Past events
Past Lectures
Rudolph Kirby, Lateral Violence - What is it? From a Koori Perspective
Sunday 2 August, 2009
Rudolph Kirby, Deputy Director of the Koori Justice Unit for the Department of Justice, is passionate about his work in the legal system. He contributes to the improvement of the Koori people's encounters within this system. At this public lecture, Rudolph discussed lateral violence (violence directed against peers). His talk included discussions on recognising what lateral violence is in the Koori community and, more importantly, how we can get rid of it.
Professor Ronald Sharp - Mateship, Friendship & National Identity
Sunday 19 July, 2009
Professor Ronald Sharp, a highly regarded US author, presented this lecture in conjuction with the Mildura Writers Festival. He examined the relationship between mateship and friendship, and explored Australia's natural cultural discourse with regard to national identity. This event was the fifth of the La Trobe Lecture Series for 2009, and was proudly supported by artsmildura.
Alastair Davidson - Global Culture and Migration: a Personal Story
Sunday 3 May, 2009
Alastair Davidson is Adjunct Professor in Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He is author of ten books, and founding editor of Thesis Eleven, Intervention and Australian Left Review. He presented a public lecture in May 2009 on globalisation and the changing face of migrancy.
Domenico de Claria - Triestement: Melancholia, Beingness and Transcendence
Sunday 5 April, 2009
Born in Trieste, Italy, Domenico is actively involved in the arts as an artist, curator, academic and critic. He has held more than 150 solo exhibitions of visual and performance art, and has been invited to exhibit in more than 140 group shows. La Trobe was proud to present Domenico de Claria with his free public lecture in April 2009, held in conjunction with the artsmildura Murray Darling Palimpsest.
Roberto Mãrquez - A Mexican artist living in New York
Sunday 15 February, 2009
Roberto Mãrquez is an artist whose work often refers to twentieth-century Mexican art having been compared to Diego Rivera and Frido Kahlo . His style has been deemed that of an exiled artist, who paints all the more passionately because of his sense of exile. As a lover of great literature and music, Roberto interweaves ideas taken from the writers and composers who moved him with intimate autobiographical statements. La Trobe University was pleased to present Robert Mãrquez's lecture with the support of the Art Vault.
Dr Lamberto Tronchin - Acoustics from a Musician's Point of View
Wednesday 21 January, 2009
Dr Tronchin is Assistant Professor in Environmental Physics from the University of Bologna and is recognised internationally as a leading authority on sound and acoustics. This lecture presented the results of a world-wide campaign of acoustic measurements of different theatres and auditoria. The effects of the acoustics on the music was presented by listening to music 'virtually played' in theatres of Europe, Japan and Australia.
Julian Burnside, QC - Arts and Society
Sunday 2 November, 2008
In conjunction with the Art Vault and La Trobe University, Julian Burnside, QC, presented a public lecture in November 2008. Julian is a barrister, writer, President of Liberty Victoria, who has acted pro bono in many human rights cases and is passionate about the arts. He elaborated the law in relation to art censorship and how it is exercised, including the complexities of 'intention', 'context', 'reasonableness', public attitudes, protecting human rights and freedom of expression.
Professor Miles Lewis - Decotech the materials and technology of the twenties and thirties
Sunday 14 September, 2008
In conjunction with Mildura Rural City Council, La Trobe University is pleased to have presented Professor Miles Lewis, who is an architectural historian with a special interest in building materials and technology, and their role in cultural history. Professor Lewis is an author of a number of books, and editor of the new international publication, Architectura.
David Malouf - Where Australian culture is going at the moment
Sunday 20 July 2008
The David Malouf lecture was delivered as the inaugural La Trobe University Lecture as part of the Mildura Writer's Festival. David Malouf is a multi-award winning writer.
David Malouf was born in 1934 in Brisbane. In 2000 David Malouf was the sixteenth Newstadt Laureat in the US. David Malouf is the author of short story collections Dream Stuff and the 2007 Age Book of the Year Award winner, Every Move You Make. His acclaimed novels include The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers, and Miles Franklin Prizes as well as the Prix Fémina Etranger, and Remembering Babylon, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the LA Times Fiction Award. Davids new work of poetry, Typewriter Music, was published in 2007 by University of Queensland Press. David Maloufs The Complete Stories is his latest comprehensive collection of shorter works.
" I had such a good time at the last Festival (2003) that I am very happy to come again I usually say no to invitations like this, so I really do mean it when I say how much I enjoyed the last occasion in Mildura." David Malouf.
