Jane Franklin Hall Summer School Program January 2015
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JANE FRANKLIN HALL SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM JANUARY 2015 The Venue Jane Franklin Hall has been hosting summer schools since 1992. Several hundred people have come to Jane each January over these 22 years to enjoy a wide range of interesting programs and the company of like-minded (and not so like-minded) people from all over Australia and New Zealand. The Jane Summer Schools offer an opportunity for a happy and stimulating summer break in pleasant surroundings. Those who stay in College will enjoy community life: meals are excellent, and all rooms have a fine view of the River Derwent or Mt Wellington. College rooms are single study- bedrooms with shared facilities. Please enquire about special requests. Program Content The course will run for five days with three or four sessions per day, starting at 9.00 am and finishing at about 3.00 pm. Most of the teaching is done in the mornings, when concentration is best. Program Includes 6 nights’ accommodation in single rooms with shared facilities. All meals are provided. Services of a study leader and lecturers. Lectures and handouts as indicated. Program Excludes Return economy class domestic airfares to and from Hobart Transportation from the airport to the college and return. Departure taxes applicable to the standard itinerary. Comprehensive Travel Insurance Costs of a personal nature There is a discount of $300 per school for participants not wishing to reside in College. However for non-residents the Sunday night reception, all lunches throughout the week, and the closing dinner are included. A further discount is available for Jane alumni. Note that in the summary list below all the summer school dates are expressed as Sunday to Saturday, i.e. from the check-in to the check-out date for resident participants. However teaching takes place only during the five days Monday to Friday. There will be a Welcome Reception on each Sunday night of the summer school period and a Closing Dinner on each Friday. WEEK ONE - 4-10 JANUARY 1. Medieval and Church Latin – David Daintree 2. Aboriginal Anthropology – Basil Sansom 3. The Egyptians – Michael O’Donoghue 4. Pugin in Tasmania – Brian Andrews WEEK TWO - 11-17 JANUARY 5. Convicts and Emigrants in Early Tasmania – Perry McIntyre 6. Air and Space Law – Mark Harrison and Joseph Wheeler 7. Biology of Marsupials – Randy Rose 8. The Golden Age of Athens – Philip Dutton 9. From Plato to Postmodernism – Brendan Triffett WEEK THREE - 18-24 JANUARY 10. Climate and Climate Change - Facts and Fallacies – Garth Paltridge, Ian Allison and Mike Pook 12. Medieval Chivalry – Knights and Ladies – Philip Caudrey 13. Italian Opera – Jennifer Martin-Smith and David Daintree For further information about any of our summer schools contact David Daintree, Director of Programs – [email protected]. Bookings can be made directly through Odyssey at https://www.odysseytraveller.com/homes/destination/odyssey- schools. DETAILED PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS IN ORDER 1. MEDIEVAL AND CHURCH LATIN, 4-10 JANUARY 2015 PRICE: $1100 Top 5 things we'll experience: 1. There will be a strong emphasis on the sound of Latin: even a so-called ‘dead’ language comes alive when spoken aloud. 2. Guided reading of great passages from some of the greatest Medieval poets, historians and story-tellers. 3. Guided reading of some important Church writings, including Scripture, Hymns, theology and philosophy 4. A side-glance at the `classical tradition' in the Middle Ages and its influence on English literature. 5. An introduction to palaeography, with an opportunity to handle original medieval manuscripts. Latin is arguably the mother-tongue of Europe. Its literature is immensely rich. It did not die with Julius Caesar, but original work continued to be written in the Latin language up to modern times. Latin is a doorway that can lead you to wonderful delights. Designed for those who have done some Latin before (or who are prepared to work hard on the basics between now and the start of the course!), this Jane Franklin Hall Summer School will introduce you to important texts from world literature which are too often neglected. In this course we shall read selections from the work of some of the outstanding writers in verse and prose, religious and secular, from that immense period between the end of pagan Rome and the birth of modernity. We shall look at scripture and philosophy, hymns and love poetry. No participant will ever be embarrassed by their shaky Latin: the teaching method leaves the entire task of translation and exposition to the Lecturer. This approach has been useful to relative beginners in Latin as well as those who are highly experienced in reading the language. THE PROGRAM Each course will comprise four lectures a day on each of the five days, from Monday to Friday, starting at 9.00 am. There will be only one lecture after lunch each day, in order to free up most of the afternoon for private study and other activities. MONDAY General introduction to Late and Medieval Latin. We read excerpts from liturgy (the Sarum form of the Eucharist) and Scripture. TUESDAY Latin Prose Narrative (extracts from Bede, Einhard, the anonymous `Brendan Voyage', St Isidore of Seville, Robert Grosseteste) WEDNESDAY Hymnody and religious poetry (extracts from St Ambrose, Venantius Fortunatus, Hildegard of Bingen, St Thomas Aquinas). THURSDAY The Classical Tradition and secular poetry - how the writers of the ancient world continued to be read throughout the centuries (extracts from Virgil and Alcuin, the Carmina Burana. FRIDAY Philosophy, the Fathers of the Church and scholastic theology (extracts from St Augustine, St Benedict, St Patrick, Dante, Thomas a Kempis). There will be a Farewell Dinner in the evening. THE LECTURER In 1992, David Daintree offered the first Latin Summer School and 22 people came from all over Australia to participate. Almost every year since he has taught similar courses, not only in Hobart but also in Sydney, Perth, Hamilton (NZ) and Rome. David is a native of Sydney. He took a BA from the University of New England, and an M Litt from Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Tasmania. His academic background is in Classics, but he is primarily a medieval Latinist. He left school early, working in advertising and public relations before going on to university. He then he taught for four years at Geelong Grammar School’s Timbertop, and was subsequently Senior Classics Master at St Peter’s College, Adelaide. David was Principal of Jane Franklin Hall from 1984 to 2002. He has been a visiting professor at both the Universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting fellow at St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Canada. From 2002 to 2008 he was Rector of St John’s College in the University of Sydney, and served as President of Campion College, Australia’s only Liberal Arts college, from 2008 to 2012. Early in 2013 he was appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Campion College. He is currently the Director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania. David is married to Elizabeth and they have three grown-up children, and four grandchildren. Their family home is in Colebrook, Tasmania. 2. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 4-10 JANUARY PRICE: $1100 Top 5 things we’ll experience: 1. Aboriginal languages and the traditional social formation 2. Aboriginal warfare, sex and violence 3. Hunter-gatherers as having ‘the original affluent society’ 4. Aboriginal art, religion and aesthetics 5. Land rights and current issues The course relies on accounts of Aboriginal life that have been provided by anthropologists who have conducted long stints of fieldwork in Aboriginal communities. Aborigines of the Darwin hinterland feature prominently in the course because that’s where Basil Sansom did the fieldwork reported in his book: The Camp at Wallaby Cross. THE PROGRAM Each course will comprise four lectures a day on each of the five days, from Monday to Friday, starting at 9.00 am. There will be only one lecture after lunch each day, in order to free up most of the afternoon for private study and other activities. MONDAY Such Quantities of Tongues Aboriginal Arms control (absence of the bow and arrow) Shallow genealogy, brief histories: the social construction of time and eternity TUESDAY ‘Ol’ fella and young girl marriage’ Aboriginal Gerontocrats Gender, Matrifocality and the Velocity of Sex WEDNESDAY The Original Affluent Society Western Desert versus the Rest Money and Booze: ‘Livin longa grog’ THURSDAY The Dreaming Aboriginal Aesthetics: the Wrong, the Rough and the Fancy. The Land Rights and Native Title story FRIDAY Aboriginal Art: 1. Desert iconography Aboriginal Art: 2. Northern representations Afternoon: Visit to the ‘Art Mob’ shop (bus required) THE LECTURER Basil Sansom is Emeritus Professor in the University of Western Australia and works as a consultant to the courts in native title cases. He recently won the Australian Anthropological Society annual prize for the year’s best essay – his topic was the dynamic of male initiation ceremonies. Basil’s first fieldwork was done in Sekhukhuneland (South Africa). While a lecturer at Manchester University (1962-1973), he researched among Bedouin in Libya and among Druze villagers in Lebanon. In 1973 he came to Australia to take up a three-year research fellowship with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and subsequently was appointed to a chair in anthropology in W.A. 3. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS – FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS LIVES, 4-10 JANUARY PRICE: $1100 Top 5 things we’ll experience: 1. Participate in the ‘official’ inquiry into the cause of the death of Tutankhamun. 2. Enjoy (sympathise with!) the plight of the accused in the trial of the conspirators in the ‘Harem Conspiracy’. 3. Play the detective in assessing the evidence for the life of Akhenaton and his wife Nefertiti.