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12:30pm WEDNESDAY 5 November 2008 in Q402 12:30pm Barb Ryan
On Communication with Communities in a
Crisis: medium and mode. Abstract forthcoming. 1:00pm Catherine Dewhirst ‘Italian
Community and Nation-Building in Australia, 1881-1915
Dr Lara Lamb and Dr Uros Cvoro, Seminar Series Coordinators Toowoomba Campus of USQ
Queensland Vintage Aeroplane Group & Australian Flying Museum
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
Congratulations to Laurie Johnson for winning the International Award for Excellence from the International Journal on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
CONFERENCE
PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE CONFERENCE 2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
13-14 FEBRUARY 2009
Culture, retrieval and revival
Memory and the practice of everyday life
History, ideology and refashioning the past
Colonialism and its aftermaths
Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories
Public memory and national identities
Memory and myth
Public memory as false consciousness
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
PROFESSOR MARILYN LAKE, HISTORIAN, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
SYLVIA LAWSON, WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC
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.
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