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New Housing Histories Workshop

Dr Stephen Pascoe (UNSW), Dr Rachel Goldlust (La Trobe) and Fiona Gatt (Deakin), recently organised the inaugural New Housing Histories Workshop. The one-day event, held at Deakin Downtown on Friday 21 April 2023 and sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Histories, invited emerging and established scholars to engage in conversation about the future prospects of the field.

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‘An interesting and animated discussion’: The Geelong Ladies Reading Circle Project.

Jacqui Baker shares some of her research about the Geelong Ladies Reading Circle Project.

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An agnostic’s experience within a modern Papua New Guinean cathedral- Deb Lee-Talbot

PhD candidate, Deb Lee-Talbot, recently travelled to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, as part of her research project, A Feminist Frontier? Analysing Women’s Experiences on Evangelical sites in Oceania,...

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Conducting Ethical Histories – A Deakin HDR Workshop

Honours candidate, Lee Gaedtke, provides a brief overview of a recent History HDR Workshop, proving that discussions concerning oral histories and ethics can be entertaining and useful.    Say...

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‘Unity Walk’: Celebrating Diversity

PhD candidate, Brad Underhill, reflects on Papua New Guinea’s reputation for violence after partaking in the ‘Unity Walk’ in Port Moresby.   When news broke in the Australian media...

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Book launch at the National Library of Australia

    Professor Paul Hetherington’s book, Moonlight on Oleander: Prose Poems, was launched by Associate Professor Cassandra Atherton at the National Library of Australia on Thursday 6th September, to...

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Using OneNote and Office Lens for Humanities Research

Brad Underhill, a CHRG member and Deakin Postgraduate student, shares valuable insight regarding the use of OneNote for research.  Six months into my PhD, and fresh from a research...

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Contemporary Histories Blog – Dr Sarah Pinto: ‘On Greer and her Archive’

Contemporary Histories Blog ‘On Greer and her Archive’ Dr Sarah Pinto   Melbourne is a city with a critical mass of historians spread across (and beyond) its eight universities....

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Contemporary Histories Blog – Dr Carolyn Holbrook: ‘Woolworths and Coles: An Anzac Tale’

Contemporary Histories Blog Woolworths and Coles: An Anzac Tale Dr Carolyn Holbrook   A couple of weeks ago, as I was pulling out my credit card to pay for...

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Professor Klaus Neumann – “A ‘Precision of Language and Facts'”

Contemporary Histories Blog A “Precision of Language and Facts” Professor Klaus Neumann “Pope likens migrant holding centres to ‘concentration camps,’” Reuters reported on the weekend. First responses ranged from...

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Contemporary Histories Blog – Dr Carolyn Holbrook: ‘The Australian Federation of the Mind’

The Contemporary Histories Research Group is pleased to share our new series; a blog dedicated to exploring contemporary histories and history-making. Today’s entry is from Dr Carolyn Holbrook:   The...

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Contemporary Histories Blog – Dr Alyson Miller & Dr Cassandra Atherton: ‘Pika-Don: Re-Imagining Hiroshima’

The Contemporary Histories Research Group is pleased to share our new series; a blog dedicated to exploring contemporary histories and history-making. Today’s entry is written by Dr Alyson Miller and...

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