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Amanda Harris

@amaharrisusyd.bsky.social
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Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great to have our article about culturally-specific sound archives and Pacific cultural heritage in the latest history Australia, with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell @paradisec.bsky.social
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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The criticism Marc Fennell always gets for Stuff the British Stole
Two years in the making, the Walkley Award-winning journalist is back with the third season of his globe-trotting historical mystery series. He's treating it like it's the last.
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our new special issue of www.musicandpractice.org is out - with two of my recent collaboratively authored articles: 1. Listening from/to the Antipodes: How Place and Time Inform Performance in Australia' 2. Casting our Nets: Singing a Fishing Song from the Past, in the Present, for the Future
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Music + Practice – Performance Studies | Artistic Research
Music + Practice is a peer-reviewed online journal with articles and presentations written by academics and practitioners.
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The AHA was delighted to see so many wonderful history projects receive funding in the latest round of ARC Discovery Grants, announced this week! Congratulations to all the successful applicants, especially the AHA members among them, and commiserations to those who weren't funded this time around.
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Julia Russoniello and I have a new article on Townsville festivals that looked to the Pacific in this new special issue
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Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History
A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...
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Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards. @anupress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today: with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @paradisec.bsky.social
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Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia
For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
50 Years today of an Independent Papua New Guinea! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Before PNG gained independence, it was a colony of Australia
On the foreshore of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Ela Beach is where locals come to exercise, mingle and unwind at the end of a long day. But it wasn't always this way.
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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"this is a moment that requires urgent action — to reverse the assault on the humanities and recognise that our history and cultural life are vital to Australia’s civic intelligence and national identity" insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...
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The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books
five books published by Cambridge University Press and Bloomsbury
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