PUBLIC TALK: TALKING TASTE

In an entertaining discussion about taste as sensual experience and as aesthetic, writer and historian Lenore Coltheart will trace the ways we talk about taste, from food in fiction to the vocabulary of wine-tasters and restaurant critics, from the names for food and flavours to tasty metaphors we use every day. An opportunity to discover the taste of familiar words and experience the new University Club.

The starting point for this fascinating exploration of taste is an 18th century definition - Voltaire's brief entry in L'Encyclopédie. In connecting the flavour of food and the feeling of beauty in the arts and in life, Voltaire sowed the seeds of a simplicity that might shine a light on one or two modern perplexities.

Dr Lenore Coltheart is currently Research Coordinator in Public Programs for the National Archives of Australia and has a special interest in new media applications in research and publishing. Dr Coltheart has taught Australian politics and history in universities in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia, where she was Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Adelaide. She was a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby in the Northern Territory, and Editor of Australia's Current Affairs Bulletin. She has published books and articles on a wide range of topics including Australia's political history and heritage. Dr Coltheart is currently working on a biography of internationalist Jessie Street

052066 Fri 7-9pm Apr 29. $35 booking essential ph 6488 2433 or online http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au - click on Extension Courses then go to Intellectual Adventures