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In conversation with Professor Tim Flannery
No full textThe inaugural Mick Dark Talk for the Future was given in 2015 by Professor Tim Flannery (Climate Council), one of Australia’s preeminent writers on climate change. The event was hosted by Varuna Writers’ House in partnership with the Blue Mountains Conservation Society and took place at the Wentworth Falls School of Arts. The Mick Dark Talk for the Future was founded after Mick Dark’s passing, to honour his legacy in environmental activism and his generosity in bequeathing the Dark family home to the NSW Government for use as a national writers’ centre. After his talk, Professor Flannery spoke about his new book Atmosphere of Hope (2015) with author and academic Dr Kate Fagan. The following is a transcript of their conversation. The complete audio version of Professor Flannery’s talk and the Q&A session following was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s “Big Ideas” program in October 2015
Tim Flannery: The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
No full textTim Flannery is on a mission. He believes that human activity is drastically altering the earth\u27s climate, and that before too long these changes will have a devastating effect on life on this planet. He wants to mobilize the social and political will to address this problem before it\u27s too late.
That\u27s why Tim Flannery wrote The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. In this important and provocative new book, which debuted on The New York Times best-seller list, Flannery tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. He carefully lays out the science, demonstrating the substantial, human-induced climate change and the likely ecological effects to the planet if this process continues. He then proposes a game plan to halt-and ultimately reverse-this damaging trend.
Tim Flannery is director of the South Australian Museum, and chairman of the State Science Council and Sustainability Roundtable, as well as the National Geographic Society\u27s Australasian representative. He spent a year as professor of Australian studies at Harvard, where he taught in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In 2002, he became the first environmentalist to deliver The Australia Day address to the nation, and in 2005 he was honored as Australian Humanist of the Year.
A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, Flannery also contributes to ABC Radio, NPR and the BBC. He has also written and hosted several Documentary Channel specials, including The Future, and Islands in the Sky
Cutting'aesthetic teeth' : Flannery O'Connor's habit of art
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoEste trabalho foi sugerido pela afirmação de Flannery O'Connor que sua "dedicação estética" nasceu através do contato com Art and Scholasticism de Jacques Maritain. O propósito foi chegar a uma interpretação do sentido da frase. Uma investigação detalhada foi feita do conteúdo de Art and Scholasticism, posteriormente contrastada com os resultados de uma pesquisa feita em seus ensaios e suas cartas, o que revelou numerosos ecos de diversos trechos constando no texto de Maritain. Três pontos principais foram escolhidos como critérios na análise do hábito artístico de O'Connor: 1) a prática de arte implica uma luta; 2) a arte somente pode ser percebida pelos sentidos; e 3) a prática de arte exige do artista a dedicação indivisa à obra nascente. O estudo conclui que, para O'Connor, o brotar da dentição estética, através da leitura de Art and Scholasticism, significou que, ao perceber na análise da natureza da arte algo com que podia concordar, ela reconheceu tanto sua própria capacidade de tornar-se uma artista literária, quanto sua vontade de assumir a tarefa de desenvolver em sua pessoa o hábito de arte
Greg Cornwell and Professor Tim Flannery shaking hands at the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture, "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2008
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
Tim Flannery in San Diego Padres uniform
No full textTim Flannery in San Diego Padres uniform; he spent eleven seasons with them from 1979 to 1989. He was a member of the Chapman College baseball team 1975-1978 and on the 1977-1978 All League Team.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_athletics/1119/thumbnail.jp
Professor Tim Flannery presenting the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture "Climate change: an update to July 2008" at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture, "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2008
Baillieu Myer, Professor Tim Flannery, the Honourable Peter Garrett and Sarah Myer at a reception following the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture, "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2008
Martyn Myer, Professor Tim Flannery, Louise Myer and the Honourable Peter Garrett at a reception following the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the 2008 Kenneth Myer Lecture, "Climate change: an update to July 2008" presented by Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 15 July 2008.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2008
8th ANU Reconciliation Lecture 2011: Reconciliation in an era of globalisation
No full textProfessor Tim Flannery is one of Australia's leading writers on climate change and heads up the multi-party Climate Change Commission established by the Prime Minister. An internationally-acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007.
Professor Flannery used this talk to reflect on what ancient Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have to teach us all in the modern world. He discussed the rapid globalisation of the world and the common culture of social media among young people. He also discussed how people are adopting global solutions to global problems such as climate change and reflected on how the nature of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and other Australians is being influenced by these trends
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