Don't miss on 16 April the wonderful Penny Edmonds's AGL Shaw lecture for RHSV: 'Anti-Slavery and Protection in Port Phillip and NSW: Afterlife of the 1837 Select Committee Report'. In-person only event, 5.30pm AEST. Tickets available here! tinyurl.com/yapa2xdt

Hi Melbourne friends,
I'll be speaking tonight on the curious colonial afterlife of the UK '1837 Select Committee Report' into colonial violence & how was invoked by the Yoorrook Commision, the 1st formal truth-telling process into ongoing injustice for First Peoples in Victoria

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Today is International Women’s Day #IWD2024 . To commemorate, we share ten women in archaeology who have made significant contributions to their field, as recognised by our Fellows. bit.ly/49ORRGA

Flinders Archaeology Flinders University

The Sofronoff-Albrechtsen saga has shattered whatever confidence we had in our legal system. Here’s what went wrong. Analysis by Geoffrey Watson SC. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The World Christianity Studies and Asymmetrical Dependency (WCSAD) Working Group is delighted to welcome Dr. Martijn Stoutjesdijk (Protestant Theological University of the Netherlands) to our second monthly ‘Table Talk!’

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DFG public | @[email protected]

I am honoured to be delivering the inaugural RHS/ GHIL Lecture on 23 January 2024 @ 5.30pm. I'll be thinking about how the history of penal colonies matters now. eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-histor… History at Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities University of Leicester The Leverhulme Trust Royal Historical Society

The 2023 recipient of the Annual History Citation is Worimi man and Emeritus Professor John Maynard, in recognition of his leadership in foregrounding First Nations voices and stories, and in inspiring other Indigenous people to be historians.

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New Zealand was tbe first country to grant women the vote in 1893.
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (1868-1920) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, a suffragist who inspired future generations of Māori women #WomensArt

⁦The Sydney Morning Herald⁩ & ⁦The Age⁩ response? Ban signatories from any reporting relating to the war in Gaza. Pathetic, predictable, complicit.

Journalists urge ‘improved’ coverage of Israel-Hamas war in open letter smh.com.au/business/compa…

We're #celebratingnewFellows & welcome Professor Catharine Coleborne from Marketing news to the Academy. #AAHFellows

Catharine is recognised for her scholarship on the histories of psychiatry, mental health, madness and institutions in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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Red Shoes (2009) by Mexican artist Elina Chauvet, installation on male violence and number of missing women and girls to femicide -murder of females #WomensArt

#InternationalDayAgainstViolenceAgainstWomen

Statement of solidarity with Palestine from academics in Australian universities overland.org.au/2023/11/statem… via @overlandjournal

'Enough is enough'. UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 'An entire population is besieged and under attack denied access to the essentials for survival, bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable.. This must stop now.' #auspol

The book is getting real now, out in February....