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Event Topic: Journalism & Media

  • SOLD OUT: Jewish Quarterly Global Conversation (‘Hamas and its Two Million Hostages’)

    SOLD OUT: Jewish Quarterly Global Conversation (‘Hamas and its Two Million Hostages’)

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    For almost 20 years, Hamas has ruled Gaza and prepared for a battle that it knew it could not win. As Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib writes in his Jewish Quarterly essay, their path to victory has rested on sacrificing the lives and livelihoods of over 2.2 million Gazans. Ahmed is a Palestinian American humanitarian activist and blogger. In this live Zoom event, he will be in conversation with Kylie Moore-Gilbert, renowned Middle East expert, author, academic and former hostage of the Iranian regime.

  • MJBW Literary Dinner 2025: Esther Kister Oration presented by Dr Rachael Kohn AO 

    MJBW Literary Dinner 2025: Esther Kister Oration presented by Dr Rachael Kohn AO 

    Featuring Rachael Kohn AO, a Canadian-born Australian writer, presenter and broadcaster who spent more than 26 years creating and hosting programs on ABC Radio National, exploring religion, the arts, and spirituality. Some of her best-known shows include The Religion Report, Religion Today, The Ark, and especially The Spirit of Things. She has written two books, The New Believers and Curious Obsessions. In 2019, she was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

    Please join us for drinks and a delicious three-course dinner for a highly entertaining evening.

  • Global Conversations: Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust

    Global Conversations: Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust

    In partnership with Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) and The Jewish Quarterly, we invite you to a compelling conversation with award-winning UK journalist Tanya Gold and Dr Daniel Haumschild, Manager of Exhibitions and Storytelling at MHM.

    In novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. As Tanya Gold shows in this crucial Jewish Quarterly essay, however, the creators of these works all too often put the success of their product above the integrity of the story. Unfortunately, when creators engage in crass and self-serving exercises of exploitation, the results are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.

    Tanya will join us virtually from the United Kingdom.

  • Global Conversations: Adam Kirsch in conversation with Michael Gawenda

    Global Conversations: Adam Kirsch in conversation with Michael Gawenda

    The current issue of The Jewish Quarterly presents: The Z Word: Reclaiming Zionism by Adam Kirsch.

    In the aftermath of October 7, Zionism has increasingly been used by critics of Israel as a term of derision. From university campuses to TikTok and Twitter/X, the term is employed as a self-evident slur that presumes that Zionists are racist and supremacist. Yet, as Adam Kirsch writes in this groundbreaking essay, the challenge for Jews today is not merely to counter attempts to distort and corrupt the meaning and origins of Zionism. The Jewish people, he argues, do not need to defend the term – they need to reclaim it. 

  • Global Conversations: Mindless: What’s Happened to Our Universities?

    Global Conversations: Mindless: What’s Happened to Our Universities?

    In this special conversation, Emeritus Professor Cary Nelson discusses the state of university discourse after October 7 in conversation with Professor Kim Rubenstein. Nelson argues that the university – an institution dedicated to the search for truth, knowledge and freedom – became overrun by a toxic and dangerous fervour. Civil discourse was abandoned, as campuses became the epicentre of hate speech, bigotry, conspiracy theories, denialism and antisemitism.
     
    Yet, as Nelson reveals, this betrayal of the university’s ideals was decades in the making.

  • Journalism and its Discontents

    Journalism and its Discontents

    In The Constitution of Knowledge Jonathan Rauch argues that the key institutions of liberal democracies – academia, law, government and journalism – all build knowledge through gathering evidence and testing it against different viewpoints. But journalism appears to have lost its way. So what has gone wrong, how did we get to this moment and how do we find our way back to a reconstitution of these foundational principles?

  • Global Conversations: Hadley Freeman & Irris Makler discuss ‘Blindness: October 7 and the Left’

    Global Conversations: Hadley Freeman & Irris Makler discuss ‘Blindness: October 7 and the Left’

    In her Jewish Quarterly essay ‘Blindness’,Hadley Freeman addresses a most perplexing phenomenon that has arisen out of the Gaza war, rearing its head immediately after October 7: the exponential rise in antisemitism on a world stage. This has been all the more shocking as it has been most evidently propagated within the political left, taking many by surprise.

    In this Global Conversation, join Hadley in conversation with foreign correspondent Irris Makler for an examination of the equivocations, contortions and hypocrisy displayed by elements of the left across the political, media, arts and higher education sectors.

  • Global Conversations: Richard Cooke & Deborah Stone Discuss ‘Dark Star: Elon Musk’s Dangerous Turn’

    Global Conversations: Richard Cooke & Deborah Stone Discuss ‘Dark Star: Elon Musk’s Dangerous Turn’

    In his captivating new essay in the latest issue of the Jewish Quarterly, Walkley award-winning journalist Richard Cooke explores Elon Musk’s spectacular ambition, and how it has shaped his transition from unorthodox liberal to trolling neo-reactionary. How did the richest man in the world transform from a self-described moderate to a staunch advocate for hardline US conservatives? Why did Musk purchase the social media site Twitter, only to welcome back white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, sometimes personally?

    Cooke will speak with Deborah Stone, Editor-in-Chief of Plus61J Media, on the roots of this turning in Musk’s rise to power, and what his evolution reveals about a wider shift in the politics of Silicon Valley and beyond.

  • Book Chat: Ginger Gorman on ‘Troll Hunting’

    Book Chat: Ginger Gorman on ‘Troll Hunting’

    In Ginger Gorman’s book chat, the award-winning journalist — and author of ‘Troll Hunting’ — discusses the spectre of online harassment. Blending both personal experience and rigorous research, Gorman explores the concept of trolling, and highlights strategies to make technology companies accountable to the public good.

  • Book Chat: Jeff Sparrow on ‘Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre’

    Book Chat: Jeff Sparrow on ‘Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre’

    In Jeff Sparrow’s book chat, the award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster discusses the 2019 Christchurch massacre, the urgent need to truly fight fascism, and the complexities of far-right responses to climate change.SHOW LESS