...]
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The 14th E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture was delivered on 25 November 2021 by Kim Stanley Robinson. The annual lecture is hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political [...]
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How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political [...]
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