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Tamson Pietsch

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History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney

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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Great cover!
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Really proud of the great work UTS Impact Studios does: recognised here with two awards for brilliant work on truth telling and the nexus between swimming and heat in Sydney’s west. @utsengage.bsky.social reshub.uts.edu.au/whats-on/new...
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Two Signal Awards for Impact Studios | RES Hub
Congratulations to Impact Studios, UTS’ in-house podcast studio, for winning two prestigious Signal Awards. In the Kids Single Episode category, the ‘Walk for Truth-Telling’ episode of Hey History! wa...
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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
History can tell us about the forces that structure our lives and the ways people have acted together to change them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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A Cultural History of Higher Learning
How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Being kicked out of the club for raising concerns around gambling lobbyists buying access to the club shows the influence vested interests have here in parliament and just how normalised this has become,” Pocock said. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Important research here from Joel Barnes tracing the origins of philanthropic wealth in Australia. How should institutions reckon with these legacies? theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
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The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
The legacy of the Dixson family reveals a complicated history of interconnected global capital and racialised exploitation.
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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Can schools bear the weight of a warming world? Student teacher Jaren reflects on the power of citizenship education to inspire student action against the climate crisis 🌎🌡️ @citizenshippgceioe.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe-student-...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey
This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...
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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“Universities and the Public Good”. That is the title of a conference on research, education and democracy since 1945 in Hanover this week. Most of the researchers here are historians, but the questions raised are highly relevant for us today. ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/universities...
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Universities and the Public Good
Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945 September 10 – 12, 2025 | Herrenhausen Palace Conference Center, Hanover, Germany Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation...
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Yes this is shocking.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Shocked to see this. An indictment on @mupublishing.bsky.social My father first published in Meanjin around 1950; I published there from 1983....
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📣Only two weeks left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
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Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Oooh this is so interesting. I’m becoming interested in soldier settlement schemes in Australia and relationship to land reservation and indig dispossession.
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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Sydneysiders, join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum for the 2025 Antony McNicoll Lecture delivered by Prof Lloyd Weekes (UNE) speaking on archaeological work in the UAE in 'Saruq al-Hadid: Cult, Craft, and Community in the Rub’ al-Khali'. 4 September, 5.30pm events.humanitix.com/2025-mcnicol...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
'Voice' is a wonderfully rich account of how Indigenous scholars and students fought to be heard at the University of Melbourne. Interesting for me to appear in the historical narrative, not always as I remember....
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 19/08/2025
Come and work with us! Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia? Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025 Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Universities such as mine are making poor decisions, and we’re not allowed to know why
UTS has announced a “pause” on enrolments in 100 courses. Vacating these critically important areas diminishes not only the brand of UTS but the state it was designed to benefit.
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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So very excited about the next History Now panel - a collaboration with the Wood Memorial lecture by the Discipline of History at @sydney.edu.au Thanks @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Tickets are selling fast
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
@historymatterssyd.bsky.social and I are delighted to see the UNSETTLING PORTRAITS podcast get Highly Commended in these Digital History Awards! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h... (link to the podcast in this linked page)
our judges' comments were: A bold and intellectually rich contribution to historical storytelling, this series tackles the inherent challenge of discussing visual sources in an audio format with ingenuity and sensitivity, vividly evoking colonial portraits for listeners without relying on visuals. By combining expert narration with scholarly and Indigenous voices, the series decodes artworks that span continents and centuries, situating Australian examples within the global processes of empire and colonialism.

The series exemplifies original, decolonising historical work, challenging Eurocentric readings and expanding historical consciousness through cross-cultural and transnational perspectives. Particularly striking are the discussions with Indigenous scholars, which reframe the meaning and significance of colonial images and, importantly, ask what use such images are in the present day. The series’ analytical depth, emotional resonance, and imaginative use of sound make it a standout example of how non-print media can powerfully reframe public understanding of the past.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 09/08/2025
The government is under mounting pressure to dump a Morrison-era policy that has drastically cut university funding, saddled many students with debts they will never be able to repay and driven many more away from higher education altogether. satpa.pe/MA6GXR1
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Why Labor is stalling on real universities funding reform
The education minister has deferred action to abolish the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme, which has helped to hollow out tertiary funding and saddled students with lifelong debts.
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#skycats “cuddles”
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
#marchforhumanity sydney
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Winner of the New York festivals gold medal! Well done hey history! Australia’s first history podcast for the classroom www.heyhistory.net
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
insidestory.org.au/how-to-disap... this is a great article. Let me point out that major major structural reform has happened in our school system before. In the second part of the 19thC all Australian states abolished all state aid to private schools. #histed
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How to disappear a problem • Dean Ashenden
The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The decline of academic history in Australia: an interesting & important article in SMH by @nickbryantoz.bsky.social Much more to be said, but a good start. Includes @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @michellearrow.bsky.social Anna Clark et al #history @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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History’s booming in podcasts – but many of its academics are out of a job
We live in momentous times. History podcasts and books are more popular than ever. So why is academic history in crisis?
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring - The Bloomingtonian
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are ...
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Has to be triangles. #fairybread
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New episodes now out of this brilliant new and deliciously serious podcast on Australian writing - these eps on First Nations writing and how it transforming everything podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A few months ago I wrote a piece about the remarkable new history of the University of Melbourne's entanglement with Indigenous Australia and what it means for how we think about universities and what they do. It's open access at History Australia: #skyhistorians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New university history, institutional reckoning and the materiality of ideas
Published in History Australia (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2025)
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Packed house at the launch of Fully Lit - our new podcast with the Sydney Review of Books on Australian Writing. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I just voted in Australis federal election at the local public school and bought my “democracy sausage” sold by the parents and friends association. Yay for compulsory voting. Yay for these quotidian rituals of democratic life.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Next Wednesday - online roundtable on Cultures of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry ... register here www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-u... ... including @capandgown.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and others (inc me)
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History of Universities Seminar – HistGeogUni
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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Join us on 7th May 11am BST for an online roundtable to celebrate the launch of our new edited volume: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry! #histgeoguni #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social
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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hello Australian govt instead of destroying our universities maybe see them as valuable actors in a geopolitical realignment www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Attention Australian Universities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf... @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/04/2025
In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
Image of the podcast for BBC History extra, special issue on Funding cuts and culture wars.
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Very excited Rahul Rao’s book has arrived in my mailbox today on the politics of memorialisation and empire past and present. #skyhistorians
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is SUCH a good series from @kfullagar.bsky.social and Michael McDonnell. It’s a model for the kinds of conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people we might have in the wake of empire: honest, open, full of humour. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
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Introducing: Unsettling Portraits
Podcast Episode · History Lab · S6 Trailer · 2m
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Can’t wait to listen to this! #skystorians 🗃️
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Super pleased to see our podcast finally released, with Gordon Henry, Jo Rey, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Daniel Browning, Michel Tuffery, Daniel Boyd, and Joseph Pierce - amazing guests sharing their insights and lives omny.fm/shows/histor... 🙏 @capandgown.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social
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Introducing: Unsettling Portraits - History Lab
Can colonial depictions of Indigenous people tell us anything useful about the past?    How do Indigenous people today feel about these enduring images?     Unsettling Portraits is a three-part seri...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Shouting it out for those at the back International students not to blame for rising rents, Australian study finds www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I know it’s a drop in the ocean in the current HE crisis, but we are funding 27 great projects to develop new skills and methods to underpin humanities and social sciences research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/funding...
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Funding announced for the British Academy Talent Development Awards 2024-2025
Worth up to £10,000, the awards are provided to promote the building of skills and capacities for current and future generations in areas such as quantitative skills, interdisciplinarity, data science...
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Sylvie Lomer @selomer42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Academics travelling to the US need to be aware of this - if hotel costs count as illegal work, any paid for speaking invitations could put us at risk.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/03/2025
Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇
Graphic of the word 'History' composed of people with the additional text: Applications invited for RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closes 23 May'.
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