Greek Australians Write Back! Voices of Change - School of English Conferences

Greek-Australians Write Back!Voices of Change November 6, 2026 Department of English Literature and Culture | School of English, AUTh You are warmly invited to the International Symposium "Greek-Australians Write Back!: Voices of Change" organised by the Department of English Literature and Culture of the School of English.Echoing the influential postcolonial formulation of The Empire Writes Back,

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The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust

This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia.

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Practically White: Syrian/Lebanese and Australia's Immigration Restriction Act

Although little attention is paid to Syrian/Lebanese in studies of the Immigration Restriction Act, its passing in 1901 was a seminal moment in the history of their migration to Australia. The most...

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Australia's migration economics | That's Business with Alan Kohler

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Practically White: Syrian/Lebanese and Australia's Immigration Restriction Act

Although little attention is paid to Syrian/Lebanese in studies of the Immigration Restriction Act, its passing in 1901 was a seminal moment in the history of their migration to Australia. The most...

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The Role of Itinerancy in Australian History: Rethinking the Settler Narrative

This article introduces ‘mobile settler colonialism’ to challenge historiographical frameworks that equate colonial progress with settlement and permanence. Examining itinerant workers in colonial ...

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Love across racial boundaries: the true history behind Netflix’s My Brilliant Career

Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.

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We put 165 years of migration data into four charts. Here's what we learned

The story of Australia is a story of migration, and the country's immigration system is once more at the centre of heated political debate.

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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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Multilingual Narratives and Cultural Diversity in the Phryne Fisher Series and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Representing 1920s Melbourne’s Chinese and Jewish Communities

Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling Phryne Fisher historical crime novels (1989–2022) and their acclaimed ABC television adaptation, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), draw on historical researc...

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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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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 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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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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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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‘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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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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In conversation with voices from a sleeping archive

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Reclaiming Danila Vassilieff—Hybrid Objects in the Artistic Production of an Australian Cossack

Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Jayne Persian ARC Discovery Project

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