THE STATE LIBRARY OF PRESENTS

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

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Welcome to the State Library’s 6th annual We are delighted to welcome to the 2019 Disrupted Festival of Ideas. This year’s festival Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Leigh Sales, festival explores the theme of truth, a Professor Geoff Gallop, Professor Tracy relevant and timely theme for libraries and Westerman, Bri Lee, and a host of local and communities throughout the world. interstate speakers.

The State Library is a place of truth. We are Beyond this year’s theme, ideas are what the visited by over one million people every year Disrupted Festival is all about. This festival because we offer free access to knowledge. is a concrete manifestation of your State We are committed to being a trusted Library’s commitment to the creation and source of information, connecting people sharing of ideas. to skills that help them critically evaluate information in an unregulated online world. So please join us at the State Library, or if you can’t make it here, join us online via Trust is an essential ingredient of building Facebook streaming, as we share and debate social capital. Without trust our very ideas about truth. democracy is weakened. Trust, however, has been the victim of the manipulation of the truth, and in turn public trust in many of our institutions – government and the media, in particular – have been undermined.

MARGARET This year’s Disrupted speakers will examine the roots of this loss of trust. Through ALLENPSM keynotes, panels and intimate conversations we invite you to join the debate on truth.

CONTENTS

4 About the Festival 5 Keynotes 6 Panels & Conversations 8 Activities and Other Disruptions 10 Schedule 12 Biographies 19 Venue Info and Registration

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The truth. Can it be subjective? Meet scientists, journalists, writers, and Manipulated? Changed by opinion? professionals dedicated to truths that And will it really set you free? others deny as inconvenient. Discover how to harness your own truth, better The very concept of truth – bent, understand your brain and spot fake adapted, and questioned throughout news. history – has found itself under siege in the social media era, where the Learn the fascinating history behind loudest opinion can swamp even the mis-truths, lies, and other forms of staunchest fact. manipulation and how your library can be a powerful weapon in the Libraries throughout history have fight against truth distortion, bias and played a significant role as the agenda. trusted keepers of history, truth and information. This year, the State Library of WA’s Disrupted Festival of Ideas takes on the truth, in all its forms.

4 FESTIVAL GUIDE #DisruptedFestival @disruptedfestival disrupted.slwa.wa.gov.au FREE EVENT KEYNOTES KEYNOTES

The Truth About Suicide Prevention Adj Prof. Tracy Westerman Facilitator: Carol Innes 11am, Saturday, Discovery Lounge

Western Australian of the Year 2018, Professor Tracy Westerman has dedicated her career to promoting and educating in the area of Indigenous mental health. As the truth about suicide rates in Indigenous communities unfolds, Westerman urges us to see why optimism is critical to Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention. Any Ordinary Day Leigh Sales Facilitator: Meri Fatin 11am, Sunday, Discovery Lounge

What would you do if everything you believed to be true changed in a moment? The day a life turns upside down usually starts like any other. But what happens the day after that? Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales discusses her book, Any Ordinary Day, which investigates how ordinary people endure the unthinkable What is Truth? and are forced to explore their own truth in Dr Karl Kruszelnicki the face of great adversity. Facilitator: Gillian O’Shaughnessy 4.45pm, Saturday, Discovery Lounge

Do mobile phones really cause cancer? Do vaccines cause Autism? Was the Great Fire of London started by a Catholic Frenchman? “Facts” like these have been disproved over and over and yet they remain. Fake news was in fashion well before emerging in contemporary politics. Join Dr Karl Kruszelnicki as he takes a deep historical dive to uncover the mis-truths that have infiltrated our everyday. 5 PANELS & CONVERSATIONS

Fixing Truth – How Do Telling the Migrant We Do It, and What’s Story Stopping Us? James Jegasothy, Esther Onek, In partnership with ABC Focus Mararo Wangai Dr Glynn Greensmith, Prof. Geoff Gallop, Facilitator: Shelagh Magadza Rafeif Ismail, Narelda Jacobs 1.45pm, Saturday, Discovery Lounge Facilitator: Jessica Strutt 12.15pm, Saturday, Discovery Lounge Australia is a diverse country with a rich migrant history. Despite this, new arrivals who make their way here are still What tangible actions could arrest the lumped into one category – refugees. This decline of truth in our democracy? Do fascinating panel uncovers the inspirational we require new laws, new journalism truth about these migrants and where they models and new ways of thinking? What come from. prevents these changes? Disrupted Festival offers radical ideas for a radical time, but also addresses elemental prejudices and The Truth about assumptions. What prevents us from fixing the lies and misinformation that surround Making a Living as a us? A panel of experts from across the Writer spectrum of truth discuss this essential topic. Morris Gleitzman, Juliet Rogers, Annabel Smith Facilitator: Rebecca Giblin The Place for Truth in 3.15pm, Saturday, Discovery Lounge

Our Court System They say everyone has a book in them, but Bri Lee & Linda Black can everyone afford to write it? Authors 12.30pm, Saturday, Library Theatre Annabel Smith, Juliet Rogers and Morris Gleitzman join Rebecca Giblin to pull back Two legal experts discuss frustrations the curtain on the taboo topic of the within the Australian legal system and the economics of independent publishing and fact that sometimes the truth can be lost the realities of Australian author incomes. beneath bureaucracy, red tape and archaic regulations.

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Speak Your Truth Navigating Away from Melissa Davey, Bri Lee, Leigh Sales Truth Decay Facilitator: Narelda Jacobs Margaret Allen, Prof. Nick Enfield, 12.15pm, Sunday, Discovery Lounge Dr Julia Powles Facilitator: Daniel Midgley Recently, victims have been empowered 1.45pm, Sunday, Discovery Lounge to speak their truth and strive for justice through the #MeToo movement and the Royal Commission into Institutional Conspiracy theories, gaslighting, Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. There is confirmation bias – all ways in which truth is power in being able to harness your truth subverted and facts are called into question. to successfully fight for justice. This panel Join a panel of experts as they interrogate explores how some victims have found their how exactly falsehoods are confused for voice and are finally being supported. But facts, why people believe them, and how to will they be believed? counter it in yourself. Learn how the library, as one of the last trusted social institutions in contemporary society, can help you question assumptions, verify claims and seek How Reliable is Our out authoritative sources of information. Memory? Dr Karl Kruszelnicki & Prof. Alan Harvey 3.15pm, Sunday, Discovery Lounge

As the arbiter of truth, memory carries enormous weight: but is it reliable? Join Dr Karl and neuroscientist Prof. Alan Harvey for a one-on-one on how our memories work, the physiology of our brains and exactly why your memory can’t be trusted. SPECIAL EVENT Career Advice from Dr Karl 10.30am, Monday 29 July, Discovery Lounge fields of science, technology, climate change, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki engineering and genetics. This session Facilitator: Lyn Beazley will open young people up to a world of opportunities and get them excited for their Join everybody’s favourite doctor for some futures. entertaining and educational career advice. Suitable for high-school students, Dr Karl will Bookings essential discuss the myriad options available in the [email protected] 7 WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES

Disrupted Festival of Ideas provides plenty of other activities to fill your weekend. The program brings the Library to life with bustling activity.

WORKSHOP The Information War is Here — a Digital Literacy Workshop by PEN Perth 1.45pm, Saturday, Library Theatre

Have you ever wondered how to identify signs of inauthenticity? Or the exact definition of a bot, a trending algorithm, or a Deepfake? What about a disinformation campaign and what does that have to do with freedom of expression? WORKSHOP If you are digital-literacy-curious, and want Epistemicide in the to explore these questions and more, join PEN Perth’s Kelly Fliedner as she wades into Western Art Canon the inescapable and overwhelming fact Gabby Loo and Steven Finch that our internet is awash with 2pm, Sunday, Studio 001 misinformation. This workshop will look at how we might spot ‘bad actors’ and mis- Epistemicide is the colonial act of killing information to better support responsible knowledges. It is an act which suppresses freedom of expression. and erases languages, forms of creative expression, and claims a single truth. This workshop for art appreciators and practicing artists explores Western art canon and their links to cultural destruction. State Library of WA’s Creative Fellows, Gabby Loo and Steven Finch, give voice to the many forms of alienation and personal identity struggle that occur for People of Colour when confronted by Western mono-cultural fantasies.

Bookings essential for all workshops Visit the website for details

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KIDS WORKSHOP LEGO Stop-Motion Animation 9-12 years, 2 hours 10.30am Saturday and Sunday, Studio 001

Working collaboratively in small groups, participants workshop short story ideas and refine scripts for their animation production. to film their movie, record voiceovers and Using LEGO kits, whiteboards and any other produce their film to a final product. Every creative tools at their disposal, students student will finish the day with a short film build their own characters and set ready for they have created to take home and show filming. Mum and Dad!

With guidance from the expert Fire Tech Bookings essential for all workshops tutors, and using iPads with the latest Visit the website for details stop-motion tech, participants learn how

AROUND THE LIBRARY

Discover fun and engaging activities throughout the Library across the weekend. From green screen magic to interactive explorations, there’s plenty for all ages to enjoy.

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Saturday 27 July FESTIVAL GUIDE FESTIVAL DISCOVERY LOUNGE

11 am 12.15 pm 1.45 pm 3.15 pm 4:45 pm Adj Prof. Tracy PANEL PANEL PANEL Dr Karl Westerman Fixing Truth Telling the The Truth about Kruszelnicki AM The Truth about Migrant Story Making a Living What is Truth? Suicide as a Writer #DisruptedFestival #DisruptedFestival

Prevention

LIBRARY THEATRE STUDIO 001

12.30 pm 1.45 pm 10.30 am CONVERSATION WORKSHOP WORKSHOP The Place for The Information LEGO Stop- Truth in Our Court War is Here Motion System Animation

WATCH IT LIVE All events in the Discovery Lounge are livestreamed at disrupted.slwa.wa.gov.au and on Facebook @disruptedfestival @statelibrarywa

All sessions in the Discovery Lounge and Library Theatre will be AUSLAN interpreted.

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Sunday 28 July

DISCOVERY LOUNGE

11 am 12.15 pm 1.45 pm 3.15 pm Leigh Sales AM PANEL PANEL CONVERSATION Any Ordinary Speak Your Navigating How Reliable is Day Truth Away from Our Memory? Truth Decay

STUDIO 001

10.30 am 2.00 pm WORKSHOP WORKSHOP LEGO Stop- Epistemicide in the Motion Western Art Canon Animation

11 BIOGRAPHIES

MARGARET MELISSA DAVEY ALLENPSM (WA) (VIC)

CEO and State Librarian of the State Library Guardian Australia’s Melbourne Bureau of Western Australia, Margaret’s career has Chief, Melissa is currently writing a book spanned public, special and State libraries on the trial of Cardinal George Pell. The as well as working in the IT industry. She Reckoning podcast, which she collaborates was awarded the Public Service Medal on with David Marr and Miles Martignoni, in 2018 for outstanding service. She is a won two New York Festival awards. Her member of the International Federation of investigation into disgraced gynaecologist Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Emil Gayed triggered a government inquiry. Governing Board (2015 – 2017), an inaugural IFLA Leaders Associate, Member of the IFLA eLending Working Group, Chair of the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee, Board member of the Australian Digital Alliance, Past President of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and member of the ALIA Book Industry and eLending Advisory Group. PROFESSOR NICK ENFIELD (NSW)

LINDA BLACK Professor of Linguistics at the University of (WA) Sydney and Head of the Sydney Initiative for Truth (SIFT), Nick’s research focuses on language and mind, the role of language in Working as a criminal lawyer for well over human social life, and how language helps 20 years Linda was former President of the us understand human diversity. Criminal Lawyers Association in WA and is now a Director of Murray Chambers. She worked for nearly a decade as a public prosecutor before moving to the Independent Bar to practice as a defence Counsel in criminal matters and both a prosecutor and defence lawyer in white collar and regulatory matters.

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PROFESSOR MERI FATIN GEOFF GALLOP AC (WA) (NSW)

Enjoying the mental acrobatics of talking Former member of the WA Legislative with bright, creative and articulate people is Assembly from 1986 to 2006 and the Premier Meri Fatin’s favourite past-time. Working as a of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006, freelance facilitator, her recent conversations Geoff has been involved in educational, have included Dr Michael Mosley, Stan community and sporting associations over Grant, Liane Moriarty, Chloe Hooper, Trent many years and was a Councillor at the Dalton, Matthew Reilly, Markus Zusack, City of Fremantle. He has been awarded Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson… and Annabel a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Crabb. Medal (2001); elected a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (2003); admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Murdoch University (2006); and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University STEVEN FINCH of Western Australia (2012). He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (2008) (WA) and is currently Deputy Chair of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform A community artist, Paper Mountain and Council, Chair of the Australia Awards Board Propel Youth Arts WA board member, Steven and Member of the International Education is Project Coordinator for the Community Advisory Council. Arts Network and is currently a Creative Fellow at the State Library of WA.

REBECCA GIBLIN KELLY FLIEDNER (VIC) (WA) An academic, ARC Future Fellow and insatiable reader, Rebecca’s research sits at Kelly is a Perth-based writer and curator the intersection of law and literary culture who writes fiction and art criticism. She is with a particular focus on libraries and currently a PhD candidate at the University authors. She is currently investigating how of Western Australia in the School of taking authors’ interests seriously can fix Design where she also teaches and is on copyright by improving creators’ incomes the Committee of Perth’s chapter of PEN and simultaneously reclaiming lost culture. International.

13 MORRIS PROFESSOR GLEITZMAN ALAN HARVEY (VIC) (WA)

A bestselling Australian children’s author, Alan Harvey was educated at the University Morris’ books explore serious and sometimes of Cambridge and the Australian National confronting subjects in humourous and University. He is an Emeritus Professor at unexpected ways. His titles include Two UWA and an Honorary Senior Research Weeks With The Queen, Grace, Doubting Fellow at the Perron Institute. In his Thomas, Bumface, Give Peas A Chance, Extra laboratory research, Professor Harvey uses Time, Loyal Creatures, Snot Chocolate and a variety of approaches to promote the the series Once, Then, Now, After, Soon and repair of the injured central nervous system. Maybe. He is also passionate about music, and his well-received book Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls was recently published by Oxford University Press.

DR GLYNN GREENSMITH CAROL INNES (WA) (WA)

Glynn has a degree in International Politics Carol is a cultural advocate working in and a Masters in Journalism and is a former government: a mentor, consultant, board producer for the ABC. He currently lectures director and project manager. She currently in broadcast journalism at Curtin University works for Landcorp as the Manager and is the presenter for Just Not Cricket on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage & Arts. ABC Radio. Carol is also Co-Chair of Reconciliation WA, board member North Metropolitan Health Service and an advisory member to Kalamunda Arts Committee. She has worked in not-for-profit organisations, arts and cultural organisations; State and Federal government agencies and Aboriginal controlled community organisations. Carol is a certified trainer and assessor, facilitator and advocate of community cultural development.

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JAMES RAFEIF ISMAIL JEGASOTHY (WA) (WA)

A refugee and third culture youth of the James is currently the Director Community Sudanese diaspora, Rafeif is an emerging Engagement and Strategy at the Office multilingual writer. She was the winner of of Multicultural Interests (OMI) and is the 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, The the Vice Chair of the Centre for Asylum 2018 Convocation of UWA Graduates Bryant Seekers, Refugees and Detainees (CARAD). Stokes Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence He’s also a member of the Anglican Social (Literature) and a finalist for the 2018 WA Responsibilities Commission. Having come Youth Awards, Cultural Endeavours category. to Australia as a refugee, James has worked Her work has been published by Margaret in both professional and volunteer capacities River Press, Black inc publishing, Fremantle to support vulnerable newcomers. He Press, Mascara Literary Review, Kill Your has degrees in Law and Politics and has Darlings, Meanjin and Djed Press. participated in scholarship programs in Austria and the United States.

DR KARL NARELDA KRUSZELNICKI JACOBS AM (WA) (NSW)

Presenter of Ten Eyewitness News Perth for The man with the answers when it years, Narelda’s on air role has opened comes to Science and Technology. As the the door to many opportunities including Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at Sydney working with charities and world leaders. University, Dr Karl spreads the word about science and its benefits. With weekly Radio shows in Australia and in the UK on the BBC, regular television appearances, magazine articles and 43 (so far) published books, Dr Karl is constantly in demand by the media and for corporate appearances. Dr Karl has received many honours, including the Ig Nobel Prize awarded by Harvard University (2002); Australian Father of the Year (2003); and received a Member of the Order of Australia Award in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list.

15 BRI LEE SHELAGH (QLD/NSW) MAGADZA (WA) Bri is a writer and editor whose work has After spending ten years at the Perth been published in The Monthly, Harper’s International Arts Festival, Shelagh became Bazaar Australia, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, Artistic Director from 2006 - 2011. She has The Guardian, Griffith Review, i-D, VAULT Art held the same role at the New Zealand Magazine, and elsewhere. She regularly International Arts Festival and has worked appears on The Drum on ABC TV, various ABC in arts governance, advisory and logistics Radio National programs, and often gives and was commissioned to run the CHOGM talks on writing, law, feminism, fashion, pop Cultural Festival. She is currently the culture and art. Her first book, Eggshell Skull, Executive Director of the Chamber of Arts & was published by Allen & Unwin in June Culture WA. 2018. It was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards and the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, it won the 2019 People’s Choice Award and the 2018 People’s Choice at the Nib Awards for research in writing.

DANIEL MIDGLEY (WA)

A teacher of linguistics at the University GABBY LOO of Western Australia and at Edith Cowan (WA) University, Daniel is also a presenter on the popular weekly radio programme Talk the Talk on RTRFM 92.1. His new podcast, An emerging multidisciplinary artist and Because Language, focuses on interviews community arts facilitator, Gabby is a and issues in linguistics. He also enjoys Co-Director of Paper Mountain, Coordinator presenting classes on language for UWA of Belonging and creator of the CaLD & ATSI Extension. Creatives of WA group. She is currently a Creative Fellow at the State Library of WA.

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JULIET ESTHER ONEK ROGERS (WA) (NSW)

Esther is a family and domestic violence Having a long career in publishing, including advocate born in Parjok, a small town in Managing Director, Random House (ANZ), South Sudan. At the age of 3, she fell into CEO, Murdoch Books, 5 years running her a fire leaving permanent damage. After own publishing business and CEO of the escaping rebel soldiers, Esther and her family ASA since 2016, Juliet has also chaired spent several years in a refugee camp before Booksellers New Zealand, the Indigenous moving permanently to Australia in 2003, Literacy Foundation and been President of where she became a citizen. the Australian Publishers Association.

GILLIAN O’SHAUGHNESSY (WA)

Starting work at the ABC in 1996 as a cadet reporter, Gillian spent the next fifteen years working across radio, television and online news in the ABC Perth newsroom. In 2010 LEIGH SALES AM she made the shift to ABC Radio Perth and (NSW) you can hear her weekdays presenting Afternoons. A multi Walkley Award-winning journalist and author, Leigh presents ABC’s national flagship current affairs program 7.30 nightly. She has held numerous roles at the national DR JULIA broadcaster, including a stint as Washington POWLES Correspondent, covering the years after the (WA) September 11 terrorist attacks. Her first book, Detainee 002: the Case of David Hicks, was published in 2007 to widespread critical As a tech policy scholar, lawyer and writer, acclaim. Her second book, On Doubt, was Julia wrestles with questions of power published in 2009 and a second edition in the digital economy, regularly finding was released in 2017 with an updated herself in the cross-hairs of the world’s section about the Trump post-truth era. Her biggest companies. Julia is currently an third book, Any Ordinary Day, published in Associate Professor of Law and Technology October 2018 has already become a No 1 at The University of Western Australia after best seller. a decade living and working in Europe and the US. 17 MARARO ANNABEL SMITH WANGAI (WA) (WA)

Author of interactive digital novel/app The A Kenyan-born writer, performer and Ark, US bestseller Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, media graduate, Mararo was shortlisted and A New Map of the Universe, which for the Patrick White Award 2018, Next was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Stage Writer’s Program Residency 2018 Awards, Annabel is an Australia Council and nominated for the Performing Arts WA Creative Australia Fellow and holds a PhD Awards Best Supporting Actor in 2017 and in Writing and teaches for the Australian 2018. He was recently invited to participate Writers Centre. in the Cybec Electric Play Readings and is currently working on his first independent project.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR TRACY JESSICA STRUTT WESTERMAN (WA) (WA)

Working as a political reporter in print and A proud Njamal woman from the Pilbara television for more than a decade, Jessica region of Western Australia, Tracy holds has won awards for her resources and a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology, political reporting. She has also worked a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology as a government media adviser. Jessica is and Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical currently the presenter of ABC Perth’s Focus Psychology). She is a recognised world program. leader in Aboriginal mental health, cultural competency and suicide prevention achieving national and international recognition for her work.

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VENUE INFO & REGISTRATION

All events for the 2019 Disrupted Festival of Ideas are free. Registration is required only for: • Kids Workshop: LEGO Stop-Motion Animation • Epistemicide in the Western Art Canon See the Disrupted Festival website for details. The State Library of Western Australia is open from 10am on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July. DISCOVERY STORE

Visit the Discovery Store throughout the Festival to pick up a book from one of the many speakers in the program.

The Discovery Store is open from 10am on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July.

FIRST EDITION CAFE

The First Edition Cafe & Bar will be open all weekend from 10am with a license from midday.

ACCESS INFORMATION

Disrupted Festival of Ideas is committed to ensuring all events and activities are accessible. All sessions in the Discovery Lounge and Library Theatre will be AUSLAN interpreted. This event is wheelchair accessible. Specific access information can be found on the website.

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