Media

The Centre for 21^st Century Humanities brings together research groups and individual researchers at the University of Newcastle with the aim of promoting imaginati`ve, inventive and rigorous work in the humanities. We focus especially on research that crosses disciplines, engages with the community and with industry, and uses digital tools and resources.

We aim to harness the traditional strengths of the humanities in understanding and preserving culture, along with the humanities’ potential for discovery and innovation, to contribute to Australian national life and to positive world futures.

• Newcastle Herald Opinion: Will a robot become our next great writer?

Creative Ageing

• Newcastle Herald: Hunter researchers are looking at whether arts activities like music and dance can help keep the brain healthy to delay or prevent onset of dementia

Massacres Map

• The Guardian: The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
• ABC: New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
• SBS: New map starts to reveal true extent of massacres of Indigenous Australians by Europeans
• The Herald: Mapping Aboriginal massacres makes it time to recognise the colonial wars, say leading historians
• Smithsonian: map charts massacres of Indigneous Australians
• The New Yorker: The mapping of massacres
• Shepparton News: Aboriginal massacres sites extend further across Australia

Theatre and performance

• Triple threats and other clever children who took to the stage
• Entertaining Australians - the history of live performance
• Virtual reality project bringing lost theatres back to life
• ABC Overnights: Entertaining Australians: the history of live performance

Anthropology and displacement of communities

• Newcastle Herald: Opinion - Place matters: Rocky Hill and social impact
• Newcastle Herald: Opinion - Wollar residents 'invisibily displaced'
• Newcastle Herald: Opinion - Communities lost in mining's shadow
• Newcastle Herald: What price can be placed on Wollar's future
• The Conversation: Protestors fight 'invisible displacment' by mine
• Singleton Argus: Singletons villages bear the brunt of Hunter mining expansions
• Singleton Argus: Bulga paying a high price for prosperity

Indigenous Languages

• BBC: Australian Indigenous languages have one source, study says
• ABC: Indigenous languages come from just one common ancestor
• SBS: Study claims all Indigenous languages came from one ancestor
• Australian Geographic: Australian Indigenous languages descended from one common ancestor
• Japan Times: Australian Indigenous languages have common source

Endangered Languages

• Times Higher Education: Interview with Assoc Prof Bill Palmer
• ABC: Languages at risk of extinction

History of Violence

• Newcastle Herald: World War II psychiatry examined in University of Newcastle study

Computational Stylistics

• Sydney Morning Herald: Australian data sleuths link Shakespeare to anonymous 16th Century play
• The Conversation: Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI

Contemporary Feminism

• International Business Times: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20th anniversary: How she kicked off kick-ass feminism
• The Atlantic: Buffy Summers: third-wave Feminist icon
• Spectator UK: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: a role model for the modern Feminist

Early Modern Women's Writing

• The Conversation: Mary, Queen of Scots was a poet - and you should know it

Classics

• ABC Radio National: God forbid - saints, souls and spooks
• ABC Radio: Getting someone to love you: the ancient history of erotic magic
• ABC Radio: It's a human story on God forbid - Podcast
• ABC Radio: Women and power - Podcast
• The Conversation: why grown-ups still need fairytales
• The Conversation: Mary Beard and the long tradition of women being told to shut up
• The Conversation: Guide to the classics: Sappho, a poet in fragments
• Newcastle Herald: What graves say about our attitude to death
• Newcastle Herald: Making traces of life

Vines, Wines and Identity Project

• Australian Financial Review: 'Hunter Wine: A History' chronicles rich story of Australia's oldest wine region
• Newcastle Herald: Breaking Bread: Julie McIntyre, wine historian and author
• The Star: Exhibition and book launch share history of six generations of wine producers in the Hunter

My Year As A Fairytale - Humanities Startup

• The Maitland Mercury: The Maitland woman spending a year as Marie Antoinette
• Newcastle Star: Fairytale comes to life

Blacksmiths Repair Day - Humanities Startup

• Newcastle Herald: Ancient art with a modern purpose
• Singleton Argus: Blacksmith Day to foster a culture of reuse