Rare Bites is a series of informal and entertaining 30 minute lunchtime talks held monthly during semester in 2017 and beyond. If you want to learn about some of the treasures and lesser-known gems within Rare Books & Special Collections at the University Library, this is your opportunity. Audience attendance is free for all.
Date |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
| Thu 24 August,
1pm-1.30pm |
Charles Perkins Centre, Level 6, Seminar Room | Nerida Newbigin (Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Culture, Department of Italian Studies) | Nerida Newbigin will speak about Dante – the major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages, and will focus on some of the copies of his works to be found in Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Sydney Library
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| Wed 27 September,
1pm-1.30pm |
Fisher Library Seminar room 218, level 2 | Dr Peter Hobbins, ARC DECRA Fellow, Department of History | Researches on Australian Venoms: Snake-bite, Snake-venom, and Antivenine; the Poison of the Platypus, the Poison of the Red-spotted Spider. By Frank Tidswell (1906); RB 615.942 20, http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80/record=b2021212~S4
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| Thu 26 October,
1pm–1.30pm |
Charles Perkins Centre, Level 6, Seminar Room | Charlotte Wood, recent Writer in Residence, Charles Perkins Centre | Creative effort: an essay in affirmation is a long and idiosyncratic essay on creativity, written by the Australian painter and writer Norman Lindsay and published by Art in Australia in 1920. Charlotte Wood will give her own idiosyncratic response to Lindsay’s take on the creative process, in light of her investigations into the sources and processes involved in the pursuit of a creative life.
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