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Greek immigration to Australia at the focus of upcoming lecture
The history of Greek immigration and the importance of preserving collective memory will be the focus of the next lecture in the series "Greek History and Culture Seminars 2026", organised by the Gree...
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*Call for papers!* The 2027 InASA conference, "The Cringing Continent", will be held at Flinders University from 9-12 February. See you all in Adelaide! More info here: inasa.org/blog/call-fo...
Call for Papers: ‘The Cringing Continent’, InASA Conference for 2027
The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide In February 2027, we invite you to join us on Kaurna Country to reconsider one of the foundat…
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New article by Margaret Allen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Technologies of Identification in White Australia: Sher Mohamed's files
This paper explores the interactions of Sher Mohamed, an Indian man who lived in Western Australia from 1897 until at least 1937, with the administration of the White Australia policy. This study, ...
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New article by Virginie Rey and Karen Schamberger www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Culture-specific libraries, archives and museums: beyond regimes of factuality
Community-led Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) institutions have long played a crucial but understudied role in Australia’s cultural landscape. Operating outside major state struct...
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New from @jonpiccini.bsky.social theconversation.com/white-austra...
‘White Australia’ has always been a myth. Hanson lamenting its end is wrong – and dangerous
Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.
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InASA is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Kay Schaffer Award, which acknowledges and celebrates the best unpublished essay on storytelling in Australian Studies by a postgraduate or ECR. Closing 30 September, more details here: inasa.org/blog/kay-sch...
Kay Schaffer Award: Submissions
This award is designed to acknowledge and celebrate the best unpublished essay on storytelling in Australian Studies by a postgraduate or early career researcher (ECR), to commemorate the influenti…
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Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands is now available for download as a free epub link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Christopher Cheng reviews @sophiecouchman.bsky.social Chinese Australian Whispers @historyaustralia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DQFTV...
In conversation with voices from a sleeping archive
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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This is the paper that I presented at AHA this week in Sydney and will be talking about at next week's @colmigproject.bsky.social workshop. The paper went well (I think) and I got some good questions. I am working on a lengthy draft at the moment. If anyone wants to read for feedback, let me know!
New article by @drjessc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Desert Wogs and Dirty Dagoes: The Role of World War II Australian Soldiers in Shaping Racial Language in Australia
In post–World War II Australia, wog came to be a slur used against predominantly Southern European migrants, such as Italians and Greeks. However, prior to the war, it was used more benignly to ref...
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If you're going to the ASAA conference @asiancurrents.bsky.social next week, come to the launch of my new book #TheGoodSea (MUP) on Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Australia's refugee policies by Prof Kate McGregor. Day 1 of the conference: Tue 30 June, 12.15 pm (lunchtime), Room D2.194.
TFW you're an ASIO agent who's wasting their time monitoring an Irish Republican meeting in 1973.
Just like Hanson, much of this debate - even among people who should know better - has been devoid of definitions and historical context
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"Trieste Goes To Australia": un viaggio letterario di Gianfranco Cresciani
Tra il 1954 e il 1961 circa 20.000 triestini scelsero l’Australia come nuova casa. Nel libro "Trieste Goes To Australia", lo storico Gianfranco Cresciani ripercorre, attraverso oltre 70 interviste e n...
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New blog post by Barry York amigrationhn.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/24/b...
Book Review: Lawrence Dimech, Sunshine and Shade: The Story of a Lifetime
Reviewed by Barry York There is a rich tradition of migrant autobiography in Australia, but few lives have been as closely intertwined with the development of a community as that of Lawrence Dimech…
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New open access article on a very controversial novel www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revisiting Helen Demidenko’s The Hand That Signed the Paper: Perpetrator Justifications and Family Memory
This article revisits the cultural storm created by the 1994 publication of Helen Demidenko’s novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Purporting to be quasi-autobiographical, written by a young memb...
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Listen to Nikos Papastergiadis @alecadell.bsky.social Andrew Jakubowicz and Helen Vatsikopoulos www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Can Art, artists and activists save Australia’s famous multicultural experiment? - ABC listen
The fabric of multicultural Australia is under a kind of pressure it hasn't faced in a long time. Can it be renewed? And what role do artists, activists, and migrants have to shape what comes next? Th...
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Opening Australia’s multilingual archive – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Multilingualism pervades Australia, and not just amongst different migrant groups. Yet languages have been marginal to the study of Australian history. As a historian of Indonesia, I have needed Bahas...
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I uploaded this old chapter that I co-authored with @drjpersian.bsky.social to academia dot edu and ResearchGate "European and Australian Fascisms: The Case of Ferenc Molnar and National Socialism in Cold War Australia" www.academia.edu/168897370/Eu... www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Really pleased to share my review for @austbookreview.bsky.social of "Migration and Modernism: Émigré artists in postwar Australia", on now at the National Gallery of Australia until 7 March 2027! 👇🏼 #ArtSky 🖼️ #Canberra #Australia
‘Migration and Modernism: Émigré artists in postwar Australia - The search for a medium of communication’ by Alex Burchmore
The movement of people and ideas across national borders and cultural boundaries is central to the story of modernism. Survey shows of Australian a...
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🚨Reminder: CfA🚨 📝 There is still time to submit an abstract for 'The Law and Politics of Migration in Australia' Conference organised by some of our members. 🗓️ Due 19 June 📍 Monash University Law Chambers | 3-4 December 2026 🔗 For full details and to submit: tinyurl.com/lawpolmigrat...
Call for Abstracts: The Law and Politics of Migration in Australia
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New book: Sinophone Australia edited by Craig A. Smith with contributions from @sophieloywilson.bsky.social, Ely Finch, Michael Williams, Mei-fen Kuo, Austin Tseng, Chao Guo & Josh Stenberg sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...
Sinophone Australia
Sinophone Australia opens a new window onto Australian history by foregrounding Chinese-language sources as a lens through which to reinterpret the nation’s past. Understanding Australian history thro...
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Quarterly Newsletter June 2026 This is the AMHN newsletter. Should you wish to share migration history events, resources and publications please send details with the subject title ‘Newsletter’ to …
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New article by Tianna Killoran www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘By Means of Unanimous Action’: Japanese Community Resistance to White Australia
In Australia-Japan histories, Japanese migrants in Australia have often been treated as distinct from the political and diplomatic relationship between these two nations. As Horikawa acutely identi...
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