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NEW
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FREE PUBLIC
SEMINARS
11:00pm
FRIDAY
29 August 2008
Q124A
"Voices from Banyo:
An Oral and Social History of The Pius XII Provincial Seminary
(1941 – 2001) from The Perspectives of its Ordained and
Unordained Students"
James Madden
Also ....
12:30pm
WEDNESDAY
3rd September 2008
in Q402
Ancestral
Villages of the Keraho: Motu Hiri pottery trade and the
archaeology of the Kikori River Delta
12:30pm
Bryce Barker and Lara Lamb
Society as
Spectacle: Norman Lindsay's Olympian Ideology
1:00pm
Jayson Althofer
Dr Lara Lamb and Dr Uros Cvoro, Seminar Series Coordinators
Toowoomba Campus of USQ
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Public
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Research
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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
CALL FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS
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Congratulations to
Laurie Johnson
for winning the
International
Award for Excellence from the International Journal on
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
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CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE
CONFERENCE 2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
QUEENSLAND, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
13-14 FEBRUARY 2009
‘LEGACIES
09’
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Culture,
retrieval and revival
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Memory
and the practice of everyday life
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History,
ideology and refashioning the past
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Colonialism and its aftermaths
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Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories
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Public
memory and national identities
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Memory
and myth
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Public
memory as false consciousness
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
PROFESSOR MARILYN LAKE, HISTORIAN, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
SYLVIA
LAWSON, WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC
Recent
Features:
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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. |
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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.
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The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies
edited
by
Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J. McNiven
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| 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.
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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
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