Public Events
June
Curator's talk and exhibition opening: Dr Kyla McFarlane, Monash University Museum of Art
Siri Hayes: Landscape
29 June
University Art Gallery, 2pm
Dr Kyla McFarlane, Assistant Curator, Exhibitions, from Monash University Museum of Art, gives a guided tour of the exhibition, followed by refreshments.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9351 6883
July
Kids' Museums: School Holiday Activities
Monday 7 - Friday 11 July and
Monday 14 - Friday 18 July
Children's activities focused on the world of archaeology and anthropology.
11am in the Nicholson Museum:
Ancient Olympic Games
Talks, work sheets, and activities designed to bring the Ancient Greek Olympic Games to life.
1pm in the Macleay Museum:
What is Anthropology?
Discover how anthropologists learn about cultures different from their own.
Programs are aimed at children 5 - 10 and run for one hour.
Free entry but bookings essential as spaces are limited.
Bookings: (02) 9351 2812
Public Lecture: Dr Elena Govor and Dr Chris Ballard, Australian National University
The Extraordinary life and times of Nicolai Nikolayevich Miklouho-Maclay
Wednesday 9 July
Macleay Museum, 6pm
Dr Govor and Dr Ballard will talk about the famous Russian humanitarian and explorer and the relevance of his notes, drawings and studies of Pacific peoples in the 1870s for descendents today.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9036 5253
Public Lecture: Professor Costas Fotakis, University of Crete
Optical Sciences in the service of the future of our past: Lasers in the preservation of cultural heritage
Thursday 10 July
Nicholson Museum, 6.30pm
In this lecture Professor Fotakis discussed the ways in which laser based analytical techniques have been used successfully on cultural heritage material. Explore how optical sciences have contributed new non-intrusive techniques of analysis and diagnosis of heritage, and discover the use of modern laser science and technology on cleaning and restoration of cultural material.
In this talk Professor Fotakis will discuss how pulsed laser systems have been successfully implemented for the cleaning of artefacts and of ancient monuments, especially the Parthenon of Athens.
Professor Fotakis is in Australia to present a plenary lecture at the 21st Congress of the International Comission for Optics and to visit MQ-Photonics, Department of Physics, Macquarie University. His visit is supported by the International Science Linkages program of the Department of Education, Science and Training and a Macquarie University Research Development Grant. Hist talk at the Nicholson Museum is presented in conjunction with the University of Sydney's School of Physics.
Cost: $25, $20 for Friends of the Nicholson Museum
Bookings essential: (02) 9351 2812
Public Lecture: Dr Denise Donlon, University of Sydney
Biological and Forensic Anthropology: Past and Present
Thursday 17 July
Macleay Museum, 6pm
The study of biological anthropology has at times had an uneasy relationship within social anthropology. Dr Donlon will talk about history of the discipline at the University and the challenges, past and present, in understanding the biology of our species.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9036 5253
Classical Fantasies Lecture Series 1: The Great Artists and their Patrons
Thursday 17 July
Nicholson Museum, 6.30pm
Public Lecture: Dr Monica Jackson, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
The Castellani Genius: The Lost Art of Italian Archaeological Jewellery
The 2008 Alexander Cambitoglou Lecture and official opening of the exhibition Classical Fantasies
The rise of the Castellani, a 19th century Roman family of goldsmiths and jewellers, is one of the most fascinating and remarkable stories in the long history of jewellery and luxury arts. This lecture follows the fortunes of the Castellani family set against the changing face of 19th century European Grand Tourism and the turbulent politicaql events that resulted in the unification of Italy. It discusses the remarkable achievements of the family in reviving and replicating jewellery styles and techniques of the ancient Etruscans, Greeks, Egyptians and Romans.
Talk presented by the Nicholson Museum in conjunction with SoMA: The Society of Mediterranean Archaeology.
Cost: $40, $20 for Friends of the Nicholson Museum
Bookings essential: (02) 9351 2812
Exhibition Talk: Judy Annear, Art Gallery of NSW
Ideas of place in Australian Contemporary Photography
Sunday 20 July
University Art Gallery, 2pm
A talk on the exhibition Siri Hayes: Landscapes by Judy Annear, Senior Curator Photography at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9351 6883
Public talk: Vicki Grieves, University of Sydney
More than Family History: Aboriginal Families and Australian History
Sunday 20 July
Macleay Museum, 3pm
In the last of the series of lectures to accompany the exhibition People, Power, Politics Vicki Grieves will talk about the potential of Indigenous Knowledges and the difference of Aboriginal history.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9036 5253
Classical Fantasies Lecture Series 1: The Great Artists and their Patrons
Public lecture: Dr John Armstrong, University of Melbourne
Goethe's Italian Journey: Travels in Search of Beauty, Sex and the Meaning of Life
Wednesday 23 July
Nicholson Museum, 6.30pm
John Armstrong is the author of the best selling Love, Life and Goethe: how to be happy in an imperfect world (2006)
This talk will look at the extraordinary two years (1786-88) that Goethe spent travelling in Italy - much of the time incognito. Goethe's very personal description of his adventures in Venice, Rome, Naples and Sicily in particular rank as one of the finest examples of travel writing and its intimacies.
Cost: $25; $20 for Friends of the Nicholson Museum
Bookings essential: (02) 9351 2812
Exhibition Talk: Dr Chiara O'Reilly, University of Sydney
Photography and Landscape: Composing Nature
Sunday 27 July
University Art Gallery, 2pm
A talk on the landscape photography in conjunction with Siri Hayes: Landscapes, by Chiara O'Reilly, Lecturer in Museum Studies.
Free entry
Bookings: (02) 9351 6883
