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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Seoul street scene today: a man protests the US alliance after Korean workers' ICE arrests. "A chained gangster alliance: 'Just give me the money & technology'. Did they pressure us to invest in the US to do this? Trump arrests Korean workers. Anti-human rights. Detain!"

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy story countering Australia's recent thinly-attended anti-immigrant marches. The Australia-Korea Foundation just is funding "The Most Australian Band Ever!', a documentary about the Hard-ons, the Aust. punk band which started in 1984 with 3 immigrant schoolkids: a Korean, SriLankan & Croatian.

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"That clarity isn’t control, it's alignment". "That's not a swap. That's theft". Is anyone else already extremely weary of this sentence construction? Tell me AI wrote it for you without saying AI wrote it for you.

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Late to the party on the Australian Special Envoy on Antisemitism report, but I literally cannot believe this draconian plan to control funding for university, arts, public broadcasting and charity funding is real life. What is happening to our democracy?

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Great '90s footage of Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi talking about his work with underground western Sydney hiphoppers: instagram.com/reel/DGE_rvD.... Australia should be proud for this artist and community developer to represent this at the Venice Biennale #khaledsabsabi

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I remember reading about Toowomba Pasta being a Korean product before leaving Sydney. The Outback Steakhouse franchise marketed it. But at a Sadang supermarket I saw 'Toowomba Pasta' used as a generic name for creamy mushroom pasta sauce. I don't really feel tempted? www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So I've just arrived at SNU to a wintry blizzard of a week. At the moment, it feels like climbing the jagged mountains surrounding this enormous storied Seoul campus, but I'm so much looking forward to the view after the upward haul. #seoulnationaluniversity #visitingprofessoraustralianstudies

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sharing a brilliant article by Jeffrey Robertson (@junotane, Yonsei University, Seoul) on the importance of the humanities to international relations - now more than ever in the age of AI and the corporatised university: #humanites #AI #internationalrelations www.junotane.com/p/the-humani...

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The humanities in the age of AI: renaissance rather than twilight?

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) increases the relevance of the humanities and those that realize this will get ahead.

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Melissa Bellanta @melissabellanta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Cost of living crises have unforeseen consequences as well as those you'd expect. Here's my piece on how the high price of menswear fuelled a black market in 1920s Australia, attracting Squizzy Taylor & other Oz criminals: theconversation.com/shoddy-dropp... #historyofmenswear #TrueCrime

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‘Shoddy dropping’: how the 1920s cost-of-living crisis fuelled a black market in menswear

The most successful shoddy droppers were smooth talkers attractively dressed in made-to-measure three-piece suits – but the cloth they sold was often poor quality.

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