For a long time, religion wasn’t a topic of concern on our screens and stages. In the past few years, that’s changed — but it doesn’t look like most people were expecting it to. Why are we suddenly obsessed with religion?

ADM’s 2017 Visiting Fellow, New York writer, critic and scholar Alissa Wilkinson, will take a tour through contemporary pop culture, uncovering the religious questions at the heart of our movies and TV shows.

Proudly supported by Centre for Public Christianity (CPX)

location: St Andrews Cathedral,
George St, Sydney NSW 2000

PRICE: $15

SPEAKER: ALISSA WILKINSON, 2017 ADM VISITING FELLOW

Alissa Wilkinson is the 2017 ADM Visiting Fellow. She is a staff writer and critic at Vox, where she covers film, culture, and sometimes religion, and Associate Professor of English and Humanities at The King's College in New York City, where she teaches courses on criticism and cultural theory. Until September 2016, Alissa was the critic at large at Christianity Today and regularly contributed to a number of publications, including Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Books & Culture. Her book, How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, and Politics at the End of the World, co-written with Robert Joustra, was published by Eerdmans in May 2016.

CHAIR: ALIX BEESTON, 2017 ADM SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

Alix Beeston is a Senior Research Fellow at ADM and a Postdoctoral Researcher, affiliated with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research focusses on twentieth and twenty-first century literature and film, and her first book will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2018.