Reposted by Penny EdmondsMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I kind of want to go 1821606489918
Reposted by Penny EdmondsSasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The Polish revolutionary and theorist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919 after a failed uprising in Berlin. She was killed by members of a far-right thugs , who directed by right-wing Social Democratic Party. Here's Tony Cliff on her life and thought: www.marxists.org/archive/clif... 044
Reposted by Penny EdmondsPatricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Book talk in London next week. 25823
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 24/12/2024www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine MalikIt may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 010
Reposted by Penny EdmondsRosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...aeon.coHistory is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon EssaysIn his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life 313440
Reposted by Penny EdmondsTom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/12/2024@rosariolopez.bsky.social in Aeon: '[For J.G.A. Pocock] a degree of disagreement and pluralism is integral to both the historian’s craft and the citizen’s experience.. There was no history without politics, and no politics without a contested political identity' aeon.co/essays/histo...aeon.coHistory is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon EssaysIn his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life 24017
Reposted by Penny EdmondsNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024If you just ignore existing state and federal laws, the cost of nuclear waste, water use, decommissioning costs, rising construction costs, building a new industry from scratch, the falling cost of renewables and the fact that Dutton’s figures are blatantly cooked, his plan is actually reasonable. 12355125
Reposted by Penny EdmondsSean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024New essay out today (with @alanlester.bsky.social @adeleperry.bsky.social Omeasoo Wahpasiw) exposing residential school denialism’s transnational network, or how denialism in Canada is being used globally to defend empire and colonialism: activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...activehistory.caExposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational NetworkResidential school denialism may have its origins in Canada, but it is increasingly circulating and being used around the world as part of a wider matrix of imperial apologetics – a transnational n… 09757
Reposted by Penny EdmondsJack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Perfect #platypus - you can see how they change from swimming to waddling to slithering depending on how deep the water is. #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz 35618
Reposted by Penny EdmondsJoanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024THIS! ⬇️ "Science and the humanities aren’t rivals, but partners committed to interpreting the cosmos": Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...e-tangata.co.nzWe dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose... 14013
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 08/12/2024 A great defence of the humanities by Māori scholar Pounamu Jade Aikman: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...e-tangata.co.nzWe dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose... 032
Reposted by Penny EdmondsAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/12/2024If you’re in Montreal on Monday and interested in the history & politics of colonialism, do come along? 56316
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 05/12/2024And another: theconversation.com/friday-essay...theconversation.comFriday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in AustraliaIn 1881, a Pacific Islander woman brought here to work on a sugar cane plantation ran away. She was violently retrieved by her employer. Her story sheds moving light on a dark history of exploitation. 075
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm new, so a few papers: #BLM in Sydney and travelling memory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 030
Reposted by Penny Edmondswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent 1249302104
Reposted by Penny EdmondsBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Group of students waiting to be allowed to enter a Sydney University classroom under the institution's proposed new 'civility rules' 175
Reposted by Penny EdmondsAndré Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024A degree from Sydney Uni soon won't be worth as much as it used to besmh.com.auSydney Uni students allowed to use AI in radical reversal of cheating policyThe plan, to be phased in next year, will mean students won’t be banned from using AI on homework or assignments. 147418
Reposted by Penny EdmondsKate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Delighted to share a new project that @KTeaiwa and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blogculturalhistoryofoceania.blogA New History of Oceania ~ Sixty Thousand YearsA Bloomsbury Cultural History of Australia and the Pacific 25019
Reposted by Penny EdmondsProfessor Amy Roberts @profamyroberts.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It was great to be a guest on Nanawun Kaldowinyeri (Thursday 21/11/24) on @radioadelaide radioadelaide.org.au/program/nana... #AusAirplayradioadelaide.org.auNanawun Kaldowinyeri 21/11/2024Radio Adelaide - Rich & Real. 061