Jayne Persian
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
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Intelligence in the Southern Hemisphere: Past and Present
Join us at Macquarie University for an intelligence studies workshop covering the broad theme of “Intelligence in the Southern Hemisphere: Past and Present.”
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The workshop takes place between August 13 & 14 at the MQ campus in Sydney and the program features papers from @petercgrace.bsky.social, @miahhe.bsky.social, @drjpersian.bsky.social and @nuriveronika.bsky.social, among many others:
Almost nothing in my source material can be considered "fact" lol. It's just shades of being wrong and context. If facts existed we wouldn't need historians.
Historians, relax. Your jobs just became "delightfully easy".
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
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The Image Maitland, Australia Has Turned into Heritage - National Boricua Human Rights Network
An exhibition in Australia revealed how racism can be transformed into commodity, nostalgia, and institutional power By Osvaldo Budet In February 2009, I visited Maitland for the first time, a regiona...
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I also propose that we close down pre-schools, as I have created a more efficient way to produce pictures made of macaroni and glitter.
Charlotte Weatherill@ckweatherill.bsky.social · last wk.The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Enoch Powell, thou shouldst be living at this hour. (No thou shouldstn't.)
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.Morning.
My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Does Pauline have a comment on this one? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Woman dies from head-on crash with man fleeing after stabbing partner
The woman was driving on a highway in northern Tasmania when she was involved in a head-on collision with a man from Western Australia, who police say had been driving erratically after stabbing his p...
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Academic organizations hadde bettir actuallye be brave and protecte each othir or else the last one ther will have no taske besydes turninge out the lightes and leavinge the key yn the envelope for big businesse.
Following up on this, it would appear that there are hallucinated references in at least three publications by Dr Hadas Zahavi, Founding Director of Columbia University Global Center for Peace - including an article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications published by Nature...
Kim A. Wagner@kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 4w agoInteresting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?
'So being a historian is about a deep understanding of what it means to be human, having empathy, seeing different perspectives, connecting with the past. In the digital present and AI future understanding what it means to be human, being a historian, is now more important than ever.' 6/
Yep. RIP Future Fellowships and Laureates. "You don't need salary; you can just apply for teaching relief within a project" say the admins who will then argue with you about why you can't take said teaching relief when you want to because there aren't enough staff left to cover your classes...
No, you're not missing anything. That is by design. They want universities to fund such mid-to-senior positions. Will universities do that? Not in this economy! And not with the current underfunding of universities by the Government. And not with other current Govt settings.
As someone raised in a fundy religion, I find this opening sentence ASTONISHINGLY NAIVE
Is this like stabbing dogs on ships to determine the time in London? 🤔
Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.
The unrelenting horror of this is too difficult to comprehend. Cannot but be in awe of Zoe, Amanda, Gisèle and all the others. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘The bed you thought was safe, isn’t safe’: how Zoe Watts survived drug-facilitated rape – and fought back
For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime
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