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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
More information: Visit website
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
Exhibition: History of Book Illustration: 1400 - 1900
Date/Time: Sunday, 18 August 2019 - Friday, 27 September 2019, all day
Location: Level 1, Barr Smith Library
Cost: Free - All welcome
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Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
From woodcut to lithograph, this exhibition explores the history and methods of book illustration, and sheds light on the important role that co-existent images and text play in the transfer and retention of meaningful knowledge.
Visit Level 1 of the Library where you can learn more about these centuries-old techniques and view some of the finest illustrated books Special Collections has to offer.
On display during Barr Smith Library opening hours until 27 September 2019 date.
Contact: Ms Cheryl Hoskin, Email: cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au, Special Collections Librarian, Business: (08) 8313 5224
The human cost of climate change: Estimating long-term mortality
Date/Time: Friday, 30 August 2019, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Benham G10 Benham Lecture Theatre, North Terrace, The University of Adelaide
Cost: Free
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Professor Richard Parncutt, University of Graz, Austria is touring Australia, travelling with a low-carbon footprint whilst delivering his lecture series.
Abstract: Greenhouse-gas emissions are indirectly causing future deaths by multiple mechanisms. For example, reduced food and water supplies will exacerbate hunger, disease, violence, and migration. Predicted death tolls are crucial for policy formulation, but uncertainty increases with temporal distance from the present and estimates may be psychologically biased.
- How will anthropogenic global warming (AGW) affect global mortality due to poverty around and beyond 2100?
- Roughly how much burned fossil carbon corresponds to one future death?
- What are the ethical, legal, psychological, medical, political, economic implications?
- Order-of-magnitude estimates can be made by comparing literature from diverse relevant disciplines. The carbon budget for 2°C AGW (roughly 1012 tonnes of carbon) will indirectly cause roughly 109 future premature deaths (10% of projected maximum global population), spread over one to two centuries.
Please see the website for more information.
The Environment Institute is providing Richard the opportunity to speak and share his own personal views at this event.
Contact: Ms Annemarie Gaskin, Email: annemarie.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/, The University of Adelaide, G05 Benham Building, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Business: (08) 8313 0543
