Past SUAA Functions and Events

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

8th May 2008
Professor Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy

A discussion on concepts of liberty from Hobbes to Foucault and how they can help us in evaluating current encroachments on our liberty made in the name of a struggle against global terrorism.

17th April
Trevor Howells

Faculty of Architecture

“Ivory Towers and Dreaming Spires: the architecture of the University of Sydney

12th March
2008 Welcome

The Dean of Arts, Professor Stephen Garton, spoke on changes in the Faculty of Arts.

• 29th November
  Robert Winter
  “Comedy is a Serious Business”
• 25th October, 2007
  Professor Mark Colyvan
  Philosophy
  “Environmental Philosophy: beyond environmental ethics”
• 18th September, 2007
  Professor Paul Redding
  Philosophy
  “Idealism: a philosophy that dares not speak its name”
• 26th July, 2007
  Professor Helen Dunstan
  “A Chinese Lesson for New Orelans ... and Elsewhere?”
• 31st May, 2007
  Professor Ken Dutton
  University of Newcastle
  “A Most Unusual Volume: the history of a detection”
• 1st May, 2007
  Professor Geraldine Barnes
  English
  “Meeting the Medieval Monstrous; an Australian Perspective”
• 20th March, 2007
  Professor Stephen Garton
  Dean, Faculty of Arts
  “The State of the Faculty of Arts in 2007”

The texts of all the 2007 public lectures are to be found in volume 29 of Arts.

• Thursday 26 October 2006
  Professor Margaret C. Miller
  Department of Classics and Ancient History
  Inaugural Lecture "Orientalism and Ornamentalism: Athenian Reactions to Archaemenid Persia"
• August 2006
  Professor Robert Aldrich
  Department of History
  Sonia Marks Memorial Lecture 2006
  Inaugural Lecture "Coming to Terms with the Colonial Past - the French and Others"
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  May 2006
  Professor Eric Csapo
  Department of Classics and Ancient History
  Inaugural Lecture "Cockfights, Contradictions, and the Mythopoetics of Ancient Greek Culture"
• Tuesday 20 March 2006
  Dean of Arts, Professor Stephen Garton
  "What's new in the Faculty of Arts - and how to find out about it."

• Tuesday 8th November 2005
  Professor Virginia Spate
  'The Dream of the body as nature': Themes in nineteenth-century French paintings.
• Tuesday 18th October 2005
  Professor Penny Gay
  Professor in English Literature and Drama
  Inaugural Lecture '"So persuasive an Eloquence"? Roles for women on the eighteenth-century stage'
• Wednesday 8th June 2005
  Monsieur Laurent Delahousse, Consul-General for France
  Presentation of Les Palmes académiques award to Dr Elizabeth Bonner
• Wednesday 1st June 2005
  Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman
  Honorary Associate, Department of History
  Special lecture: "Machiavelli, Mazzini and Many Things"
• Thursday 28th April 2005
  Gay McAuley
  Honorary Professor, Performance Studies
  Performing in Place: What Happens When Theatre Moves Outside the Theatre?
• Tuesday 12 April 2005
  Professor Dr Walther Ludwig
  "Astrology in Antiquity, the Renaissance and Today"
• Tuesday 22nd March 2005
  Dean of Arts, Professor Stephen Garton
  "What's new in the Faculty of Arts - and how to find out about it."

• Wednesday 3rd November
  Professor Elspeth Probyn
  Blush: The Faces of Shame
• Tuesday 19th October
  Dr Denise Yim
  "Viotti and the Chinnerys: A Relationship charted through Letters"
• Thursday 16th September
  Professor Ken Dutton
  Writing People's Lives: Reflexions of an Amateur Biographer
• Tuesday 31st August
  Dr Robert McKitterick
  "The History of the Book: a Discipline and its Impact"
• Thursday 19th August 2004
  Robert Winter
  "A Tale of Two Concepts: Location Shooting in Australia for Film and Television"
• Thursday 12th August
  Professor Joseph Farrell
  Catullus to Martial: The Author's Body and the (Im)materiality of the Classical Text
• 9th August
  Professor John Clark
  "Asian/ Chinese/ Japanese Art: Highlighting Morrissey Bequest Acquisitions"
• 12th May
  Professor Elizabeth Webby
  Ealing Studios' Australian Adventure.
  The SUAA Annual General Meeting was held immediately before the lecture.
• 5th May
  Professor Roger Benjamin
  "From Tomes to Terabytes: Reflections on Art History in the Era of Visual Culture"
• 28th April
  Professor Shane White
  Bring on 'Da Noise, Bring on 'Da Funk: the Sounds of Slavery in Richmond in the 1850s
• 24 March
  In association with the Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture
  Djon Mundine, OAM
  Curating Indigenous Art for the 21st Century

• 2 December
  SUAA in association with the Celtic Studies Foundation:
  Celtic Studies Christmas Concert
• 14 October
  Professor June Sinclair, Stephen Garton, Anthony Stephens, Richard Waterhouse, Associate Professors Adrian Mitchell and Tim Fitzpatrick
  The Future of the Humanities
• 16 September
  Professor John Clark
  Okakura Tenshin and AEsthetic Nationalism
  26 August
  Dr Elizabeth Bonner
  The Stuarts of Aubigny and their Family Archive
• 20 May
  "All Things Human: a Panorama of research in the Faculty of Arts"
• 8th May
  Arts Generations
• 29th April
  Professor Moira Gatens
  "Imagination, Power and Freedom"
• 15th April
  The Sonia Marks Lecture 2003
  Professor Margaret Sankey, McCaughey Professor of French Studies
  The French and Terra Australis from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

• 31st October
  Jill Ker Conway
  Biography and Autobiography: the Genre of Choice
• 22nd August
  Professor Nerida Newbigin
  Playing a Rôle - Confraternities, Drama and the Academy
• 8th August
  Robert Winter
  Ealing Comedies: The Tip of the Iceberg
• Thursday 25 July
  The Hartley Bequest Program
  with The Department of French Studies, University of Sydney
  and The Sydney University Arts Association:
  Launch of the book
  Ian Henning (1905-1975): A Man and His Times by Kenneth R. Dutton
• Thursday 30th May
  SUAA in collaboration with the Classical Society of N.S.W:
  launch of the book
  The Writing on the Wall
  by the late Kevin Lee
  with Anne Rogerson and Dexter Hoyos
  on Latin inscriptions at the University of Sydney
• Thursday 23 May
  June Duncan Owen
  The launch of her important new book
  Mixed Matches: Inter-racial Marriage in Australia
• Thursday 16th May
  Professor Anne Boyd
  Landscape, Spirituality and Music:
  An Australian Story
• Tuesday 2 May
  Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Kramer
  The Prodigal Daughter: Australian Literature and the Great World
• Tuesday 19th March
  Mongrel Theatre in an excerpt from
  Our Country's Good
  by Timberlake Wertenbaker
  based on Thomas Keneally's The Playmaker

• Tuesday 20 November
  SUAA END OF YEAR RECEPTION
  SUAA members please note that the Association's Annual General Meeting will be held prior to this function in the same room from 5:30 pm.
  Followed by
  Anne Dunn
  Lecturer in Media
  Theme of media education
  Work in Progress:
  Observations on the Relationship between Journalism and University Communication and Media Courses
• 
  Tuesday 9 October
  6:00 for 6:30-8:00pm
  Stephen Roberts Theatre
  Professorial Lecture
  Professor Margaret Harris
  Personal Chair in English
  "George Eliot on Stage and Screen"
  For more details, click here
• Tuesday 25 September
  KNOW YOUR UNIVERSITY
  Spring Visits and Guided Tours
  Courtesy of the Curators of the Museums and Art Collection
  The tour will befin at the Nicholson Museum
  9.30 to 10.30am The Nicholson Museum
  10.30 Morning Tea in the Nicholson Museum
  10.45 to 11.15 Nicholson lower gallery and consservation laboratory
  11.15 to 12.45 History Tour of the University
  1pm Lunch in the University Club at own cost
• Tuesday 18 September
  KNOW YOUR UNIVERSITY
  Spring Visits and Guided Tours
  Courtesy of the Curators of the Museums and Art Collection
  The tour will begin at the Macleay Museum
  9.30 to 10.30am The Macleay Museum
  10.30 Morning Tea in the Macleay Museum
  10.45 to 11.15 Macleay Insect Collection and the Historic Photographic Collection
  11.15 to 11.45 The War Memorial Art Gallery
  11.45 to 12.45 The Arts stores and walking tour of art collection on campus
  1pm Lunch in the University Club at own cost (optional
• Tuesday 18 September
  Professor Stephen Garton
  Professor of History
  Dean of the Faculty of Arts
  "Evil: The Making of the Psychopath"
• Wednesday 30 May
  Dr Barry Spurr
  Department of English
  "The language of Sport"
• Wednesday 16 May
  Reception MacLaurin Hall,
  The University of Sydney
  6.00pm to 8.00pm
  The Vice-Chancellor's Sesquicentenary Leading Lights Series
  "Celebrating the Faculty of Arts"
• Wednesday 18th April
  Mabel Lee
  Honorary Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, University of Sydney
  To the Heart of Chaos:
  Nobel Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian
• Wednesday 21 March 5:30pm - 7:30pm Woolley Common Room
  SUAA Programme 2001 LAUNCH

• Wednesday 29th March 2000 Room
  Programme 2000 Launch Thursday 11th May 2000
  Inaugural Lecture
  Professor Stephen Gaukroger
  Personal Chair in Philosophy and the Philosophy of Science
  "How Mindless Animals Think: Descartes on Automata"
• Thursday 25th May 2000
  Special Lecture
  Professor Bettina Cass
  Personal Chair in Sociology and Social Policy
  Dean, Faculty of Arts
  "The Future of Humanities and Social Sciences Education and Scholarship in Australia"
• Thursday 29th June 2000
  Inaugural Lecture
  Mr John Shipp
  University Librarian
  "Selling the Collections: the Future of the University Library"
• Thursday 27th July 2000
  Professorial Lecture
  Professor Paul Crittenden, Professor of Philosophy
  "Moral Bearings: Thinking about the Basis of an Ethical Life"
• Thursday 31st August 2000
  INAUGURAL LECTURE
  Professor James Martin
  Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney
  "Grammar Meets Genre: Reflections on the Sydney School"
• Wednesday 25th October 2000
  J.M. Ward Lecture Dinner
  organised by the J.M. Ward Foundation, Department of History
  Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton
  "Nation Building: the next 100 years of the Australian Experiment"
• Thursday 2 November 2000
  Celebrating 60 years of Social Work at the University of Sydney
  60th Anniversary of Social Work
  ALUMNI DINNER in The Great Hall of the University of Sydney
  The Guests of Honour were
  Mrs Margaret Whitlam
  Patron of the Social Work Alumni Association
  Justice Marcus Einfeld
  Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
  will present the after-dinner address
  During the ceremony, Mrs Margaret Whitlam was inducted as our Patron
• Thursday 9 November 2000
  SOCIAL WORK - ALUMNI SEMINAR
  Mr Robert Fitzgerald
  Commissioner for Community Services, NSW
  Children and Justice: child welfare in New South Wales
• Thursday 16th November
  Association's Annual General Meeting
  Associate Professor Richard Waterhouse
  on Federation.
• Thursday 23 November 2000
  The Seminar was cancelled
  The Hon. Daryl Melham
  Former Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Affairs and Shadow Minister for Reconciliation, Justice and reconciliation.