Category: education
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Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive
Milkbar: The Everyday City and Globalisation was a project that sought to uncover some of the stories and concerns of some of the residents of Fitzroy, an inner-city Australian community. The videos assembled here are part of a larger project completed in October 2002 (more details below). Forty four people within the suburb were interviewed…
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The Author of History in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: Hypertext and the Historian
This is my 1998 Masters thesis completed at the University of Melbourne in 1998. This was my first serious inroads into the ‘digital humanities’ and some of the language within it now seems very dated (ie CD ROM). I was reflecting upon how I entered the digital humanities after being prompted in a stimulating article…
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Materials Library @ King’s
One of the more interesting research groups here at King’s. They do research into the materiality of flesh! Materials Library is an interdisciplinary collaborative team that make objects, events and exhibitions that foreground materiality. We are also engaged in both scientific research and artistic practices that explore the senso-aesthetics of materials. At the heart of…
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Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill)
Our aim at Gradfunding is to help postgraduate students of any nationality, academic background, or subject area fund any aspect of their studies- be it living expenses, fees, or research, travel, and conference costs. We are an advisory agency which specialises in winning grants from the voluntary sector (e.g. charities, foundations, and trusts). The voluntary…
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New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
(This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age. Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’ and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship. There is…