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Kate Stevens

@historykate.bsky.social
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Pacific legal/gender/smell/ocean historian @waikato Lindy & blues, artist/jewellery maker, mainly a lurker here. she/her, Pākehā, views my own

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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The strongest finding in my reanalysis is that social sciences and humanities are dramatically underweighted in NZ (humanities receives just one fifth of the share of funding it does in the SAEs), and these aren’t well covered by the government’s four new funding pillars. 6/n
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Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Can't wait to take about molluscs and marine borer with lots of animal history friends!
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Troy Baisden @troybaisden.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What worries me most about the directions of NZ's science reform is that it now matches closely what our extensive 2022 Te Ara Paerangi submission highlighted as 'what to avoid'. (1/3)
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📣 Today: Roland Wenzlhuemer speaks at the lecture series Global History at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Fellows @Kate Stevens & Carlo De Nuzzo will follow in the coming weeks. We ❤️ these moments of exchange across disciplines & borders! Programme: www.plus.ac.at/news/globalg...
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Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This looks fascinating!
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Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Come and share your research with us in Munich - we're interested in projects that think about the material and sensory across different places, disciplines and periods in global context, and their dis: connections
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
And in this wonderful open-access article in our special issue, Kate Stevens looks at performative transimperial co-operation between the British and French in the New Hebrides Condominium (Vanuatu), and at how theatrical forms of critique helped obscure the violent realities of imperial domination.
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Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu
Thomson Reid Cowell, assistant British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), wrote a musical comedy – ‘with humblest apologies to Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’ – depic...
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Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited that this piece on shipworm and animal history is out - it started with lockdown reading of engineering reports when I couldn't get to the archives, taking me down new wormholes connecting Fiji, Australia, Hawai'i and beyond.
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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📢 New out! Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social explores different human relationships with the multispecies assemblage of worm and wood across the Pacific. #marineborers #shipworm #PacificOcean #oceanichistories #imperialhistory #historiesofinfrastructure Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design and perform new research, to innovate, to teach and communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement” academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ghost ships and sandwiches while the world burns.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual *advice* or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.
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The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Together with the Pacific History Association, the Journal of Pacific History is pleased to announce that submissions are now welcomed for the Gunson Essay Prize. See the attached document for details or email editorial@jphinc.com.au. #AcademicSky #Award #Pacific #Oceania #Research
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is, btw, the clearest example of direct political interference in the research system I've ever seen in NZ - a Minister ordering that entire areas of research be de-funded because she doesn't think they're worthy.
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is absolutely devastating news for humanities and social sciences in NZ; this isn’t a budgetary decision, it’s a political and ideological one
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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Horizon Europe's overall budget is 95.5 BILLION euros. The gov't has decided that NZ's access to the portion of those $ that relates to humanities & social sciences isn't worth pursuing. Horizon investment in our researchers would cost the NZ taxpayer next to nothing for huge investment & reward
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Waiting for this energy from the Academy of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social
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