UWA Extension has announced a great program of short courses and events hosted at The University Club of Western Australia in 2016.
The following three courses run by Professor Susan Broomhall may be of interest to members:
The insider’s guide to Versailles
Date: Saturday 30 April, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55
Take a peak inside the exclusive world of Versailles, a lavish palace complex that housed the cream of the French aristocracy during the ancient regime. Discover the history, politics, the intrigues, and the garden and palace spaces where monarchs, elites and commoners mingled. We will explore the music, art, literature and enlightenment philosophies that shaped a fantasy world and stoked a revolution.
Join historian Professor Susan Broomhall for this illuminating and enjoyable seminar.
More info: https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR001
The insider’s guide to the Dutch Golden Age
Date: Saturday 28 May, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55
Spices, silks, gold, silver, tulips and porcelain arrived in Dutch society in the seventeenth century via the Dutch East India Company and were celebrated in vibrant artistic styles that captured the spirit of the Golden Age.
Join historian Professor Susan Broomhall for this absorbing seminar. We will explore the immense international power of the trading companies (reaching as far as the western Australian coast in 1616, under Dirk Hartog), the beauty of Dutch art and porcelain, the story of its political emergence and role of key women and men in the dynasty whose name, Orange-Nassau, is forever linked with this nation and its sporting colour.
More info: https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR002
The insider’s guide to Renaissance Florence
Date: Saturday 25 June, 2016
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm [1 session, 3 hours total]
Venue: UWA Crawley Campus
Cost: $55
Discover the cultural politics of power in Renaissance Florence, focusing on the House of Medici, the banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de’ Medici and went on to produce four Popes and two regent queens of France.
This interactive and rewarding seminar, presented by historian Professor Susan Broomhall, will explore the city spaces, processions and buildings of Brunelleschi, the music of Dufay, as well as artworks of Lippi and Botticelli, the literature of Machiavelli and the birth of humanism.
