University Events Calendar
August, 2012

Date/Time: Monday, 24 August 2009, 8:00 pm
Location: Hughes Building, Level 7, Council Room, North Terrace Campus
Cost: FREE

New Public Lecture Series (Classical Association SA, University of Adelaide)

Inaugural HENRY DARNLEY NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE (and Second CASA lecture 2009)

Associate Professor Peter Davies (Emeritus), University of Tasmania, Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide, will speak on:
"Censorship: Ovid and free speech in Augustine's Rome".

Background to the Lecture Series

The Henry Darnley Naylor Memorial Lecture series has been created after the Centenary celebrations of CASA in 2008 with a view to honouring its founder, Prof Henry Darnley Naylor. Born in 1872 in England, he migrated to Melbourne in 1895 and held a teaching position at the university there before coming to Adelaide in 1907. He became the fifth Hughes Professor in Classics and was one of the most distinguished of the eight incumbents from 1874 to 1992. The founder of the Classical Association, he held the Hughes Chair until 1927, when he retired early to promote the work of the League of Nations. He died in 1945.

The University of Adelaide was founded in 1874. The Hughes Chair of Classics was a foundation chair, made possible by the benefaction of Sir Walter Watson Hughes, whose statue is in front of the Mitchell Building.

Contact: Classical Association (website), Classics DX 650-114, Business: +61 8 8303 5247, Fax: +61 8 8303 5241