A time of beauty and loss
Delia Falconer with Danielle Celermajer
Date:  Saturday 9 October 2021
Time: 13.00 - 14.00 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
In her new book Signs and Wonders, Delia Falconer explores how global warming is changing our culture, our very selves and our experiences of the world as well as our climate and the life of all living creatures on the planet. In these poetic essays she explores how to live now. Delia will be talking to Danielle Celermajer whose recent Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future invites us to look at all that is dying around us as our shared home is lost.
Participants
Delia Falconer is Senior lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the of Technology, Sydney. She is the author of two novels and a work of creative non-fiction. Her first novel, the bestselling The Service of Clouds, was shortlisted for major literary awards. Her second, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, was shortlisted among other awards for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her most recent book, Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, was shortlisted for seven national awards in history, biography and non-fiction, and won the 2011 'Nib' CAL/Waverley Library Award for outstanding research. Her short stories and essays have been widely awarded and anthologised.
Danielle Celermajer is a philosopher, and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, who lives in a multispecies justice community in rural New South Wales. Her professional life has been characterised by moving between organisations whose principal focus is human rights policy, advocacy and scholarship, and seeking a greater integration between these dimensions of human rights work. She is the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future.
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