Sydney Ideas at the University of Sydney
Friday 17 June, 2011 How Wikileaks Will Transform Mainstream Media Kristinn Hrafnsson, journalist and media spokesperson for Wikileaks Co-presented with the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney Wikileaks has irrupted into political life, with its revelations shocking the public and governments globally. And if it's been tough for politics-as-usual, what about media? Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson talks frankly about the organisation's relationship with mainstream media - and the profound legal, ethical, and political issues it poses for us all. Kristinn Hrafnsson is the current spokesman for WikiLeaks following legal battles engulfing the organisation's founder, Julian Assange. Hrafnsson is an Icelandic investigative journalist who exposed high level criminal activity and corruption. His work on the collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank caused his TV program to be taken off air and the team sacked. He joined the news team of Iceland's national broadcaster and fought against the legal suppression of further exposés about the bank drawn from documents published by WikiLeaks. Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm Venue: The Great Hall, Quadrangle, the University of Sydney Cost: $20/$15 concession/free for University of Sydney staff, students and alumni (ID required) Bookings: Seymour Centre box office. Phone 9351 9740 or book online seymourcentre.com.au Online registration: For University of Sydney staff, students and alumni seymourcentre.com.au Web: http://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/kristinn_hrafnsson.shtml Monday 20 June, 2011 Looking again at Picasso's Guernica Timothy J Clark, art historian and visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York Presented by the Power Institute, University of Sydney and the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Pablo Picasso painted his large scale Guernica (1937) in response to the bombing of the Spanish town by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War. In his exclusive Sydney public lecture art historian T. J. Clark will discuss Guernica, examining how a work of such enduring political resonance emerged from Picasso's deeply private and "difficult" artistic universe. He will look at the step-by-step creation of Guernica, taking advantage of the set of photographs of the work in progress taken by Dora Maar. T.J. Clark was a professor of modern art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1988 - 2010. He is currently Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York. He is one of the world's foremost art historians. His work has combined an acute attention to the formal complexity of art works and a deep engagement with their complex and fraught social resonance, and has helped to shape our understanding of major modern artists and movements . Clark's books include The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1985), The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006) and the forthcoming Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. Time: 6.00 to 7.30pm Venue: Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie St Cost: $20/$15 concession/ free for University of Sydney staff, students and alumni/free for UNSW staff and students (identification required) Bookings: Seymour Centre box office. Phone 9351 9740 or book online seymourcentre.com.au Online registration: For University of Sydney staff, students and alumni seymourcentre.com.au Web: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/professor_t_j_clark.shtml MEREDITH HALL | Program Manager Sydney Ideas | Alumni and Events Office THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T 02 9351 1935 | M 0403 367 842 E [email protected] | W http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas
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