Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

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The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library chapter aims: to promote and foster interest and support for the University libraries and their development from Alumni and the wider community; to increase and broaden knowledge of the collections and services of the University libraries and their role in writing, research, scholarship and community information; to develop relationships with other libraries, with cultural organizations and with appropriate commercial organizations for the benefit of members in Australia and overseas and raise funds for the University libraries.

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    Writing in the wasteland
    (Radio Adelaide, 2004) Williams, Sean; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    In the name of the law
    (2007) Nettlebeck, Amanda; Foster, Robert Kenneth Gordon; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    The upside of down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Homer-Dixon, Thomas; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Advertiser Big Book Club; Radio Adelaide
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    Tristram Cary on Joyce Cary
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Cary, Tristram; University of Adelaide; Radio Adelaide; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
    On the 50th anniversary of his father's death, and in association with an exhibition of rare items, Tristram Cary talks about Joyce Cary's life as an adventurer, a writer, and an artist. He discusses aspects of his father's works and the Cary family history, and shares personal memories of family life.
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    Weighing up Australian values: turning risks into opportunities
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Howe, Brian; University of Adelaide; Radio Adelaide; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Don Dunstan Foundation
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    From first inkling to first draft
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Rogers, Jane; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    The ups, the downs: my life as a biographer
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Rowley, Hazel Joan; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide; Australian book review
    Hazel Rowley, brought up in England and Australia, lives in New York City. She moved to Paris to write Tête-à-Tête: the Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Harper Collins, New York, in 2005. The book has been translated into more than a dozen languages. It was listed among the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2005. In France, the literary magazine Lire named it ’the best literary essay of 2006’. Richard Wright: The Life and Times was written while Rowley was affiliated with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Studies at Harvard. Published by Henry Holt in August 2001, the book had cover reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post. Christina Stead: A Biography was published by Heinemann, Australia, in 1993, and has been reissued by Melbourne University Press. It won the 1993 National Book Award for Non-fiction. In the United States, it was a 1994 New York Times Notable Book. Hazel Rowley’s essays have appeared three times in The Best Australian Essays.
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    Geoff Harcourt : his life and times in Adelaide
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Hatch, John; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    Born in Melbourne in 1931, Geoff Harcourt graduated B. Comm. and M. Comm. at the University of Melbourne, and then went on to graduate as a PhD at Cambridge University. He returned to Australia in 1958 to take up a Lectureship at the University of Adelaide, where he was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1967. In 1982 he accepted a Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a lectureship in Economics, and was subsequently promoted to Reader in the History of Economic Theory at Cambridge. Geoff Harcourt, a Keynesian economist in the broadest sense, is one of the few Australian economists whose writings have been absorbed by the leading economists of his generation.
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    Thea Astley's brilliant career
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Sheridan, Susan, 1944-; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; University of Adelaide; Radio Adelaide
    Thea Astley was one of the outstanding Australian fiction writers of the 20th century. Four of her novels, including her last, Drylands (1999), won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, and she was awarded numerous literary and civic honours during her lifetime. The widest and longest-lasting appeal of her work is the mordant irony of her gaze on Australian society, her sharp yet compassionate portrayal of social outsiders. She could be wildly, anarchically funny, or wildly, savagely serious. Do these qualities account for the fact that she was the only woman novelist of her generation to have published consistently and successfully throughout the 1960s and 70s, when the literary world was heavily male dominated?
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    1940 Britain: from phoney war, to finest hour, to where?
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Wilson, Trevor Gordon; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    In collaboration with Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson is focusing his current research on the Second World War and shares his always stimulating thinking with a fresh examination of the situation in 1940.
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    A man of many parts : William Blackstone & the English Enlightenment
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Prest, Wilfrid Robertson; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide; Law School
    Blackstone is best known today for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in four volumes between 1765-69 and continuously in print thereafter. But besides writing the most influential law book in the English language, Blackstone had a remarkably wide range of extra-legal interests and accomplishments: architectural, bibliographical, historical, literary, and political, among others. This talk touches lightly on some aspects of these polymathic activities.
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    Manning Clark & the Muses
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Macintyre, Stuart; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    The controversy Manning Clark attracted in his lifetime has carried over into posthumous attacks on his reputation. In 1993 his former publisher Peter Ryan produced an extraordinary denunciation. In 1996 the Brisbane Courier-Mail published an eight-page feature alleging that Clark had been awarded the Order of Lenin for services as a Soviet agent. In his Australia Day speech of 2006 the prime minister blamed him for propagating the black armband view of Australian history. Contrary to these allegations, Clark was not an apologist for the left: indeed, as he embarked on his life’s work that resulted in the six-volume History of Australia he specifically rejected the radical view of the national history. Hence the response to the first volume from Brian Fitzpatrick, the leading radical historian: ’may all the muses except Clio bless him’. In this lecture Professor Stuart Macintyre explores Manning Clark’s relations with Clio (the Muse of History) and other muses.
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    Dr. Pauline Payne on Richard Schomburgk
    (Radio Adelaide, 2007) Payne, Pauline; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    The Library of 10 Downing Street
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Macintyre, Clement James; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Book Collectors Society of South Australia; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    The talk focuses upon the largely unknown collection of books held at No. 10 Downing Street known as the "Prime Minister’s Library". The collection is made up of volumes donated by most members of the British Cabinet through the twentieth century. The selections made by each donor say much about the way they saw their place in British politics and their relations with their colleagues. In turn, the whole collection reveals many stories about the way that Downing Street has evolved as the administrative base of the Prime Minister as well as the family home of successive Prime Ministers and their families.
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    Duncan’s dead but we’re alive : lesbian and gay activism in South Australia in the seventies
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Willett, Graham; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; History Trust of South Australia; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    In the 1970s, Adelaide was at the centre of Australian lesbian and gay politics. Adelaide was the setting for the murder of Dr Duncan and the nation’s first (and second!) attempt at homosexual law reform and the Third National Homosexual Conference.
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    Women’s liberation and Dame Roma Mitchell
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Magarey, Susan Margaret; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; History Trust of South Australia; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    In the tradition : writing our official history of the Vietnam war
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Edwards, Peter; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    What is it like to carry the tradition of Australia’s official war historian, initiated by Charles Bean after the 1914-18 war, into the controversial arena of Vietnam? How does an official war history treat a major protest movement? And strike the right balance between the military and the political-diplomatic aspects of the war? And address sensitive medical issues, such as those associated with ’Agent Orange’? Peter Edwards, the official historian of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War, discusses these questions and some of the conclusions of the award-winning, nine-volume official history.
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    Rock star : the story of Reg Sprigg
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Weidenbach, Kristin; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    American journeys with Don Watson
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Watson, Don; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
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    Arrested motion and future mourning
    (Radio Adelaide, 2008) Castro, Brian; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of Adelaide
    Recently-appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Brian Castro discusses hybrid writing as it covers skin and ideology, authenticity and tradition, form and reception