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Date: Thursday 21st August 2008
Time: 5:30 for 6:00-7:00pm
Location: Woolley Common Room
Cost: Free

This book of memoirs by Emeritus Professor Paul Crittenden, former Dean of Arts, will be launched by Genevieve Lloyd.

Date: Thursday 28th August 2008
Time: 5:30 for 6:00-7:00pm
Location: Woolley Lecture Theatre N395
Cost: Free

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the beloved Australian artist Lloyd Rees. His remarkable forty-one year teaching association with the Faculty of Architecture, at the University of Sydney, left an enduring legacy, not simply through the aesthetic and humanistic sensibilities of generations of architecture students that he nurtured, but through works of art which remain part of the university’s permanent collection. Dr Edward Duyker will speak about Lloyd Rees' life, his work and his special relationship with the university.

Dr Edward Duyker OAM, FAHA is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies and shares a Mauritian heritage with the artist Lloyd Rees. He is the author of seventeen books, including a number of prize-winning biographies of early French explorers and naturalists. In November 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Date: Thursday 25th September 2008
Time: 5:30 for 6:00-7:00pm
Location: Woolley Lecture Theatre N395
Cost: Free

In his Inaugural Lecture, Professor Jeffrey Riegel, Head of the School of Languages and Cultures, will explore the relationship between the famous eighteenth-century Chinese poet Yuan Mei and his female disciples. Yuan Mei’s meetings with them - a source of scandal at the time - are captured in a painting, now kept in the Shanghai Museum, the significance of which will be examined in the lecture.

Prior to his appointment at Sydney, most of Jeffrey Riegel’s 30-year academic career was spent at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired from the position of Agassiz Professor of Chinese in 2007. He travels frequently to China and has long been committed to helping bring about a greater understanding of China.

As Head of the School of Languages and Cultures he has broadened this commitment by stressing the need for Australians to recognise the importance of learning languages other than English and of gaining deeper familiarity with cultures outside the Anglo-American sphere.

For further information regarding upcoming events, please contact

Angus Martin
tel: +61 (0)418 614 964
e-mail: angus.martin@usyd.edu.au

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Paul Crittenden
tel: +61 2 9799 7796
e-maill: paul.crittenden@usyd.edu.au

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Rosemary Huisman
tel: +61 2 9437 4700

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