Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 06 August
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In partnership with the Australian Literary Review, editor Stephen Romei leads a panel through a substantial discussion of the places where ideas and literary commentary meet.
In the wake of several visits to Australia from high-profile atheists, it’s time to take stock of how questions of faith and religion are handled in an Australian context. To coincide with the release of two major new histories of Christianity in Australia, our panel pick apart how secular Australia writes about and talks about God.
Featuring
Gerard Windsor
Gerard Windsor has published nine books of fiction, memoir and essays, the last novel being I Have Kissed Your Lips.
His most recent book is Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie, a history of Australia in fifty clerihews. He is represented by his fiction in the Pen/Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature. He won the Pascall Prize for Criticism in 2005, and his new book, All Day Long the Noise of Battle, to be published early in 2011, is a non-fiction account of an Australian infantry attack in Vietnam in 1968.
Peter Craven
Peter Craven is one of Australia’s best-known literary critics. He edited Scripsi with Michael Heyward and was the founding editor of the Black Inc. Best Of annuals (Essays, Stories, Poems) and of Quarterly Essay.
His work appears regularly in the Age, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Literary Review. He is a regular contributor of the Australian edition of the Spectator. He has also written extensively about theatre, film and television.