Amanda Harris

Our new special issue of www.musicandpractice.org is out - with two of my recent collaboratively authored articles:
1. Listening from/to the Antipodes: How Place and Time Inform Performance in Australia'
2. Casting our Nets: Singing a Fishing Song from the Past, in the Present, for the Future

The AHA was delighted to see so many wonderful history projects receive funding in the latest round of ARC Discovery Grants, announced this week! Congratulations to all the successful applicants, especially the AHA members among them, and commiserations to those who weren't funded this time around.

Julia Russoniello and I have a new article on Townsville festivals that looked to the Pacific in this new special issue

Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks

Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
@anupress.bsky.social
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Canberra singing group brings 'lost' Pacific music back to life - ABC Pacific For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.

And some media stories about Deveni Temu's Peroveta Singers of Canberra and their work with PARADISEC going out today. Here's the first on Pacific Beat: PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...

Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today:
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@paradisec.bsky.social

Before PNG gained independence, it was a colony of Australia On the foreshore of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Ela Beach is where locals come to exercise, mingle and unwind at the end of a long day. But it wasn't always this way.

50 Years today of an Independent Papua New Guinea!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fortunately, this excellent Guardian article is likely to get a much wider readership than the diary publication

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

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts

"this is a moment that requires urgent action — to reverse the assault on the humanities and recognise that our history and cultural life are vital to Australia’s civic intelligence and national identity" insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

five books published by Cambridge University Press and Bloomsbury

Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books