Tracey Spicer and Clementine Ford to speak at 2018 Global Atheist Convention; Tickets now on sale

The Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) is excited to announced that Tracey Spicer – journalist and author of The Good Girl Stripped Bare – and prominent feminist writer Clementine Ford will speak at the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, Reason to Hope.

“We are thrilled that Tracey and Clementine will speak at Reason to Hope, adding their perspectives to a world-class line-up that includes Sir Salman Rushdie, Robin Ince and Jane Caro. The Convention is going to cover a fascinating blend of social issues, science and comedy.” said Kylie Sturgess, President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia.

Tracey Spicer and Clementine Ford will join a range of world-class speakers and entertainers at Reason to Hope, including

  • Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses
  • Robin Ince, British science comedian
  • Jane Caro, social commentator
  • Greta Christina, atheist blogger and author
  • Jason Ball, 2017 Young Australian of the Year for Victoria
  • Rod Quantock, science enthusiast/political activist

Further speaker announcements will follow.

The last two Global Atheist Conventions (The Rise of Atheism in 2010 and A Celebration of Reason in 2012) attracted thousands of people from Melbourne, Australia and around the world to an eclectic mix of speakers, comedy acts, panel debates, book signings and a gala dinner.

Reason to Hope, to be held in Melbourne from 9 – 11 February 2018, will inform, entertain and challenge attendees’ thoughts about atheism and the role of the godless in the current political and social climate.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, via the Convention website at atheistconvention.org.au.

 

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  • Jimbo

    Is this the global feminist convention? Does everything have to be about feminism now?

    • Debbie

      Salman Rushdie not famous for his feminism.

    • Oskar

      Personally I think it is excellent that we’ll get to hear from prominent feminists who are also atheists. This could go a long way towards combating the perception that the organised atheist movement is a boys club.

      It also seems to me that women’s issues are as much an important and necessary part of the discussion of religion and atheism as any other cases where ethics based on reason are in conflict with those based on tradition.

    • Michael Collins

      Beware they are banning people and deleting posts that criticise the invitation of a woman who joke’s about killing men and mocks mens suicides. There is also a fair bit of abuse aimed at men identified as MRA which seems to be any male who doesn’t identify as a feminist

    • Tabitha Melgalvis

      It is inevitable that any women who are intelligent, successful, and relevant enough to be considered as speakers for the convention are going to be feminists. You are just unhappy that there is more than one token woman speaking, and that there are more women than men as keynote speakers. This reveals your ingrained misogyny. Don’t pretend that your objection is to their feminism and not to their womanhood.

    • Tabitha Melgalvis

      It is inevitable that any women who are intelligent, successful, and relevant enough to be considered as speakers for the convention are going to be feminists. You are just unhappy that there is more than one token woman speaking, and that there are as many women as men announced as speakers. This reveals your ingrained misogyny. Don’t pretend that your objection is to their feminism and not to their womanhood.

      • Jimbo

        If your ideology is so intellectual, why can’t you defend it without resorting to the ad hominem fallacy, targeting the character of dissenters rather than their arguments?

        Seems to be a common theme.

        • Tabitha Melgalvis

          There’s nothing to defend. My comment is about you: your lack of self awareness, your lack of insight into your own objections, and your lack of honesty – with yourself and publicly.

          • Jimbo

            Not really. It’s more about this bogey man you’ve convinced yourself exists under ever rock. It’s very much about the ideology that reinforced your belief in this caricature of those who don’t believe what you believe and makes it so easy to make wild assumptions and extrapolations on little or no evidence.

            The word misogynist in feminist circles is equivalent to the term “suppressive person” in scientology. A defence mechanism for the ideology.