James Waghorne
@ejwaghorne
Historian of universities, civil liberties in Australia. @[email protected]
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05-02-2011 11:04:52
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Helping organise an '80s Melb Uni Stu Pol reunion and this photo from James Waghorne 's book did the rounds and my Melbourne Uni-attending son looked at it and said 'What's that?' and I had to explain a bollard was an early analogue form of 'social media'.
Delve onto 💯+ yrs of Women's Eng. Society's heritage in #TheWomanEngineer journal digitised by IETLibrary-Archives searchable by name, with names list by Dr Nina Baker Fascinating source for #womeninhistoryshouldntbeamystery theiet.org/publishing/lib… #WES100 #WHM2023 #IWD2032 #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD23
ANZHES2022 conference begins with two panels focused on Education & Colonialism that will showcase the work of the ARC project Progressive Education & Race led by Julie McLeod @fpaisleyhistory & Sana Nakata. They consider two sets of approaches in critical relationship.
I enjoyed writing this article with Gwil Croucher: Narratives of financial assistance for university students and the emergence of HECS in Australia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Still time to sign up to this event, 5pm this afternoon!
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julia horne UsydHistory History of University Life
The seventh and final seminar explores the relationship between high school and #HigherEd , the ideas of a ‘public university’, & the mystery research funding.
Ft. Helen Proctor, Gwil Croucher, James Waghorne, & Alan Pettigrew w/ julia horne
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My ‘other project’ for so many years, twice delayed by Covid shutdowns, now has a cover. A book about student initiative and university life beyond the classroom University of Melbourne
Lessons from History - our edited collection about how history can inform today’s biggest challenges - is coming out with NewSouth Publishing mid next-year!
The Theodore Fink Memorial Symposium 2021 on Whitlam’s abolition of university fees in 1974 is now available online. It was a great discussion with distinctive contributions from julia horne, Hannah Forsyth [email protected], Bruce Chapman, Gwil Croucher, William Locke and me: youtu.be/SZpNO-IkZv0
Sad news about Stuart Macintyre. In higher ed, he wrote a very readable short history of the U of M and with Gwil Croucher and André Brett *No End of a Lesson*, on the Dawkins reforms & their aftermath.