Must-see panels this MWF 2024
Melbourne Writers Festival is just a month away, and if you're still considering which sessions to book we're sharing some of the fabulous panels and in-conversations that can expand your mind, without requiring any festival pre-reading! Browse the full MWF program here.
Who Gets To Be Human?
After 235 years of colonisation, who truly gets to be human in so-called Australia? Join Ziggy Ramo, Chelsea Watego and Lamisse Hamouda together in conversation with host Osman Faruqi.
When: Saturday 11 May, 10.30am
Where: State Library Conversation Quarter
Tickets: $30–$35, book here
The Ghost in the Machines
Can AI generate great art? Philosophy professor Margaret Cameron and AI experts Marek Kowalkiewicz (The Economy of Algorithms) and Toby Walsh (Machines Behaving Badly) chat with Paul Barclay.
When: Saturday 11 May, 12pm
Where: State Library Theatrette
Tickets: $20-$25, book here
Who's Afraid of Reading, Anyway?
Beloved novelists Tony Birch, Lauren Groff and Ann Patchett discuss the importance of reading freely and the formative subversive texts of their early reading lives, with Christine Gordon.
When: Sunday 12 May, 1.30pm
Where: Athenaeum Theatre
Tickets: $30-$35, book here
John Button Oration: Off-course Discourse
Esteemed journalist Laura Tingle examines why the quality of our national debate has deteriorated and what, if anything, we can do about it.
When: Saturday 11 May, 4.30pm
Where: The Capitol
Tickets: $30-$35, book here
First Knowledges: Innovation
Ian J McNiven and Lynette Russell (First Knowledges: Innovation) share insight into the millennia-spanning ingenuity and innovations of First Nations peoples, in conversation with Larissa Behrendt.
When: Saturday 11 May, 12pm
Where: State Library Conversation Quarter
Tickets: $20-$25, book here
