Radical Beginnings Symposium

The La Trobe Media and Cinema Studies Program will be holding the Radical Beginnings Symposium on Thursday, 26 November from 9.30am-5.30pm, in the Undercroft Lecture Theatre, at La Trobe’s Bundoora Campus.

Radical Beginnings is an oral history project exploring La Trobe’s own cultural and screen studies history during the late 1960s and 1970s. Symposium speakers will include the filmmakers and other key media and education figures of the time.

There will be  a pre-symposium screening of two films made at La Trobe in the 1970s: ‘Beginnings’ (a documentary directed by Scott Murray in 1971) and ‘Yakkety Yak’ (an experimental film directed by Dave Jones in 1974).  Screenings will take place  in  the Undercroft Lecture Theatre on Wednesday, 25 November, from 4-7pm.

Members of the public are invited to attend these events.