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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I started exploring the SLNSW protest archive I wanted to write a guidebook for activists, but - unsurprisingly ‘Quiet Protest’ ended up much more historical. Thanks to Hannah Viney for seeing my attempts to show how similar our struggles now are to those in the past. aph.org.au/2026/09/book...

This is not simply a history book but an eloquent and hopeful ode to modern human rights campaigns. For anyone involved in protest in 2026, this book provides both examples and inspiration for rethinking how to build a thriving activist community. Karageorgos draws links between the methods used in the 1960s with modern protest, demonstrating to readers how the efforts of activists 60 years ago can inform current campaigns. In 1966, 58 writers issued a collective statement condemning conscription; in 2023, over 30 independent presses, poets, writers and translators hosted a Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon with readings and performances livestreamed for 24 hours on YouTube. The tactics and the supporters are the same, it is only the technology and platform that has been updated.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s Week 1 of semester and the first day of teaching in my new long-awaited (at least by me) course HIST2253: Bodies and Brains: Histories of Illness, Disability and Disease. Today I’ll talk to the students a bit about pain, death, disability histories/activism and social control. I’m so excited 🎉.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on holidays in Greece after a very busy first half of the year. Back to work, teaching my new University of Newcastle course HIST2253: Bodies and Brains: Histories of Illness, Disability and Disease, in just under two weeks. Here is a video of the sea closest to our family village.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Watching the World Cup on SBS reminds me of how much SBS has been a staple for Greek-Australian (& other) communities. I remember visiting family friends with my parents as a kid where SBS was on in the background all day, in case a Greek show came on. An absolute institution for so many Australians

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Invitations to our Finding Home: Life Outside Institutions exhibition have arrived! This exhibition is one of the outcomes of our (@cathycoleborne.bsky.social and I) ARC DP about mental health aftercare in Aust 1900-1960, held at Watt Space Gallery, curated by Gillean Shaw. It opens on 8 July 6pm.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our University of Newcastle Centre for Society, Health and Care Research is holding an online winter webinar tomorrow featuring the medical anthropologist Professor Kate Senior speaking on the ‘Living the Social Determinants of Health’. All welcome. www.newcastle.edu.au/events/colle...

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Winter Webinar - Living the Social Determinants of Health

Join this Winter Webinar with featured speaker for the Centre for Society, Health and Care Research Professor Kate Senior.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Another image of beautiful Lake Macquarie, taken this morning (the morning of the day I submit the final grades in my 650 student Uni of Newcastle Australian history course for 2026 🎉🎉

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is fantastic. I want to know more about the actors’ actual lives though - who are they? Were they existing activists? 👏🏼👏🏼

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Here is a calming video from my morning walk/run (of a pelican slowly moving over a grey lake under a grey sky) to help us all deal with the fact that it’s Monday morning again.

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gregtross.bsky.social @gregtross.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Episode #215 Delving deep into the archives of Australian history, we speak with historian Effie Karageorges about her new book, Quiet Protest. The Vietnam War sparked the largest demonstrations Australia had ever seen. player.captivate.fm/episode/822c...

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Quiet Protest...a chat with Effie Karageorges

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I had a great chat with Greg T Ross on his The Last Post podcast about my @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social book ‘Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War’, democracy, conscription, anti-war veterans, Simon Townsend and art (among other things) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Quiet Protest...a chat with Effie Karageorgos

Podcast Episode · The Last Post Radio Show · 17 May · 44min

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Another Monday of an incredibly full week, made somehow more bearable by this view of a heron, lake and cloudy blue sky first thing in the morning.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A reminder that this author talk is tomorrow at the State Library of NSW: myself in conversation with Ann Curthoys, Rowan Cahill & Lee Rhiannon - & my new book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social). www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/quiet...

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Quiet protest from the anti-Vietnam War movement to today

Vietnam era activists Rowan Cahill, Ann Curthoys and Lee Rhiannon discuss their experiences of quiet protest in the 1960s and 1970s with Effie Karageorgos.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Exciting post received yesterday, looking forward to digging in. @eleaud.bsky.social

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I had a great half hour chat with Trevor Chappell and some really incredible callers on ABC Overnights this morning about my new @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (go to 2:24:00 or so).

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Overnights - ABC listen

On Overnights, there's great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe.

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Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#histbookchat excellent book. It is really enlightening about the quieter Vietnam protest movement. Published by New South so readily available in Australia.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social) is out tomorrow (but I have seen photo evidence that it's already out on display in an array of bookstores if you want to get in early). (1/3) unsw.press/books/quiet-...

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Quiet Protest: A new history of activism during the Vietnam War

A new history of protest told through the quiet activism of everyday Australians.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My first copy of Quiet Protest just arrived! It will be out on 1 April, published by @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social (although there will be early copies for sale at the Newcastle Writers Festival from 27-29 March) and launches and author talks to follow.

It’s a picture of me with my new book Quiet protest a new history of activism during the Vietnam war

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I was up early this morning to speak to Trevor Chappell on ABC Overnights about Australian participation in the South African (Boer) War. It was fun to go back and talk about my older research! It’s here if you want to listen (It starts at about 2:24:00). www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Overnights - ABC listen

On Overnights, there's great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’m so looking forward to this history walk with a group of my friends and colleagues from the University of Newcastle, part of the Newcastle Writers Festival & only a few days before my book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism in the Vietnam War is published (there will be early copies there!)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The self-removal of artist-activist bodies from the AWW has created some of the most impactful quiet(er) protest seen in this country in recent years, and shows us the extent to which we believe that freedom of speech is a core democratic right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This list of esteemed authors who have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers Festival emphasizes how such responses can, in fact, strengthen social movements, illustrated by these words by musician Marian Henderson before Arts Vietnam Week of October 1968: 'It mightn’t have much effect on… (1/2)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A very Australian beach scene, a photo of Newcastle Beach taken yesterday, my last day of a 3 week work-free summer holiday. I post this to mark an excellent, restful break with wonderful friends & family (and sadness that I am currently sitting in front of my computer again). Happy new year all!

Sand on the right and a curved beach with tents and people dotted here and there. The water is very clear and cliffs are at the back of the image. There are no clouds in the sky.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The figurative gods are looking out for me. I am writing a book review that I thought needed to be 800 words, but I have written 1010 (and will be difficult to reduce). I just checked the original request and, lo and behold, they've actually asked for 1000 words. Me right now:

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a woman in a sweater says phew thats such a relief

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

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A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Nanas joined a packed public gallery today at NSW Parliament House as Kobi Shetty gave a powerful second reading to repeal NSw protest laws. NSW stands condemned by the UN, human rights lawyers and organisations for its anti-protest laws. The worst in Australia.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Just spent the first bit of my last day of work before a couple of weeks of annual leave (to visit Greece before going to the EAHMH conference in Berlin) setting the automatic reply on my work email.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Josh Lees this morning on Channel 9’s the Today show speaking about the March for Humanity on the Sydney Harbour Bridge today for Palestine and Palestinians. (Apologies for the blurry photo, I was on a treadmill when I took it) 🇵🇸👏🏼

Josh Lees is speaking with a kuffiyeh around his neck. Behind him a person is holding up a poster that says ‘Stop the genocide, statehood for Palestine now’ with an image of watermelon on it.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The attempts by the NSW ALP government to block the pro-Palestine protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge this weekend has so many parallels with the second Vietnam Moratorium rally of 30 September 1970, when activists attempted many times to work with police so they could show...(1/2)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Please sign this open letter urging the Federal Government to remove unrealistic assumptions about ‘job-ready’ graduates from the future vision of Australia, as well as onerous fees on students who want to study all-important Arts degrees. 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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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃

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Bibliothèque · Foucault fiches de lecture

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

MEDIA RELEASE: A National Crisis in HASS The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has issued a public call for urgent action in response to widespread cuts to staff, programs and entire disciplines across Australian universities. chass.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The first hors d’oeuvre I was offered at the Australia and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine conference dinner tonight was…Beef Wellington. 😬

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If Napoleon Bonaparte was still around, he would be absolutely loving this.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

See, what I’m mainly interested in is how the Erin Patterson case is going to influence the popularity of Beef Wellington as a dinner option. I know that if I was having a dinner party this week, I’d be tempted to make it for a laugh (although I don’t expect my guests would enjoy the joke).

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Knitting Nannas at last nights Sydney premiere of @risingtideaus.bsky.social new film “Turning the Tide”. 100’s showed up adding to the “swell” of us wanting more #ClimateAction from NSW government that must include a stop to more gas and coal mine extensions and approvals. 🌡️🔥🌊 🥵

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lake Macquarie (NSW) this morning!

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A fun lunch today w some of the brilliant historians who taught into the UofNewcastle 700+ student topic HIST1051: The Australian Experience that I convene. Pictured: Pearl Nunn, Rob Wyse, Srishti Guha & Laura Ticehurst (only half of the full team)! I’m very lucky to work with these amazing people 👏🏼

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Over the past year, Cathy Coleborne, Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Ann Hardy, Robyn Dunlop & I have been examinin the health-related archives of Merv & Janet Copley, Newcastle unionists and CPA members, & here is one of the outcomes! The image is from a UON health services poster from the 90s.

It's a poster that says 'Say Aahhh...' with an image of a person sticking out their tongue, and it says 'health,medicine and everyday care in newcastle from 1945 to 2000: this exhibition shows how everyday life interacted with public health provision in Newcastle from the post-war period until the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The black swans are back on Lake Macquarie! A picture from my walk this morning.

Two black swans swimming on a beautiful serene lake with shrubbery on either side and hills on the opposite side

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Last night we were treated to a screening of Mary Zournazi’s fabulous documentary Dogs of Democracy at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, plus a Q&A afterwards hosted by our wonderful University of Newcastle HCISS Head of School Kate Nash. 👏🏼👏🏼

It’s Mary Zournazi standing on a stage with a screen behind her which says Dogs of Democracy: a documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them by Mary Zournazi.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Obsessed with this hilariously mundane letter to the editor of the Argus (dated 28 March 1944) that I found while looking for something else. Is this the equivalent of posting on Twitter/IG/Facebook when a company disappoints you?

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Flying over Sydney this morning:

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Friends, if you are free on Friday morning I will be speaking at Flinders University and online about war trauma and the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (in the same room I first presented as an Honours and PhD student some years ago). Here is the flyer - DM me for more details.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ep of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo playing at the gym showed a crowd throwing confetti on a bride & groom, interspersed w shots of Skippy having confetti thrown on him (imagine being the person having to confetti Skippy?) then wiping off the confetti using a tiny fake paw. I laughed out loud #poorskippy

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