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Culture
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Anna Enquist | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Anna Enquist is one of the most popular writers in the Netherlands. She trained in piano at the academy of music in The Hague and at the same time studied psychology in Leiden. When she made her debut as a poet in 1991, she was working as a psychoanalyst. Since then she has devoted m... » play video
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Irvine Welsh | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session, Scottish author Irvine Welsh talks about his writing career and gives an engrossing short story reading.Irvine Welsh is the author of nine works of fiction. His first novel Trainspotting (1993) inspired both outrage and critical acclaim and... » play video
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Marieke Hardy | Melbourne | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2The way we read is changing more profoundly now than at any time since the invention of movable type. E-books, electronic ink, digital readers; the book is reinventing itself at a dizzying rate. But what does the future hold for readers, for publishers and for writers? In this inaugur... » play video
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Tom Keneally | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally speaks about why, for him, the novel is the greatest form of writing. Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark (later made into the Aca... » play video
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William Dalrymple | Adelaide | Mar. 2010
In his highly entertaining Meet the Author session at the Adelaide Writers' Week, acclaimed Scottish author William Dalrymple speaks about his many adventures as a travel writer and historian, and also performs some readings of his work. Dalrymple is the author of seven award-winning books, incl... » play video
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Chloe Hooper | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia's leading writers and storytellers come together to tell the stories that have been handed down to them. In this section of the program, Christos Tsiolkas, John... » play video
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Joseph Kosuth | Sydney | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Joseph Kosuth has been acknowledged as a pre-eminent international figure in conceptual art since the 1960s. Since creating One and three tables (1965), Kosuth has been celebrated for his outstanding text and light works in architectural settings all over the world. In this lecture t... » play video
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Cate Kennedy | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia's leading writers and storytellers come together to tell the stories that have been handed down to them. At this glittering occasion, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy,... » play video
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Jason Mattingley | Melbourne | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 What can neuroscience tell us about the nature of consciousness? Professor Jason Mattingley is a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist from the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. In this lecture he looks at the nature of consciousn... » play video
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Ghassan Hage | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Ghassan Hage is an internationally acclaimed thinker, both as an academic and an arresting public intellectual. In this Inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the Australian Anthropological Society, he looks at the function of anthropology today. He asks, what is the discipline's potent... » play video
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