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  The Literary History of Toowoomba:
An on-line resource.

 

On Line Resources:
Toowoomba's Literary History


NEW EVENTS:

FREE PUBLIC SEMINARS

You are invited to the
FACULTY OF ARTS and PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE


Research Seminar Series
12:30pm

WEDNESDAY May 27 2009

in Q502

'The Role of Justice in the Durability of Peace Agreements' 

 Visiting Scholar Dan Druckman, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, and Professor/Scholar in Residence, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane

 

 Dr Lara Lamb and Dr Catherine Dewhirst,

Seminar Series Coordinators

Toowoomba Campus of USQ

 

Queensland Vintage Aeroplane Group & Australian Flying Museum

FESTIVAL OF FLIGHT

Annual fly-In

Watts Bridge Airfield Brisbane Valley

Aug 30-31 2008

 

 

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"Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas about the past that help a public or society understand both its past, present, and by implication, its future." John Bodnar

TWILIGHT ARCHAEOLOGY TALK

Wednesday 27 May 2009

6-7pm   USQ Concert Hall

Don't miss your chance to meet Toowoomba’s very own ‘Time Team’ when husband-wife duo, Assoc Prof Bryce Barker and Dr Lara Lamb present a glimpse into their life, work and research at USQ’s first Twilight Archaeology Talk next week.

 Lecturers in Anthropology at USQ, Bryce and Lara have worked both separately and together on a range of projects including local sites such as the Eagles Nest Depression camp in Redwood Park, the old Toowoomba jail and the Ballard Cottage; pre-European Aboriginal archaeology in the Whitsunday/Bowen region; and community-based research in the Western Gulf of Papua New Guinea.

 The informal discussion will focus on some of the discoveries of their research and how it can contribute to the wider community, as well as their experiences as an ‘archaeological family’, carrying out field work in remote places for extended periods of time with their two young children.

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$17.50 Adult, $14.50 Conc/USQ Staff, $12.50 Student, $7.50 Child

Ticket price includes post-talk function - light refreshments served.

 Book Now:  USQ Artsworx Box Office 07 4631 1111 or boxoffice@usq.edu.au

 

2009 Free Public Seminar Series Timetable

 

 

Congratulations to Kelly McWilliam on the publication of Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World

 

 

 

Congratulations also to Laurie Johnson for winning the  International Award for Excellence from the International Journal on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

 

 

Recent Features:

The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Feruccio Busoni by Judith Crispin

This study explores an elite esoteric tradition of music composition which grew out of Ferruccio Busoni's concept of Junge Klassizitat, or Young Classicality, and is manifested and examined in the two major operas it has generated: Busoni's "Doktor Faust" and Larry Sitsky's "The Golem".  It explores an elite esoteric tradition of music composition, transmitted to succeeding generations by practicing musicians with an avid interest in the occult.   

Police Beat : The Emotional Power of Music in Police Work

by Simone Dennis

This book is concerned with the social processes of being and becoming emotional and of making music, and the ways in which these processes are intertwined in the context of an Australian police department that wields subtle forms of power by emotional and musical means. The book is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a metropolitan police (concert) band. Of primary analytic concern is the embodied and social basis of emotion, and its capacity to facilitate connections between persons in and through musical means.

 

 

 


 

The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies

 edited by

Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J. McNiven

Lithics ‘Down Under’: Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use and Classification

edited by

Christopher Clarkson and Lara Lamb

This monograph takes a new look at various aspects of stone artefact analysis that reveal important and exciting new information about the past, and in particular Australian perspectives on lithics. The ten papers making up this volume tackle a number of issues that have long been at the heart of archaeology’s problematic relationship with stone artefacts.

 

 

City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination

by Chris Lee

City Bushman traces the rise and fall of Henry Lawson's name and reputation from his earliest reception in the 1890s through to his State funeral, his memorialisation in Sydney's Domain, and his celebration as a hot tourist property in rural New South Wales.

'fascinating and important book' The Age

'illuminating ... meticulously researched ...innovative and surprising' History Australia

'an original, stimulating, sometimes provoking study, distinguished by the suppleness of its thinking'  Australian Historical Studies

'an intriguing book … unexpectedly moving … an important account of a story which is not yet ended.’  Australian Literary Studies

City Bushman is an informative, entertaining, and fresh perspective on one of Australia’s most important writers' Biography

 

 

 

 

 


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The Public Memory project has been developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration within the Faculty of Arts and is maintained by the Multimedia Studies Discipline Area at the University of Southern Queensland 2004.

Contact: Dave Boreham