Kate Bagnall

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

"Archives hold many examples of the centrality of paperwork for marginalised groups when rights are unstable or out of reach. They show how migrants use paperwork to imagine rights - to see a right to protection before one exists."

Roundtable reflections on the radical history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Screenshot of a text message that says, ‘Dear Kate, I think you’d be a fantastic applicant for this UTAS job’, followed by a link to the position of lecturer/senior lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania

Happy 6 years at UTAS to me!

(And thank you to the colleague who saw that this job and I were suited)

Lots of articles focusing on particular aspects of the White Australia Policy - in terms of who was welcomed and who was excluded

Depends what aspect you’re looking at, but maybe Tavan’s Long Slow Death of White Australia (2005), or Palfreeman’s Administration of the White Australia Policy (1967)

Happy that my Tim is in his happy place for a bit - playing with cultural heritage data and working with some nice people!

Residencies & Opportunities | SLV LAB SLV LAB, invites artists, designers, technologists and researchers to push the boundaries of cultural data and emerging technologies. \

The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities

Exhibition Bridges Two Centuries of Cantonese-Australian Stories Migration, memory, and cultural legacy

Lovely write-up about the new ‘Shared Connections: Cantonese Stories in Australia’ exhibition developed by Sophie Couchman for the Australian Consulate-General in Guangzhou!

(I also had a small hand in the exhibition, and it features my daughter’s story 😊)

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A selection of historical documents relating to the Tasmanian Chinese See Yip Social Club, including blank membership cards, rule book and account book

Today I took custody of a box of historical materials that were purchased in a Launceston antique shop many years ago – I suspect they came out of the old Sun Hung Ack store. Among the treasures are a collection relating to the Tasmanian See Yip Club (which I knew existed but nothing more!)

That’s strange, archive.is links remove the paywall. You could try saving it there yourself?

archive.is/TLqe4

Photo of Kate, a middle aged woman with curly hair and glasses, and a baby sitting at a table in a cafe in Moonah. The baby’s face has been covered with an emoji sticker of a baby’s head.

Today was my last day of sick leave – on Monday I return to work (0.4FTE) after 4 months off. It was a happy day of errands, lunching with a munchkin and her mum, and chatting with my teenager. I don’t know how my return to work will go, but I’m hopeful that this time I can make it work🤞. #longCOVID

UTAS VC to take up board appointment at accounting giant University of Tasmania boss Rufus Black will juggle a lucrative Deloitte board position with his leadership of the uni as it grapples with a $47m loss.

Given how Deloitte and other management consultant firms have inveigled themselves into university governance in Australia and internationally … this stinks

View out of a row of windows looking over the sandstone wall of the Female Factory and trees towards kunanyi Mt Wellington.

I spent the afternoon representing UTAS Family History at Convict Connections at the Cascades Female Factory, looking out these windows over the walls of the Female Factory to a snowy kunanyi. (It’s on again tomorrow if you want help with convict ancestors!)

femalefactory.org.au/event/convic...

I hear you! Also important to recognise that PEM isn’t just caused by physical exertion - for me, cognitive work and social interaction (including meetings, being in busy places) is exhausting.

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Everyday Heritage team member Dr Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...

Chinese

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.

‘People could often meet basic needs, but their ability to contribute to their homes, workplaces and communities was limited. Quality of life was also badly affected.‘

#longCOVID

theconversation.com/long-covid-i...

Slides from the presentation are available here: https://data.katebagnall.com/files/original/2db20b71bdf63b347d08cc14fbcf5b0f4e9476f0.pdf They include links to some of the digital things I've built for the project such as the fully-searchable version of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories from […]

Such a joy to be working with family historians, community members and our wonderful project team to tell more Chinese Tasmanian histories. Recording to share will come, I hope!

Australia grants asylum to 'wanted' Hong Kong democrat Ted Hui | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain...

Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain jailed. In full: buff.ly/VsW2qac

I have known this move since before I came to UTAS and to Hobart, but back then I imagined myself riding my bike to work in town, shopping and eating out at lunchtime, and so on. Sigh.

We will soon move to a newly renovated building in town, but it means a desk in an open plan office, not an office with a door and window, and a commute without parking. I fear it effectively means I will rarely be able to work on campus. Another thing lost to this stupid illness. #longCOVID

Yep, and I also don’t see mistakes I make (which frustrates me no end as I am pretty much the most pedantic person in the world).

“Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing” theconversation.com/top-australi...

The War on History News that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is to press ahead with sweeping cuts that will abolish the jobs of most of its historians represents yet...

Wrote a little piece on the cuts at MCH and the wider war on history in NZ.

buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

And here are the entries in the eResources collection:

https://eresources.sl.nsw.gov.au/new-south-wales-post-office-directories
https://eresources.sl.nsw.gov.au/sydney-telephone-directories
https://eresources.sl.nsw.gov.au/glam-name-indexes

Thanks to the State Library of NSW for adding my fully-searchable versions of the NSW Post Office & Sydney Telephone Directories, as well as the GLAM Name Index Search, to their collection of eResources. Yay! That should make it much easier for researchers to find these free resources!

About AMHN Steering Committee (Current) Professor Ruth Balint, University of New South Wales Dr Alexandra Dellios, Australian National University Dr Roland Leikauf, Australian National Maritime Museum Dr…

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network
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People are so reluctant to criticise the NLA that they'll probably see it as 'outreach', but it's actually adding new layers of gatekeeping that increase uncertainty around any research use of the Trove API.

Beware of more NLA gaslighting in the latest Australian Historical Association newsletter...