Can Art, artists and activists save Australia’s famous multicultural experiment?

The fabric of multicultural Australia is under a kind of pressure it hasn't faced in a long time. Can it be renewed? And what role do artists, activists, and migrants have to shape what comes next? The landmark work The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism is asking exactly those questions. It traces multiculturalism from its origins as a political philosophy and as lived cultural practice right through to the complicated present. And it makes a case that the arts have been central to this story all along.

Presented at the Greek Australian Writers Festival

Speakers

Professor Nikos PapastergiadisDirector of the Research Unit in Public Cultures at the University of Melbourne Co-editor of the book The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism

Dr Alexandra DelliosSenior Lecturer, Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies, Australian National University

Andrew JakubowiczEmeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney

Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos (host)Journalist, academic and Director of the Greek Australian Writers Festival