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2011 FREE LECTURE SERIES
The Friends of the University Library talk about the books they especially cherish.
A talk by Paul Giles
Before coming to the University of Sydney's Challis Chair of English in 2010, Paul Giles was Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford and, before that, University Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Cambridge. Born in London in 1957, he also lived for seven years in Portland, Oregon, where he taught at Portland State University and at Reed College, and he later served (between 2005 and 2007) as President of the International American Studies Association. He is the author of seven books: Hart Crane (1986); American Catholic Arts and Fictions (1992); Transatlantic Insurrections (2001); Virtual Americas (2002); Atlantic Republic (2006), and Transnationalism in Practice (2010). The most recent, The Global Remapping of American Literature, has just been published by Princeton University Press.
His My Books talk will touch on a range of topics, including the scholarship of A. J. A. Waldock, one of his predecessors in the Chair of English at Sydney, and his book James, Joyce and others (London: Williams & Norgate, 1937). This was published at a time when Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in Australia, and until now Waldock’s pioneering work has never been held in the Fisher Library.
When: Thursday 22 September
5.30pm for 6.00pm
Where: Victoria Park Room, Lvl 5 Fisher Library
Eastern Ave, Camperdown Campus
RSVP: by Monday 19 September
Email: library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au
The fossil record of seven decades of undisciplined reading
Speaker: Yvonne Cossart, Emeritus Professor of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Sydney
When: Wednesday 15 June
5.30pm for 6.00pm
Where: Victoria Park Room, Lvl 5 Fisher Library
Eastern Ave, Camperdown Campus
RSVP: by Friday 10 June
Email: library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au
Campus Novels: Fiction or Reality?
Speaker: Kate Sexton, former Associate Librarian, University of Sydney
When: Thursday 14 April
5.30pm for 6.00pm
Where: Victoria Park Room, Lvl 5 Fisher Library
Eastern Ave, Camperdown Campus
RSVP: by Monday 11 April
Email: library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au
50th Annual General Meeting
When: Thursday 21 July, 5.30 to 6.00pm
The Boardroom, Administration Office
Level 5 Fisher Library
followed by a talk at 6pm
Speaker: John Shipp, University Librarian
Where: Victoria Park Room, Level 5 Fisher Library
Cost: Free but registration required as space is limited.
RSVP by Monday 18 July
Email: library.rsvp@sydney.edu.au
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