Amanda Harris
@amaharrisusyd.bsky.social
Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
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One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks
Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course
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Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History
A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks
Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
@anupress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
@anupress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@anupress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today:
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@paradisec.bsky.social
Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia
For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today:
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@paradisec.bsky.social
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@paradisec.bsky.social
50 Years today of an Independent Papua New Guinea!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Before PNG gained independence, it was a colony of Australia
On the foreshore of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Ela Beach is where locals come to exercise, mingle and unwind at the end of a long day. But it wasn't always this way.
www.abc.net.au
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
50 Years today of an Independent Papua New Guinea!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"this is a moment that requires urgent action — to reverse the assault on the humanities and recognise that our history and cultural life are vital to Australia’s civic intelligence and national identity" insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...
The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts
insidestory.org.au
July 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
"this is a moment that requires urgent action — to reverse the assault on the humanities and recognise that our history and cultural life are vital to Australia’s civic intelligence and national identity" insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...
Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books
February 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books