In Conversation: Chris Hammer on The River (VIC)
Tue 08 July at 6:00PM
Readings Hawthorn, 687 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Join us to hear Chris Hammer in conversation about his bestselling classic book, The River.
When Galaxies Collide: Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith in conversation with Karl Kruszelnicki
Lisa Harvey-Smith in conversation with Karl Kruszelnicki at the Brisbane Writers Festival.
When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth and its inhabitants. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life?
Event duration: 45 minutes.
Astronomer, black-hole wrangler and author of When Galaxies Collide, Lisa Harvey-Smith knows a thing or two about the universe. She is a popular television presenter and a star of ABC TV's spectacular science series Stargazing Live. Lisa has a Masters in Physics and a PhD in astrophysics, but don't hold that against her - she is a down-to-earth and talented communicator who brings her mind-bending subject alive. Lisa won the 2016 Eureka Prize for Science Communication and the CSIRO Chairman's Medal as part of the team building the world's most powerful telescope.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's media career spans more than 30 years, talking about Science in newspapers, radio, TV and books — 43 to date. His accolades range from the Ig Nobel Prize from Harvard University for his groundbreaking research into belly button fluff, to being one of Australia’s 100 National Living Treasures. Since 1995, he has been the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Upcoming Events
Author Talk: Chris Hammer on The River (SA)
Thu 10 July at 6:30PM
Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road Tusmore, SA 5065
Learn more about author Chris Hammer's prize-winning non-fiction book about the Murray Darling Basin.
