Rethinking Happiness

Lineup

• More details about Eamon Evans

  Eamon Evans

  Eamon Evans is the author of fifteen books, one or two of them pretty good. He’s written about history, sport, scandals, words, films, alcohol and urban legends, but until The Importance of Being Miserable he’s not done much with his philosophy degree, apart from bore people at parties. Eamon lives with his family in Melbourne, where he writes, teaches, overwaters his garden and worries about going bald.

• More details about Antonia Pont

  Antonia Pont

  Antonia Pont is Associate Professor in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature, philosophy and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, habit, ethical capacity, thought, movement and transformation. She is the author of The Memory Library (Spineless Wonders, 2024), A Philosophy of Practising (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and a co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel was published in 2019. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009-), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her essays have an international following, and have appeared in Lit Hub, The Lifted Brow, Antithesis, Meanjin and Overland. Headshot: Yaro Bril

• More details about Dr Kay Souter

  Dr Kay Souter

  Kay was a lecturer in English for twenty-five years at RMIT and La Trobe universities, before moving into Teaching and Learning at Deakin and ACU universities for the last 5 years of her academic career. She retired to life as a farmer, working as a viticulturalist on her family’s small vineyard in northeast Victoria. On moving back to Melbourne, she has felt privileged to become a part of the vibrant literary life and wonderful seascapes of Williamstown.