University Events Calendar

24 May, 2013

Information Session - PM's Australia Asia Awards

Date/Time: Friday, 24 May 2013, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Location: Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building

This information session will provide information and advice about the application process for the prestigious Prime Minister's Australia Asia Awards, valued up to $63,500.

The Prime Minister's Australia Asia Outgoing Scholarships provides financial support for Australian undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake study or research in Asia towards their Australian undergraduate or postgraduate qualification.

Recipients will have the opportunity to enrich their academic experience through exposure to unique education systems, teaching expertise and comparative perspectives while studying in distinctive locations or undertaking collaborative research at leading universities in Asia.

Contact: Dr Glen Stafford, Email: glen.stafford@adelaide.edu.au, Manager, Academic and Global Relations, Global Engagement Office, Business: 8313 6389

R.H. Symons Lecture

Date/Time: Friday, 24 May 2013, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Location: Plant Research Centre Auditorium, Waite Campus

Cost: Free

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Speaker: Professor David Bird, North Carolina State University, USA.

Title: Root-knot nematodes deploy a complex repertoire of peptide hormone mimics to subvert plant developmental processes.

The primary focus of Dr. Bird's research group is to understand the mechanisms underlying parasitic interactions between nematodes and plants. David was a pioneer in framing the key questions in the context of nematode and host development. Together with collaborators world-wide, his group has been instrumental in establishing the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne hapla, as the preeminent genetic system to model less-tractable nematode-host interactions, and as a platform for comparative genomics (www.hapla.org). His current program also emphasizes vaccine development for malaria-like diseases of cats and dogs.

This lecture is named in honour of former Emeritus Professor in Plant Science at the Waite, Professor Bob Symons. Please see weblink for more details.

The audience is invited to stay and talk with the speaker over drinks and finger food following the seminar.

Contact: Dr Matthew Gilliham, Email: matthew.gilliham@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/matthew.gilliham, ARC Future Fellow and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Business: +61 8 8313 8145, Mobile: +61 431 663 614

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS by Julian Doyle

Date/Time: Friday, 24 May 2013 - Saturday, 25 May 2013, 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm

Location: Little Theatre

Cost: All tickets $15

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WAGNER v. NIETZSCHE - A clash of ideas between two titans!

The Theatre Guild continues its 2013 season with a staged play reading of 'Twilight of the Gods', presented in association with the Richard Wagner Society of South Australia to mark Wagner's 200th birthday.

On Christmas Day 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche working in Turin, completed his final piece of writing; a treatise attacking Wagner called 'Nietzsche contra Wagner'. Less than two weeks later on 3rd January 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown. He was found in the street, weeping and embracing a horse.

'Twilight of the Gods' is set in the Lunatic Asylum in Turin and opens with Nietzsche strapped to a chair. The ghost of Richard Wagner appears in his tormented mind and thus begins a comic and dramatic clash of the egos between the former friends.

Director Warwick Cooper says "It is fitting that a celebration of Wagner's birth in May 1813 should take place in the Australian city that first successfully staged the 'Ring Cycle'. This is a play that will appeal to those who love opera, theatre, philosophy and those who just love a drama which is both historical and psychological".

Playwright Julian Doyle worked closely with the Monty Python team whilst continuing his successful career as a director of commercials and music videos. He is most famous for editing their films and is indeed 'infamous' as the policeman in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' whose hand abruptly concludes the film!

With Pythonesque imagination, rigour and vigour, Julian Doyle deftly weaves the words of Wagner and Nietzsche into a dialogue that is both historical and contemporary in its impact.

The Theatre Guild is delighted to welcome back to the Little Theatre stage John Edge, last seen as 'John of Gaunt' in Richard II in 2009 and Michael Baldwin who won an Adelaide Critics Circle award for his portrayal of 'Creon' in Antigone last year, as Wagner and Nietzsche respectively. They are joined by acclaimed local actor Anne Cooper.

A powerful psychological drama of ideas, passions, humanity and love.

TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY - FRIDAY 24 (7.30PM) & SATURDAY 25 MAY (2PM) 2013
TICKETS: All tickets $15
From www.adelaide.edu.au/theatreguild or cash on the door, subject to availability

Contact: Theatre Guild, Email: theatreguild@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/theatreguild, Administrator, University of Adelaide Theatre Guild, Business: +61 8313 5999, Fax: 8313 5019

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