An Open Book Conversation on Rebecca Priestley's 'End Times'

Panel Discussion In this collaborative event between the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and the Adam Art Gallery, Su Ballard and Ingrid Horrocks join Rebecca Priestley in discussing Priestley’s new book End Times. Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, End Times deals with the fear of the end of the world, placing it into an Aotearoa New Zealand scenario of a road trip along the West coast. The encounters on the way and in the past are about climate change, conspiracy theories and very real anxieties around fault lines and earthquakes that might come to haunt us. Priestley asks, why do people hold on to some ideas but reject others? How do you engage with someone whole beliefs are wildly different from our own? And where can we find hope when it sometimes feels as if we all live on a fault line that could rupture at any moment?