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Tuesday 08 September
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As part of our Relative States series, we’re presenting two formidable Melbourne intellectuals, who also happen to be married: Anne and Robert Manne.
Anne is a journalist, social philosopher and memoirist, who has served as a columnist for the Age and the Australian. Robert Manne is an emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University and – as an author, media commentator and essayist – has one of the most well-known bylines in Australian journalism.
In conversation with Melbourne broadcaster Alicia Sometimes, the pair will discuss where their influences, processes and interests converge. Do tensions emerge when domestic and professional worlds intersect? Can these tensions be productive? And what have they learned, as writers and thinkers, from each other?
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Alicia Sometimes
Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, multi-media artist and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Griffith Review, The Age and many more. She is director/co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave—a creative multi-media show about gravitational waves with sell-out shows as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival, World Science Festival Brisbane and featured at New Scientist Live (UK).
Alicia’s TedxUQ talk in 2019 was about combining art with science. In 2021 she completed the Boyd Garret residency (City of Melbourne) and a Virtual Writer in Residency for Manchester City of Literature. In 2023 she has received ANAT’s Synapse Artist Residency and has co-created an art installation for Science Gallery Melbourne’s exhibition, Dark Matters.
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Anne Manne
Anne Manne is a Melbourne writer. She has been a regular columnist for The Australian and the Age. More recently, her essays on contemporary culture such as child abuse, pornography, gendercide and disability have all appeared in The Monthly magazine.
Her essay ‘Ebony: The Girl in the Room’, was included in Best Australian Essays: A Ten-year Collection. Her book, Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children?, was a finalist in the Walkley Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2006. She has written a Quarterly Essay, Love and Money: The Family and the Free Market, and a memoir, So This is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood.
Robert Manne
Robert Manne’s many books include Making Trouble and The Words That Made Australia (as co-editor). He is the author of three Quarterly Essays, In Denial, Sending Them Home and Bad News. He is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University.