A. C. Grayling: Making Peace in the Culture Wars

A. C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSA FRSL is the Principal of Northeastern University London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the UK, US and Australia, and to BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service, for which he did the annual 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.

Esther Anatolitis is the editor of Meanjin and Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today. She is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, a National Gallery of Australia Council member, and Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement. Esther’s articles, essays and book chapters have been published in un Magazine, The Relationship is the Project, Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment, Permanent Recession, Crikey and The Guardian, and most recently in Griffith Review 88. She is the author of Place, Practice, Politics and When Australia Became a Republic (forthcoming 2025).