Srishti Guha

A great example of innovative storytelling!

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

Ah, wish this was online!!

Fabulous photo!

If any historians would like to review the following, please get in touch!
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast

Oh, this looks fabulous! Need to read ASAP

Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!

What an incredible photograph!

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Cover image of the Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 87, number 2. "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851." The journal's name and issue information are on an earth-colored banner above an artistic depiction of museum visitors.

New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This looks fabulous! I look forward to reading!

I love my fabulous HIST1051 colleagues!

Hi Beatriz! Did you know if your talk will be recorded? The timing is a bit unfortunate here in Australia 😅

Ah, I came here to ask the same question as Shirin. Guess I'll have to wait for that article. Sounds fabulous!

Gaza is starving! Sanction Israel NOW

“This case affirms a powerful truth: that voices of descendants matter, that oral histories passed down through the generations of Black families carry weight and wisdom”

Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Our co-edited book has been published in Palgrave's Politics of Mental Health and Illness series (edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen), w chapters on Māori mental health, depathologisation of trans health, community mental health, digitalisation of mental health & more /1 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I'm in marking hell until the end of next week, but big yes after that! I definitely need a day of some focused writing.

@eleaud.bsky.social

What a lovely book cover! Congratulations!

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

I made a colour-coded A-Z directory of every Pokémon and later, Digimon, I encountered, with details like their type, attacks, and evolved forms. 😎

This looks absolutely fabulous, Kate!! There is a lot of resonance with some of the themes in my own thesis. Weekend listening sorted 😁

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums:

"'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War"

Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.

It really works.

How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism In one example, an AI image generator produced an image of what was meant to be an elderly First Nations man – in a traditional Papuan headdress.

How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...

24 Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is pleased to enhance its advocacy work this year. A short thread here on our terms, reach, submissions, statements, and tips for defending history: theaha.org.au/advocacy/

Very much so! She's also too polite 😅