Industry & Autonomy: what is sustainable fashion?

When:  Tues 23 Aug 2011, 8:30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:13:31 hours
Download audio:  mp3 [68 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

What’s the fracking fuss all about?

When:  Tues 23 Aug 2011, 6:00pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:53:13
Download audio:  mp3 [106 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

North by Northwest - Geoffrey London - Architecture through a government architect's lens & Mark Lee

Presented by the State Library of Queensland and The University of Queensland

Speakers: Geoffrey London and Mark Lee
When:  Tues 17 May 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:40:49
Download audio:  mp3 [94 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Out of the Port – Beating Heart

Speaker: Trish Fielding
When:  Tues 17 Aug 2011, 12:30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 00:59:40
Download audio:  mp3 [56 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Deepen the conversation - Understanding Floods

Brisbane women in fashion: clothing, community and culture

Fashion and women go hand in hand.  Throughout the ages, women have used clothing as a way of connecting with one another and as a method for expressing social and cultural identities.  In Brisbane, there is a wealth of wonderful women working in fashion, from designers and retailers to academics and social welfare workers.

Listen to Lydia Pearson & Pamela Easton (Easton Pearson), Kath Horton (Discipline Leader, Fashion QUT and Co-founder, The Stitchery Collective), Thea Basilou (Blonde Venus) and Faiza El-Higzi (The Romero Centre) discuss fashion's role in our community, culture and identity.

When: Wed 24 Aug 2011, 8.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, Level 2
Duration: 1:07:20
Download audio: mp3 [63 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Is Queensland different?

We take a light-hearted look at ourselves in this lively debate with a panel including The Courier-Mail’s QWeekend editor and author Matt Condon, historian and ABC Radio National producer Dr Kate Evans, and prize-winning author and historian Dr Raymond Evans.

Part of the John Oxley Library Open Day on 4 Jun 2011

When: Sat 4 June 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Duration: 59:04
Download audio: mp3 [59 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Out of the Port - Ernie Lane: The making of a Queensland rebel, with Dr Jeff Rickertt

In the pioneering years of the Queensland labour movement, Ernest Henry Lane was one of the fieriest firebrands of them all. Yet he was shipped to Brisbane in 1884 as a model immigrant, an industrious young man who carried the convictions of a childhood steeped in loyalty to Queen and empire. So, what went wrong? In this talk, John Oxley Library Fellow Dr Jeff Rickertt delves into the turbulent world of colonial labour politics to explain the making of Ernie Lane as one of the nation’s most resolute rebels.

Dr Rickertt is a Brisbane historian with an abiding interest in the State’s rebels and radicals. He was a contributor to and assistant editor of Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History and is co-editor of the Queensland Journal of Labour History. As the 2010 John Oxley Library Fellow, Dr Rickertt is working on a political biography of Ernest Henry Lane.

Speaker: Dr Jeff Rickertt
When: Wed 20 July, 12:30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 00:57:03 minutes
Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [58MB]

Deepen the Conversation with Elma Kris and Peggy Misi (Bangarra Dance Company)

Exploring the creative process that is required to create a new work with a focus on Torres Strait Island culture, and the access of Torres Strait culture for audience members through contemporary and traditional dance forms.

Part of the Torres Strait Islands: A Celebration program.

Simon Anderson - Towards a 2π dimensional architecture

BIG Thoughts from the FRIGHTENED Well

The Brotherhood of the Wordless is comprised of fourteen South-East Queensland writers with autism and other disabilities that preclude speech or the muscle ability required to use keyboards or writing implements. Using the technique of facilitated communication, the Brotherhood works with trusted scribes to bring their powerful thoughts and words to life. The Brotherhood of the Wordless have published a book of collected writing, “Tapping on the Heart of the World", now in its third reprint. They have featured on ABC Radio National, the Brisbane Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, and members have preformed at the Woodford Folk Festival to a standing ovation.

Now the collaboration returns with its new show "BIG Thoughts from the FRIGHTENED Well" based on new texts and poems they have written over the past year directly exploring the writers responses to various sensory cues in their day to day environment as well as poetic meditations on some of their deepest fears and grandest fantasies.

Presented by State Library of Queensland, ouTsideRs aRT Inc and Brotherhood of the Wordless.

Speakers:  Brotherhood of the Wordless
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Date: Sat 30 Apr, 2011. 4.00pm
Duration:  1:11:56 minutes
Windows media (audio):  broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [67.4 MB]

Nielson Design Lecture with Sir Peter Cook

British architect Sir Peter Cook returned to Brisbane in 2010 to present the annual Nielson Design Lecture at the State Library of Queensland. Building on the success of the first lecture presented by Michael Sorkin in 2009, the 2010 lecture was a key event in the Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific festival at State Library of Queensland from 2 – 10 October 2010.

Through this partnership, the State Library and Nielson Properties make it possible for Queensland designers to be exposed to the world's best, and ensures they are at the forefront of innovative design and urban planning.  Sir Peter Cook is an innovative thinker and inspirational educator. In 2007 his long-standing commitment to his profession earned him a knighthood for services to architecture and education. In his early years, as a member of the maverick architectural collective, Archigram, Cook attracted international attention for his futurist visions of Britain's built environment that were underpinned by utopian technology and a classless society. His evocative drawings such as Plug in City appeared in The Times colour supplement in London, cementing Archigram's influence on a generation of students, architects, planners and the public at large.

The 2010 Nielson Design Lecture was the second in a three year program of keynote talks by international architects and designers.

Date: Wed 6 Oct 2010, 6.30pm–8.30pm
Duration: 01:41:09 minutes
Windows Media (video): broadband or dialup
Download video (for Mac users. Please note: Large file size): mp4 [250 MB]

Deepen the Conversation – Harnessing Heat: The future of geothermal energy in Australia

Out of the Port - Death at the Beach

The iconic Queensland beach, loved for its sun, surf and sand, can turn deadly without warning.

Join Dr Jonathan Richards as he delves into the darker side of our coastline, discussing fatalities on Queensland beaches and coastal waterways as recorded by coronial inquests held between 1890 and 1960.

From the common drowning and shark attacks, to crocodile and stinger attacks, learn about the murky underbelly of our much loved beach.

Dr Richards, a lecturer in Australian history at the School of Humanities, Griffith University, specialises in archival research into violence and death in Queensland. He is the author of The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police, short-listed twice for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Speaker: Dr Jonathan Richards
When:  Wed 18 May, 2011. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:00:29 hours
Windows Media (audio): broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [56.7 MB]

Out of the Port - Out of the closet and into the museum

In June last year, the city of Brisbane was somewhat astonished to find itself the host of the first ever lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history exhibition. 

Many voices were heard at the award-winning Museum of Brisbane exhibition, Prejudice and Pride, and iconic places were celebrated.

Join curator Carol Lowe as she recounts how the community took on ‘doing their own history’. 
 
Prior Prejudice and Pride Carol was the History Project Officer for Queensland Association for Healthy Communities, which initiated this ground-breaking work. Carol’s has also worked on the Museum of Brisbane’s award-winning exhibition Remembering Goodna which told the story of Wolston Park, Queensland’s psychiatric hospital.

Speaker: Carol Lowe
When:  Wed 15 Jun, 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 00:57:03 minutes
Windows Media (audio): broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [54MB]

Living Literacy Forum with Bernard Salt

Listen to leading commentator on consumer, cultural and demographic trends, Bernard Salt, as he speaks on the state of play around literacy issues in contemporary Queensland. How do Queensland’s literacy levels rate? What are the literacy hotspots and how do we address these issues?
Bernard is followed by two speakers, Deb Stumm (State Library of Queensland) and Heather Jensen ( Education Queensland) who provide examples of effective community literacy programs.

Date: Mon 6 Jun 2011, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Video links: (Please note: The videos below have been divided into smaller sections to reduce download time.) 

Cyclone Mahina

In 1899, one of the most intense cyclones ever recorded smashed into the Queensland coast and killed more than 300 people. Cyclone Mahina destroyed the Thursday Island pearling fleets and is credited as being the world's highest storm surge.

Join journalist Ian Townsend as he explores some of the myths and misconceptions about this cyclone, revealing stories of the people who were there.

Ian is a journalist with ABC Radio National, producing radio documentaries for Background Briefing. He's won three Eureka Science Prizes and a Human Rights Award for journalism, and written two novels. His recent novel, The Devil's Eye, based on the Bathurst Bay pearling fleet disaster of 1899, was research with a fellowship at the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library and went on to be long-listed for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.

This was an Out of the Port free lunchtime talk, presented by State Library’s John Oxley Library and the Department of Environmental and Resource Management.

When:  Wed 19 Oct, 2011. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:09:32 hours
Windows Media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3[65mb]

North by Northwest - Jeffrey Inaba - Shifting from analysis to form

Speakers: Jeffrey Inaba
When:  Tues 24 May 2011
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:16:12
Download audio:  mp3 [72 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Designing for Happiness - Sean Godsell

In 2002 the influential English design magazine Wallpaper listed Melbourne architect, Sean Godsell, as one of ten people destined to ‘change the way we live’. In 2003 he received a Citation from the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. The following year his Future Shack prototype was exhibited for six months at the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York. Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of their 2005 Style and Design supplement.

Sean is currently working on projects in China and Australia and his first major building, the RMIT University design Hub is currently under construction in Melbourne.

Speakers: Sean Godsell
When:Wed 12 Oct 2011, 6:30 pm - 07:45pm
Where:slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:40:49
Download audio:  mp3 [70 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Deepen the conversation: Alex Mitchell & Matthew Condon – Come the Revolution

Don’t miss a chance to hear a fascinating insider’s account of journalism and politics, as viewed through the eyes of someone who’s seen it all!

Journalist Alex Mitchell began his career in the cut-throat world of Sydney tabloids, and graduated to Fleet Street as an investigative reporter taking part in the exposure of Soviet double agent Kim Philby. Giving up his job to become editor of Britain’s Trotskyist daily, he entered a world of class struggle politics and national liberation movements. With fellow revolutionary Vanessa Redgrave, he travelled the US and the Middle East, meeting Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi.

In Alex’s recently released memoir, Come the Revolution, he gives an enthralling account of life in newspapers, where he was unafraid to ask hard questions about the world and himself.

Join Alex as he and fellow journalist, Matthew Condon (Editor, The Courier-Mail QWeekend), share a conversation on media and politics that is compelling, exciting and rich with insights.

When: Tue 13 Dec 2011, 6:00 pm - 07:30 pm

Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2

Duration: 1:05:30 hr
Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [60 MB]

Designing for Happiness - Yen Trinh

The best design solutions don’t belong to the designer, but rather the community it inspires and enables. Building community participation into design solutions involves designing systems not just objects. Yen Trinh explores a number of local and international projects that enable communities to contribute and transform their own urban public places.

Yen is a Brisbane urbanist and designer. She is passionate about urban spaces, community building and collaborative design and has worked for design firms, non-profits and government, in Australia, Toronto and New York. Yen is the 2011 Qld Premier’s Emerging Design Leader Award recipient.

Speakers: Yen Trinh
When: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 6:30 pm - 07:45pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:40:49
Download audio:  mp3 [66 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Beneath the veneer: furnishing Queensland interiors in the late 19th century

Colonial Australians were generally known for their staunch loyalty to British goods and fashions for the furnishing of their home interiors. As the Australian colonies approached Federation, growing local manufacturers, including furnishings businesses, argued that a new nationalist loyalty should drive consumers to "buy local".

Using a number of case studies for Brisbane, Tracey Avery focusses on the complex issues of politics, climate, labour and economics that impacted on the furnishing choices of Queenslanders.

Tracey is Director, Strategy and Policy at Heritage Victoria, a Victorian State Government agency within the Department of Planning and Community Development. She was a Co-Project and Curatorial Manager, James Cook Museum, Cooktown for the National Trust of Queensland and was Cultural Heritage Manager at the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).

A PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of Melbourne, she has published on interior and object design history, most recently a chapter in the Design History Reader (Berg, 2010).

This was an Out of the Port free lunchtime talk, presented by the State Library's John Oxley Library and the Department of Environment and Resource Management.

When:  Wed 21 Sep, 2011. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 00:51:16 minutes
Windows Media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [48 MB]

Griffith Review Lecture: Islands of Identity

It is said no man (or woman) is an island, and humans are communal creatures. For Indigenous Australians, navigating between the mainland – or mainstream culture – and ‘islands’ of traditional culture can be trying, and may even exacerbate mental illness and violence. But how do we define the concept of community and find our place within it?

Join Melissa Lucashenko, award-winning novelist and contributor to Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition, in conversation with Paul Barclay for a discussion on native title, land rights and the importance of finding our own islands of home, country and space.

Speakers: Melissa Lucashenko and Paul Barclay
When: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 6:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:04:30
Download audio:  mp3 [60 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Designing for Happiness - Jason Grant

Jason is a member of Inkahoots design studio. The studio began in 1990 as an artist run, community access screen printing collective, and is now recognised around the world as a leading model of alternative visual communication practice. Their history is a close relationship with the community, cultural, and arts sectors as visual advocates and activists.

Speakers: Jason Grant
When: Wed 9 Nov 2011, 6:30 pm - 07:45pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 00:51:32 minutes
Download audio:  mp3 [48 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Connected communities

Right across the world people are using digital technologies, such as mobile phones, the internet and social media, to stay connected with friends and family. Ideally these technologies would help to keep communities strong. However these tools also influence ways of living – some outcomes of which wouldn’t traditionally be acceptable. Join panellists Susan Beetson, Tom Mosby and Professor Simon Kaplan as they consider the effects of this globalised world on community culture and values.

When: Thu 22 Sep, 6.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Duration: 00:57:06 minutes
Download audio: mp3 [53mb]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Future pedagogy

In October State Library of Queensland hosted Professor Stephen Heppell from the United Kingdom to talk about future pedagogies. The day was offered as a professional development for Queensland teachers and educators and focused on the transition of year 7 into secondary school, the roll-out of the National Curriculum and the main design challenges for Queensland classrooms. With schools globally re-thinking the concept of a learning space, moving away from an industrial-era model of a classroom to a space able to support new paradigms for learning in a twenty first century, this presentation was a discussion at the heart of this global revolution.

Professor Stephen Heppell has a string of major new building projects worldwide including a 0-21+ academy in the UK and a complete makeover of a national education system in the Caribbean. His research project in 2003 exploring for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and Royal Institute of British Architects in the UK on the impact of new pedagogies on the design of learning spaces kick started a new rhetoric of school design in the UK and beyond.

Protecting an uncensored Internet: the global response to SOPA legislation

In late January 2012, Internet companies such as Google, Wikipedia, Flickr and Mozilla Firefox shut down their sites in protest against the introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Millions of internet users took to social media to pledge their disapproval for these laws which opponents claim will threaten free speech and innovation. The power of this public response caused the withdrawal of support from key politicians, defeating the legislation and sending it back to the drawing boards.
This expert panel explored at the legislation and explains why it was introduced, analysed the response from the Internet community and the bigger issues surrounding online piracy and Internet censorship.

Featuring Dr Nic Suzor (QUT researcher in law and technology), Dr Sean Rintel (UQ, social communication technology researcher) and Dr Axel Bruns (QUT researcher in  social media mapping, citizen journalism and online publishing). Facilitated by Mark Fallu (Griffith University).

 
When: Wed 1 Feb 2012, 6:00 pm
Venue: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Duration: 1:02:20 hours
Download audio: mp3 [60mb]
Windows media (audio): broadband

These ideas will change your world

What brave new worlds can we look forward to? How will our ageing population change our priorities and habits? What options will we find for eliminating malnutrition in developing nations? Or obesity in our own?

After a decade of investment in encouraging Queenslanders from all walks of life and all areas of interest to work, play and live smarter, what progress have we made in creating a state of ideas and innovation? “Intelligent Queensland’ ought not be only a government priority, but a business, industry and community priority.

Join speakers as they take a look at ideas that will change your world.

Lauren Anderson from Collaborative Consumption – an emerging movement where old ideas of swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting are given a new lease of life.

Ben Hamley from Hello Sunday Morning and Smart Artz, focuses on social media and how it is changing the way we communicate, share, learn and adapt, inspire others and find inspiration ourselves.

Rolf Kuelsen from Transitions Towns – a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction.

Craig Rispin from Future Trends Group – Business futurist and innovation expert. Craig discusses how technology, social change and commercial imperatives are all driving new ways to work.

Part of the Positive Futures series presented by State Library and The Brisbane Institute.

Speaker: Lauren Anderson, Ben Hamley and Rolf Kuelsen
When:  Tues 27 September 2011, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:03:42 hours
Download audio:  mp3 [90 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband 

Seriously, renewable?

Seriously, when will renewable energy become a viable alternative in this country? What will we do in the meantime? What are the alternatives for our households, businesses, industries and systems? 

Speakers – Professor Paul Meredith, Professor Hal Gurgenci, Dr Ian Rose and Fiona Waterhouse

Facilitated by Karyn Brinkley, CEO, The Brisbane Institute 

Presented by State Library of Queensland and The Brisbane Institute.

When: Tue 18 Oct 2011 6pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2
Duration: 1:47:36
Download audio:  mp3 [100 MB]
Windows Media (audio):  broadband

Save your energy!

How can we do for energy and fuel what we did as a community for water? What barriers must we overcome to value fuel and energy appropriately and use them wisely? What opportunities might different domestic and commercial consumption patterns yield in our export industries? In our environmental approaches? In our investments in infrastructure, research and development, and technology?

Queensland is a state of opportunity and innovation, but big challenges lie ahead. State Library and The Brisbane Institute present the Positive Futures series where we imagine the kind of positive futures we can make for our children.

When: Tue 6 Dec 2011, 6pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2

Duration: 1:43:41
Download audio:  mp3 [106 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband

Liberating digital content: a Right to Information Day breakfast panel discussion

The State Library of Queensland, Queensland State Archives and the Queensland Office of the Information Commissioner provided a free breakfast panel discussion as part of the celebrations marking Queensland's annual Right to Information Day.

Chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen, the panel discussion addressed the topic 'Liberating digital content: the challenges and opportunities of open government'.

Explore what Government 2.0 and the National Broadband Network will mean for the world of public sector information.  Will it mean unlocking the latent information wealth of the nation - or a loss of control and privacy?

Panel members

• Ann Steward, Australian Government Chief Information Officer of the Australian Government Information Management Office, Dept of Finance and Deregulation
• Janet Prowse, Executive Director and State Archivist, Queensland State Archives
• Rory McLeod, Director, Client Services and Collection, State Library of Queensland
• Dr Paul Campbell, Executive Officer, Queensland ICT Industry Workgroup

Please click on the following links to view the video:

Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEr-0obyrVw
Part Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snlPbY3tKA4

Amy Van Allen - Inclusive Museums and Outreach Programs

Amy Van Allen, Outreach Manager in Community and Constituent Services at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), gives an insight into the programs, policies and philosophy that drives the NMAI as one of the world’s most innovative and inclusive museums. The NMAI continues to challenge traditional museum ideologies by being a Native place, both physically and spiritually, with an emphasis on community curators in exhibitions and the use of traditional care methods for collections as advised by tribal representatives.

The second podcast in an ongoing professional development series delivered through Public and Indigenous Library Services, State Library of Queensland.

 Speaker: Amy Van Allen, introduction by Mary Teague
 Duration: 1 hr 12:58 minutes
 Date:  22 July 2009
 Streamed audio: Windows media player
 Streamed audio: RealPlayer
 Download audio: mp3 [68.4MB]

Anupama Kundoo - Material Matters in Architecture

Boggo Road Gaol – a new chapter? with Robert Riddel

With the closure of what had become the ‘hell hole’ of Queensland’s prison system and infamous for the rioting of its inmates, so began a new chapter. The site was then master planned as a science park, urban housing development and public transport interchange. The former women’s prison of 1903 was preserved intact but after 20 years its future is unresolved. The talk explores the potential of this significant site which contains one of the landmark groups of buildings that defined ‘Victorian’ Brisbane.

Robert Riddel
Robert Riddel is an architect with a background in conservation and adaptive reuse. He has taught architectural history and recorded many of the best built works of our city as well as designing a few of his own. He is a member of the Urban Design Board and a keen advocate for a better Brisbane.

When Wed 17 Nov, 2010.12.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Duration: 56 mins
Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [ 55 MB]

Brisbane floods with Helen Gregory

Join Queensland historian Helen Gregory for an intriguing conversation about floods in Brisbane and learn more about why history matters.  Hear about the frequency of floods, the warnings, heroes, scandals, generosity, despair, hope and renewal.  How have the significant floods of 1893 and 1974 been remembered and what has been forgotten? What legacy will 2011 leave?

Part of the Out of the Port lecture series. 

Presented in partnership with the Department of Environment and Resource Management Heritage branch.

When               Sat 19 Feb, 2011. 2pm
Where              slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Duration: 1:23:11 mins
Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [ 80 MB]

Nielson Design Lecture with Bruce Mau

The 2011 Nielson Design Lecture was delivered by world-leading visionary, innovator, designer and author, Bruce Mau.

Informed by 25 years of studio experience in design innovation and collaboration with some of the world's leading artists, institutions and businesses, Mau has made the simple committment to connect his life and work to education and human development. He is the co-founder of Massive Change Network, a new initiative committed to developing purposeful projects in education, health, leadership and security.

Listen as Mau discusses the challenges facing our rapidly expanding worldwide population and the opportunities those challenges present to us to respond with design-led solutions

Speaker: Bruce Mau
Date: Wed 23 Nov 2011
Where: slq Auditorium, Level 2
Duration: 1:08:56 minutes

The changing face of wartime correspondence

From November 2010 till March 2011, the State Library of Queensland hosted a travelling exhibition from the Australian War Memorial. Of Love and War examined the impact of war and conflict on the relationships between servicemen, their sweethearts, children, parents and others they left behind. Visitors will be transported to a time where much of Australia’s population were without their loved ones. Despite this separation over vast distances, love still managed to flourish and survive, romances continued and relationships were cemented through letters, gifts and telegrams.

Moving forward to 2010, technology has opened up a whole new world of communication for servicemen and women and their loved ones.  Email, Skype, mobile phones and the Internet have all contributed to the way in which we communicate not only on a daily basis, but also in times and areas of conflict and turmoil.
 
Letters, pictures, telegrams and much more tell us stories of times gone by. They are a snap shot into the past and a documented record of our history. Will this be the case in years to come? Will institutions such as libraries and museums still be able to collect this important information? How will we record conversations when we no longer use letters?  Should we be making a concerted effort to find ways and means in which to document this history?

Join ex-military personnel and guests as they take you on a journey through the years, back to a time where it was simpler to preserve the physical evidence of wartime, love and relationships and examine the difficulties of doing the same in our 21st century, technology driven lives.

When: Wed 10 Nov, 2010. 6pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2

Duration: 1:09:14 hours
Windows media (audio): broadband

Download audio: mp3 [80 MB]

Christine Manfield

Speakers:

Cities on the edge

By 2026 Brisbane may be home to 4.5 million residents and overtake Melbourne as the nation’s second largest metropolis. Hear Brendan Gleeson, one of Australia’s most outstanding urban planners, as he talks about the impact of rapid growth on our cities and suggests solutions to make them better places to live and work. Cities on the Edge sets the big picture agenda for a new generation of thinking about urban planning. This webcast was presented in partnership with the Griffith Review.

Speaker:  Brendan Gleeson
Duration:  1:01:28 minutes
Date:  14 August 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [56.2 MB]

Classical Queensland

Recipient of the 2007 John Oxley Library Fellowship, music writer and researcher Dr. Martin Buzacott joins Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s first home-grown Chief Conductor Patrick Thomas and international pianist Pamela Page to share a wealth of stories, anecdotes and personal insights into Queensland’s classical music history.

Speakers:  Martin Buzacott, Patrick Thomas & Pamela Page
Duration:  1:26:59 minutes
Date:  6 August 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [79.6 MB]

Conservation - Book wrapping

 Speaker: Grant Collins and Conservation staff member
 Duration:  6:40 minutes
 Date: November 2009
 Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
 RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband
 Download video:  mp4 [26.2MB]

Conservation - Encapsulation

Grant Collins, Executive Manager, Collection Preservation and a member of the State Library's Conservation unit, Lesley Berg, demonstrate and explain the process of 'Encapsulation' and how this is used to preserve documents. Follow the steps shown to care for your own important personal documents.

Speaker: Grant Collins and Conservation staff member
Duration:  6:33 minutes
Date: November 2009
Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband
Download video:  mp4 [25.7MB]

Cooks + Books

Reading between the lines of recipes shows how food tastes in Queensland have broadened over more than 150 years. The talk explores the stories behind significant Queensland cookbooks held by the State Library — from early manuscripts in the John Oxley Library to contemporary glossy publications in the Slow Food Library of Gastronomy—to illustrate aspects of our culinary heritage. The cookbooks not only instruct in the preparation of food, but also provide insights into everyday life, promote products, raise funds for particular causes, advocate better nutrition, or extend our cultural horizons.

Susan Addison and Judith McKay
Susan and Judith are co-authors of the book A good plain cook: an edible history of Queensland, originally published by Boolarong Publications in 1985 and re-published by the Queensland Museum in 1999. As John Oxley Library Fellows 2009−10, they were able to extend their research and focus on the rich holdings of the State Library.

When Wed 18 Aug, 2010. 12.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2

Duration:  55 mins

Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [54 MB]

David Malouf

Queensland author David Malouf in conversation with Ashley Hay.  This talk was part of the John Oxley Library 75th Anniversary celebration on Sunday 5 April 2009.  David, who also celebrates his 75th year in 2009 discusses his use of libraries and archives, including the John Oxley Library, for his writing.  He also speaks of his new novel 'Ransom'.

Speaker: David Malouf and Ashley Hay
Duration: 1 hr 08:02 minutes
Date:  5 April 2009
Windows media (audio): dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio): dialup or broadband
Download audio: mp3 [95.7 MB]

David Marr - The Henson case

The Australian Prime Minister called them ‘absolutely revolting’. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a ‘Victory for Decency’. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia’s cultural reputation. In this webcast David Marr discusses his recent book The Henson case, which examines the pornography/art debate with exclusive interviews with Bill Henson, members of the NSW police force, child abuse campaigners and important figures in the Australian arts scene.

Speakers:  David Marr
Duration:  1:06:07 minutes
Date:  8 October 2008
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Streamed Audio:  Real Player
Download audio:  mp3 [60.5 MB]

Death in the 21st Century

Deepen the conversation - Arthur Chaskalson

The Griffith University - Tony Fitzgerald Inaugural Lecture with Arthur Chaskalson

The Fitzgerald Report marks a watershed in Queensland and Australia's political history. Speaking at the Inaugural Tony Fitzgerald Lecture was the Honourable Arthur Chaskalson, former President of the Constitutional Court and Chief Justice of South Africa until 2005. As a member of former President Nelson Mandela's defence team, he was a formidable opponent of the apartheid government.

 Speaker: Arthur Chaskalson
 Duration: 1:37:54 minutes
 Date: 28 July 2009
 Streamed audio: Windows Medial Player
 Streamed audio: Real Player
 Download audio: mp3 [134MB]

Deepen the conversation - Black Opium Symposium with Fiona Foley

After reading Rosalind Kidd’s book The Way We Civilise, which exposes the truths behind the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, Fiona was compelled to create a work that explored the history, personal stories and legacy associated with this controversial policy.

In honour of this important work, the Black Opium Symposium brought together a unique multi-disciplinary line-up of guest speakers who discussed, unravelled and shared a time past that still resonates strongly today.

Speakers:  Rosalind Kidd, Andrew Gillett and Anna Haebich (Griffith University) discuss the historical context of the artwork, and Fiona Foley and Louise Martin-Chew look at the artistic and aesthetic qualities of the piece.

Duration:  1:25:25 minutes
Date:  12 February 2010
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Download audio:  mp3 [78 MB]

More about Black Opium

Deepen the Conversation - Cheryl Kernot

Deepen the conversation - Sean Leahy

The Fine Line: The politics of political cartooning

Drawing political cartoons can be a risky and dangerous occupation. Like all satire, political cartoons tread a fine line between truth telling with humour and defamation.

In a famous court case in the 80s, one of Patrick Cook’s cartoons was accused of being defamatory of the architect Harry Seidler. After intense legal scrutiny, the Court found it was defensible on the grounds of public comment.

Listen to the Courier-Mail’s preeminent cartoonist Sean Leahy chatting with dale spender on the inspiration, the risk and the rage of political cartooning in Australia.

When Tue 7 Dec, 2010. 6pm
Where slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Duration: 1:09:43 hr

Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [64 MB]

Desert Queen Daisy Bates

In this webcast Susanna de Vries speaks about her latest biography, Desert Queen: the many lives and loves of Daisy Bates.  In the 1890s, Irish-born orphan Daisy Bates reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist, and put Aboriginal culture on the map with her study of language and kinship ties. Susanna is an international author and her 14 books have won her literary awards in Ireland and Britain, an Order of Australia for services to literature and a Winston Churchill Fellowship.

Speaker:  Susanna de Vries
Duration:  1:03:38 minutes
Date:  19 June 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [58.2 MB]

Design Discipline - Lindsay & Kerry Clare

Lindsay and Kerry Clare are both graduates of QUT and commenced practice in Queensland in 1979. In 1998 they were granted a 2 year appointment as Design Directors for the NSW Government Architect. Since 2000 they have been in private practice in Sydney as founding directors of Architectus and now as independent architects. Lindsay + Kerry Clare were awarded the AIA Gold Medal in March 2010 for their contribution to the advancement of architecture and particularly sustainable architecture.

Speakers: Lindsay and Kerry Clare
Duration:  1:34:47 minutes
Date: 20 July 2010
Windows media (audio):  broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [82 MB]

Digital strategies for libraries in the 21st century

Join New Zealand based commentator and thinker, Paul Reynolds as he discusses information access, cultural and technological change in the 21st century, and the challenges for libraries and library professionals.

Speaker:  Paul Reynolds
Duration:  1:38:30 minutes
Date:  25 October 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [90.1 MB]

Diversity writes

Journalist and ABC612 presenter Madonna King leads this lively panel discussion as three award winning authors discuss their journeys as writers and reflect on how living and working within a culturally diverse Australian society has inspired and influenced their work.

Speakers:  Thomas Keneally, Alice Pung and Nike Bourke and Madonna King
Duration:  1:33:33 minutes
Date:  30 September 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [85.6 MB]

Dr. Karen Fisher

Dr. Karen E. Fisher is an associate professor at the University of Washington Information School and chair of its Masters of Library and Information Science program.  Join Dr. Fisher as she shares her current research which strives to equip libraries to answer the question, "How are we making a difference in people’s lives—to users, families, neighborhoods, and communities—especially in ways that speak to policy-makers?"

Speaker:  Karen Fisher
Duration:  Part 1 - 52:53
Date:  21 May 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [48.3 MB]

Speaker:  Karen Fisher
Duration:  Part 2  - 42:41
Date:  13 March 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [39 MB]

Fashion and Memoire with Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Smith is the curator of the Darnell Collection, Australia’s largest private collection of vintage clothing and accessories, having inherited more than 3000 vintage designer garments from her Quaker godmother, Doris Darnell. In her book Dreaming of Dior, Charlotte has recreated the story of each garment through the masses of accompanying letters, parchments and notes. During the discussion, Charlotte revealed her personal accounts behind some of the key garments in this extraordinary collection, discussing the nature of clothing as personal memoir. The conversation was facilitated by Nadia Buick. Nadia is currently completing her PhD in Fashion Curation at the Queensland University of Technology. Nadia co-curated Imeldific – a 20th century shoe exhibition and is currently exhibiting Material Memories at the QUT art museum.

Presented by State Library of Queensland, mc/k art and Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival

When         3pm, Saturday 7 August 2010

Where        slq Auditorium 1, level 2

Duration     1:13:35 hours

Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [71 MB]

Food pioneers

At a time when celebrity chefs abound, hear from some of the very special Queenslanders who have changed the way we eat. In 1988 World Expo brought more to Brisbane than exhibits, fireworks, and concerts. It introduced locals to a lifestyle that embraced outdoor dining and new cuisines. Expo triggered an urban renewal that changed the face of Brisbane from a ‘large country town’ to a thriving metropolis, led largely by locals hungry to explore new fare.

In the years since, Brisbane food culture has grown in leaps and bounds. This fascinating conversation explores how Brisbane’s palate has changed over the past few decades. Listen to the people who created Australia’s first organic food restaurant, introduced our palates to the joys of caviar and saffron, popularised the delicacies of Vietnamese cuisine, and got us passionate about Farmer’s Markets. Hear about their food philosophies and learn what inspired them as they recount their early days, their successes and challenges, and their vision for the future of Australian food culture.

Speakers:  Kylie Lang,  Brenda Fawdon (Mondo Organics); Babak Hadi (Black Pearl Epicure); Jan Power (Farmer’s Markets); Lien Yeomans (founder of The Green Papaya)
Duration:  1:15:30 minutes
Date:  11 September 2008
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Streamed Audio:  Real Player
Download audio:  mp3 [69.2MB]

Freestyle Books symposium

Artists, curators, writers and art lovers joined together for an afternoon celebration of the rich world of artist' books. The Freestyle Books symposium coincided with the major exhibition of artists' books at the State Library of Queensland.

Speaker:  Opening address - Dr Alex Selenitsch
Duration:  22:03 minutes
Date:  26 July 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [20.1 MB]

Speakers:  Unfolding stories - Jonathon Tse, Dr Anna Poletti and Dianne Fogwell
Duration:  1:03:08 minutes
Date:  26 July 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [57.8 MB]

Speakers:  Social change - Professor Ian Howard, Peter Lyssiotis and Judy Watson
Duration:  1:01:54 minutes
Date:  26 July 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [56.6 MB]

Speakers:  Collaboration - Noreen Graham, Leah King- Smith, Duncan King-Smith, Anne Kirker, Normana Wright and Ron McBurnie
Duration:  1:12:32 minutes
Date:  26 July 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [66.4 MB]

Gay Bilson

Gay Bilson’s name is synonymous with the revolution in Australian cooking and restaurant life.  Her cooking is legendary, as are her informed and passionate observations about food and culture.  Gay has owned and cooked at Berowra Waters, one of Australia’s most influential and acclaimed restaurants; collaborated on meals at public venues, incorporating ideas of theatre and performance and community; and her book Plenty, has won many awards including The Age Book of the Year 2005.

Speakers:  Gay Bilson and Candy Baker
Duration:  1:08:45 minutes
Date:  24 April 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [62.9 MB]

Hamilton Wilson – Next Generation Learning Spaces

Helen Garner

Join Helen Garner, one of Australia's most respected authors and essayists  in conversation with Ashley Hay, former literary editor of The Bulletin, discussing The Spare Room, her first novel in 15 years, at her only Brisbane appearance.  

Speaker:  Helen Garner and Ashley Hay
Duration:  55:42 minutes
Date:  9 April 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [51 MB]

Hidden Queensland

Over the past two decades Queensland has undergone a remarkable transformation to become the new centre of politics and thriving social and cultural home to an ever-expanding population. Contributors to Griffith REVIEW21:Hidden Queensland discuss the dynamics of the Sunshine turned Smart State and what it means to be a Queenslander today.

Speakers:  John Birmingham, Tara June Winch, Ashley Hay, Nike Burke, Phil Brown & Will Elliott
Duration:  1:27:37 minutes
Date:  14 August 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [80.2 MB]

The hyper-linked library

In this two part webcast Michael Stephens, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, Illinois explores new technology and Web 2.0 trends and provides a roadmap toward becoming the hyperlinked library.

Speaker:  Michael Stephens
Duration:  Part 1 - 1:06:59
Date:  13 March 2008
Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband

Speaker:  Michael Stephens
Duration:  Part 2  - 1:15:54
Date:  13 March 2008
Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband

Illegal immigration: nineteenth century style with Gordon Grimwade

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese overlanders walked over 2000 kilometres from the Darwin area to North Queensland in search of permanent work. Travelling in small groups these unemployed miners and artisans carried limited food and water. Many died en route. They had to avoid hostile Aboriginal attacks and find their way on poorly marked tracks. When they reached Queensland they ran the risk of arrest and six months jail. Some were deported back to Darwin. Others were marched to the border and told to find their own way back.

This presentation provides an overview of the experiences of some of those overlanders, their encounters with the border police and identifies some of the sites relating to an aspect of tropical Australian development that has eluded the history books.

Gordon Grimwade
Gordon has lived and worked in north Australia for many years. His work on Australian Chinese archaeology has ranged from Chinese temples, gold mines and pig roasting ovens to developing displays on Chinese settlement and culture. As the State Library of Queensland’s John Oxley Fellow for 2008 and the recipient of a Northern Territory History Grant Gordon has, more recently, been delving into archival records in Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide and criss-crossing the northern savanna researching the untold tales of colonial illegal immigration and border police.

When Wed 15 Sep, 2010. 12.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Duration 1:06 hours

Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [63 MB]

The importance of being Oscar

Susannah Fullerton discusses Oscar Wilde's extraordinary life story, his fall from fame and the creation of his greatest works of literature.

Speaker:  Susannah Fullerton
Duration:  1 hr 13:30 minutes
Date:  8 March 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [65.9 MB]

Introducing... genetics

Emma Whitelaw introduces the world of the gene and demystifies the science behind controversial issues like stem cell research, designer babies and the human genome.

Speaker:  Emma Whitelaw
Duration:  1 hr 5:34 minutes
Date:  4 July 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [60 MB]

Introducing... Paul Grabowsky

Paul Grabowsky performs in front of and behind the piano, sharing tales of his stellar career and his experience as Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival.

Speaker:  Paul Grabowsky
Duration:  1 hr 5:30 minutes
Date:  13 June 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [59.9 MB]

Introducing... social exclusion

David Burchell looks at patterns of marginalisation and the idea of "the other" shaped by history, policy and personal incapacity.

Speaker:  David Burchell
Duration:  1 hr 2:41 minutes
Date:  23 April 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [59.3 MB]

Introducing... the future

Futurist Tony Stevenson discusses our complex relationship with the future and how even just thinking about it can bring about change and a different world for our children and future generations.

Speaker:  Tony Stevenson
Duration:  59:13 minutes
Date:  10 October 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [54.2 MB]

Introducing... the politics of spin

Sharon Beder looks at the politics of public relations spin and how it is influencing the way we think.

Speaker:  Sharon Beder
Duration:  54:58 minutes
Date:  2 May 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [50.1 MB]

Introducing...extreme weather

Ian Townsend introduces the social and political side of extreme weather phenomenon through the context of one of Australia's deadliest natural disasters.

Speaker:  Ian Townsend
Duration:  1hr 4:09 minutes
Date:  26 March 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio: mp3 [59.8 MB]
Download transcript: pdf  

Introducing...HIV/AIDS

Bill Bowtell revisits Australia's successes in containing HIV/AIDS and introduces the idea of a renewed threat on our doorstep which could destabilise the Asia-Pacific region.

Speaker:  Bill Bowtell
Duration:  59:18 minutes
Date:  8 August 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [54.2 MB]

John Bell

Listen as Australia’s leading exponent of Shakespeare John Bell privileges you with his personal insights and stories in an intriguing conversation with Queensland Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Gow. These stalwarts of the stage discuss John’s remarkable impact on Australian theatre and their latest collaboration on Heiner Müller’s Shakespeare Commentary Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome. This conversation was presented in partnership the Queensland Theatre Company.

Speakers:  John Bell and Michael Gow
Duration:  1:02:40 minutes
Date:  20 August 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [57.3 MB]

John McDonald: a critic's take on Australian contemporary art

Join John McDonald, one of Australia’s best-known art critics, in a lively conversation about contemporary Australian art with art curator Timothy Morrell. John and Timothy discuss art studios, art markets, the National Gallery of Australia, the Archibald Prize, and much more.

Speaker:  John McDonald and Timothy Morrell
Duration:  1:05:15 minutes
Date:  5 April 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [59.7 MB]

Justine Clark - Here, there and everywhere

Kate Jennings

Meet Kate Jennings, a fiercely intelligent writer, astute observer of people and her surroundings, recent widow not ready to face her grief, and irascible Australian with no time for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets. Get to know the real Kate Jennings in conversation with Kris Olsson as she muses over her autobiographical book, Stanley and Sophie.

Speaker:  Kate Jennings and Kris Olsson
Duration:  57:41 minutes
Date:  28 May 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [52.8 MB]

Language & Landscape: European Words in Aboriginal Spaces

For thousands of years the Australian landscape was covered with networks of Indigenous placenames that described and evoked features of the environment. As colonisers swept across the Australian countryside they introduced English names to previously well-known places and landmarks, making it more like their home world. From the Glasshouse Mountains to the Brisbane River, the Great Dividing Range to the Darling Downs, the use of English names rendered the unknown more identifiable to the European settlers, while simultaneously turning the Aboriginal into an artefact and providing the very basis for terra nullius. Join Dale Kerwin as he discusses language and landscape and the impact on the Queensland Indigenous population at this intriguing Out of the Port session. Dale is a proud Goorie from the Worimi Nation in New South Wales. He is committed to furthering knowledge about Aboriginal cultural heritage and inscribing Aboriginal ontology on the body of Australian history.

Speaker: Dale Kerwin
When:  Wed 16 Mar, 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1:08:31 hours
Download audio:  mp3 [64 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband 

Let's Get Naughty with Banned Books

Listen to David Iliffe's interview with State Library Senior Librarian, Joan Bruce on Capricornia: Drive

"You don't often hear of books being banned from publication these days, but it might happen more often than you think.

We went back in time this afternoon with Joan Bruce from the State Library of Queensland.  She's spent some time flicking through books that were on the censors list in the past, which even includes a piece of Queensland Hansard..."

 Speaker: Joan Bruce with David Iliffe on Capricornia: Drive
 Duration: 4:38 minutes
 Date:  09 Sept. 2009

Library services to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders

In this webcast, Indigenous Knowledge Centre co-ordinators and State Library staff describe the services offered by State Library and local councils and community members talk about their experiences in using these services, including their local Indigenous Knowledge Centre. The webcast is filmed on location in Indigenous Knowledge Centres, public libraries and at the State Library.

Speaker: various
Duration:  7:32 minutes
Date: June 2009
Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband
Download video:  mp4 [54.9MB]

Liking the unloved

Liking the Unloved uncovers the story behind the planning and construction of one of the most prominent landmarks in Brisbane’s CBD, the Riverside Expressway. Do you like it or loathe it? Most people have an opinion on this one but Don’s enlightening story might lead you to change your mind. 

Don Watson

Don is an architect with the Queensland Department of Public Works. Co-author with Judith McKay of A directory of Queensland architects to 1940 and Queensland architects of the nineteenth century: a biographical dictionary, Don has taught at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. 

Speaker: Don Watson

When:  Wed 21 Apr, 2010. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
     State Library of Queensland

Duration: 1 hour
Download audio:  mp3 [56 MB]

Lisa Forrest

Listen to Lisa Forrest, author, former Olympian and media personality, as she discusses her latest book Boycott. At the age of sixteen, Lisa found herself at the centre of one of Australia’s most significant sporting and political moments, the controversial boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Lisa tells her story for the first time, taking us from her early strokes in the local pool of a Sydney beachside suburb, to death threats and public denunciation by both politicians and the media. Through interviews with everyone from the Prime Minister of the day, Malcolm Fraser, to members of the AOC, sports administrators, journalists and the athletes themselves, she takes us behind the scenes of an extraordinary and far-reaching chapter in Australian sporting history. Boycott is the story of the athletes who defied the inducements and pressure coming from the highest levels, maintaining that the Olympics was about peace, not politics and chose to follow their dream. This webcast was presented in partnership the Courier Mail, The big Book Club / The Little Big Book Club.

Speakers:  Lisa Forrest and Gerard Collins
Duration:  1:02:17 minutes
Date:  20 May 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [57 MB]

m3architecture - Specificity That Surprises

Maggie Beer

Join Brisbane News editor Kylie Lang in conversation with celebrated cook, Maggie Beer, for a look behind the pages of her latest book Maggie's Harvest.

Speakers:  Maggie Beer in conversation with Kylie Lang
Duration:  53:08 minutes
Date:  8 November 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [48.3 MB]

Male sartorial elegance

Download audio: Don’t miss the ultimate conversation about contemporary men's fashion. Are there any rules? What makes for an elegant dresser in 2010. Is the devil in the detail? And how do Australian men rate when it comes to fashion?

An event developed especially for State Library by mc/k art and the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival 2010, this is a rare chance to experience a thoughtful discussion on male style from some of the most cutting-edge practitioners in Australian fashion today.

Speakers: Mitchell Oakley Smith (Associate Editor, GQ), Andrew Byrne (Designer, Pistols at Dawn), Brent Wilson (Fashion Designer) and Mark Neighbour (Fashion Designer and Project Runway Season 2 Top Five).  Facilitated by Alison Kubler. 

Date: 3pm, Sun 8 August 2010

Duration:    45:23 minutes    

Download audio:  mp3 [43 MB]

Streamed audio:  Windows media player

Presented by State Library of Queensland, mc/k art and Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival

Marcia Langton

Professor Marcia Langton was appointed Foundation Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at University of Melbourne in 2000.  She has many years experience working as an anthropologist in Indigenous affairs with Land Councils, the Queensland government and the university sector.  Professor Langton always contributes provocative and constructive views to our national Indigenous affairs debate.In this webcast she draws on her recently published essay “Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show” from the latest Griffith Review  "Re-Imagining Australia”.

Speaker:

Nielson Design Lecture with Michael Sorkin

Professor Michael Sorkin presented the inaugural Nielson Design Lecture in 2009 at State Library of Queensland.

Through this partnership, the State Library and Nielson Properties make it possible for Queensland designers to be exposed to the world's best, and ensures they are at the forefront of innovative design and urban planning.

Michael Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York.

 Speaker: Michael Sorkin
 Duration:  1:21:08 minutes
 Date: 7 November 2009
 Windows media (video):  dialup or broadband
 RealPlayer (video):  dialup or broadband
 Download video:  mp4 [300 MB]

Michael Gow

Join Carol Burns in conversation with Michael Gow, Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company as he shares tales of his stellar career as a writer and director, his personal inspirations and influences as an artist, and some compelling insights into the world of creating stories through theatre.

Speakers: Michael Gow
Duration:  1:00:22 minutes
Date:  19 March 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [55.2 MB]

Missing! German heritage of Queensland with Anna Haebich and Mark Schuster

German immigration from the 1840s to the present has had a significant influence on Queensland history and culture. Yet only traces of German heritage remain in our public collections and a comprehensive history is yet to be written. Anna Haebich and Mark Schuster discuss the reasons for this absence and describe some of the significant heritage that has survived. Notable is Mark’s private collection of German musical heritage and other items from the Toowomba region. Ways to preserve and promote Queensland’s German heritage will also be addressed.

Anna Haebich
Anna Haebich is a Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University. Her family arrived in Queensland from Schleswig-Holstein in 1864. As historian-in residence at the State Library of Queensland for Q150, Anna made several discoveries of German items in its collections. She has written about searching for her ancestors in Germany and is now working on a book that will vividly depict the lives and heritage of German immigrants to Queensland.

Mark Schuster
Mark Schuster is a true German-Queensland character. For the last 25 years he has sought out the hidden folklore (music, songs, yarns and customs) of the German-Queensland farming community in southern Queensland. He has lived, researched and recorded this hidden heritage before it passes away. He has accessed the treasure troves of people’s memories and passions for the German diaspora in often isolated locations. Playing squeezebox, zither, reciting broken German-Australian poetry are just some of his passions. This ‘artsy’ scientist will enthrall you with the amazing stories of our pioneer Queenslanders. He is the custodian for the Queensland chapter of the German community in their multicultural journey to becoming Queenslanders.

When Wed 20 Oct, 2010.  12.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Duration: 1 hour

Windows media (audio): broadband
Download audio: mp3 [57 MB]

Mo Johnson - writing hints and tips

Mo is the author of the young adult fiction book Boofheads, a story of three teenagers inseparable since pre-school, and Something More from the Girlfriends Series.  Her soon to be released picture book Noah’s Garden has been sold to the US and she is currently working on a biography of Olympic and Commonwealth marathon runner, Kerryn McCann.

Hear Mo’s insightful hints and tips on how to become a professional writer and navigate the publishing industry. 

Speaker: Mo Johnson
Duration: 8 minutes
Date: 2009
Windows media (video): dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (video): dialup or broadband

Multicultural summit

Keynote speaker Jason Yat-Sen Li at the 2007 Multicultural Summit discusses multiculturalism in Australia. The summit was presented by Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland in cooperation with Multicultural Development Association, Brisbane City Council and MultiLink Community Services and sponsored by Multicultural Affairs Queensland, State Library of Queensland and Active Migration.

Speaker:  Jason Yat-Sen Li
Duration:  1:00:47 minutes
Date:  19 November 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [58.3 MB]

Nancy Pearl, America's rock star librarian

Watch, listen to, or download files from talks presented by Nancy Pearl at the State Library. Topics include: Providing Excellent Readers Advisory Service and Keeping Book Clubs Happy and Healthy.

Browse the series

Speaker:  Nancy Pearl
Duration:  various
Date:  15 December 2006

Neil Durbach – Durbach Block Jaggers

Olivia Robinson - The Energy of Engagement: a Smithsonian experience

Meaningful engagement with Indigenous people can be powerful, exciting, challenging, and inspiring for libraries, museums, and galleries. Olivia Robinson, Senior Research Officer in Heritage Collections at the State Library of Queensland, will take you on an international exploration to identify some of the most innovative and effective Indigenous engagement strategies being used in Australia and the United States.

The first podcast in an ongoing professional development series delivered through Public and Indigenous Library Services, State Library of Queensland.

 Speaker:

Photography and Aboriginal identity in south-east Queensland

When looking at photographs of Aboriginal people taken over 100 years ago, the viewer often considers the huge changes to Aboriginal society and the landscape. This is especially true when considering photographs that come from areas such as south east Queensland, an area that is now highly urbanised. Regardless of the change that has occurred to the landscape and to Aboriginal culture, historical photographs have played an important role in enabling Aboriginal people to assert their connection to community and country. Michael Aird discussed the methods he uses to identify people in historical photos.  He also spoke about how Aboriginal community members have played an important role in helping to attach valuable information to these photos.

Michael Aird

Michael has worked full-time in the area of Aboriginal cultural heritage since 1985, graduating in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Queensland.  His main interest is urban Aboriginal photographic history, curating several exhibitions as well as being author of several books and articles.  In 1996, he established Keeaira press, an independent publishing house.  For five years, Michael was Curator of Aboriginal Studies at the Queensland Museum and continues to work as a freelance curator and anthropologist.

Speaker: Michael Aird

When:  Wed 21 Jul, 2010. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
     State Library of Queensland

Duration: 1:06 hour
Download audio:  mp3 [64 MB]

Pietro Demaio - preserving the Italian way

Pietro Demaio shares rich and varied Italian recipes, memories and anecodotes of childhood and travel, drawn from his book Preserving the Italian Way. Pietro is obsessed with preserving traditional Italian foods.  He is also committed to preserving a tradition of eating, friendship and culture that’s fast disappearing – Slow Foods. Pietro’s thesis is that good food, family and friends all go in one big pot to help lubricate companionship, friendship, happiness and long life.

Speakers:  Robert MacLennan  and Pietro Demaio
Duration:  1:06:24 minutes
Date:  12 June 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [60.7 MB]

Portrait of a friendship

Join editor Bryony Cosgrove in conversation with Barbara Blackman, as they discuss Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright 1950-2000, a very intimate glimpse into the personal lives of two key figures in Australian cultural life.

Speakers:  Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove
Duration:  59:11 minutes
Date:  28 August 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [54.1 MB]

The psychology of happiness

QUT Fashion After Hours – The Current State of Contemporary Australian Fashion

Australia and Queensland, in particular, seem to be gripped in a fashion moment. Why are there so few books examining Australian Fashion?

Panellists:

• Mitchell Oakley Smith, Associate Editor, GQ and author of Fashion Designers of Australia and New Zealand (published by Thames and Hudson 2010)
• Katie Somerville, Curator Australian Fashion and Textiles
 National Gallery of Victoria, Curator of Together Alone: Australian and New Zealand Fashion from NGV
• Susien Chong and Nic Briand, LOVER
• Kay McMahon, Fashion Business Advisor, QUT Creative Enterprise Centre

 Facilitator: Alison Kubler
 Duration:  55:46 minutes
 Date: Tuesday 10 August 2010
 Windows media (audio):   Windows media player
 Download audio:  mp3 [52 MB]

Redefining how success is measured in aboriginal learning

Speakers:

Reforming women

A century of reforming women offers inspiration to contemporary women who work to change the way we regard social and cultural issues.  Join our panel of successful Queensland women from the fields of law, politics, social welfare, medicine and the arts as they discuss how issues have evolved since the days of the suffragettes and subsequent waves of feminists, and the real priorities for reforming women in the 21st century.

Speakers:  Davida Allen, Dr. Cherrell Hirst AO, Zoe Rathus & Elizabeth Jamison
Duration:  1:03:08 minutes
Date:  23 October 2008
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Streamed Audio:  Real Player
Download audio:  mp3 [57.8 MB]

Robert Forster

Talented songwriters and consummate musicians Grant McLennan and Robert Forster have been compared to Lennon and McCartney and recognised as one of Queensland’s great cultural exports. Through the iconic Australian band The Go-Betweens and successful solo careers, McLennan and Forster’s music has shared a uniquely Queensland spirit with a global audience.  Listen to Robert Forster in conversation with Andrew Stafford (author of ‘Pig City’) as he ponders the man, the stories and the legacy of the late Grant McLennan.

Speakers:  Robert Forster and Andrew Stafford
Duration:  1:17:02 minutes
Date:  17 August 2008
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [70.5 MB]

Sam Cutler

‘As the rotors created an ungodly racket above, I sat there crammed into the helicopter with the Stones, their management and various hangers-on. What the hell had happened? The free concert at Altamont was meant to be a peak in the career of the Rolling Stones. It was intended to be a celebration of not just the music, but the thriving peace and love counter-culture of the sixties. Rather it had descended into a bloody chaotic mess of violence, death and despair. And we were on the run.’

Sam Cutler has been at the centre of some of the most exciting developments in the music industry, and has worked with the two largest grossing live artists in the world, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. Listen as he shares his titillating stories, now captured in a behind-the-scenes tell-all rock memoir.

Speakers:  Sam Cutler and Noel Mengel
Duration:  1:04:58 minutes
Date:  15 October 2008
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Streamed Audio:  Real Player
Download audio:  mp3 [59.5 MB]

Spice notes and travel

Venture into the ancient world of herbs and spices with acclaimed author and modern-day spice merchant Ian Hemphill. Ian shares his 30 years of accumulated spice and herb knowledge, revealing the mysteries and history of spices and hints and tips for their use, interspersed with travel tales and personal anecdotes from his career and as proprietor of Sydney spice house, Herbie’s Spices. Presented by the State Library of Queensland and Slow Food Brisbane.

Speaker:  Ian Hemphill
Duration:  1 hr: 11:46 minutes
Date:  17 August 2007
Windows media (audio):  dialup or broadband
RealPlayer (audio):  dialup or broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [65.7 MB]

Stevens Lawson Architects - Genius Loci

Susannah Fullerton: Love and War in Leo Tolstoy’s Life and Novels

Celebrated writer and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy was a soldier, educational reformer, teacher and philosopher who made his name famous through an art he despised - writing fiction. Throughout his life he struggled to live by his ever changing ideologies. For many years he enjoyed a happy marriage, with Sofya devotedly copying out his novels as he wrote them. However, when Tolstoy decided to give up writing novels and turned instead to philosophy and teaching his many followers, the trouble began. The marriage became a bitter struggle over Tolstoy, with his wife and some of the children on one side, daughter Sasha and Tolstoy’s followers on the other. 

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy’s works are as popular today as they were in 1910 - indeed, War and Peace and Anna Karenina are regarded as two of the greatest novels ever written. Discover the man behind the novels as author, Susannah Fullerton, takes you on a journey through Tolstoy's life, love, writings and death.

Part of the program for the ‘Of Love and War’ exhibition

When Fri 26 Nov, 2010. 1pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Duration:  1:07:36 hours

Windows media (audio): broadband

Download audio: mp3 [ 65 MB]

Sustainable Supper (Deepen the Conversation)

Moving into the next decade, Australia faces the serious issue of food security. Whether it be drought and climate change affecting production, the export of crops to impoverished countries, or foreign investors buying our valuable land, it is impossible to exactly match local food production with regional demand. Australians no longer have the assurance that their produce will be fresh, local and reasonably priced.Proposed solutions range from genetic engineering and food innovations, to vertical farming and urban fringe farms. So what is the best way to ensure our families are fed, economy kept strong and quality of life maintained? How urgently do we need an answer and how are we preparing the next generation to deal with these issues?

Join Geoff Wilson, President of the Green Infrastructure Network Australia and Director (Australia) of the World Green Infrastructure Network, with permaculture gardener Tim Lang in conversation with Professor Geoff Lawrence from the Global Change Institute, as they tackle the issue of food security on a global basis, and explore the prospect of fresher and healthier urban food in Brisbane.

Part of the IDEAS 2011 program.

Speakers:  Geoff Wilson, Tim Lang and Geoff Lawrence
Duration:  1:17:49 minutes
Date:  Wed 6 April 2011
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Download audio:  mp3 [73 MB]

There's Something Rotten in the Food Chain

In an era of urbanisation, fast food and 24 hour supermarkets, it is easy to forget where the food we eat comes from. A better understanding of our food production industries helps us make better choices for both our health and environment. Or so argued a group of writers and academics who gathered at the State Library of Queensland to discuss the "Food Chain" edition of the Griffith Review. Find out how backyard gardens, vertical farms, and learning to embrace wonky looking bananas may be some of the answers to our food production problems.

Virginia Balfour is a freelance journalist and a contributor to the edition of the Griffith Review entitled "Food Chain." She has trained in environmental policy and horticulture and has worked as a television producer and documentary maker focusing on environmental issues.

Tony Fry is an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland College of Art, in the Design Futures Program. He is a director of a design firm, Team D/E/S which focuses on sustainability in design. He is also a forest famer and leads an AusAID funded farming project in East Timor.

Professor Brendan Gleeson is the Centre Director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University and is also a Professor of Urban Policy at the Griffith School of Environment. He has written and edited several books on urban space and planning.

Paul Barclay is a journalist and radio broadcaster. He is the presenter of "Australia Talks" and "Big Ideas" on ABC Radio National.

Speakers: Paul Barclay interviews Virginia Balfour, Adjunct Prof. Tony Fry  and Prof. Brendan Gleeson on ABC's Fora program recorded at the State Library of Queensland.
Duration: 6:03 minutes
Date:  12 April, 2010

What are the humanities worth?

A recent audit of Australian universities revealed an alarming weakness in the quality of humanities and social sciences research. This is symptomatic of a wider malaise in the state of Australian arts and culture. Join philosopher and best-selling author John Armstrong, Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor at the University of Melbourne, as he calls for radical reform to the way humanities and social sciences are valued and advanced. Drawing from his essay in Griffith REVIEW 31: Ways of Seeing, John will discuss how we can learn from literature, philosophy and the creative imagination to find new approaches to complex, urgent twenty-first century problems.

Speaker: John Armstrong
When:  Thu 24 Feb 2011 6.30 pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
     State Library of Queensland

Duration: 1:10:10 hours
Download audio:  mp3 [68 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband 

A world without books

As part of Indigenous Literacy Day, the State Library of Queensland hosted some of the State’s Australia's finest Indigenous poets, authors and songwriters as they discussed the importance of books and reading in their lives. Join them as they share stories that moved them, taught them about the world, or simply inspired them.

Speakers:  Yvette Holt, Fiona Doyle, Shellie Morris, and Uncle Herb Wharton. Facilitated by Sue Abbey with an opening address by Suzy Wilson (Indigenous Literacy Project).
Duration:  1:37:39 minutes
Date:  3 September 2008
Streamed Audio:  Windows Media Player
Streamed Audio:  Real Player
Download audio:  mp3 [89.4MB]

Wrecked! A survey of shipwreck sites on the Queensland coast, with Paddy Waterson

Throughout history, Queensland’s treacherous coastline has claimed nearly 1,400 vessels. The maritime industry is at the heart of Queensland’s and Australia’s historic development and shipping was the principal mode of transport for goods and people until well into the 20th Century.

The high volume of sea trade coupled with the treacherous nature of our coastline resulted is a many vessels being lost or abandoned. Today, these shipwrecks continue to attract attention, both from a historical and a touristic viewpoint. Yet, despite its profile there is much we do not know about our maritime heritage. The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) is conducting a five year survey of Queensland’s historic shipwrecks to draw together all the available information, establishing a more complete picture of where the wrecks are and what they can tell us.

Join Paddy Waterson, Queensland’s appointed Historical Shipwreck Practitioner, as she brings some of these stories to the surface.

Paddy is a Principal Heritage Officer with the Heritage Branch, DERM, working throughout Queensland, especially in the Far North, Wide Bay/Burnett and South-Eastern Districts. Initially trained as a general archaeologist/historian, Paddy has since completed postgraduate qualifications in forensic osteology and maritime archaeology.

Presented by State Library of Queensland and the Department of Environment and Resource Management Heritage branch.

Speaker: Paddy Waterson
When:  Wed 20 Apr, 2011. 12.30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 1 hour
Windows Media (audio): broadband
Download audio:  mp3 [57 MB]