THE CALLAWAY LECTURE SERIES

Inaugurated in 1988 as part of the University's seventy-fifth Anniversary celebrations, the Callaway Lecture Series has gone on to become one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar.

In the two decades since the Lecture Series began a host of distinguished speakers have taken the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the arts.

The Hon. Barry O. Jones, Federal Minister for Science and Small Business

The two cultures in a brave new world: life, arts and mixed metaphors

Published as CIRCME series, no. 7

Professor Sir Peter Platt, Bt, Professor of Music at the University of Sydney

A form of infinity: music and the human spirit

Published as CIRCME series, no. 9

Mr James Strong of Melbourne

The future for the arts and business in Australia: great expectations

Presented during National Arts Week

Heath Lees, Professor of Music at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

The global fact of music education

Published as CIRCME series, no. 1

Nicholas Hasluck QC, AM

The arts labryrinth

Published as CIRCME series, no. 2

Professor Lyle Davidson of Harvard University, USA

Arts education : new ways of learning

Presented as part of the ASME National Conference
Published as CIRCME Series, no.3

Associate Professor
Veronica Brady

Shall these bones live…?

Presented on the occasion of Sir Frank's 75th birthday
Published as CIRCME Series, no.6

Emeritus Professor
David Tunley

The orb and the forge : the nature of music and its place in a modern university

Presented on the occasion of Professor Tunley's retirement
Published as CIRCME Series, no.10

Geoffrey Bolton AO

The muses in quest of a patron

Published as CIRCME Series, no.11

Professor Richard Colwell, Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois

Music in education and everyday life

Published as CIRCME Series, no.12

Professor Deryck
Schreuder, Vice-Chancellor of The University of
Western Australia

The humanities popular myths and professional realities

Media Statement

Katharine Brisbane

The arts and the pre-emptive buckle

Transcript courtesy of Currency Press

Margaret Seares

From Bondi to Beethoven: Australians and their culture

Professor Malcolm Gillies, President, Australian Academy of the Humanities and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Adelaide University

Facing the music: academic collegiality and the arts

Media Statement

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The Honourable Geoff Gallop MLA Premier of Western Australia

Culture, creativity and the future of Western Australia

Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell, the Donald E. Peterson Professor of
Music, University of
Washington

Music, education, and culture: traditions and transitions in the lives of young people

Media Statement

Professor Mark Everist, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton

Music, performance and culture, or Where does music come from?

Robyn Holmes, Curator of Music, National Library of Australia

Musical enterprise: reinventing the public face of music scholarship in Australia

Professor Kim Walker, Dean
of the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music,
University of Sydney

Education, money, morality & the 21st century ecosphere

Professor Alan Harvey, Chair, UWA Neuroscience Discipline Group, School of Anatomy and Human Biology

Music and the mind : does a tune a day keep the shrink away?

Presented as part of ASME 2007: XVI Australian Society for Music Education 40th Anniversary National Conference

Richard Gill OAM

Let's re-visit the past so that we might have a future ... the desperate plight of music education in the 21st century and some ideas for saving the planet

Professor Donald Burrows, Handel Scholar from The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Too hot to Handel? Performers, audiences, scholars and attitudes to ‘authenticity’

Paavali Jumppanen, Finnish pianist

Shakespearean influences in Beethoven's music

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