Keynote Address at the Melbourne Town Hall with Professor Germaine Greer

Keynote Address & Age Book of the Year Awards
The Age Book of the Year Awards commence at 7pm, in the Melbourne Town Hall and finishes at 7.30pm. The keynote speech will then commence immediately.

On Rage - Keynote Address with Professor Germaine Greer

Prof. Germaine Greer

‘Anger is her octane’, one reviewer recently noted about Germaine Greer, so who would be more qualified to speak about rage? Since storming into public consciousness in 1970 with The Female Eunuch, her acerbic attack on sexist culture, Greer has been kicking up dust of one type or another.

Yet she is the exception to the observation that wrath is a fire that consumes reason; the fury of her attacks have always been made more deadly by their sharpness and accuracy. And more often than is recognised, it is not Greer, but her opponents who have worked themselves into a lather. In this keynote speech, introduced by Louise Adler, Greer reflects calmly on rage – its uses in achieving social change, its waste when misdirected; its mythology and history.

The address by Prof. Greer will be preceded by the presentation of The Age Book of the Year 2008.

Biography
Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne and in 1969 she was commissioned to write a book on the failure of female emancipation. The result was The Female Eunuch. In 1979 she took up a post as Visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa. With three of her students she produced the influential anthology, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Women’s Verse (1988) which led to her setting up her own imprint Stump Cross Books.

She spends four months of every year in Australia where she runs a rainforest rehabilitation project in SE Queensland. She writes a regular column in The Guardian. The latest of her 20 books is On Rage and Shakespeare’s Wife.

Information
Date: 22 August 2008

Time: 7pm - 8.30pm

Cost: $35 full, $32 concession

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