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Sydney
Tuesday 5 May, 5.30 pm for 6 pm
Early in 1836 Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia. Professor Frank Nicholas and Jan Nicholas, who wrote the book Charles Darwin in Australia, will draw on the State Library of NSW’s rich collection of paintings and manuscripts to tell the story of Darwin’s visit. |
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Sydney
1-5pm 8 May (Further dates to be advised)
The seminar consists of eight special seminar sessions and one international conference. Its theme is 'The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009.' |
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Sydney
4-6pm 20th May, 2009
How does a biographer wrestle with the complex subject areas while informing readers about their subject's personality? In this Darwin-themed event, find out how four University of Sydney professors cope with the challenge in their most recent biographies at this Sydney Writers' Festival Event. |
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Melbourne
Exhibition runs 22 May - 16 June
Journey to the Surface of the Earth exhibition forms the outcome of an interdisciplinary seminar at the Centre for Ideas (Southbank) taught by Elizabeth Presa and Elliot Howard. The seminar brings together, for the first time, students in the ‘World in the Artist’ subject (Southbank) and students in the University wide Breadth subject ‘The Poetics of the Body’. |
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