Category Archives: Events

Author Event: Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Thursday 17 May 2012

By Ainsley | Published: March 15, 2012
Sleeping Beauties Awake: Towards the Establishment of Revival Linguistics The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to an author event with Ghil’ad Zuckermann on Thursday 17 May.  Language revival is becoming increasingly relevant as people seek to recover their lost heritage. Linguists and revivalists worldwide have much to learn from Hebrew’s remarkable, hybridic modern-day rebirth, [...]
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Author Event: Gideon Haigh, Thursday 19 April 2012

By Ainsley | Published: March 8, 2012
It’s Not Cricket! The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to an author event with Gideon Haigh on Thursday 19 April. The title of Gideon Haigh’s talk for the Friends is as witty as the speaker himself. Gideon is a man for all seasons – journalist, author, essayist and TV panellist – covering subjects [...]
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Author Event: Dorothy Driver, Thursday 24 November 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: October 21, 2011
Topics in South African Literature The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Dorothy Driver on Thursday 24 November. What were the effects of apartheid on South African writers, and how has South African literature changed with the demise of apartheid? How did earlier colonial writing develop [...]
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Open Access Week Seminar Series

By Steve | Published: September 29, 2011
Staff and students of University of Adelaide are invited to attend one or more of four seminars during Open Access Week 2011. “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform [...]
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Author Event: Crossing Boundaries in Young Adult Literature, Thursday 27 October 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: August 22, 2011
The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Rebecca Burton, Rosanne Hawke and Malcolm Walker on Thursday 27 October. In an age when political correctness holds sway should young adult (YA) literature take the easy road and be cosy and safe, or should it challenge the reader? Just [...]
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Discovery Event: John Emerson – Thursday 15 September 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: August 19, 2011
The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free discovery event with John Emerson on Thursday 15 September. John Emerson has been writing a biography of judge and author John Jefferson Bray for the past few years.  While working his way through the huge amount of material available, he has [...]
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Discover the Library during Open Day

By Ellen Randva | Published: August 11, 2011
On Open Day (Sunday 21 August), we invite you to take a wander through the Barr Smith Library, South Australia’s largest research library, as well as the Law Library and Elder Music Library. The libraries will open extended hours on Open Day: Barr Smith Library 9am – 5pm Law Library, Ligertwood Building 9am – 5pm Elder Music Library, Hartley [...]
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Event: Adelaide Voices – Radiance, 25 June 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: June 23, 2011
Adelaide Voices presents Radiance, a concert of stunning classical and contemporary music for female voices, harpsichord and continuo by Schütz, Monteverdi, Quincy Grant, Ivan Moody and more. 6.30pm, Saturday 25 June 2011 The Reading Room Barr Smith Library University of Adelaide $25 adult / $20 concession & Friends of the Barr Smith Library / $10 students. Tickets on the door.
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Author Event: Peter Goldsworthy – Thursday 18 August 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: June 20, 2011
The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Peter Goldsworthy on Thursday 18 August. This event features a showing of The Kiss, a short film based on Peter Goldsworthy’s story of the same name, followed by a discussion with the author on the film and his writing. Adapted [...]
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Author Event: Maria Espinosa – Thursday 7 July 2011

By Fiona Mariner | Published: June 20, 2011
The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Maria Espinosa on Thursday 7 July. Maria Espinosa will speak about the creative sources of writing, the need for the writer’s ‘crazy child’ to be given totally free rein in the first phase of writing and the difficulties that can [...]
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