What can a TV drama teach us about how societies understand empire?
In our new open-access article, Sarah Pinto and I revisit the controversy around the BBC’s Banished (2015), exploring why British and Australian audiences responded so differently. https://t.co/StI44DZ6if
Annabel Cooper reviews ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television’ by James Findlay. Published by @BloomsburyAcad .
https://t.co/Bueb2dNVUW
It was a joy to judge for the NSW Premier's History awards. The shortlists are up & I'd encourage all to read, watch & explore these fantastic entires between now and awards night. https://t.co/62e43tj68l
Copies arrived of these diaries I recently edited. They cover Liu Zerong’s 刘泽荣 time in China’s Moscow embassy (1940-44) and as special commissioner for foreign affairs in Xinjiang (44-49). Hopefully of interest to WWII and Xinjiang scholars. https://t.co/83rw5g8yWK
Tonight! Emeritus Professor @PeterMcPhee7 and Dr @find_findlay will be presenting our Making Public Histories webinar on the topic 'History on Film' - 5pm, via Zoom. Its not too late to register: 🔗https://t.co/fDmxJLYRWc
We will also be live tweeting the event! @OldTreasuryMelb
New work from @AnnCurthoys@catherinekevin5 & myself from a forthcoming special issue of @HistAustJournal on gender & law - open access.
A partial view: the limits and value of the legal archive for historicising domestic violence https://t.co/65ypeRFUvw
WORKSHOP | Learn about organising, preserving and sharing to a professional standard, ensuring your collection of papers or photos or objects, survive with #hcnswmember Parramatta Female Factory Friends Inc. Book now: https://t.co/Tq9QMzdeoV
Can cinema reckon with the past?
I'll be speaking about "The Nightingale", and how it repeated and ruptured previous narratives and ideas concerning the Australian frontier experience for the History Council of Victoria next week. https://t.co/uOJSxE7s1I
This plaque commemorating a major milestone in the fight for Indigenous rights in Australia is placed outside the Quadrangle building at @Sydney_Uni. In restricting campus protest, @mscott is shamefully thumbing his nose at the uni's own history as well as basic democratic rights
**Tutors needed!** If you or someone you know is in Sydney and is interested in tutoring work, please do DM me. My colleague Theresa Ardler (Wreck Bay) and I are looking for more tutors for F2F classes, and possibly some online ones too. @notredameaus
And now for something that will produce zero soul-searching among Australian university leaders: "Australian universities ranked poorly in areas like employability and teaching, with no local institution in the global 300 for academic and student ratios." https://t.co/vJz0m581Yx
It's day 2 of our 10th #SSN2024 Conference #Surveillance in an Age of #Crisis
Some of today's topics: #AI, #drones, #hacking, surveillance imaginings... and more ⬇️
Tonight: a very exciting @SurveilSouth plenary on surveillance in #Africa & African surveillance studies!
Cover reveal for the Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia that @ClintBracknell and I have edited. Featuring Kaylene Whiskey's artwork 'Dolly visits Indulkana'. The book is out in August! https://t.co/rl389ot7Ys