Effie Karageorgos
@eleaud.bsky.social
Trauma, gender, violence and protest. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. 2023 @statelibrarynsw Fellow. Deputy Convenor @FuturesMadness. Editor, Health & History. She/her.
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
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) 🇵🇸👏🏼
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
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. 😬
Lake Macquarie (NSW) this morning!
June 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Lake Macquarie (NSW) this morning!
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
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 👏🏼
Apologies, here is the information about the opening. It will be preceded by a 10am seminar by Professor Andrew May from the University of Melbourne entitled 'Sun-kissed in the solarium: skin cancer and the cultural determinants of health' (DM for Zoom details).
June 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apologies, here is the information about the opening. It will be preceded by a 10am seminar by Professor Andrew May from the University of Melbourne entitled 'Sun-kissed in the solarium: skin cancer and the cultural determinants of health' (DM for Zoom details).
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
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.
The black swans are back on Lake Macquarie! A picture from my walk this morning.
June 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The black swans are back on Lake Macquarie! A picture from my walk this morning.
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
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. 👏🏼👏🏼
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
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?
Flying over Sydney this morning:
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Flying over Sydney this morning:
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
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.
My copies of our book finally arrived! Thanks again to all the amazing authors whose work has made this book so insightful and thoughtful.
May 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My copies of our book finally arrived! Thanks again to all the amazing authors whose work has made this book so insightful and thoughtful.
Not a bad view on a walk before a frantically busy day.
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Not a bad view on a walk before a frantically busy day.
The University of Newcastle Callaghan campus is so pretty, even on rainy days.
May 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The University of Newcastle Callaghan campus is so pretty, even on rainy days.
On this momentous day I’d like to remind everyone of this iconic photo from the 2019 election - when Abbott lost Waringah to Zali Steggall. I wonder if we’ll see a similar result in Dickson today? Happy voting everyone! (Sorry I don’t know who took this!)
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
On this momentous day I’d like to remind everyone of this iconic photo from the 2019 election - when Abbott lost Waringah to Zali Steggall. I wonder if we’ll see a similar result in Dickson today? Happy voting everyone! (Sorry I don’t know who took this!)
…and a little later on.
March 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
…and a little later on.
My view from dinner last night (it was my birthday!)
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My view from dinner last night (it was my birthday!)
Out on 28 March! There are chapters about communities, Indigenous people, veterans and PTSD, depathologisation of trans health and much more. We are having a little online launch on the evening of 31 March so if you’re interested please DM me for details.
February 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Out on 28 March! There are chapters about communities, Indigenous people, veterans and PTSD, depathologisation of trans health and much more. We are having a little online launch on the evening of 31 March so if you’re interested please DM me for details.
Proofs for the book I have co-edited with Natalie Ann Hendry, 'Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives' are here! It will be published on 28 March by Palgrave. link.springer.com/book/9783031...
February 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Proofs for the book I have co-edited with Natalie Ann Hendry, 'Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives' are here! It will be published on 28 March by Palgrave. link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Doctor Kerry Georges is back for another semester of ranting to approx 700 amazing UON students about one of her favourite subjects, Australian history. 😂
January 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Doctor Kerry Georges is back for another semester of ranting to approx 700 amazing UON students about one of her favourite subjects, Australian history. 😂
Vale Simon Townsend. Here he is in Sydney leaving court after he was finally granted conscientious objector status in 1968 after his refusal to fight in Vietnam, after being conscripted in 1965, many court visits and two stints in prison (source: Herald Weekly Times). 1/4
January 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Vale Simon Townsend. Here he is in Sydney leaving court after he was finally granted conscientious objector status in 1968 after his refusal to fight in Vietnam, after being conscripted in 1965, many court visits and two stints in prison (source: Herald Weekly Times). 1/4
An intensely unhappy dog.
January 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
An intensely unhappy dog.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson knew that “Beatle-style hair” was just a gateway trend to more rebellious coiffures.
(SMH, 23 August 1967)
(SMH, 23 August 1967)
January 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson knew that “Beatle-style hair” was just a gateway trend to more rebellious coiffures.
(SMH, 23 August 1967)
(SMH, 23 August 1967)