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TALKS
AND LECTURES
Adult Learners
Week – Information Services
Lunchtime
talk
Wednesday 4 September, 12.30pm
Ferguson Room, Free
The Man Who Crossed
Whistler:
Mortimer Menpes Printmaker
Lunchtime talk with Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints
and Drawings, NGA
Wednesday 11 September, 12.30pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free
Mortimer Menpes
Exhibition
Lunchtime talk with Pat Clarke
Wednesday 18 September, 12.30pm
Exhibition Gallery/Ferguson Room, Free
Library Information
Services
Lunchtime talk
Wednesday 25 September, 12.30pm
Ferguson Room, Free
Flavours of Asia:
Asian Foods and Spices
Lunchtime talk
Wednesday 2 October, 12.30pm
Asian Collections Reading Room, Free
Australian Architecture
and Appropriations of Japan
Presented by Eugenie Keefer Bell RAIA
Lecturer in Architecture, School of Design, University of Canberra
Lunchtime talk
Wednesday 9 October, 12.30pm
Conference Room, Free
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SPECIAL
EVENTS
International Perspectives
on Reconciliation
One-day
seminar
Saturday 21 September, 9am – 4pm
National Library Theatre, Free
Bookings essential: (02) 6262 1122
Kenneth Myer Lecture
2002
Presented by Fred Chaney, former Federal Minister and visionary thinker
Thursday 26 September, 6 pm
National Library Theatre followed by a reception in the foyer
Admission free but bookings essential by 20 September (02) 6262 1551
Celebrating
Architecture Week—Films in the Theatre
Louis Kahn Silence
and Light (1995)
Tuesday
8 October, 12.30pm, 57 mins
Considered by many to be the most important figure in American architecture
after Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn has greatly influenced a younger
generation of architects.
Japan, Three Generations
of Avant-Garde Architects (1988)
Thursday 10 October, 12.30pm, 58 mins
Architectural critic, Kenneth Frampton interviews six prominent Japanese
architects about their design philosophies and sources of inspiration.
Touch The Earth
Lightly (1994)
Friday 11 October, 12.30pm, 58 mins
As the first Australian to win the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1992, architect
Glenn Murcutt is a major figure in Australian architecture.
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