Centre for 21st Century Humanities No Images? Click here Massacre map partners with The Guardian Professor Lyndall Ryan of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities and Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle is partnering with The Guardian to further expand the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map. An update to the map in 2018 added 250 more massacres and this year The Guardian has further expanded on Professor Ryan’s research, adding massacres from Western Australia to their own interactive version of the map. Professor Ryan said her team of researchers and The Guardian “both have the same aim – to generate discussion about Australia’s past and to make the past visible.” Read more. Centre projects focus on creating new knowledge in the 21st CenturyThe Centre for 21st Century Humanities is hosting eleven new projects this year that connect with the theme ‘Knowledge Creation in the 21st Century’. Researchers are delving into projects that align with the Centre’s ongoing commitment to e-research, industry engagement and crossing disciplines. The projects include: - Dr Julie McIntyre’s development of a digital Dictionary of Newcastle. - Dr Gillian Arrighi’s plan to create a digital map to visualise international touring undertaken by Australian child actors during the period 1981 to 1914. - Associate Professor Bill Palmer’s project that will create digital humanities tools to facilitate knowledge creation in Indigenous Australian languages. Read more. Upcoming SeminarsThe Centre for 21st Century Humanities hosts monthly seminars which are open to anyone. Please come along! April 10 - Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Kathleen McPhillips, Sacha Davis and Johanna Perheentupa on Children, Violence and the State: New Directions and Methods. 8 May – Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig talking on the topic of Shakespeare and Statistics. 5 June – Professor Lyndall Ryan on The Intimacy of Digital Mapping: The Frontier Massacres Mapping Project and the Connection to Regional Australia. The Centre's Space, Place and Mobilities group is also hosting the following seminars which you are welcome to join: 22 May - Associate Professor Jesper Gulddal on The Novel and the Passport Regime of the French Revolution: Space and Mobility in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister 19 June - Dr Hedda Askland on Digging the future: mining voids as potentiality, contest and destruction For more information please contact Dr Hedda Askland. Centre members present at Newcastle Writers FestivalProfessor Marguerite Johnson will be hosting a panel at the Newcastle Writers Festival called "Lives Erased" focused on LGBQTI conversion therapy. It's on April 6th at 11.30am. Historian Dr Julie McIntyre will be participating in three sessions on April 6th, firstly presenting on "Making the most of Newcastle's library archives" at 11.30am. She will also present on the topic of "A new taste of Hunter wine history" at 1.30pm and a session on "Reawakening the Past" at 4.30pm View the full festival program. Why do people commit acts of Violence? Centre member and and Centre for the History of Violence Director Professor Philip Dwyer was interviewed by ABC Radio in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks and discusses what drives this violence behaviour. Listen here. Mary, Queen of Scots is newly relevant in the age of #MeTooPacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar The thirty-third meeting of the PacRim Roman Literature Seminar will be held at The University of Newcastle from 10 - 12 July 2019 and is organised by Centre member Professor Marguerite Johnson. The theme for the 2019 conference is Roman Memory papers are now being called for. Read more. Antipodean AntiquitiesProfessor Marguerite Johnson has published an edited collection Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under. This volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Read more. Aboriginal History Archive Centre Director, Professor Victoria Haskins is working on the Aboriginal History Archive, an ARC funded project led by Professor Gary Foley, based at Victoria University. Professor Haskins along with her Purai co-Director Professor John Maynard (pictured) are chief investigators on the project which addresses the data gaps in Australia’s historical record. The new archive gives access to primary source material relating to Aboriginal political history collected and donated by individuals and community-controlled organisations around Australia. |