FROM ART TO ATOMS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 33

FROM ART TO ATOMS

Winter Course Talks from 1YA

sciences and the arts has been struck by the advisory committee which plans the Winter Course Talks for 1YA. The series will start this year on Thursday, April 29, at 7.15 p.m., and will be continued at the same time on succeeding Thursdays until the spring. The complete programme has not yet reached finality, but present plans are that it should include talks on animal research, Australian poetry, modern art, architecture and town planning, atomic energy, ‘ NICE balance between the

and industrial relations. Experts in these various fields will, of course, prepare the : broadcasts. During the first month of the series two members of the staff of»Auckland Unjversity College will give four talks under the title Recent Australian Poetry. In introducing the series Dr. S. Musgrove, Professor of English at the College, will comment upon the strange lack of knowledge New Zealand and Australia have about each other’s affairs, particularly in literary matters, 4nd he will briefly outline the scope of the series, which aims at giving "some idea of the sort of poetry which has been written in Australia in the last 50 years." Following some general remarks he will devote the major portion of his time in the first talk to discussing the work of Christopher Brennan (18701932). The second talk, to be given by Dr. Elizabeth Sheppard, senior lecturer in English at the College, will deal with Hugh McCrae, whose work, with that of Brennan, is considered to mark the beginning of Australian (as distinct from English) poetry. Dr. Sheppard will also give the third talk, and Professor Musgrove will conclude the series with a commentary on the younger Australian ts. \The next series-two talks-will deal with investigation of problems presented by facial eczema in animals. Since the Winter Course programme is intended for the general listener these two talks have been designed to interest the layin scientific research being carried ut in this field rather than the farmer.

The architectural series will consist of four lectures under the general heading of Contemporary Conceptions of Architecture and Town Planning. They will be given by Professor A. C. Light, Professor of Architecture at Auckland University College. The first talk will be a background sketch discussing architecture as an index to the development of civilisation and an expression of community life as opposed to the popular conception of the development of architecture as a sequence of styles. Professor Light’s second talk will deal with contemporary architecture and the diference between modern and modernistic architecture. His third and fourth talks will be designed to show the inseparability of architecture and town planning. Professor F. J. Llewellyn, Professor of Chemistry at Auckland University College, will speak on the implications of atomic energy. In his four talks he will describe in lay terms what atomic energy is, how it can be used, its effects on the social structure, and, finally, the limita--tions in the use of atomic energy. Other Winter Course talks proposed for the latter part of series include a series of modern art, and on local scientific research work and industrial relations. — ee