News: Lumen Autumn 2024
A year of celebrations
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The celebrations for our 150th have already begun – the party has officially started.
World News - Autumn 2024
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We invited some of this community to be our special “foreign correspondents” - to give a brief insight into their lives, careers and success around the world.
Onnie Chan
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Education has always played a significant role in my life, thanks to my mother’s influence. Now, I am turning a new page because of my studies at the University of Adelaide.
Based on a true story
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From Braveheart (1995) to Pearl Harbor (2001) to Netflix’s The Crown and SBS’s Versailles, films and television series have long been regarded as unreliable documents to history.
Letters to the editor
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We invited readers of our Spring/Summer issue of Lumen to tell us how studying at the University of Adelaide helped change their lives – what impact we had on their history.
Our earliest film
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The Maths Lawns in front of the Barr Smith Library have not always been dedicated to gentle academic pursuits.