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History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
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Simon Farley
2 months ago
Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
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Really proud of the great work UTS Impact Studios does: recognised here with two awards for brilliant work on truth telling and the nexus between swimming and heat in Sydneyās west.
@utsengage.bsky.social
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Two Signal Awards for Impact Studios | RES Hub
Congratulations to Impact Studios, UTSā in-house podcast studio, for winning two prestigious Signal Awards. In the Kids Single Episode category, the āWalk for Truth-Tellingā episode of Hey History! wa...
https://reshub.uts.edu.au/whats-on/news/two-signal-awards-impact-studios
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Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/the-fledgling-un-tried-to-rein-in-mass-scale-misinformation-the-world-turned-its-back-and-is-now-paying-the-price
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History can tell us about the forces that structure our lives and the ways people have acted together to change them
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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/the-fledgling-un-tried-to-rein-in-mass-scale-misinformation-the-world-turned-its-back-and-is-now-paying-the-price
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Stuart Jones
3 months ago
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by
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@capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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A Cultural History of Higher Learning
How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics oā¦
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-higher-learning-9781350232204/
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āBeing kicked out of the club for raising concerns around gambling lobbyists buying access to the club shows the influence vested interests have here in parliament and just how normalised this has become,ā Pocock said.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/former-wallabies-david-pocock-banned-parliamentary-sports-club-gambling
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Important research here from Joel Barnes tracing the origins of philanthropic wealth in Australia. How should institutions reckon with these legacies?
theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
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The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
The legacy of the Dixson family reveals a complicated history of interconnected global capital and racialised exploitation.
https://theconversation.com/the-dixson-family-were-great-australian-philanthropists-but-their-wealth-was-built-on-slave-labour-248898
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UCL Institute of Education
3 months ago
Can schools bear the weight of a warming world? Student teacher Jaren reflects on the power of citizenship education to inspire student action against the climate crisis šš”ļø @citizenshippgceioe.bsky.social
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Alan Lester
4 months ago
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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āForced Free Labourā: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey
This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britainās slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2558035
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Johan Ćstling
4 months ago
āUniversities and the Public Goodā. That is the title of a conference on research, education and democracy since 1945 in Hanover this week. Most of the researchers here are historians, but the questions raised are highly relevant for us today.
ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/universities...
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Universities and the Public Good
Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945 September 10 ā 12, 2025 | Herrenhausen Palace Conference Center, Hanover, Germany Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation...
https://ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/universities-and-the-public-good
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Yes this is shocking.
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Warwick Anderson
4 months ago
Shocked to see this. An indictment on
@mupublishing.bsky.social
My father first published in Meanjin around 1950; I published there from 1983....
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Institute of English Studies
4 months ago
š£Only two weeks left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships š£ In 2025-6 up to two awards of Ā£1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info š
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
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Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
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Oooh this is so interesting. Iām becoming interested in soldier settlement schemes in Australia and relationship to land reservation and indig dispossession.
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Craig Barker
4 months ago
Sydneysiders, join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum for the 2025 Antony McNicoll Lecture delivered by Prof Lloyd Weekes (UNE) speaking on archaeological work in the UAE in 'Saruq al-Hadid: Cult, Craft, and Community in the Rubā al-Khali'. 4 September, 5.30pm
events.humanitix.com/2025-mcnicol...
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Brent Toderian
4 months ago
āOver the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible ā in the air itself.ā Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/
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Warwick Anderson
5 months ago
'Voice' is a wonderfully rich account of how Indigenous scholars and students fought to be heard at the University of Melbourne. Interesting for me to appear in the historical narrative, not always as I remember....
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The Australia Institute
5 months ago
Come and work with us! Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia? Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025 Apply here š
australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
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Professor Euan Ritchie
5 months ago
"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECDā¦This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & āthe next big thingā) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look likeā
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Universities such as mine are making poor decisions, and weāre not allowed to know why
UTS has announced a āpauseā on enrolments in 100 courses. Vacating these critically important areas diminishes not only the brand of UTS but the state it was designed to benefit.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/universities-such-as-mine-are-making-poor-decisions-and-we-re-not-allowed-to-know-why-20250818-p5mntd.html?btis=&fbclid=IwdGRjcAMQxtBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrKOjEBlNfCO8nPa8r3Fq4KIPU_bAVT-FZec3zNTkipqsyhMEZ6PJdxEwGUn_aem_9yTwNiIdyLE-F7oMfCE9gw
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Craig Barker
5 months ago
So very excited about the next History Now panel - a collaboration with the Wood Memorial lecture by the Discipline of History at
@sydney.edu.au
Thanks
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Tickets are selling fast
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Kate Fullagar
5 months ago
@historymatterssyd.bsky.social
and I are delighted to see the UNSETTLING PORTRAITS podcast get Highly Commended in these Digital History Awards!
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h...
(link to the podcast in this linked page)
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The Saturday Paper
5 months ago
The government is under mounting pressure to dump a Morrison-era policy that has drastically cut university funding, saddled many students with debts they will never be able to repay and driven many more away from higher education altogether.
satpa.pe/MA6GXR1
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Why Labor is stalling on real universities funding reform
The education minister has deferred action to abolish the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme, which has helped to hollow out tertiary funding and saddled students with lifelong debts.
http://satpa.pe/MA6GXR1
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Winner of the New York festivals gold medal! Well done hey history! Australiaās first history podcast for the classroom
www.heyhistory.net
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History Australia
5 months ago
Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme
www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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. this is a great article. Let me point out that major major structural reform has happened in our school system before. In the second part of the 19thC all Australian states abolished all state aid to private schools.
#histed
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How to disappear a problem ⢠Dean Ashenden
The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws
https://insidestory.org.au/how-to-disap..
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Warwick Anderson
6 months ago
The decline of academic history in Australia: an interesting & important article in SMH by
@nickbryantoz.bsky.social
Much more to be said, but a good start. Includes
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social
@capandgown.bsky.social
@michellearrow.bsky.social
Anna Clark et al
#history
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Historyās booming in podcasts ā but many of its academics are out of a job
We live in momentous times. History podcasts and books are more popular than ever. So why is academic history in crisis?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/history-s-booming-in-podcasts-but-many-of-its-academics-are-out-of-a-job-20250522-p5m1go.html
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Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring - The Bloomingtonian
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ā Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are ...
https://bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/indiana-university-bloomington-to-eliminate-or-suspend-over-100-academic-programs-in-sweeping-restructuring/
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New episodes now out of this brilliant new and deliciously serious podcast on Australian writing - these eps on First Nations writing and how it transforming everything
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...
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A few months ago I wrote a piece about the remarkable new history of the University of Melbourne's entanglement with Indigenous Australia and what it means for how we think about universities and what they do. It's open access at History Australia:
#skyhistorians
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New university history, institutional reckoning and the materiality of ideas
Published in History Australia (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2025.2452375
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Packed house at the launch of Fully Lit - our new podcast with the Sydney Review of Books on Australian Writing.
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...
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I just voted in Australis federal election at the local public school and bought my ādemocracy sausageā sold by the parents and friends association. Yay for compulsory voting. Yay for these quotidian rituals of democratic life.
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Stuart Jones
8 months ago
Next Wednesday - online roundtable on Cultures of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry ... register here
www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-u...
... including
@capandgown.bsky.social
@heatherlwellis.bsky.social
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History of Universities Seminar ā HistGeogUni
https://www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-universities-seminar/
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Dr Heather Ellis
8 months ago
Join us on 7th May 11am BST for an online roundtable to celebrate the launch of our new edited volume: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry!
#histgeoguni
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Stephanie Russo
9 months ago
From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
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Hello Australian govt instead of destroying our universities maybe see them as valuable actors in a geopolitical realignment
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics āscientific asylumā
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a āscientific refugeeā status
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics
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Attention Australian Universities
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Royal Historical Society
9 months ago
In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today
bit.ly/4cwSiaJ
Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture
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Very excited Rahul Raoās book has arrived in my mailbox today on the politics of memorialisation and empire past and present.
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This is SUCH a good series from
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podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
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Introducing: Unsettling Portraits
Podcast Episode Ā· History Lab Ā· S6 Trailer Ā· 2m
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-lab/id1279671703?i=1000700435550
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Katie Parker
10 months ago
Canāt wait to listen to this!
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Kate Fullagar
10 months ago
Super pleased to see our podcast finally released, with Gordon Henry, Jo Rey, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Daniel Browning, Michel Tuffery, Daniel Boyd, and Joseph Pierce - amazing guests sharing their insights and lives
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Introducing: Unsettling Portraits - History Lab
Can colonial depictions of Indigenous people tell us anything useful about the past? Ā Ā How do Indigenous people today feel about these enduring images? Ā Ā Unsettling Portraits is a three-part seri...
https://omny.fm/shows/history-lab/introducing-unsettling-portraits
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Philip Oldfield
10 months ago
Shouting it out for those at the back International students not to blame for rising rents, Australian study finds
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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Hetan Shah
10 months ago
I know itās a drop in the ocean in the current HE crisis, but we are funding 27 great projects to develop new skills and methods to underpin humanities and social sciences research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/funding...
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Funding announced for the British Academy Talent Development Awards 2024-2025
Worth up to £10,000, the awards are provided to promote the building of skills and capacities for current and future generations in areas such as quantitative skills, interdisciplinarity, data science...
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/funding-announced-for-the-british-academy-talent-development-awards-2024-2025/
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Sylvie Lomer
10 months ago
Academics travelling to the US need to be aware of this - if hotel costs count as illegal work, any paid for speaking invitations could put us at risk.
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Royal Historical Society
10 months ago
Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants
bit.ly/4bF4zJK
Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups.
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