You can now read (and cite!) my PhD thesis “Contemporary Indigenous iconoclasm in global perspective: Contested monuments in three settler colonies, c. 1968–2000”. Download available through @UON_NOVA
https://t.co/ziAYTA5bVs
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In 2019, Bordeaux unveiled a statue honouring Modeste Testas, an African woman enslaved by local traders and later freed. It was covered in white plaster as a “symbolic act of memory,” sparking debate on how France confronts its slavery past.
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Join the @pubhisint for a thought-provoking discussion with historian Tad Stoermer
Tad will explore the ethical, political, and practical challenges of doing public history this Wednesday at 11pm Sydney time via zoom
Register via https://t.co/a6BwXGLyUF
Haven't registered for the 2025 AHA Conference ?? Get moving, today's the last day you can! Follow the link to secure your place and join us in sunny (and warm) Townsville! https://t.co/UC4Hn6LYoW
@nordacious@pharnzwurth Sorry can’t help with heritage listing, out of my jurisdiction. But if QLD is same as NSW anyone can nominate an item for listing! Whether it meets the state threshold is another matter…
The #NewcastleWritersFestival session 'Close to Home: Colonial Violence and Family Histories' has now SOLD OUT
A waitlist has now been made available for this event
Check out more information via https://t.co/LdJxvvopbf
We are proud to be supporting this session
My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download!
https://t.co/DZGU4P5O6v
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Anyone got access to this article? Asking for a friend…
Anna Cole, “Gender, race and colonialism: Aboriginal debutante balls in the 1960s”, Crossings, no. 20 (June 1994), 22–30.
Come along to #hcnswmember@statelibrarynsw Fellows’ Forum: 'Creative responses to history' on Wed 26 February!
Hear from Fellows Phillip Bartlett, Eloise Reddy & Bronwyn Rennex speak about their exciting research drawn from the Library’s collection
https://t.co/3HTWfSzSrI
Working as a freelance and/or oral historian in NSW
We have teamed up with @OralHistoryNSW for an informative panel discussion about working as a freelance and/or oral historian.
Join us at History House on 3 March from 5.30 pm.
For registrations: https://t.co/BGGiEGaYEH
📣 Excited to announce the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit!
Teaching diverse classrooms about contested histories isn’t easy. This toolkit equips educators with strategies for inclusive, impactful, and creative history teaching.
Download it here: https://t.co/qEFaiwlm0h
We're leaving X as a response to increasingly concerning developments on the platform, including its tolerance for far-right and undemocratic ideas, as well as the reckless rhetoric from its owner.
More: https://t.co/gBOmgLblj7
❗️Visit our new LinkedIn: https://t.co/yAagg4JDt8
#OtD 21 Jan 2015 Che Guevara's grandson, Canek Sanchez Guevara, died aged just 40. His metal band had their gigs broken up by Cuban secret police. He had had to leave Cuba when he began criticising anti-working class aspects of the Communist Party govt https://t.co/8yyARCHgPe
🎯2020 was a turning point for sculpture, with public statues sparking global debates. Should these controversial works stay or go? Is there a viable third way to retain and explain them? Explore these questions in ‘Toppling Statues.’ 📘
BUY 👉 https://t.co/Fgs4kM9vV2