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News • 24 Jun 2019

Research as an Act of Betrayal

Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and The Centre For 21st Century Humanities will host a talk and masterclass by visiting international scholar Dr Devaleena Das from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

News • 04 Mar 2019

New historical book reveals the cultural influence of ‘houseboys’ in the Asia Pacific

A new book co-authored by Centre for 21st Century Humanities Director, Professor Victoria Haskins, examines the role of Asian and Indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-nineteenth century to the 1930s.

News • 14 Jan 2019

Solidarity and Subversion in Wartime South Africa

During the Second World War, more than six million servicemen and more than 300,000 civilians spent time in South Africa, a transport hub for Allied operations and a base for military training.

News • 31 May 2018

Reconciliation Week 2018 - Don't keep history a mystery!

By Professor Victoria Haskins, School of Humanities and Social Science (History).

News • 01 Apr 2018

Servants Past

Professor Haskins attended the 2018 European Social Science History Conference in Belfast being one of three panel members on a roundtable discussion centred on the idea of regulating domestic work in both historical/contemporary contexts, and colonial/non-colonial contexts.

News • 05 Mar 2018

Haskins Birkbeck fellowship spawns international collaborations

A visiting fellowship with the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities has prompted Professor Victoria Haskins to develop collaborative research initiatives between The University of Newcastle and Birkbeck University of London.

News • 11 Oct 2017

Law to revive and recognise Australian Indigenous languages

It was an emotional day for Dr Ray Kelly when the NSW government introduced the nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages.

News • 03 Oct 2017

The Political Influence of Garveyism on Aboriginal Australia

Professor Maynard’s talk examines the rise of this early Aboriginal political movement at this critical point in world history including the transoceanic political influence of Garveyism on its political directives.

News • 29 Aug 2017

Professor Haskins to take up Visiting Fellowship at Birkbeck

Professor Victoria Haskins will take up the fellowship at Birkbeck University of London in October

News • 26 Apr 2017

UON researcher to reflect on 1967 referendum

Professor John Maynard will sit on a panel at the National Museum of Australia, as part of the new exhibition ‘A Change is Gonna Come’, to reflect on the 1967 r

News • 06 Apr 2017

UON researcher presents at University of California

Professor Victoria Haskins recently presented recent research at the University of California.

News • 01 Nov 2016

Living with the Locals

Without the generosity of Australian Indigenous people, the chances of an early European surviving a shipwreck or a penal escape were slim in the nineteenth century.

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