Centre for 21st Century Humanities Newsletter - March

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Welcome to our March newsletter

Welcome to the University of Newcastle's Centre for 21st Century Humanities monthly newsletter.

Our researchers extend best wishes to you, the Centre's community of interest, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The official University of Newcastle web page for the institution-wide response to coronavirus is https://www.newcastle.edu.au/covid-19.

Read on to learn about our research and activities.

Jesper Gulddal publishes The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

English literature researcher with the School of Humanities and Social Science and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Associate Professor Jesper Gulddal, has a new book out in April this year titled The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction.

The book draws on his current work which focuses on the most popular literary genre in the world today, crime fiction. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.

“Crime fiction today is the most global literary genre. It has reached almost every country and has huge readerships across the world. In many countries crime fiction is at the top of the list in terms of popularity,” Jesper said.

Massacre Map Presentations to Canberra Audiences

Professor Lyndall Ryan, the leader of the team behind the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map has recently delivered several presentations regarding the map in Canberra.

Lyndall recently delivered a presentation as part of the Vital Issues Seminars and Parliamentary Library Lectures. The Vital Issues Program is a series of seminars organised by the Parliamentary Library for the benefit of Senators and Members.

View a recording of the presentation.

Lyndall also delivered the Manning Clark House Lecture to an audience of 250 at the National Library of Australia. Following this, she gave a presentation to the Business and Economic History Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Listening across difference in feminist digital spaces

Is it possible to listen across difference in feminist digital spaces? That is the question being investigated by School of Humanities and Social Science researcher and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Julia Coffey.

She is a sociologist, specialising in research on topics of youth, gender, feminism and the body.

A recent research project conducted by Dr Coffey and Dr Akane Kanai, from Monash University, and funded by the Gender Education Association, aimed to investigate how feminists listen across difference in an attempt to understand each other and resolve conflict. The research involved two workshops held in Melbourne and Newcastle where feminists of all ages and backgrounds came together to talk about how they experienced conflict in online settings like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.