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31st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific

On behalf of Monash University and the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, we invite you to attend the 31st Annual African Studies conference. This conference will engage academics from around Australia, the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa, members of the business communities across both continents, leaders of African communities in Australia, politicians in South Africa, members of the African consular community in Australia and NGOs in both Australia and Africa, in a three-day program at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.

Securing Sustainable Energy Supplies in Europe and Australia

  • 27 / 11 / 2008 - 28 / 11 / 2008
  • Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
  • Event Inquiries: Monash European and EU Centre +61 3 9903 4639

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for academics, policy-makers, business representatives and environmental groups to explore, debate and compare the different approaches and experiences in securing energy supplies in Europe and Australia, with a view to facilitating the development of sustainable government and business strategy. In particular, the conference will focus on the interplay between policy-makers, scientists, business and environmental groups in securing sustainable energy supplies in the European Union and Australia. It will also investigate the relations between risk, uncertainty and decision-making; energy security across borders; and the technological, ecological and social aspects of clean energy technologies.

Further information: Monash European and EU Centre +61 3 9903 4639

Visualising the Past: a symposium

Looking at both Australian and British material, this symposium will explore new insights into the past that can be gained by the careful reading of historical paintings and urban streetscapes. It will also show the impact of particular ideas about the nature and meaning of history on some 18th and 19th century paintings of significant events. Speakers include: Mark Salber Phillips, Carleton University 'Historical Distance and Visual Representation: the 'Revolution of History Painting' Revisited' Maria Nugent, National Museum of Australia 'The Benevolent Gesture: Reading E. Phillips Fox's History Painting' Seamus O'Hanlon, Monash University 'Visual archaeology: uncovering the past in contemporary streetscapes'. Bain Attwood, Monash University 'A Fantasy of Witnessing'

Admission is free and all are welcome to attend from 2pm to 5:30pm H235, Building H (level 2), Caulfield Campus.

Please RSVP to kerrie.alexander@arts.monash.edu.au by 27 November.

Arts Public Lecture Series - Democracy and Climate Change: Finding the Common Interest

  • 04 / 12 / 2008
  • 06 : 00 pm
  • Village Roadshow Theatrette - State Library of Victoria
  • Event Inquiries: Alastair De Rozario, Phone: +61 3 990 55436; Email: Alastair.DeRozario@arts.monash.edu.au

Professor Rae Frances, Dean of Arts, will host the fourth Arts public lecture presented by Professor Amanda Lynch FTSE. Professor Lynch is an internationally recognised climate expert who focuses on bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences to better address the challenges of climate change. Titled Democracy and Climate Change: Finding the Common Interest, the lecture explores Professor Lynch's recommendation of a value commitment to the common interest of the community to address the great challenge of climate change.

Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette State Library of Victoria (328 Swanston Street, Melbourne - Entry 3, La Trobe Street)

RSVP by Monday 1st December online or via phone 990 52112

Admission: Free, refreshments provided

A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps: Jewish Music in Exile

  • 08 / 12 / 2008
  • 08 : 00 pm
  • Caulfield Campus, Building A Room A1.34
  • Event Inquiries: Lillian Kline, Phone: +61 3 990 20769; Email: Lillian.Kline@arts.monash.edu.au

Concert and Public Lecture Professor Philip Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago (narrator) and Christine Wilkie Bohlman (pianist) will perform the last work that was composed in Hitler's concentration camps.

Composed at Terezin, the work is entitled: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Chronicle of Love and Death of the Flagbearer Christoph Rilke). The work is a monodrama for speaker and piano that is a Czech variant of the melodrama tradition. Both Ullmann and Rilke were Czech, and Terezin is located in what is today the Czech Republic.

Professor Philip Bohlman's and Mrs Christine Bohlman's visit to Melbourne is sponsored by Monash University's School of Music-Conservatorium, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, and Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, and the Musicological Society of Australia.