Join us at An Evening with Yanis Varoufakis and Friends, featuring Yanis Varoufakis, Louise Adler AM and Dr Richard Denniss.

In his most personal book yet, Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, Yanis Varoufakis tells the engrossing story of his political awakening. This captivating portrait is told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and the West’s tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.

In his chapter in A Time for Bravery: What happens when Australia chooses courage?, he tells the story of Piero, a political refugee from Chile, using his story to urge governments to return to a time where we recognised the importance of taking in refugees.

In What’s the Big Idea?, Yanis explains why Australia must shed the fear of a larger state. Louise Adler explains why the long-term sustainability of the arts is under threat and Richard Denniss discusses how dispelling myths about our economy helps Australians make choices about what kind of country we want to be.

Yanis Varoufakis will be in conversation with Louise Adler AM, former Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, and Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute.

All three books will be available for purchase at the venue and a book signing will follow the event.

SPEAKERS:

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former finance minister of Greece and the author of numerous bestselling books: Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism; Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism; Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece; an economic history of Europe, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?; and Another Now: Dispatches from An Alternative Present.

Born in Athens in 1961, he was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.

Louise Adler AM

Louise Adler AM is an Australian publisher. She was CEO of Melbourne University Publishing from 2003 until 2019, when she became editor-at-large at Hachette Australia. One of Australia’s most influential literary figures, she recently resigned as director of Adelaide writers’ Week after the Board’s decision to cancel the appearance of an Australian Palestinian author.

Dr Richard Denniss

Dr Richard Denniss is the co-CEO of The Australia Institute. A prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, he has spent the last twenty years moving between policy-focused roles in academia, federal politics and think-tanks.