About this episode

Historian Sarah Irving-Stonebraker discusses societal alienation and the impact of diminishing knowledge of shared history.

Historian Sarah Irving-Stonebraker joins Q+A to discuss her ideas around increasing societal alienation, and in her view why diminishing knowledge of shared history contributes to it. Irving-Stonebraker is in New Zealand to deliver the Maxim Institute's Sir John Graham lecture, which this year explores what it means to be a steward of history.

People in this episode

Host: Jack Tame

Guest: Sarah Irving-Stonebraker

Topics covered

• societal alienation
• shared history
• historical stewardship
• Maxim Institute
• lecture

Keywords

• alienation
• history
• society
• historian
• New Zealand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Maxim Institute

Books & works: Sir John Graham lecture

Places: New Zealand

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