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The Wheeler Centre

Dead Calm: Transitions / Life & death

In the first event in our Dead Calm series, we delve into the detail of the process of dying. Our panel of experts are people who witness, ease or facilitate the transition from life to death in a professional capacity.

Hilary Harper, Efterpi Soropos, Denise Love and Sarah Winch — Photo: Jon Tjhia

When is the moment of death? Is it about the body, or consciousness? Is death improving in Australia today? And how might we start thinking differently about death – from the way we plan for death to the language we use around dying?

Host Hilary Harper and guests Sarah Winch, Efterpi Soropos and Denise Love discuss definitions of death, the best environments for death and how medical practitioners can work with spiritual and religious people to make deaths as peaceful as possible.

Dead Calm: Transitions / Life & death

With Hilary Harper, Efterpi Soropos, Denise Love and 1 other

When is the moment of death? Is it about the body, or consciousness? Is death improving in Australia today? And…

3 May 2018

Upcoming event

Booked out

Mayhem

Carmen Maria Machado / Bodies

With Carmen Maria Machado and Angela Meyer

Note: Carmen's book, Her Body and Other Parties, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize. To attend the ceremony in the UK, Carmen's Australian visit has been shortened; this discussion will now take place at an early date and time.

Gory, macabre and surreal, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is for…

2 May 2018

Upcoming event

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Mayhem

Your President, Eileen Myles / Identity

With Eileen Myles and Quinn Eades

‘I got to New York in the seventies, and I remember looking at Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen – these are working-class kids from New Jersey – and I thought, “I’ll be a working-class kid from Boston.”’

After more than 40 years in New York, Eileen Myles still reads with that broad Boston accent and remains fascinated by ideas of…

3 May 2018

Upcoming event

Mayhem

André Aciman / Fiction

With André Aciman and Dennis Altman

‘We are not all written for one instrument; I am not, neither are you,’ declaims the narrator in André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name. That, says one New York Times critic, may be the ‘mission statement for Aciman’s entire oeuvre …’

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Egyptian-American novelist’s latest novel, Enigma Variations. Released last…

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Peak: Changing the Way We Talk About Ageing / Health, medicine & psychology

With Melanie Joosten, Patricia Edgar, and Don Edgar

With Peak: Reinventing Middle Age, co-authors Don Edgar and Patricia Edgar have focussed on new ways our society can rethink the ageing of its population. Drawing on a unique combination of statistics, personal stories and scholarly research, the book looks particularly at Australians aged between 50 and 75 – what the authors argue is our ‘peak’ age – in…

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