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Criticism as Intervention: The Fictions of J. M. Coetzee
Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 July 2019 - Thursday, 5 September 2019
Location: 209 Napier Building; 314 Ligertwood Building
Cost: Free
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Audit the upcoming University of Adelaide's Arts Master Class (CRICOS #ARTS2004).
Taught by celebrated literary critic, philosopher and writer Professor Andrew Gibson, this course will introduce students to the work of arguably the world's greatest living writer, J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and Professor at the University of Adelaide. Students will have a rare opportunity to practice literary criticism as cultural intervention.
This course will focus on J. M. Coetzee's oeuvre to discuss the politics of critical engagement in regard to the problematic character of contemporary global, neoliberal culture. It will consist of six lectures--six angles of approach to the work of J. M. Coetzee--that will explore the history and possible relevance of an interventionist form of criticism.
This course is presented by the School of Humanities in collaboration with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. For more information: https://bit.ly/2M2Aho9
N.B.: Please note that while auditors can attend lectures, workshops and seminars, they won't be awarded a participation certificate or credits towards a degree. Auditing postgraduate students, however, can claim CaRST hours.
Contact: Dr Camille Rouliere, Email: camille.rouliere@adelaide.edu.au, Website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/, Business: +61 8 8313 9164
Seminar on Macrogenetics
Date/Time: Thursday, 1 August 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location: Benham Lecture Theatre
Cost: Free
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Macrogenetics: amplifying the phylogeography of genes in a changing world
Associate Professor David Nogues-Bravo from the University of Copenhagen will be presenting a seminar on: Macrogenetics: amplifying the phylogeography of genes in a changing world.
Future global scenarios offer a gloomy picture on the fate of biodiversity, but they focus mainly at the species level. However, our knowledge of the magnitude of erosion of global genetic diversity, due to past and current anthropogenic impacts, is at best fragmented, even though it represents the most basic level of biodiversity. New data and approaches for quantifying the distribution of genetic diversity and genetic adaptation to large-scale impacts of global environmental change are converging into an incipient research field: macrogenetics.
This talk will present on-going research lines in Associate Professor's David Nogues-Bravo lab on:
1. Global patterns of genetic and genomic diversity in vertebrates across time and space
2. How past biodiversity dynamics can be used to provide tested biodiversity scenarios, with a special emphasis on fossil, genomic and paleoclimatic approaches and data.
Background
David Nogues-Bravo is a physical geographer and Associate Professor in Historical Biogeography at the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate and GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen. His research crosses the borders of biogeography, climatology and global change biology, with a special emphasis on using past biodiversity dynamics to better forecast the future fate of global biodiversity.
David is editor for Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Ecography and Vice-President of the International Biogeography Society.
David is supported by the Environment Institute during this exciting visit.
Contact: Ms Nadia Meakin, Email: nadia.meakin@adelaide.edu.au, Website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/acs/, Administration Support Officer, Centre for Applied Conservation Science/The University of Adelaide, School of Biological Sciences, Business: 08 8313 2546
