@nicmoore.bsky.social
Lit and cultural history stuff - Australian in particular. Plus book and print censorship. Teaching and research at UNSW Canberra, ex-Australian Studies Prof at UTokyo. https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/nicole-moore
I see this as a free speech issue - chuffed.org/project/1432...
Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians. Since October 7, in articles, on social media and at ...
chuffed.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I see this as a free speech issue - chuffed.org/project/1432...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics.
Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...
www.megaphone.org.au
July 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
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Journalist Simon Townsend, who sadly died two days ago, was an incredibly brave and tireless activist against the Vietnam War & conscription. I wrote a little about some of his amazing work here (more in my book about quiet protest in NSW out next year). Vale.
When Simon Townsend was a fledgling journalist in his early 20s, he fought fearlessly against the draft and was imprisoned twice for his pacifist beliefs.
Remembering Simon Townsend as a conscientious objector and fearless anti-Vietnam War activist
theconversation.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Journalist Simon Townsend, who sadly died two days ago, was an incredibly brave and tireless activist against the Vietnam War & conscription. I wrote a little about some of his amazing work here (more in my book about quiet protest in NSW out next year). Vale.
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Come to our Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archives conference in December . Registration is free - we are bringing hist of language and translation into conversation with hist of settler colonialism, historicism and nationalism
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/opening-th...
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/opening-th...
Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia Conference
A two-day conference to explore historical materials from national and international collections in languages other than English
www.eventbrite.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Come to our Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archives conference in December . Registration is free - we are bringing hist of language and translation into conversation with hist of settler colonialism, historicism and nationalism
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/opening-th...
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/opening-th...
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The Australian Historical Association is now on Bluesky! We'll be sharing information about the latest developments, news, and events relevant to the discipline of history in Australia -- give us a follow!
November 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
The Australian Historical Association is now on Bluesky! We'll be sharing information about the latest developments, news, and events relevant to the discipline of history in Australia -- give us a follow!
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This week for the Day of the #ImprisonedWriter, we’re featuring the five honorees of the #FreedomToWrite Award who remain in prison: Narges Mohammadi, Xu Zhiyong, Ilham Tohti, Vladyslav Yesypenko, and Pham Doan Trang.
November 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This week for the Day of the #ImprisonedWriter, we’re featuring the five honorees of the #FreedomToWrite Award who remain in prison: Narges Mohammadi, Xu Zhiyong, Ilham Tohti, Vladyslav Yesypenko, and Pham Doan Trang.
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Ah, magic! North Americans will be able to get this wonderful novella next year via @transitbooks.bsky.social: Antigone Kefala was a (deep breath) ethnically Greek Romanian cum Australian via refugee camps, writing in English, her 4th language. This book is, inevitably, out of print in Australia.
October 30, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Ah, magic! North Americans will be able to get this wonderful novella next year via @transitbooks.bsky.social: Antigone Kefala was a (deep breath) ethnically Greek Romanian cum Australian via refugee camps, writing in English, her 4th language. This book is, inevitably, out of print in Australia.
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Did you know AustLit maintains the BlackWords Calendar of Events? This freely available resource tracks significant events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history since the point of first contact through invasion, settlement, and colonisation.
www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordsca...
www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordsca...
November 12, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Did you know AustLit maintains the BlackWords Calendar of Events? This freely available resource tracks significant events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history since the point of first contact through invasion, settlement, and colonisation.
www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordsca...
www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordsca...