Australian Migration History Network tweets by @drjpersian
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AMHN is joining the general migration *ahem*
Thank you for joining us on our Twitter journey and we hope that we will see you wherever we resettle.
Currently: website, FB page & new LinkedIn group.
ALT Displaced Persons from Lithuania: Mrs Lydia Drescheris with her children and a friend Image Copyright Western Australian Museum
A note that our new LinkedIn group is "Australian Migration History Network", admin Jayne Persian.
AMHN is joining the general migration *ahem*
Thank you for joining us on our Twitter journey and we hope that we will see you wherever we resettle.
Currently: website, FB page & new LinkedIn group.
ALT Displaced Persons from Lithuania: Mrs Lydia Drescheris with her children and a friend Image Copyright Western Australian Museum
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
A collection of diaries and papers written by migrants to Australia have recently been added to Trove.
See what's new in Trove: brnw.ch/21wOsCA
ALT Trove branded graphic with a portrait of a couple on their wedding day and the text: new in Trove November 2024
Online zoom: Sheila Fitzpatrick on her new book, Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War
wilsoncenter.org/sites/defau…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
today we put out the final episode of ‘Being Stateless: An Oral History Podcast’, featuring a conversation between myself, @Niro_Kan & Hasib Hourani held at the launch event a few weeks ago.
You can listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0fk…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
It's nearly here! The launch of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre Dictionary of Biography, featuring over 1,000 entries for pre-1860 First Peoples, convicts, soldiers, settlers & migrants, is happening tomorrow at Queensland State Archives. @QSArchives @GU_SocialCultur
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
The AHA welcomes the Australian Government's proposed 20% cut to HECS-HELP student debts. But this modest cost-of-living relief cannot, on its own, make Higher Ed debts more equitable. 'Job-ready Graduates' must give way to a better, fairer fee system
theaha.org.au/aha-statement-…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Check out my recent lecture on Ikarian migration to South Australia 1900-1945, held as part of GOCSA's Odyssey Festival: youtu.be/laWYSu9kxMw?si=utY_…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Our final issue for 2024 is a themed issue, 'Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive', guest edited by @SophieLoyWilson & @AdrianVickers5
Congratulations & thank you to all involved. @OMAA2021 tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
This is tonight! 💫
Dr @jordana_s_ will be in conversation with Dr Yves Rees about her incredible book Cruel Care, 6pm at the @wheelercentre. Last minute tickets are available!
🔗Book: historycouncilvic.org.au/boo…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Very excited that our Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia special issue of Australian Historical Studies is just out! We will be launching it at our conference tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5… @OMAA2021
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Our final Book+Author event for 2024 is THIS Thursday, with the amazing @jordana_s_ in conversation with Dr Yves Rees about her book Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders. We can't wait for what will be a fascinating in-person discussion.
🔗Tix: tinyurl.com/5a3db2bx
Don't forget to book for our next Book+Author event on 31 Oct. In this intimate, in-person talk Dr Yves Rees will be in conversation with historian @jordana_s_ about her impressive & insightful work Cruel Care: A history of Children at our Borders. 🔗Book: tinyurl.com/mw7h47kj
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Still three days left to apply for the 2025 International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies in Berkeley (see rhs.hypotheses.org or CfP below)! Spread the word! @GHIWashington @ghiwest @PeterGatrell @AHAhistorians @SLachenicht @Delphine_Diaz @AtlanticExiles
📢New #CfP for #PhD and postdoc historians of refugees: "Historicizing the #Refugee Experience, 17th-21st Centuries: Fifth International Seminar in #Historical #RefugeeStudies" at @ghiwest in Berkeley
in July 2025 is out! Deadline: 31 Oct 2024. More info: rhs.hypotheses.org/
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Often overlooked in history, a new @WakefieldPress book edited by @FlindersHASS's Peter Monteath & Matt Fitzpatrick (@kilderbenhauser) has shed light on how SA's German settlers helped shape colonial relations with Indigenous Australians. Read more here 🔗 bit.ly/3BDWHdt
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🎉HOT OFF THE PRESS: We publish a new article
Tracy Ireland, Steve Brown, Kate Bagnall, Jane Lydon, Tim Sherratt & Sharon Veale (2024) Engaging the everyday: the concept and practice of ‘everyday heritage’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, doi.org/10.1080/13527258.202…
Australian Migration History Network retweeted
Published online ahead-of-print an article by Klaus Neumann & Savitri Taylor @SavitriTaylor 'Anxieties about a Porous Border: Australian Government Responses to Melanesian "Boat People"'.
It's also Open Access. #OzHist #refugees
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
