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A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Suzi Roux
Date: Tuesday 6 October 2020
Time: 11.00am-12pm
Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Cost: FREE (Bookings Essential)
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In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Suzi Roux
Date: Tuesday 6 October 2020
Time: 11.00am-12pm
Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Cost: FREE (Bookings Essential)
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"If books reflect your mind and thoughts then my mind shows no single path of development and is more chaotic than ordered. I have loved and been fascinated by both the sciences and the arts and neither path of human endeavour or creativity has taken precedence. In later years I have found great joy in the study of philosophy and learned much from the Ancient Greek philosophers. And so, from Anne of Green Gables to Aristotle, from William Shakespeare to Charles Darwin, from Dorothy Hewett to Stephen Jay Gould, my mind has wandered and been nourished.
I began my working life working in laboratories and studying science at university, I then turned my working life to theatre and small publications, then on to arts administration and a dash of journalism and finally settled on family and studying, culminating in an intensive study in the field of philosophy of science.
Whilst working on my Master’s thesis I read a work by Hilary Kornblith and he succinctly asks two questions that describes my search for knowledge.
What is the world that we may know it? What are we that we may know the world? (Kornblith,H. (1993) Inductive Inference and its Natural Grounds, Cambridge: MIT Press.
I will expand more on my disordered reading in October."
I began my working life working in laboratories and studying science at university, I then turned my working life to theatre and small publications, then on to arts administration and a dash of journalism and finally settled on family and studying, culminating in an intensive study in the field of philosophy of science.
Whilst working on my Master’s thesis I read a work by Hilary Kornblith and he succinctly asks two questions that describes my search for knowledge.
What is the world that we may know it? What are we that we may know the world? (Kornblith,H. (1993) Inductive Inference and its Natural Grounds, Cambridge: MIT Press.
I will expand more on my disordered reading in October."
LIVE AND LEARN
In partnership with The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
For Love or Money: Dark Tales from South Australia's Past
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2020
Time: 11.00am-12pm
Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Cost: FREE (Bookings Essential)
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In partnership with The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
For Love or Money: Dark Tales from South Australia's Past
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2020
Time: 11.00am-12pm
Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Cost: FREE (Bookings Essential)
CLICK HERE TO BOOK NOW
PRESENTED BY Isabel Story, Community Learning Librarian
How far would you go for love, lust, or lucre? Edward Gibbon Wakefield ran away with not one, but two heiresses. Early colonist Nimrod Fry went to extraordinary lengths to marry his stepdaughter. Mary Schippan stood trial for allegedly murdering her little sister over a man who wasn’t worth the trouble. And then there was the band of British con artists who made headlines around the world when they stole a steam ship and sailed her across the world to Australia. Hear these and other stories from our chequered past.
Image: Miss Mary Augusta Schippan, charged with the murder of her sister Bertha [B 75311/7]
How far would you go for love, lust, or lucre? Edward Gibbon Wakefield ran away with not one, but two heiresses. Early colonist Nimrod Fry went to extraordinary lengths to marry his stepdaughter. Mary Schippan stood trial for allegedly murdering her little sister over a man who wasn’t worth the trouble. And then there was the band of British con artists who made headlines around the world when they stole a steam ship and sailed her across the world to Australia. Hear these and other stories from our chequered past.
Image: Miss Mary Augusta Schippan, charged with the murder of her sister Bertha [B 75311/7]
