Congratulations to the John Barrett Prize winners - catch up on this award-winning scholarship here! Open winners: Emily Yu Zong & Daisy Bisenieks explore how Australian dark humour uses parody, absurdity and laughter to respond to the eco-social phenomenon of invasive species. tinyurl.com/mc4bwyn

*CFP deadline extended* Abstracts for InASA's 2027 conference "The Cringing Continent" now due 14 September....

International Australian Studies Association@intlausstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*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...

And HDR travel bursaries also available!! More detail here: inasa.org/blog/travel-...

Travel Bursaries for InASA’s 2027 Conference

The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide Ahead of InaASA’s upcoming conference on Kaurna Country, we invite postgraduate student…

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International Australian Studies Association@intlausstudies.bsky.social · last mo.

*CFP deadline extended* Abstracts for InASA's 2027 conference "The Cringing Continent" now due 14 September....

When I'm not doing Eurovision...

Journal of Australian Studies@jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · last mo.

More from 50.3: When did the word “wog” crystallise into the recognisable slur it became? @drjessc.bsky.social shows how the word's meaning in postwar Australia was directly influenced by the experiences of WWII Australian soldiers on the Middle Eastern Front. #OzStudies tinyurl.com/muhra4ke

Next in 50.3: How do historical crime fiction and television shape our understanding of Australia’s migrant past? This article explores multilingualism, memory and cultural diversity in Kerry Greenwood’s #PhryneFisher novels and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. #OzStudies 🕵‍♀️ tinyurl.com/3yxbm66r

🚨New issue of JAS out now🚨 50.3 features our cutest cover yet - Horrie the Wog Dog (actually a sad tale but let's not spoil the moment). We begin our 50.3 thread with the co-editors taking on AI. Stay tuned for your daily doses of 50.3! #OzStudies tinyurl.com/zsdjmzft

This is really important. Support the Jewish Council of Australia by signing the petition. The IHRA definition of anti-semintism is being “weaponised to go after Pro-Palestinian speech… and blind us to how antisemitism actually works.” #AusSky #AusPol

Don’t let Israel define antisemitism

Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]

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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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I've been trying to figure out what could be worse than Ice Ice Baby as the school's morning bell song and it turns out it's Eagle Rock.

We interrupt your (ir)regularly scheduled programming of JAS 50.2 notices to announce that the #CFP for @intlausstudies.bsky.social conference is out now! Join us at Flinders on 9-12 Feb 2027 to discuss "The Cringing Continent"! Abstracts due: 17 August 2026 For more details: tinyurl.com/4hnn6k8v

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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K/Gamilaroi scholar Bindi Bennett interrogates how AI generates troubling images of Indigenous Australians. What would ethical AI look like if it centred #Indigenous authority, relational accountability and self-determination in digital spaces? #OzStudies #AIethics tinyurl.com/y8kwhjas

This time with URL: tinyurl.com/j47ttbdn

“Does It Really Matter?” Foreskins and Circumcision in Australian Nudism

In reply to several letters from readers, the editor of Australian Sun & Health, a nudist magazine, asked, “Does it really matter?” This question arose regarding circumcision and the foreskin after...

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50.2 of JAS is out but the cover is too saucy for Bluesky. The cover image is taken from Max Dupain’s Cronulla nudes series. You can see it on our website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #OzPhotography #Dupain

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

blair@blairaf.com · 5mo ago

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

The World Cup is less than a month away, and it is worth revisiting Zoë Jay's recent article about liberal enjoyment and global mega events. It's #OpenAccess and has a great video abstract! ⤵️ buff.ly/izRmTCW

I would 100% go to dinner at Dr Space Junk's house.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dinner: blue cheese and Iced VoVo Tim Tams (separately)

A productive use of my caffeine-fuelled fever dream that is the Sunday of the #Eurovision grand final. Tldr: Bulgaria is a great win, Delta diplomacy was a thing, and the EBU have to actually take action theconversation.com/eurovision-2...

Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters

The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 was marked by great music, and by continuing controversy over Israel’s participation.

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Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

You lived it. You have the physical and emotional memories of what it took to create it, including and especially the sacrifices. You didn't just generate text. You, a person, thought and wrote. When someone steals your writing, they're claiming all of that for themselves.

I mean: Delta. Fourth. It was inevitable, and this is why we need to teach Classics.

New article in Review of International Studies ‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture. Zoë Jay #FanStudies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Using archaeology as just a word erases actual archaeologists, as if we don’t exist, ignoring the history and scholarship of the discipline. Space archaeology has been around for 25 years. We study the human adaptations, technologies and ideologies that interact with outer space. 🧪 🏺

At @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social today: #Eurovision ‘s world-leading production design has launched creative careers - but in what political context? blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Will Eurovision 2026 be overshadowed by politics?

Questions of ethics and politics are likely to weigh more heavily on the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest than technology, music and design.

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"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Look, we all know that this is something people do, but, Tony, my man, you saying this as an MP kinda has an air of campaigning by a state. You might want to hold back in this particular political climate and just leave at wishing Delta all the best. 🤦‍♀️ #Eurovision

Eurovoix@eurovoix.com · 5mo ago

🇦🇺 #Australia: Australian Government Partly Funding Delta’s Eurovision Performance eurovoix.com/2026/05/07/a...

This is great! Also, how to support an academic: - read their papers - cite their articles and books - tell your friends and students about their work - include their work in your reading lists and syllabi - ask your library to buy their books - tell them you liked their work or that it was helpful

Avonna Loves Genres@agkersh123.bsky.social · 5mo ago

At first glance, I read this as Emma Thompson being an oil painting of a unicorn and the human goodness of Paradise, but am I wrong, though?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 5mo ago

Emma Thompson, an oil painting of a unicorn, the human goodness of “Paradise,” and more culture favorites from senior editor Dan Zak: