mid sem marking feels

Registrations are now open for this year’s MQ Department of History & Archaeology HDR/ECR Research showcase Conference! Come along and hear about some of the research our wonderful history & archaeology HDR/ECRs are currently completing. Both on-campus & Zoom options available

thanks to @lizbranagh_ who got me a personalised necklace of the of the one thing I won’t shut up about and love most in the world Trove

And yes it may look like Trobe but that is because it hasn’t been text corrected by our lovely voluntrovers..

I'm currently looking for participants in oral history interviews about the internet in Australia (1989-2010). You can participate even if you lived in Australia but didn't use the internet during this period. More details at the link below: rebihoulihan.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/loo…

‘“The university appears to have panicked,” ⁦Ben Eltham⁩ says. “Closing loopholes was never meant to be an excuse to lay off thousands of casuals across the sector.” ⁦A good overview of the appalling state of labour practices in higher ed: theguardian.com/australia-news…

Our 2nd panel for the history/archaeology Research Showcase is underway! An insightful and thought provoking roundtable discussion about bringing the history of silenced voices and communities to the forefront. #DHAResearchShowcase2024

STOP THE CUTS TO ARTS Macquarie University NTEU New South Wales Rally today. Cuts to teachers courses professional staff are not on!

#OTD 57 years ago, the PM went swimming and didn’t come back. Here’s my account of what happened and how we’ve remembered that weird episode ever since theconversation.com/harold-holt-is…

CFP! we are organising a symposium called ‘thinking beyond liberal narratives of progress’ in Sydney on the 17th of April. We invite papers that challenge linear narratives of progress in Australian social and political history. More info and CFP here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_F9ACZY146s5…

Interested?? 🤩 you can check out the full program here: tinyurl.com/beyondlibnarra…

I'm very excited that my article with History Australia, 'The brutality of the breadwinner: historicising economic violence in the wake of the Australian Married Women’s Property Acts, 1880–1914', was published online and open access this morning! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My article '‘Domestic tyranny’ & ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-19th & early-20th-C Australia' in the Women's History Review special forum has just been published online! It was such a honour to contribute to this important forum tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…