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6 September, 2019
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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
Provocation #2
Date/Time: Friday, 6 September 2019, 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location: in.Cafe, 368 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Cost: Free
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Provocations is a J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice's public forum tackling controversies in the arts in humanities, presented in collaboration with the Sydney Review of Books.
PROVOCATION #2
Join keynote provocateurs Andrew Gibson, Jennifer Rutherford and James Ley to address our Provocation for 2019:
Scholarship is the New Conservative.
You don't have to agree with Joseph North's contention that the historicist/contextualist paradigm usurped the revolutionary potential of literary criticism to recognise that the radicalising intentions of the 1960s and 1970s now sit comfortably within the "knowledge production" machinery and metrics of the contemporary university (Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, 2017). This year, provocateurs will engage fearlessly with the future of Humanities scholarship as we ask:
- What role does criticism play in the future of the Humanities?
- Can we be both scholars and critics?
- How does research management manage us?
- How does the equation of good scholarship with research funding disengage research from its communities and subjects?
- Do we, as scholars within the new university, even dare to ask how "knowledge production" and its measurement regimes depoliticise us avant la lettre?
Contact: Dr Camille Rouliere, Email: camille.rouliere@adelaide.edu.au, Research Support Officer, J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Business: 0883131849
