Schindler’s Ark author visits St Lucia

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More than 200 people attended a free public lecture by Australian literary legend Thomas Keneally as part of a page-turning program of UQ events at the 2009 Brisbane Writers Festival.

Thomas Keneally in the Fryer Library

The University was again a major sponsor of the festival, and presented a range of sessions exploring issues ranging from the global financial meltdown, to saving the world’s rainforests and reviving dying languages.

UQ’s Fryer Library contains a significant body of Mr Keneally’s work including several of his early manuscripts.

Canadian author Andrew Westoll joined UQ ecologists Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr James Watson at the State Library for “Tropical forests on the brink: can we save them?”.

Mr Westoll’s travel memoir The Riverbones was published by UQP, and documents the shrinking forests of Suriname in South America.

Other events included “The Urban Revolution” at GoMA chaired by UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield and “Reporting Islam: Representation and Reality”, hosted by the School of Journalism and Communication.

By Cameron Pegg

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