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Dr Don Edgar + Kevin Kwan + Don Edgar + Mariano Sigman + Patricia Edgar + Susan Johnson

Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland

Panel

2704

#Performances

Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland

#About the event


#Artists

Dr Don Edgar

Dr Don Edgar

Sociologist, author, foundation Director of Australian Institute of Family Studies, formerly academic positions at Stanford, Chicago, Monash and La Trobe universities.

Kevin Kwan

Kevin Kwan

Kevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, soon to be a major motion picture, and China Rich Girlfriend. Born in Singapore, he has called New York’s West Village home since 1995. 

Mariano Sigman

Mariano Sigman

Mariano Sigman is a physicist by training and an international leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. He is the only Latin American scientist to be a director of the Human Brain Project and has been awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award, the National Prize of Physics, the Young Investigator Prize of "College de France," the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award, and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University in New York and in 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His latest book, The Secret Life of the Mind is published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia.
 

Patricia Edgar

Patricia Edgar

Patricia is a sociologist, educator, film and television producer, writer, researcher and policy analyst. Through a career spanning four decades she has been at the forefront of media for children nationally and internationally, winning multiple awards for her achievements and programs. 

Susan Johnson

Susan Johnson

Susan Johnson is the author of twelve books: three non-fiction books, On Beauty and A Better Woman, and a new memoir about living on Kythera, Greece, with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, Aphrodite's Breath: A Mother and Daughter's Greek Island Adventure. Her eight novels are published in Australia and in Europe, the UK and US, and The Landing (2015) was published in Greek translation. Her ninth novel, From Where I Fell (2021) was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Award. She has lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and most recently in Greece. She currently lives in Brisbane.


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