Things Fall Apart goes to Australia

Things Fall Apart goes to Australia

Posted By: Evelyn OSAGIE On: March 24, 2018 In: Arts & Life

 

The epic novel, Things Fall Apart, is 60. And the global literary community is excited.  This time the celebration is moving to Melbourne, Australia.

The book, which is written by the late widely-celebrated author, Prof Chinua Achebe and published 1958 by William Heinemann Ltd in the United Kingdom, has remained an all-time classic and is recorded to have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Here in Nigeria, the literati rolled out the drums on the celebration last month with a press conference by the TFA@60 Africa organising committee led by Dr Wale Okediran, announcing the catalogue of activities holding in celebration of the book, especially across Africa and Nigeria.

In Australia, activities marking the 60th anniversary of the novel started on Thursday, March 15 and will run till Wednesday, March 28 at the University of Melbourne, Parkville. The celebrations will climax on Wednesday March 28 with a lecture holding by 6.45pm at the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre at the University of Melbourne. With the theme: “Things Fall Apart’ – Putting the world back together one document at a time”, the lecture will feature the Cripps Foundation Chair in Cultural Materials Conservation, Prof Robyn Sloggett. It is the first in the Faculty of Arts, 2018 Dean’s Lecture Series.

According to the organisers, “the world as we know it swirls around us as objects, ideas and aspirations. How we make sense of it is dependent on what we have access to, what we can imagine and how we are enabled to think, learn and do.”

“Taking Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel as the point of departure”, in this lecture Prof Robyn Sloggett, Cripps Foundation Chair in Cultural Materials Conservation, explores the ways in which risks to a community’s cultural heritage result in broader risks in education, health, knowledge transfer and well-being; demonstrates the value of cultural material preservation; and celebrates the extraordinary documents that help us maintain a sense of who we are and who we might be,” the organisers stated.

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