Srishti Guha
@srishti-g.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture | digital archives, cartoons, photography | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
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Srishti Guha
@srishti-g.bsky.social
· Mar 8
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My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download!
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
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Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
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Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Research Assistant in Digital Humanities
Role type: Full Time; Fixed term until February 2027 Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Department: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: Level A - $87,226 - $118...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
A great example of innovative storytelling!
Review of our podcast Unsettling Portraits 😮 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/W4SCS...
Unsettling the colonial gaze, one portrait at a time
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A great example of innovative storytelling!
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Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...
Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research
Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.
theconversation.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...
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If any historians would like to review the following, please get in touch!
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast
August 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If any historians would like to review the following, please get in touch!
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast
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Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!
It baffles me that @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to hang this failed, unfair policy around its neck, when they could condemn it as a folly of the unpopular Morrison government and ditch it. Sign our petition to urge them to abolish it now!
www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...
www.openpetition.org
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!
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We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…
www.openpetition.org
August 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
July 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
I love my fabulous HIST1051 colleagues!
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 10:32 PM
I love my fabulous HIST1051 colleagues!
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Gaza is starving! Sanction Israel NOW
June 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Gaza is starving! Sanction Israel NOW
“This case affirms a powerful truth: that voices of descendants matter, that oral histories passed down through the generations of Black families carry weight and wisdom”
Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.
Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement
Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”
hyperallergic.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“This case affirms a powerful truth: that voices of descendants matter, that oral histories passed down through the generations of Black families carry weight and wisdom”
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Our co-edited book has been published in Palgrave's Politics of Mental Health and Illness series (edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen), w chapters on Māori mental health, depathologisation of trans health, community mental health, digitalisation of mental health & more /1 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
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Our co-edited book has been published in Palgrave's Politics of Mental Health and Illness series (edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen), w chapters on Māori mental health, depathologisation of trans health, community mental health, digitalisation of mental health & more /1 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
I made a colour-coded A-Z directory of every Pokémon and later, Digimon, I encountered, with details like their type, attacks, and evolved forms. 😎
Tell me an 'on brand' memory of your childhood.
(I named every fish in our 50 gallon tank after Mythological Greek gods).
(I named every fish in our 50 gallon tank after Mythological Greek gods).
March 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I made a colour-coded A-Z directory of every Pokémon and later, Digimon, I encountered, with details like their type, attacks, and evolved forms. 😎
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I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"
Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
![a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgpxmpiumlpxxclzsgar5lnq/bafkreic6uzw2erxbl6v67yece6647wgdmxvqjfglrs767cq7rghazbukxu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.
It really works.
It really works.
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How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
In one example, an AI image generator produced an image of what was meant to be an elderly First Nations man – in a traditional Papuan headdress.
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
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We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
24 Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is pleased to enhance its advocacy work this year. A short thread here on our terms, reach, submissions, statements, and tips for defending history: theaha.org.au/advocacy/
Advocacy - The Australian Historical Association
The Australian Historical Association advocates for the ability of historians to produce and publicise excellent and ethical historical research, with fair access to historical resources and communiti...
theaha.org.au
March 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is pleased to enhance its advocacy work this year. A short thread here on our terms, reach, submissions, statements, and tips for defending history: theaha.org.au/advocacy/
Presenting to the world, Princess Coco 👑✨️
March 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Presenting to the world, Princess Coco 👑✨️
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Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
March 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky
My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download!
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
hdl.handle.net
March 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download!
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...
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Trove API users beware! I had a meeting with the NLA on Friday about my cancelled API keys and was shocked by changes in their policy towards API use that could have a big impact of HASS research using #trove data. More details […]
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hcommons.social
March 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Trove API users beware! I had a meeting with the NLA on Friday about my cancelled API keys and was shocked by changes in their policy towards API use that could have a big impact of HASS research using #trove data. More details […]
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Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests the process of extracting, smelting, forging and shaping iron to may have developed independently in the Indian subcontinent.
Earliest iron use found in India? Tamil Nadu digs spark debate
Tamil Nadu’s iron artefacts may predate Turkey's Anatolia, reshaping early Iron Age history.
www.bbc.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests the process of extracting, smelting, forging and shaping iron to may have developed independently in the Indian subcontinent.