Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature
The annual Fryer Lecture is the premier event in the Friends of the Library program. The Lecture celebrates Australian literature and the important role of the Fryer Library in collecting and preserving our literary heritage. Included in its holdings are the manuscripts of prominent Australian writers such as David Malouf, Peter Carey, Thea Astley, Frank Moorhouse, Olga Masters, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Its collections also include plans, drawings and records of key Queensland-based architects, the University of Queensland Press Archive, rare books, and other unique material documenting Australian cultural history. These collections are a valuable resource for teaching and research at The University of Queensland, and attract scholars from across Australia and internationally.
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Past events and photos
2022
In the Moorhouse Archives (audio)
2021
UQP and the generation of '68 (video, audio)
2020
- In times like these, what would Oodgeroo do? (audio)
2019
2018
- Poetic Presence: John Forbes in the archive - photos, audio
- Conservation from the distant to the recent past: Chatsworth to the Salk Institute - audio
- Poetics of Space: The influence of literary works on architectural design - photos, audio
- UQP Makes History: a personal reflection - photos, audio
- Research Excellence and Scholarly Publishing - photos, audio
- The Good Looking Bookseller and the Ugly Society: Bill Sutton and the People's Bookshop - photos, audio
- Tree Planting in memory of Ian Sinnamon - photos, audio
- Geopoetry: dwelling in the art-science nexus with Dorothy Hill - photos, audio
- November: Marginalia, Bibliography at the Margins
- Awards and Acquisitions Evening - photos, audio
2017
- Beyond the Rockton Window: remembering author and painter Helen Haenke (Photos, Audio)
- An Editor Regrets: R. G. Campbell and the Australian Journal (Photos)
- Voices in the Archive (Photos, Audio)
- An event to celebrate the life and legacy of Professor Dorothy Hill (Online Exhibition, Audio)
- In conversation: Min Jin Lee (Audio)
- Fifty Years of Friendship with Alumni Friends of UQ (Audio)
- 2017 Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature: Crime Fiction in Australia (Photos, Audio)
- 2017 Library Awards and Acquistions Evening (Photos, Audio)
2016
- Wikipedia turns 15
- Shakespeare & Co: The Bard and his Peers in the Digital Age (photos, Audio file)
- Nick Earls launches 'Wisdom Tree' (photos, Audio file)
- Hidden in plain sight: walking tour of the Great Court (event information)
- BWF at UQ: In Conversation with Tom and Meg Keneally (Audio file)
- Vesalius' Fabrica of the Human Body - A Medical Milestone (photos)
- Belvedere Woman (photos)
- 2016 Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature: Thea Astley (photos)
- Res Gestae - Things Done (Audio)
- 2016 Library Awards and Acquisitions Evening (Photos)
2015
- Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature - Frank Moorhouse AM, on the The Survival of Australian Writing: The role and authority of the literary imagination (event photos and recording)
- JD Fryer: Student and soldier online exhibition (event photos)
- International Open Access Week UQ Seminar
- James George Drake (1850-1941) (event photos)
- Diary of a Turkish soldier (event photos)
- Brisbane Writers Festival at UQ: Kate Grenville (event photos)
- A Window into History: the Hume Family Collection
- Passages art installation (event photos)
2013
- Christmas Party (event photos)
- The 50th anniversary of Australian Literary Studies (event photos)
- Happy Birthday Pride and prejudice (event photos)
- Three Crooked Kings (event photos)
- Investigating Arthur Upfield (event photos)
- Antartica: Bravery in the landscape
2012
- Christmas Party: Professor Peter Roennfeldt
- Brisbane Writers Festival 2012 (event photos)
- History of women's writing at UQP (event photos)
- Nick Earls and Simon Groth in conversation (event photos)
- Simon Cleary Closer to stone (event photos)
- 40th anniversary of women's & gender studies