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Who Gets to Be Smart: Bri Lee in conversation with Courtney Miller
A forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege.
Bri Lee’s new book Who Gets To Be Smart is a timely investigation into the current discussions around class and privilege in Australia and around the world.
Interrogating the adage, ‘knowledge is power’, and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results. Far from offering any ‘equality of opportunity’, Australia’s education system exacerbates social stratification. The questions Bri asks of politics and society have their answers laid bare in the responses to the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Event details
When: Wednesday 9 June, 6.30-7.30pm
Where: Byron Theatre, 69 Jonson Street Byron Bay
Tickets: $25 Members / $30 General + booking fees
Accessibility
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Health & Safety
- This is a Covidsafe event, therefore we will be operating at restricted capacity with social distancing measures in place.
- For the health & safety of all, signage & sanitising stations are set up throughout the venue.
- We ask that you adhere to all Covid guidelines while attending the event.
About Bri Lee
Bri Lee is an author and freelance writer. Her journalism has appeared in publications such as The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia and Crikey. Her first book, Eggshell Skull, won Biography of the Year at the ABIA Awards, the People’s Choice Award at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize. She is also a non-practicing lawyer and continues to engage in legal research and issues-based advocacy.
About Courtney Miller
Byron born with interludes in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Courtney worked in politics, art, fashion and recently finished a Berkeley MPA.
Sarah Krasnostein is a writer. She is admitted to legal practice in Australia and America, and holds a doctorate in criminal law. Sarah is the bestselling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster, which won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction and the Dobbie Literary Award. It also jointly won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was nominated for the Walkley Book Award, and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Wellcome Book Prize (UK). Sarah’s work has appeared in a variety of publications in Australia, the UK and America. She is currently working on a Quarterly Essay on mental illness in Australia.
Maria Tumarkin writes books, essays, reviews, and pieces for performance and radio. She also collaborates with sound and visual artists, and has had her work engraved into the paving at Victoria Harbour as part of the Melbourne Docklands Urban Art Program. Maria is the author of four books of ideas. Her fourth (and latest) book Axiomatic was named by The New Yorker as one of the best books of 2019. Maria is a recipient of the 2020 Windham Campbell Prize in the category of non-fiction. She holds a PhD in cultural history and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne.