Lumen Autumn 2024 - Flipbook - Page 4
Welcome
AUTUMN
2024
First person pieces written by a staff
member, a student, and illustrious and
prominent alumni, further touch upon the
essence of the transformative power of this
place. We thank them too for their
continuing support.
Well-known University figure,
Distinguished Alumni Award winner
Keith Conlon, also returns to his one-time
workplace to lend a hand in telling our story.
Keith – known as “Mr South Australia”
thanks to his eminent 40-year media career
– started here at our University radio station
5UV and was a part of our University’s
Centenary 50 years ago as an enthusiastic
new law graduate and staff member.
He kindly returns to guest edit part of our
history section in this issue, and to write
about how our University, and our State
have grown, together.
About Lumen
Lumen is the University of Adelaide’s peak
magazine – for and about the University. It
is published bi-annually and distributed via a
print edition and email to more than 100,000
recipients.
Our thanks to our many contributors this
issue – faculty, staff and alumni.
Editorial team
Lumen Editor: Mark Douglas
(lumen@adelaide.edu.au)
Photographic Editor: Isaac Freeman
Layout: Cath Dew
Manager Corporate Communications:
Keryn Lapidge
Additional contributor
Elisa Black
Publisher
The University of Adelaide
The past, of course, is easier to see
than the future. Yet any story about our
By Professor Jessica Gallagher
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
and Vice-President
(External Engagement)
University’s history would be incomplete if
we did not look to the history that is yet to
be made. In our effort to do this, we asked
Contact us
If you have feedback about the magazine, or
would like to send a Letter to the Editor, you
can contact us in these ways:
the leaders of our eight research institutes
By email: lumen@adelaide.edu.au
History is not a moment in time. History
and our Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Online: adelaide.edu.au/lumen
is not just the past. History is a continuum.
(Academic) “What is the most important
We talk about making history. We proudly
issue or development you are focused on,
associate our University with history made.
and how will it change our future? How
Making history is an action. It is a
will it impact people’s lives?” The answers
determination. It is a decision. It is
vary widely between the institutes and
a resolution.
demonstrate the breadth and importance
This year we celebrate that 150 years
ago it was decided Adelaide would have an
of their ongoing work on behalf of us all.
I hope you enjoy this 150th celebratory
By post: Lumen, The University
of Adelaide, SA 5005
We’d love to hear from you.
Donations and bequests
If you wish to make a donation to the
University of Adelaide, or discuss a potential
bequest, please contact us:
institution of higher learning. That decision
issue of Lumen in which we strive to tell
By phone: +61 8 8313 5800
was bold. There were very few such places
stories not often recorded, about personal
By email: development@adelaide.edu.au
in our region at that time - and Adelaide was
histories otherwise unknown, and a future
a newborn city in a remote place on the very
still to come.Thank you for your ongoing
fringes of the known planet. In the years
support as we keep making history, together.
since, there have been many more bold
decisions. We have grown and evolved.
Change has been a constant.
Acknowledgment of Country
In this special 150th celebration issue
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The University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Australia
Views expressed by contributors in Lumen
are not necessarily endorsed by the
University of Adelaide, the publisher.
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of Lumen, we tell some of the many stories
We acknowledge the Kaurna people, the
of our University’s history. Mostly they
traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains
are personal stories. Many of them are
and the land on which the University of
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transformational memories of how time
Adelaide’s campuses at North Terrace,
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spent here can unexpectedly change a
Waite and Roseworthy are built.
life’s trajectory. We asked our readers and
We acknowledge the deep feelings of
our broader community to tell us how our
attachment and relationship of the Kaurna
University changed their history. Some of
people to Country, and we respect and
their responses in our Letters to the Editor
value their past, present and ongoing
pages are, frankly, humbling. We thank you
connection to the land and cultural beliefs.
most sincerely for sharing them with us.
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