Political leaders may not tell generous stories of our shared history, but we can. One of many highlights from my conversation with Sophie Loy-Wilson Check it out on the YT channel

This year I'm working to set up a PPE program University of Sydney. More on that soon.

For my edification, I listened to this 2013 podcast on the struggle to set up a heterodox political economy program, back in the 1970s.

Still worth a listen. So much drama!

abc.net.au/listen/program…

We will be holding a conference in the first week of December, 2024. Information here: omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/engagement/

Some big news from our little team! We are hiring a continuing Lecturer (Level B) in International Relations to work with me and the team developing and delivering our new online Master in IR 😊
#ISA2024
Applicants must have work rights in Australia. 1/2
seek.com.au/job/74937072

.ping Niro Kandasamy

Really enjoyed talking to The Burning Archive about Australia, China, nationalism, Empire and the importance of historians.

The AAPA held their first conference in a Surry Hills church in 1925. The 200 people demanded self determination - John Maynard at State Library of NSW

100 yrs since the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association was founded. This extraordinary organisation fought for self-determination, land rights, an end to child removal and racist laws. Worimi historian John Maynard launching a new version of his awesome AAPA book today

Sometimes I feel like the facebook algorithm in trolling me. And also. The hoodie 😆

Australian policies designed to prevent Aboriginal babies being born as recently as the 1970s. Honoured to work with Julia Hurst and Jaky Troy on this. theconversation.com/friday-essay-t…

Amazing news! Our Visiting Scholar Jess Urwin has won the American Society of Environmental History award. It's the first time this award has gone to a scholar outside North America. 👏 ourANU American Society for Environmental History

Canberra poet Geoff Page introduced me to Victor Jara in high school - the Chilean singer tortured by the Pinochet regime, and especially his song :

Te Recuerdo Amanda, 'I remember you Amanda.'
Whenever I read about Gaza, I hear this song

youtube.com/watch?v=1q2_zO…

I was invited to apply for the directorship of Australia Catholic University's Program in Western Civilization.

Here's my reply. Gillian Russell Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter

We would like to extend our appreciation to everyone who attended the History Now session Histories of Capitalism State Library of NSW!

Thank you Hannah Forsyth [email protected] Sophie Loy-Wilson for providing an inspiring discussion and Mike Beggs for chairing

Australian Centre for Public History Jesse Adams Stein

Really excited about this. Christopher Clark will give the usyd_humanities UsydHistory JM Ward Memorial Lecture at the Department of History at the University of Sydney on the 22 of May

'The Future in the Rear View Mirror'

eventbrite.com.au/e/jm-ward-memo…

I wrote about the opaque world of shipping for The New York Review of Books. The industry that moves more than 80% of global trade has massive regulatory, environmental, and labor law issues, all facilitated by tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions
nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

🌏NEW AJPH ARTICLE📄
East Timor in Australia–Indonesia Relations 1974–83
Miranda Booth
NI researcher, PhD & Lecturer Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management

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Doug Munro sheds light on the state of Political Science in the 1960s in the new Australian universities. Flinders University
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Fong Lee Lane, Wellington.

Ahead of my (41st!) birthday on April 18th I thought I'd visit my grandmother at Rookwood cemetery, Sydney's 'sleeping city,' and the biggest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.