The Marion Adams Memorial Lecture Series
Dr Marion Adams (1932-1995) was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1988 to 1993, and a deeply respected colleague. Marion enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career in the field of German literature at the University of Melbourne.
Following her untimely death on January 6 1995, the Faculty instituted an annual memorial lecture in her honour in which leading academics are invited to speak generally about their shared concerns.
The Marion Adams Memorial Lecture 2011
Tuesday 19 April, 2011
6:30pm
Public Lecture theatre
Old Arts Building (Building 149)
The University of Melbourne
Presented by Professor Emeritus Ronald Ridley
"Team Tutankhamun."
Everyone knows the story of the discovery of the famous boy pharaoh's tomb in 1922. A much more difficult matter for the historian of archaeology is understanding the many people who made the discovery and then revealed and preserved the tomb's contents. This lecture will focus on Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter and Harry Burton, while celebrating also the other members of the team.
Previous Marion Adams Memorial Lecture Series Presentations
- 2009 - Professor Antonio Sagona, "The Horse and the Wheel - how early riders and charioteers transformed Europe and Asia."
- 2008 - Mr Petro Georgiou MP, "The limits of tolerance: diversity, identity and cohesion"
- 2007 - Dr Andrew Jamieson, "Edge of Empire: Archaeology of the Assyrian Frontier"
- 2006 - Professor Belinda Probert (Dean of Arts), "'Would you like choices with that?' Women, work and family under Howard"
- 2005 - Associate Professor Ann Capling (Head of Department of Political Science), "'Allies but not friends': Anti-Americanism in Australia"
- 2004 - Professor John Frow (Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Department of English with Cultural Studies), "Genre Worlds: The Discursive Shaping of Knowledge"
- 2002 - Professor Charles Sowerwine, "National Fronts, Immigrants and Refugees: The Revival of Racism in France and Elsewhere"
- 2001 - Associate Professor Janet McCalman,"Useless mouths, high-grade morons and suboptimal performers: the tyranny of excellence"
- 2000 - Dr Chris Mackie, "Turning Medea into Medusa: Stereotypes in early Greek myth"
- 1999 - Professor Stuart Macintyre, "Behind the Lines: An Agent for Arts in the Occupied University"