Effie Karageorgos
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Effie Karageorgos
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Trauma, gender, violence and protest. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. 2023 @statelibrarynsw Fellow. Deputy Convenor @FuturesMadness. Editor, Health & History. She/her.
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Nanas joined a packed public gallery today at NSW Parliament House as Kobi Shetty gave a powerful second reading to repeal NSw protest laws. NSW stands condemned by the UN, human rights lawyers and organisations for its anti-protest laws. The worst in Australia.
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Just spent the first bit of my last day of work before a couple of weeks of annual leave (to visit Greece before going to the EAHMH conference in Berlin) setting the automatic reply on my work email.
four men are jumping in the air with their arms in the air
ALT: four men are jumping in the air with their arms in the air
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August 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Josh Lees this morning on Channel 9’s the Today show speaking about the March for Humanity on the Sydney Harbour Bridge today for Palestine and Palestinians. (Apologies for the blurry photo, I was on a treadmill when I took it) 🇵🇸👏🏼
August 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The attempts by the NSW ALP government to block the pro-Palestine protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend has so many parallels with the second Vietnam Moratorium rally of 30 September 1970, when activists attempted many times to work with police so they could show...(1/2)
July 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Please sign this open letter urging the Federal Government to remove unrealistic assumptions about ‘job-ready’ graduates from the future vision of Australia, as well as onerous fees on students who want to study all-important Arts degrees. 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 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃
Bibliothèque · Foucault fiches de lecture
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July 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
MEDIA RELEASE: A National Crisis in HASS

The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has issued a public call for urgent action in response to widespread cuts to staff, programs and entire disciplines across Australian universities.
chass.org.au/docs.ashx?id...
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July 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The first hors d’oeuvre I was offered at the Australia and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine conference dinner tonight was…Beef Wellington. 😬
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If Napoleon Bonaparte was still around, he would be absolutely loving this.
#BREAKING 🚨 Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three relatives by feeding them a beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms in 2023

WATCH THE LATEST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJTD...
BREAKING: Erin Patterson GUILTY in mushroom murder trial
YouTube video by SIX News Australia
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July 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
See, what I’m mainly interested in is how the Erin Patterson case is going to influence the popularity of Beef Wellington as a dinner option. I know that if I was having a dinner party this week, I’d be tempted to make it for a laugh (although I don’t expect my guests would enjoy the joke).
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Knitting Nannas at last nights Sydney premiere of @risingtideaus.bsky.social new film “Turning the Tide”.

100’s showed up adding to the “swell” of us wanting more #ClimateAction from NSW government that must include a stop to more gas and coal mine extensions and approvals. 🌡️🔥🌊 🥵
July 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Lake Macquarie (NSW) this morning!
June 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A fun lunch today w some of the brilliant historians who taught into the UofNewcastle 700+ student topic HIST1051: The Australian Experience that I convene. Pictured: Pearl Nunn, Rob Wyse, Srishti Guha & Laura Ticehurst (only half of the full team)! I’m very lucky to work with these amazing people 👏🏼
June 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Over the past year, Cathy Coleborne, Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Ann Hardy, Robyn Dunlop & I have been examinin the health-related archives of Merv & Janet Copley, Newcastle unionists and CPA members, & here is one of the outcomes! The image is from a UON health services poster from the 90s.
June 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The black swans are back on Lake Macquarie! A picture from my walk this morning.
June 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Last night we were treated to a screening of Mary Zournazi’s fabulous documentary Dogs of Democracy at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, plus a Q&A afterwards hosted by our wonderful University of Newcastle HCISS Head of School Kate Nash. 👏🏼👏🏼
June 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Obsessed with this hilariously mundane letter to the editor of the Argus (dated 28 March 1944) that I found while looking for something else. Is this the equivalent of posting on Twitter/IG/Facebook when a company disappoints you?
June 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"once criticism of Israel is conflated with antisemitism … you’ve successfully manufactured the catalogue of silenced artists we have witnessed in recent years.” @louiseadler1.bsky.social #auspol
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Speaking out on Gaza: Australian creatives and arts organisations struggle to reconcile competing pressures
As cultural institutions respond to political statements on the war, many artists say they face a choice between career opportunities and standing up for their beliefs
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Flying over Sydney this morning:
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Friends, if you are free on Friday morning I will be speaking at Flinders University and online about war trauma and the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (in the same room I first presented as an Honours and PhD student some years ago). Here is the flyer - DM me for more details.
June 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Ep of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo playing at the gym showed a crowd throwing confetti on a bride & groom, interspersed w shots of Skippy having confetti thrown on him (imagine being the person having to confetti Skippy?) then wiping off the confetti using a tiny fake paw. I laughed out loud #poorskippy
May 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A call from Zora Simic, Jordy Silverstein and Ben Silverstein for historians to take up the cause for Palestine and oppose the genocide we are all seeing unfold in front of our eyes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Congratulations to AHA member Effie Karageorgos for the publication of her new collection "Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand", co-edited with Natalie Ann Hendry. Take a look by following the link! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
link.springer.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
High Art.
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM