This is a really fantastic case for how history informs our understanding of loneliness. It’s been fascinating reading everyone’s reflections during the drafting. Do give it a read.

Huge kudos to Fred Cooper for pulling everyone’s thoughts together in such a masterful way!

I'm really excited to finally share this piece of work for the WHO/Europe BCI-HUB. Written with sixteen (!) other scholars, it makes the case for historical practice as an indispensable component of interdisciplinary research on loneliness going forward.
bci-hub.org/documents/hist…

Australia has a secret defence industry cooperation deal with Israel and you’re not allowed to know what’s in it because apparently Israel has a veto on Australian FOI!?

Why, and what, are they hiding?

Who does the academic housework? A new study from Denmark reveals the strategies that mid career men embrace to avoid internal service work - ignoring emails (evasion) and cultivating a reputation for being disorganized. kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

In the Gong around 3pm tomorrow, come along to Empowering Narratives: Celebrating Strong Female Leads and Theatre’s Role in Preserving and Amplifying Women’s Legacies on Stage' merrigong.com.au/shows/merrigon… UOW Research '

This is essentially every academic department staff meeting in which someone who has never had a major administrative role complains at the Head of Department (let’s say Lorenzo LeNoir)

Reminder of this opportunity to do a PhD with me and work on early modern emotions and children. I don’t bite (much), am keen on interdisciplinary methods, and good at creating development opportunities for students. #twitterstorians mq.edu.au/research/phd-a…

Looking for recommendations for publishers of exhibition catalogues. Does anyone still do this? Thank you! #twitterstorians

Looking for recommendations for history history publishers that do digital books (not e-books/OA), but forms that are more interactive/use some of the capabilities of websites and are intended to be read online. Thanks for your help #twitterstorians

Couple more days to register for this.

(Call for papers) Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/03/histoi… #histSTM

Through bringing together the history of abortion and personal family history Hannah M. Stamler considers how historians might imagine and remember histories of abortions within their own family networks. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

This is a great opportunity for an ECR to receive support to attend the AHA conference - applications close soon!

This is disappointing because when the right wing did this to us in Australia, they came up with imaginative insults that you could put on your CV. It was a badge of honour. In the UK, the right can’t even manage that. (Also it backfired on them).

If in Adelaide or online, I'd love you to join in! Emotions of Int Women’s Yr 1975 Flinders University UOW Research #twitterstorians

TOMORROW: Flinders University History Seminar welcomes Prof Sharon Crozier-De Rosa to share a paper titled 'One Year to Change It All: Intergenerational Connection and the Imagined Futures of International Women’s Year 1975'
Join us in person or online.
AWHN UOW

I am delighted to be delivering one of the keynotes at this conference. I will be speaking on Photographing Colonial Girlhood and Making Modernity.

Frankly, Anthony Albanese , schools funding is a bloody disgrace. Education is fundamental to democracy and equality - and we’re entrenching disadvantage by spending too much money on kids who don’t need it, and not enough on those who do. Fair funding for public education! #ForEveryChild

Wowza. I wonder what that means for Adelaide’s plans.

SSEMWG Call for Nominations!

The Society seeks nominations for awards for scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2021 and May 2024.