Lectures
Cultural institutions and ideas of Australia in the age of FANG: the 2016 Brian Johns lecture
In the age of FANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) how can small players like Australia sustain their cultural identity? Griffith Review editor Julianne Schultz explains why the age of FANG is profoundly different to anything we’ve known before. She discusses the cultural industries, their importance and potential and says that if we’re to become…
Read MoreBrian Johns AO A critical Australian romantic
Eulogy by Julianne Schultz AM FAHA, St Canice’s Kings Cross, 7 January 2016 Brian Johns was a remarkable man – original, brave, generous, funny, smart, determined and, above all, endlessly curious. When his beloved Sarah asked me to deliver this eulogy, I said I was not sure I could. I worried I would be too…
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