Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 28 November
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Note:
Due to recent events in Paris, our expected guest Rukmini Callimachi – New York Times foreign correspondent specialising in Islamic extremism – is unable to travel to Australia for The Interrobang. Unfortunately, we've had to cancel her discussion with Anne Summers. We apologise for any inconvenience and of course, disappointment.
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Journalists on dangerous beats have a question to ask themselves: how much are answers worth?
Rukmini Callimachi has spent a life with difficult questions in hand – first as a student of poetry at university, and currently as a highly-respected New York Times foreign correspondent specialising in Islamic extremism. She spent eight years in Senegal as the West Africa Bureau chief for Associated Press, and is a two-time Pulitzer finalist.
Callimachi will speak with esteemed Australian journalist and author Anne Summers (Damned Whores and God’s Police; The Misogyny Factor) about the challenges and surprises of reporting in the world’s most dangerous places – as well as about the prospects of women in Islamic countries, whether we can trust what we hear through news outlets, and what prejudices reporters bring to their subjects. How do journalists prepare for interviews with terrorists – and how is trust negotiated both ways?
Hear from two female journalists about the influence of gender and power on global and personal safety.
Featuring
Anne Summers
Dr Anne Summers AO is a journalist, researcher, commentator and best-selling author of nine books, including the classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, first published in 1975, and still in print. Her most recent book Unfettered and Alive, a memoir, was published in 2018.
In 2021 Anne was appointed a Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellow, located at UTS, and commissioned to undertake original data-based research that will throw new shocking light on the incidence and nature of domestic violence in Australia.
The result of that research is the report, The Choice: violence or poverty was published on 7 July 2022
Previously Anne has advised Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, on women’s issues, run the Office of the Status of Women, been editor-in-chief of America’s leading feminist magazine Ms., editor of Good Weekend, chair of the Board of Greenpeace International and a Trustee of the Powerhouse Museum.
She has been an activist in the women’s movement since its inception and in 1974 was involved in establishing Elsie Women’s Refuge the first modern shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence.
She was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia for her services to journalism and to women in 1989; had her image on a postage stamp as an Australian Legend in 2011 and in 2017 was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame
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Rukmini Callimachi
Rukmini Callimachi is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, covering Islamic extremism. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been awarded a number of other prestigious awards for journalism/reporting. From 2006 to 2014, she was based in Senegal as the West Africa Bureau chief for Associated Press.
Callimachi was born in Romania, fleeing to Switzerland when she was five. She studied poetry at university before becoming a reporter.