Subscribe to the newsletter
Subscribe

Event Topic: Religion & Philosophy

  • 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.

  • The Beth Din of Books: Best reads from those in the know

    The Beth Din of Books: Best reads from those in the know

    Now an annual fixture on the Melbourne Jewish Book Week calendar, The Beth Din of Books brings together writers and critics Tali Lavi, Elissa Goldstein and Bram Presser as they preside over some of the best new Jewish books around. Fun, irreverent but deeply imbued with a love of the written word, the Beth Din of Books is sure to help you find your next favourite read!

  • Book Chat: Danielle Celermajer on ‘Summertime’

    Book Chat: Danielle Celermajer on ‘Summertime’

    Professor Danielle Celermajer is a philosopher, and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her books include Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology and The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach. While her professional and academic background have focused on human rights, she has recently shifted her thinking and activism towards environmental, animal and human ethics and justice issues.

    She lives in a Multispecies Justice Community in rural New South Wales and experienced first-hand the realities of climate change during the Black Summer Fires of 2019-2020. In this book chat on Summertime, a work of non-fiction written in the shadow of the 2019/2020 bushfires, Professor Celermajer expands on the story of Jimmy the pig, urging us to expand our understanding of grief beyond the anthropocentric — and discusses how she uses the evocation of sense in her work to take the reader beyond abstract knowledge of the natural world.

  • The Other Side of the Story: Rachael Kohn in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan

    The Other Side of the Story: Rachael Kohn in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan

    The Other Side of the Story: Essays on Jews, Christians, Cults, Women, Atheists and Artists, reveals the breadth and depth of Dr Rachael Kohn’s scholarship which led to and informed her creation, production and presentation of more than 1700 programs on religion for the ABC.

    Rachael Kohn will be in conversation with Rabbi Fred Morgan, to disclose her motivations and the advantages of being an ‘outlier’.

  • MJBW Winter Book Club: ‘The Believer’ by Sarah Krasnostein

    MJBW Winter Book Club: ‘The Believer’ by Sarah Krasnostein

    Sarah Krasnostein — multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner — will be interviewed by journalist Meredith Lake about Sarah’s latest publication, The Believer, and her explorations into the fascinating and labyrinthine realm of belief.