University of Sydney

The Ripples Before the New Wave: Drama at the University Of Sydney 1957–1963 by Robyn Dalton and Laura Ginters

May 2019, no. 411

People who were university students at a particular time often like to regard those years as exceptional, a perspective which, embellished by nostalgia, memoirs, and media hype, can take on mythic proportions. A case in point is the concurrence of people and talent that led to a high point in student theatre ...

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Perpsectives: The University of Sydney anthology 2013 edited by Aqmarina Andira et al.

by Nigel Featherstone •

September 2014, no. 364

Nigel Featherstone reviews 'Perspectives: The University of Sydney anthology 2013' edited by Aqmarina Andira et al.

In her foreword, Emily Maguire says, ‘You need a desperate, hungry energy to tell a story, to write a poem, to scratch at the surface of a life and see what slithers beneath.’ For some, the university campus is the place for this desperation and hunger to find a voice and have a public hearing. For the University of Sydney, the public hearing is in the form of Perspectives, through which we experience almost thirty new writers and artists, who reveal diverse themes, points of view, and technical abilities.

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Hide Your Fires: 2012 UTS Writers’ Anthology edited by Lauren Anderson et al.

by Francesca Sasnaitis •

September 2012, no. 344

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Hide Your Fires' edited by Lauren Anderson et al.

The making of a writer involves more than talent and ambition; perseverance and a thick skin are also prerequisites. The best that can be hoped for from a teaching institution is that potential writers are exposed to new ideas and encouraged to experiment with content and form. The results are seldom perfect, but at least they can prove interesting.

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A Cool and Shaded Heart by Noel Rowe & Ethical Investigations by Noel Rowe

by David McCooey •

March 2011, no. 329

Noel Rowe, poet and critic, was something of an enigma to me. It is hard to believe that he was still in his thirties (just) when I met him in 1990 at the University of Sydney, he a lecturer, I a postgraduate student. Noel seemed to have an enormous wealth of experience, though he was never showy with it ...

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Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney by David Ellis

by John Thompson •

March 2011, no. 329

John Thompson reviews 'Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney' edited by David Ellis

With the centrepiece of its glorious Edmund Blacket building and its noble quadrangle, the University of Sydney is Australia’s oldest and grandest institution of higher learning – an adornment both to its city and to the nation since its foundation in 1852. Less well known, even in Sydney, is that the university is home to a remarkable accumulation of cultural and scientific treasures – some seven hundred thousand artefacts and objects – held within its museums and collections: the Nicholson and Macleay Museums, the University Art Gallery, the rare books collection of the Fisher Library and university archives, and numerous faculty-based research collections.

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Radical Students by Alan Barcan & The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)

by Michael Crennan •

December 2002-January 2003, no. 247

Michael Crennan reviews 'Radical Students: The old left at Sydney University' by Alan Barcan and 'The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne' by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)

Many thousands of undergraduates have walked under the stilts of the Raymond Priestley Building, which forms part of Melbourne University’s great wind tunnel, with no thought of the person commemorated by its name. He was, in fact, a remarkable man. His four years as Vice-Chancellor (1935–38) emerge in extraordinary detail and intimacy, thanks to this edition of his journals.

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