Steven Carroll writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that The Aunt’s Mirrors is “an embracing, even epic family history… the mirrors do their job and, along with meditations on memory and family, Freeman not only gives us a portrait of migrant colonial life from the gold rushes on, but also a homage to ‘ordinary’ life.”
Brandl & Schlesinger and Gleebooks invite you to afternoon tea at Govett’s Café, 25 Govetts Leap Road, Blackheath, at which novelist, poet and essayist, David Brooks will conduct a conversation with Brandl & Schlesinger’s authors, Damien Freeman (The Aunt’s Mirrors), Vrasidas Karalis (The Demons of Athens) and Kellinde Wrightson (The Notorious Frances Thwaites) on Saturday 16 May, 2015.
On 18 April, 2015, the front page of The Weekend Australian carried an exclusive article by Noel Pearson in which he defended his support of Freeman and Leeser’s The Australian Declaration of Recognition and responded to his critics.
Freeman discusses love, and its significance for art, with Sylvia Rosenblum in an interview for community radio station, Eastside FM.
Freeman was invited to participate in the Joske Colloquium at the University of Tasmania, 6-8 February, 2015. The biannual event is an interdisciplinary colloquium, and this year’s theme was Human Complexity. Freeman delivered a paper on the significance of the past for understanding human complexity in Richard Wollheim’s philosophy, and in particular in his masterpiece, The Thread of Life.
In his capacity as Director of the Governor-General’s Prize, Freeman presided over a cocktail reception in the Great Hall of the High Court of Australia to celebrate the tenth year of the Governor-General’s Prize on 10 February, 2015, at which Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Cosgrove were the guests of honour.