This Week: BIG IDEAS Returns for 2013: Smart Art, David Williamson, Diverse Democracy, International Development & the Rise of Women!

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host We hope you've had a wonderful festive season & a great start to 2013! Tomorrow 11am we kick off Big Ideas Series 6 with ABC1 SHORTCUTS - two great talks from London's Royal Society of the Arts: Hanna Rosin - The End of Men & the Rise of Women, followed by a discussion by Nicolas Berggruen & Nathan Gardels about different perspectives on democracy. Then David Malouf gives an insider's view on the Jeffrey Smart retrospective at the University of SA 's Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide. (The Jeffery Smart  exhibition will be at TarraWarra Museum of Art - Healesville VIC until 31st March 2013) Wednesday 11am on ABC1 EXTENDED - David Williamson, the playwright who started his career as a mechanical engineer, reflects on the 'python squeeze' he says could destroy the creative arts in this country in his lecture at The University of Notre Dame in Fremantle WA for the National Tertiary Education Union. At the new time of Friday 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - David Malouf gives an insider's take on Jeffrey Smart's paintings. Malouf is a great friend and neighbour of Smart's in Italy and he speaks with a lot of warmth, painterly knowledge and humour about the construction and impact of Smart's work. Sunday at 10.30pm on ABCNEWS24 - an extract from a very good Australian Council for International Development session held in Canberra late last year, featuring Yolanda Kakabadse, Fiu Mataese Elisara-La'ulu, and Owen Barder, the panel goes back to basics regarding development and the big challenges presented by climate change. Connect Follow Watch highlights This Week on TV Arts David Williamson on the Future of Creative Arts Education in Australian Universities David Williamson, mechanical engineer/playwright reflects here on the "python squeeze" that he figures will destroy the creative arts in this country. more » Wednesday 6 February 2013, 11am on ABC1 Culture and Society Hanna Rosin on The End of Men and the Rise of Women Hanna Rosin, a senior writer at The Atlantic magazine, delivers here the argument from her latest book – The End of Men and the Rise of Women. more » Tuesday 5 February 2013, 11am on ABC1 Arts David Malouf on Jeffrey Smart Writer and poet David Malouf is a great friend and neighbour of artist Jeffrey Smart. He speaks here with warmth, humour and a lot of painterly knowledge about the construction and impact of Smart's work. more » Tuesday 5 February 2013, 11am on ABC1 Friday 8 February 2013, 11.30pm on ABC News24 Environment Sustainable Development :The Big Debates The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) brought together some of the big thinkers for this conference exploring the big debates in sustainable development. more » Sunday 10 February 2013, 10.30pm on ABC News24 Editor's Picks Culture and Society All the Single Ladies Kate Bolick wrote a cover story for The Atlantic magazine ‘All the Single Ladies’ tracing her own ambivalence about relinquishing the goal of a traditional marriage. Hardly an original dilemma, but she struck a current chord among single, weste more » Culture and Society David Malouf: The Search for Contentment "The Happy Life"...what exactly is it, and how do we get some? It's one of the most enduring of existential questions. In his most recent Quarterly Essay, one of Australia's favourite authors and public intellectuals gives it a modern twist. more » Arts Festival of Dangerous Ideas: The Arts Don't Deserve a Place Here WARNING - The following talk is rated MA+. It contains very coarse language. The question of what makes good art is something that has been debated long before the invention of the crayon. Somewhere in the murky waters of subjectivity, the differing roles more » Big Ideas TV| Big Ideas Radio| Contact Us You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2013 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters