André Dao is an author and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His début novel, Anam, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Voss Literary Award. He was awarded the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism for essays published in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, and Liminal. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at Melbourne Law School. His forthcoming monograph Human Rights for the Data Society: Big Tech, the UN & the datafication of rights will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026.
Kate Fullagar is a Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and Vice President of the Australian Historical Association. She is the author of The Savage Visit: New World Peoples and Popular Imperial Culture (University of California Press, 2012) and The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire (Yale University Press, 2020). Her most recent book is Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
Diane Stubbings is a writer and critic. She is the author of Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal (Palgrave, 2000) and The Parricide (Currency Press, 2014), and a contributor to Identity, Culture and the Science Performance (Methuen Drama, 2024) and The Routledge Companion to Science and Performance, (Routledge, forthcoming). Over the last decade her writing has been published in The Canberra Times, The Australian, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, New Writing and TEXT Journal. Diane’s plays have been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Griffin Award and the Patrick White Playwriting Award.