Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social

Historian of human antiquity in Australia.
Lecturer @Griffith_Uni
Collaborating Scholar @ReDeepHistory
Visiting Fellow @earthhistories
Lover of Austen and AFL.

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

Happy day: my contribution to the @IsisJournal focus issue "Is Deep History White?" has been published! My article, 'Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History,' considers the complexities of deep history in Australia: how and by whom it can be...

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@Markgh59 Thank you, Mark! It's been a long time coming. So thrilled to have finally found a home for this research.

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@IsisJournal Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! https://t.co/d75KaBqJ4U
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

Happy day: my contribution to the @IsisJournal focus issue "Is Deep History White?" has been published! My article, 'Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History,' considers the complexities of deep history in Australia: how and by whom it can be...

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@IsisJournal articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. https://t.co/0s1Am2dkUn

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.
Pro-Aboriginal is not anti-white,
nor does loving your culture mean you are less Australian.

These things are not mutually exclusive

A history denied is compelled to repeat itself; and each year on January 26th, we celebrate the trauma inflicted on Aboriginal people.

From a position of science, it is the denial of trauma that compounds and magnifies the original trauma; because you are forced to expend more energy 'convincing' people you have experienced trauma rather than on healing from the trauma itself.

The denial extends to invisibility.
Aboriginal people are not celebrated for our contribution to this country on January 26; and there is not greater injustice than to feel invisible. To feel as though you matter less.

I am a proud Australian and I would like the basic right to celebrate that.

But until we have a maturity of leadership that has the bravery and honesty to acknowledge our past; our future will continue to be limited by ignorance,

#changethedate

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@sighmonger The great line we twitchers all walk

[InASA @IntlAusStudies]

Congratulations to all shortlisted for the prestigious Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize! @melaniebrand68; @JessUrwin95; Chris Cheng; Emily Gallagher; Matthew R. Keynes; Rebecca Lindsay. Winner announced @ InASA conference Feb 25 @Macquarie_Uni
More details here: https://t.co/g2wklUlYa6

[Joshua Black @Joshua_Black97]

Here’s @fbongiornoanu and I on Boris Johnson’s memoir ‘Unleashed’.
We are advised that BoJo’s decision to leave the country moments after this publication appeared is purely coincidental

https://t.co/4HPF5Cy6Qb

[Sarah Bendall @SarahABendall]

Shaping Femininity makes a great Christmas present & it’s currently 30% off until 8 December (on AU, UK, USA, CAN Bloomsbury websites). Lots of other great Fashion History 📚 are also in the sale too!

https://t.co/Z8CfLiKCj3

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

My Australian Historical Association 2024 Presidential Address has been published:
https://t.co/MPwat8KS2A

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@lizbranagh_ Congratulations you champion! So well deserved 🥳🥳🥳

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@drjpersian If the weather has improved and you like a good garden, the Schönbrunn Palace is pretty speccy, with a hedge maze and grounds. Inside is cool too if you're keen to see some insane imperial wealth and massive paintings!

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@drjpersian I've just been in Vienna! Amazing galleries, if that's your thing. I liked the Belvedere. & if you're a classical music fan there are tons of concerts in various locations. My favourite was in St Anne's (Annakirche) that played Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven on 18th century violins!

[Jarrod Hore @JarrodHore]

Very cool to have our research on Gondwanaland featured in this Aus Geographic article. I posted the UNSW Newsroom version last month but if you didn’t catch that click through to read about our work on coal, supercontinents, and the Gondwana Rainforests.

[State Library of NSW @statelibrarynsw]

The Australian History Prize is awarded to ‘Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law’ by Alecia Simmonds. #NSWPHA @BlackIncBooks @latrobe

https://t.co/H5YaRqu9eF

[Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social @amywayness]

@mcookhistory Congratulations Margaret! You're a superstar! So well deserved 🥳🥳🥳

[Jarrod Hore @JarrodHore]

A month ago I had the pleasure to present my new book project, Earth Science from the South, in Dublin at UCD. If you're at all interested in new histories of earth science or how the Kimberley diamond rush shaped understandings of the planet, the recording is now online.

[Sarah Bendall @SarahABendall]

Level B continuing position in English.

[AHA (Australia) @AustHistAssoc]

CfP below for the 2025 @IntlAusStudies Conference on 'Human and More than Human Worlds' @Macquarie_Uni! Will focus on Australians’ formation by, and engagement with, the more-than-human world over time.
Abstracts due 30 September 2024
See more below!

[History Council of Victoria @History_Vic]

In our "Spotlight On ... " series you can get to know some of those involved in the work of the HCV. This month, we are introducing Dr Rohan Howitt, lecturer in environmental history at @Monash_Arts & chair of our MPH webinar series!

👓Read about Rohan: https://t.co/q8iDmRCjN5