Ana Stevenson
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
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Ana Stevenson
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
· Sep 28
I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Governments and universities alike have perfected the art of crying poor to conceal wealth
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The Pub at the End of the University
As universities implode, the world still needs us.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
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With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life.
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life.
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
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We’ve forgotten what universities are for
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
With New Zealand universities facing not only a funding crisis but a philosophical challenge to their role, the soul of tertiary education is at stake....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Remembering the day Gough Whitlam lost his job
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
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My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
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NEW at #VIDAblog!
Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).
Find out more here ⬇️
Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).
Find out more here ⬇️
Reflection: ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ Symposium | Australian Women's History Network
Eli Branagh and Tahlya Evans reflect on their experience hosting the ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ symposium.
www.auswhn.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NEW at #VIDAblog!
Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).
Find out more here ⬇️
Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).
Find out more here ⬇️
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Publishing next month!
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community.
Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social
Published by @uolpress.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community.
Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social
Published by @uolpress.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
uolpress.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Publishing next month!
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community.
Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social
Published by @uolpress.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community.
Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social
Published by @uolpress.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
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Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...
October 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...
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Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal
and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due
to the immune dysfunction caused ...
www.ajpmfocus.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
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My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....
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The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.
The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.
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We can’t prevent violence against women and children without tackling men’s heavy alcohol use.
Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this
theconversation.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We can’t prevent violence against women and children without tackling men’s heavy alcohol use.
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The Times Higher Education global universities rankings have again swept through the marketing departments of Australia's unis, putting a thin lacquer over an industry plagued by endemic wage theft and poor student satisfaction outcomes.
Australia's universities may win in global rankings, but they're failing teachers and students
www.crikey.com.au
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Times Higher Education global universities rankings have again swept through the marketing departments of Australia's unis, putting a thin lacquer over an industry plagued by endemic wage theft and poor student satisfaction outcomes.
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If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU
How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education
For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.
johnmenadue.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU
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Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.
‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution
theconversation.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.
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Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp
youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...
youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...
Maria von Trapp teaches Julie Andrews to Yodel
YouTube video by Rodgers & Hammerstein
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp
youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...
youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...
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#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession.
Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!
internt.slu.se/en/support-s...
#EnvHum #EnvHist
Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!
internt.slu.se/en/support-s...
#EnvHum #EnvHist
Meet the Grants Office: Marianne | Medarbetarwebben
Marianne Gillion joined the SLU Grants Office as a Research Coordinator in April 2024. She comes to us from the world of social sciences, humanities, and musicology!
internt.slu.se
November 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM
I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession.
Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!
internt.slu.se/en/support-s...
#EnvHum #EnvHist
Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!
internt.slu.se/en/support-s...
#EnvHum #EnvHist
I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
September 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...