Critical Conversations: A Series Addressing the Knowledge Crisis: Recent Episodes
Shona Anderson
This series will tackle some of the most foundational and pressing questions of our life and times: Who can we believe or trust? How can we find common ground? How do emotions and social identities impact knowledge?
The more we experience information overload, the less certain we are about experts, democratic institutions, political leaders, and opinion makers. Everything seems uncertain, fragile, precarious. We need to find common ground, a way forward.
This series is for anyone interested in these questions, where together we can listen, share, learn, and act on that learning.
This is a recording of our second event which took place on October 26th 2021. It features presentations by Allison Caddick and Timothy Erik Ström, co-editors of the Melbourne based publishing co-operative Arena.
In this first episode of Critical Conversations, English philosopher and author Julian Baggini gives a keynote presentation on the role of truth in the uncertain times we find ourselves in. This event was recorded live over Zoom on September 14th 2021. The event was MC'd by Mandy Nolan and hosted by Dr. Richard Hil. The event was facilitated in conjunction with Arts Northern Rivers.
Julian Baggini is the author of "A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post Truth World"
Welcome to Critical Conversations - a series addressing the knowledge crisis.
This series will tackle some of the most foundational and pressing questions of our life and times: Who can we believe or trust? How can we find common ground? How do emotions and social identities impact knowledge?
The more we experience information overload, the less certain we are about experts, democratic institutions, political leaders, and opinion makers. Everything seems uncertain, fragile, precarious. We need to find common ground, a way forward out of this mess.
Critical Conversations is for anyone interested in these questions, where together we can listen, share, learn, and act on that learning.