Sarah Maddison In Your Suburb

Fri 6 Sep 2019

Sarah Maddison

Zillmere Library

In Your Suburb

6129

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

White Australia can't solve black problems because white Australia is the problem. In this frank and fearless talk, Sarah Maddison will explore how white Australia can fix the problems it created.

#Artist

Sarah Maddison

Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics at the University of Melbourne, where she co-directs the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration. Her work is a critical examination of reconciliation, settler colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations. Along with her new book The Colonial Fantasy, Sarah is also author of Black Politics and Beyond White Guilt.

#Moderator

Sarah Klenbort

Sarah Klenbort is a prize-winning short story writer who recently moved to Brisbane after ten years in Sydney, where she taught literature at Western Sydney University and memoir writing at Sydney Community College, various libraries and the Shakespeare Hotel. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Best Australian Stories, Overland, Island Magazine, Southerly and a variety of US and UK journals and magazines. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a PhD in English from Binghamton University. Sarah teaches creative writing at UQ.