
Andonis Piperoglou
@pastmigrations
Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas | @ArtsUnimelb | migration ethnicity diaspora whiteness settler colonialism |
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https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/987597-andonis-piperoglou 28-12-2019 21:15:06
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Earlier in the year I was interviewed by Aggelidaki Andriani (and her film crew) for the doco Στην άλλη άκρη του κόσμου/ On the other side of the world. Exploring Cretan migration to Australia, editing is underway. Australian launch will be later this year. fb.watch/mpbOy9t7fS/

A true honour to have contributed the chapter on Settler Migrations in The Cambridge History of Global Migrations. Biggest thanks to the editors Marcelo Borges Madeline Hsu and @drg1949 for their patience and commitment to this important undertaking in #Migration #History

How do diasporas and ethnic groups intersect with the politics of whiteness in Australia and the United States? Come to the Masterclass: Diasporas, Ethnicities and the Politics of Whiteness to find out! The Australian Centre Melbourne Social Equity Institute Faculty of Arts 👇🏾 eventbrite.com.au/e/masterclass-…

Lots of fun masterclassing with Yiorgos Anagnostou today on Ethnicity, Whiteness and Diaspora. Students hungry to tap into these contested categories. BIG thanks to The Australian Centre, the Program in Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Walter Mangold Trust.



My recent article in the Greek newspaper ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ on the importance of Greek diaspora studies and my role at Faculty of Arts and plans with Greek Community of Melbourne tovima.gr/print/vimagazi…


Our book "11 Words for Love" written by me and illustrated by Vaxine Beneba Clarke has been shortlisted & my heart & head are bursting given that this is a book about a Palestinian refugee family. Over 2000 Palestinian children have been killed in the last 2 weeks. What a world we live in.


What a joy to see My Darlinghurst @newsouthpub ed. by Anna Clark Gab Kemmis Tamson Pietsch. It's a page turner. My chapter, Destination Darlinghurst, charts migrant dynamics. Got to include a little family hist about a great-grandfather who traversed the suburb in the 30s 🤓


Congratulations Michael Mohammed Ahmad! Mohammed has won the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Fiction. To celebrate this exciting news, you can now read Mohammed's prize-winning story completely for free thanks to our good friends at Meanjin Quarterly: meanjin.com.au/memoir/life-of…


See here 'Documenting Diaspora: Effy Alexakis’ Framings of Transcultural Belonging'. Published in Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters. Reworking of a speech I gave at the launch of Viewfinder: Effy Alexakis now on Hellenic Museum Melbourne ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays…

Excited to be launching Winnie Dunn's debut novel Dirt Poor Islanders next month The Australian Centre Subverting steroptypes from a diasporic lens, she tells a humanising portrait of Pasifika Aus from the streets of Western Syd. sweatshop Online/book here. eventbrite.com.au/e/dirt-poor-is…



As part of my keynote focusing on the entanglements of history between Australia, Indonesia & Timor-Leste, I also discussed the place of history in TL and the challenges of national history writing. Thanks again to colleagues at Flinders Uni and AHA (Australia) for the opportunity


Register now for the free two-day OMAA, Opening Multilingual Archives of Australia Conference at University of Sydney on 2–3 Dec to explore historical materials from national and international collections in non-English languages with keynote speaker Prof Joy Damousi & panels of experts and students: bit.ly/3N7QPLS
