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VIEWPOINTS No. 6 /2017

Viewpoints is the annual publication ofFlinders Institute for Research in the Humanities (FIRtH),

School of Humanities and Creative Arts,Flinders University, South Australia

ISSN 2207-5070 (Print) ISSN 2207-5089 (Online)

Images: Lachlan Micklethwaite and Kim Fox (above), Lucia van Sebille (opposite), Love and Information, 2016 Grad Show, Drama Centre, Flinders University. Photo: Sam Oster, Silvertrace Photography.

FROM THE DIRECTOR

FROM THE DEAN

TECHNOLOGIES OF MEMORY AND AFFECT

RESEARCH THEME CONFERENCE

HEATHER ROBINSON AND THE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

UPDATE FROM ACHRC

TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE

UNESCO UNITWIN

JONATHAN BENJAMIN

ALICE GORMAN AND BRONWYN LOVELL ON THE CONVERSATION

CONFERENCES 2016

WHIP

2016 SUCCESS

CONTRIBUTORS

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Welcome to the 2017 edition of

Viewpoints, Flinders Institute for

Research in the Humanities’ (FIRtH’s)

annual showcase of activities. Once

again I am pleased to report members’

success in being awarded category one

competitive research funding in the past

year. Specifically: Dr Jonathan Benjamin

(Archaeology) who is lead investigator on

an ARC Discovery project worth $597,000

and entitled ‘The deep history of Sea

Country: Climate, sea level and culture’,

Dr Ian Moffat (Archaeology) who was

awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career

Researcher Award (DECRA) entitled ‘The

Drumbeat of Human Evolution: Climate

Proxies from Rockshelter Sediments’

and worth $346,536; Dr Daryl Wesley

who was awarded a DECRA for a project

entitled ‘Environmental influence on human

behavioural evolution’ and worth $356,583;

and Prof Julian Meyrick who was awarded

an ARC LIEF grant, ‘Visualising venues

in Australian live performance’ and worth

$465,000. Other grant success includes:

Dr Martin Polkinghorne (Archaeology) who

is a CI (along with lead CI Prof Roland

Fletcher (Sydney University)) on an ARC

Discovery Project entitled ‘Urbanism after

Angkor (14th-18th century) ’ and worth

$787,945; Dr Jeffrey Gill (TESOL) who

as part of the Chinese Language and

Culture In-country Program Consortium

between Flinders and Charles Darwin

University will share in $27,500 worth

on funding; and Dr Eric Parisot who has

been awarded a US$3,000 Fletcher

Jones Fellowship (Huntington Library)

and a US$4,500 Franklin Research Grant

(American Philosophical Society). This

is an excellent result for the Institute in a

very tough research funding environment

in the Humanities and Creative Arts.

February this year saw the wrap up

our successful 2016 research theme

‘Technologies of Memory and Affect’

with a one day conference with keynote

presentation by Deb Verhoeven,

Professor of Media and Communication

at Deakin University and a public lecture

by internationally recognised writer

Romaine Moreton. Held in conjunction

with the conference was the opening of

an exhibition at Flinders’ Victoria Square

campus in which theme participants

explore the relation between their

research and creative practice. The

opening included a live performance by

the Unbound Collective of Indigenous

Australian women artists. The year

of activity associated with this theme

promises to bear fruit in the form of at

least two special editions of academic

journals which will include contributions

by various FIRtH members and Flinders

RHD students. I congratulate the theme

leaders Dr Son Vivienne, Dr Alice Gorman,

Prof Julian Meyrick, Dr Tully Barnett and

A/Prof Julia Erhart for all their work in

making this theme such a success. I am

pleased to announce that the theme for

this year will be ‘Immortal Austen’ led by

Dr Eric Parisot (English, Creative Writing

and Australian Studies), Dr Gillian Dooley

(Library) and Dr Amy Matthews (English,

Creative Writing and Australian Studies).

This year sees a significant academic

restructure at Flinders, including in the

School of Humanities and Creative Arts

(HCA) where the Institute is located.

Specifically, from July this year HCA will be

part of the larger College of Humanities,

Arts and Social Science in which HCA will

be joined with various cognate disciplines

including History, Sociology and Women’s

Studies. While the exact nature of

University Institutes beyond 2017 is yet

to be decided, we hope and believe the

Institute will continue in some form, and

we look forward to welcoming researchers

from the above disciplines whose work

promises to further strengthen the quality,

volume and impact of our research.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRAIG TAYLOR, DIRECTOR, FLINDERS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES

M E S S A G E

D I R E C T O RF R O M T H E

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I have great pleasure in welcoming you

to this latest issue of Viewpoints that

showcases the collaborative research

activity and consistently high-quality

achievements of the Flinders Institute for

Research in the Humanities (FIRtH). The

multidisciplinary membership of FIRtH

extends beyond the discipline borders of

the School of Humanities and Creative

Arts and encourages the participation and

contribution of a variety of researchers.

As in past years, the Institute has enjoyed

success under the excellent leadership

and guidance of Associate Professor Craig

Taylor who serves as Director of FIRtH and

Associate Dean (Research) in the School.

Craig is ably supported by the members

of the FIRtH Advisory Board, and most

particularly by the highly talented FIRtH

Research Support Officers, Joy Tennant

and Elizabeth Weeks. Our researchers also

rely on the expert advice and assistance of

the Faculty of EHL Research Coordinator,

Rebecca Vaughan, and Faculty Research

Development Officer, Narmon Tulsi.

Notable achievements in 2016 also include

the winners of the Vice-Chancellors Early

Career Researcher award, Dr Christèle

Maizonniaux and Dr Son Vivienne, and

Susan Arthure who has been awarded

the Best Research Higher Degree

Student Publication for her paper: ‘Being

Irish: The Nineteenth Century South

Australian Community of Baker’s Flat’,

Archaeologies, 11 (2), 2015, 169-

188. In terms of book publications and

creative outcomes we celebrated the

work of Rosalba Clemente, Will Peterson,

Daniela Rose, Susan Sheridan, Jeri

Kroll, Amy Matthews, Diana Glenn and

Graham Tulloch. In June came the news

that Wendy Van Duivenvoorde’s book

Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding

had won the 2015 John Lyman Book

Award, sponsored by the North

American Society for Oceanic History.

In 2016 FIRtH-sponsored conferences

attracted a wide variety of delegates and

included the 22nd Australasian Irish Studies

Conference: Change, Commemoration,

Community; From the Margins to the

Centre: The Future of University Literacy

Support and Writing across the Curriculum;

an academic stream at the Romance

Writers of Australia’s 25th Anniversary

Conference; Morality in a Realistic Spirit: A

Conference in Honour of Cora Diamond;

the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for

Underwater Archaeology 3D-Modelling and

Interpretation for Underwater Archaeology

Workshop; and the WHIP Humanities and

Creative Arts Postgraduate Conference,

now a yearly staple in the conference

calendar. Similarly the annual public

lectures attracted a range of audiences

for the Ruth and Vincent Megaw Lecture

in Archaeology and Art (Howard Morphy);

the Wal Cherry Lecture (Susan Broadway

and Sam Haren); the Theology Annual

Lecture (Serene Jones); the Brian

Medlin Memorial Lecture (Jeanette

Kennett); and the Step Back! events in

celebration of Flinders’ 50th anniversary.

Congratulations to the FIRtH

membership and my good wishes

for continuing success in 2017.

PROFESSOR DIANA GLENN,DEAN, SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND CREATIVE ARTS

M E S S A G E

D E A NF R O M T H E

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The 2016 Flinders Institute for Research

in the Humanities theme was awarded

to our team, comprising Son Vivienne,

Tully Barnett, Julia Erhart, Alice Gorman

and Julian Meyrick, for the project

‘Technologies of Memory and Affect’.

The theme provides funding for a year-

long program of activities designed

to support research collaboration and

promote high quality research outcomes.

For us, the concept of ‘Technologies

of Memory and Affect’ served as a

way of bringing together a number of

diverse research concentrations in the

school and creating a thematic platform

upon which some new collaborations

could be built. We also saw it as a way

to have some different conversations

in the School and between Schools,

and to create space for collaboration

between the Humanities and the Creative

Arts components of our school.

Funding commenced in late March and

we used the launch of the project to

unpack the theme so that we could get

people thinking about how their research

intersects in some way with our broad

notions. For us, technology is as simple

as a mechanism and the theme allows

us to think about ways that memory

and emotion are produced, circulated,

consumed, preserved or critiqued.

Memory and affect are notoriously

subjective and transitory concepts.

Technology, from the printing press to the

camera to the internet, affords opportunity

to make these notions discernible and

sometimes even material, in objects,

words, images and a digital trace.

However, while communication in the

digital domain is searchable, persistent,

replicable and scaleable, memory and

affect remain ephemeral and contested.

This FIRtH research theme for

2016 spans disciplines and cultural

projects from collective public

history and archives to interminable

negotiations with social networks over

identity and personal histories.

Our program of activities included a

series of writing lock-ins and entertaining

‘pecha kuchas’ (‘chit-chat’ in Japanese,

light-hearted presentations of 20 slides

for 20 seconds). We invited people to put

their hands up to give pecha kuchas to

share their work in less formal situations.

We co-hosted Djon Mundine and his

projection work ‘Bungaree’s Farm’ with

the Flinders University Art Museum as

well as a masterclass by visiting scholar

Associate Professor Lori Emerson,

University of Colorado, on the theme

of ‘Critical Infrastructure Studies, from

Interface to Network’. We hosted the

presentation ‘Earthworks, Representation,

and Research: Situating Indigenous

Methodologies’ by Professor Chadwick

Allen, University of Washington.

A mid-year Symposium, ‘Curating

Affective Technologies’ was facilitated by

Professor Larissa Hjorth that comprised

one day of lightning papers and discussion

sessions, with a collaboration workshop

at the end. It was followed by a one-day

paper writing workshop that used pre-

circulated papers to shape up a special

issue. This special issue will be published

T E C H N O L O G I E S O FM E M O R Y A N D A F F E C T

R E S E A R C H T H E M E

A research theme d es ig ne d to span d isc ip l ines and cu l tural pro jects


with Media International Australia, edited

by Son Vivienne and Tully Barnett, for

the journal’s November 2017 slot.

Our program of activities culminated in

early 2017 with a creative methodologies

workshop in January to support work for

the February conference ‘Technologies of

Memory and Affect’ with Professor Deb

Verhoeven and Dr Romaine Moreton as

keynote speakers, and our visual arts

exhibition, which is an official part of the

2017 Adelaide Fringe Festival. There will be

publication outcomes as a result of this too.

The theme’s funding is for one year of

activity but the research, outcomes and

collaborations generated go beyond the

calendar year. Thanks to our advisory

board: Patrick Allington, Ali Baker, Kylie

Cardell, Kate Douglas, Lina Eriksson,

Pamela Graham, Emma Maguire,

Christele Maizonniaux, Eric Parisot,

Helen Stuckey and Melanie Swalwell.

TULLY BARNETT, SON VIVIENNE, JULIA ERHART, ALICE GORMAN AND JULIAN MEYRICK


A N A F F E C T I V E T R I U M P H

R E S E A R C H T H E M E

A conference conve ne d by Dr S on Viv ienne and Dr Tul ly Barnett wi th keynote f rom Deb Ve rh oe ve n , publ ic lecture by Romaine Moreton , a n d art exhib i t ion h eld in conjunc t ion with the Adela ide Fr inge Fest iva l


In the spirit of FIRtH’s 2016 Research

Theme, ‘Technologies of Memory and

Affect’, its culminating activities were a true

feast for the senses that both provoked

and inspired its 40 or so delegates. The

event incorporated: an academic confer-

ence; a public lecture by the acclaimed

Romaine Moreton; performance; and the

launch of a visual art exhibition.

Held on Friday 17 February 2017 at

Flinders University’s Victoria Square cam-

pus, activities commenced with keynote

from Deb Verhoeven, Professor of Media

and Communication at Deakin University.

Professor Verhoeven’s presentation, ‘Open

Data in a closing down world: reproducibil-

ity, contestability and co-existence’ cleverly

brought together Deb’s recent research on

serendipity and the impact of visualising

women’s participation in grant success and

the film industry.

Dr Alice Gorman presented ‘“In small

things forgotten”: the cable tie as a case

study in invisible technology’ in which

she discussed the role of archaeological

field techniques in illuminating artefacts

and behaviours that are currently invisible

as we inhabit the ideological sphere that

created them. Gorman’s visual art piece,

50 Shades of Black, played on the idea

of making these invisible technologies,

visible. Daniela Kaleva presented, ‘Traces

of corporeality: Multi-modal documentation

of Mary’s grief at the Cross in research-

led performance of Italian sacred music’.

Dr Emma Maguire delved into the digital

past and considered the usefulness of

the (contested) term ‘digital archaeology’.

Associate Professor Rob Cover spoke on

the emergence of new sexual subjectivities,

taxonomies and surveillance among

sexually-diverse young people online.

Associate Professor Barbara Baird and

Dr Ros Prosser recounted their project,

‘The Marching Dunstans’, a ‘memory

intervention’ into the local queer community

and the importance of remembering history

queerly. Dr Son Vivienne presented on

the role of digital media in gender-queer

storytelling projects. Houman Zandizadeh

spoke on the experience of authoring a

text with feedback through Facebook. Dr

Tully Barnett spoke on critical infrastructure

studies for the humanities through the case

study of digitisation projects. Associate

Professor Steve Hemming spoke on

the role of networked knowledge in

the repatriation work of the Ngarrindjeri

Regional Authority.

The day’s presentations unearthed unex-

pected intersections, emerging principally

between new materialism, feminism, queer

theory, Indigenous storytelling and creative

research praxis, evidence that creating

‘unbounded’ space can afford generative

serendipity and collaboration that in turn

produces trust and compassion as well as

high quality research outcomes.

The evening’s event pushed the bound-

aries of the public lecture format as Dr

Romaine Moreton, Monash University,

presented ‘Interrogating Western Media

Art Forms in One Billion Beats (2016)’, a

shattering and affective multi-disciplinary

performance. Combining poetry, theatre

techniques, music, song and audio visual

imagery, Dr Moreton addressed the histor-

icising of Indigenous family storytelling and

interrogation of western media art forms.

Dr Moreton’s participation was supported

by the Office of Indigenous Strategy and

Engagement and Unbound Collective.

Finally, the associated art exhibition opened

as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival. It

included works from: Amanda Radomi,

The Watchers, an expression of urban

Indigenous peoples’ connectedness

to culture; Bindi Macgill, Un/Broken, a


Uneasy Arms, Tully Barnett

representation of transitioning memory;

Tully Barnett’s, Uneasy Arms, a piece that

reveals the usually invisible human labour

involved in digitisation of texts; and Son

Vivienne’s, Fluid Selves, an examination

of identity as fragmented, multiple and

emergent. Guests of the opening enjoyed

a moving performance by the Unbound

Collective, a project led by four academic

Indigenous women, Ali Baker, Natalie

Harkin, Faye Blanch, and Simone Tur,

that aims to contribute to both knowledge

and production of new critical-creative

decolonising methodologies from a unique

standpoint.

ELIZABETH WEEKS, RESEARCH SUPPORT, FLINDERS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES

TECHNOLOGIES of MEMORYand AFFECT2016 FIRTH RESEARCH THEME

Top L: Son Vivienne, Deb Verhoeven, Tully Barnett. Top R: Unbound Collective performance. Middle L: Pamela Graham and Emma Maguire. Middle R: Fluid Selves, Son Vivienne. Bottom: The Unbound Collective with Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien and Romaine Moreton. Photos: Elizabeth Weeks

F E A T U R E


Heather Robinson is a Flinders PhD Candidate contributing

to the ARC linkage project Laboratory Adelaide – the Value

of Culture. In June 2016 she intermitted in order to deliver

the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) and remains

a member of its governing board. It was a conversation

three years before with Assoc. Professor Robert Phiddian,

then Chair of the AFoI Program Advisory committee, that

led her both to Flinders and back to the AFoI in 2016.

‘I had just delivered the 2013 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. I

mentioned my frustration to Robert at the lack of capacity

to record the most rewarding experiences that you can’t

capture on a spreadsheet; the moments when the audience

was so engrossed in a presentation that you could hear a pin

drop; the incisive question from a member of the public that

clearly inspired the speaker to a new train of thought; or the

ongoing conversations between members of the public as

they build on that new idea to make it relevant to their world.

I’ve experienced the standardisation of reporting and the intense

focus placed on economic rather than cultural impact which clouds

the public value generated by not-for-profit events like the AFoI. It

disguises not only the success of the event but also the true value

of relationships with partners such as Flinders University and FIRtH.

The evidence of success for an event like the AFoI is difficult to

capture. It becomes almost incidental to the amount of tourism

dollars generated or numbers through the door. Pecuniary data is

important and very easy to capture. However numbers – whether

they represent dollars or visitors - are only one way of measuring

success: in isolation they are incapable of telling the whole story.’

Does the public value of such experiences last or fade with

time and distance? Or is it something that remains, accruing

interest until a particular set of circumstances brings the right

people and opportunity together to realise the latent asset

potential? These are the questions that drew Robinson to

Flinders as part of the Laboratory Adelaide Team, consisting of

T H AT ‘ I N V I S I B L E W O R K ’School o f Humanit ies a nd Cre a t ive Arts Research Assoc iate and PhD Candidate , Hea th e r Robinson on Laborator y Adela ide and the Adela ide Fest iva l o f Idea s

Top: In her spare time, Robinson is pursuing silent film history for a biography of forgotten Hollywood actress, Claire Adams Mackinnon.Photo: Elizabeth Weeks.Bottom: A full house for the world renown environmental advocate Erin Brockovich. Photo: Alex Frayne

Prof. Julian Meyrick, Dr Tully Barnett and Assoc. Prof. Robert

Phiddian. For the past two years they have been investigating

the value of culture, exploring ways and means of re-introducing

narrative to cultural reporting to capture what some of Adelaide’s

premier events and institutions contribute to the community.

Robinson is focussing her research on the history and

impact of the State Library of South Australia, which she

sees as the progenitor of events such as the AFoI.

‘In many ways, South Australia was conceived as an idea as

much as a colony, one based on commercial enterprise as

much as freedom of faith and expression. A fundamental part of

that vision was the exchange of ideas, housed and represented

by the early iterations of the South Australian Institute. Material

concerning the values and drivers of the early colony include

descriptions of the immigrants’ imperative to exchange knowledge

and generate new ideas. The hope was that some may lead to

innovative new industries and a secure economic future. Both the

cultural and economic opportunities held equal value and were

linked from the start. These ideas are still resounding today.

Cultural organisations such as the State Library of SA and the

AFoI provide a focus and location for knowledge exchange

within the community. They both draw on local collections

and expertise that exist for our benefit because of the public

interest and government investment accrued over the last 170

years. We hope that Laboratory Adelaide can contribute to the

conversations that will ensure potential value of our cultural sector

will continue to be realised for many more years to come.’

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRAIG TAYLOR,DIRECTOR, FLINDERS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES


Established in 1999, The Adelaide Festival of Ideas has forged a path

for ideas festivals in Australia and internationally. In 2016

Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities sponsored

the appearance of Philosopher, Raimond Gaita, and UK poet and

filmmaker, Nick Drake.

AFoI2016 was dedicated to Phillip Adams, shown here with Barry Jones during the Opening Night oration ‘What a Magician Taught Me About Politics’. Photo: Alex Frayne

The Australasian Consortium of Humanities

Research Centres’ 2016 meeting was held

in Adelaide on November 11th and 12th.

Under the theme of The Public Humanities,

the meeting, co-hosted with the Centre

for the History of Emotions, focused on a

core aspect of humanities research: the

integral role of engagement with publics.

The ACHRC, currently hosted at

Flinders University, is the only peak-

body concerned solely with Humanities

research. It operates across Australia and

New Zealand, programmes a series of

events, disseminates information about

the humanities, contributes submissions

on issues for the humanities nationally

and internationally, conducts projects

based on the concerns of its membership

– currently disposed as Humanities

in the Regions and Collaborating with

Collecting and Cultural Institutions.

The 2016 meeting made the case that

it is through engagement with publics

that the impact of our sector needs to

be understood. In the long and dynamic

threads of dialogue between researchers

and publics on issues such as justice,

creativity, decolonization, and heritage

we build strong cases for the value of the

humanities. The capacity of the humanities

to deal with qualitative emotion as well as

the quantitative facts of history and culture

is crucial here. Any understanding of a

culture’s past, present, and future requires

an articulation of feelings as well as of facts.

The aim of the meeting was to bring

together speakers with practical

experience of programs that work so

that our discussions are grounded in

the pragmatics of public humanities. In

Australia and New Zealand, government-

led discussions of innovation and impact

are mired in metrics that traduce the real

public values of the sciences almost

as completely as they ignore the HASS

disciplines as a whole. We know about

public value – its impact over time

and in the lives of individuals – so this

conference provided an opportunity

to build our case as a sector.

The meeting included keynotes from

Professor Julianne Schulz in the form of

a packed out public lecture ‘Culture in

the Age of Innovation’ and a keynote from

Professor Thomas Dixon, Queen Mary

University, ‘Unfriending and Weeping in

Public’. Bronwyn Labrum from Te’Papa

Museum in Wellington, Fiona Salmon

from the Flinders University Art Museum

and Sara King from National Archives

contributed to the workshop ‘Navigating

Objects and Archives: Humanities

Scholarship and Material Culture’.

Once again we hosted an Early Career

Researcher Workshop designed to create

space for understanding best practice in

formulating an academic career. Panels

included Measuring Research Excellence

and Impact, The Humanities and Creative

Arts in the Innovation Agenda, Public

History Projects, Academics and the public

face of collecting and cultural institutions

(part of the ACHRC’s Collaborating

with Collecting and Cultural Institutions

member initiative); Platforms for the Public

Humanities: beyond the public lecture.

Other contributors included Professor

Julian Meyrick, Professor Jane Davidson,

Professor of Creative and Performing Arts

(Music) at the University of Melbourne,

Professor Denise Meredyth, Pro Vice

Chancellor for the Division of Education,

Arts and Social Sciences at University of

South Australia, Professor Richard Maltby,

Associate Professor Malcolm Choat,

Dr Kiera Lindsey, Lecturer in Australian

History and Australian Studies, University

of South Australia, Associate Professor

Anna Johnston, University of Queensland,

Dr Darren Peacock, Chief Executive

Officer, National Trust of South Australia,

Dr Rachel Franks, Coordinator, Education

& Scholarship at the State Library of NSW,

Kylie Percival, University Archivist, University

of Adelaide, Allison Russell, History SA.

For more information visit www.achrc.net

or email [email protected] to be

put on the distribution list.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROBERT PHIDDIAN, DIRECTOR, AND TULLY BARNETT, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, THE AUSTRALASIAN CONSORTIUM OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRES

F E E L I N G S A N D F A C T SACHRC’s Annua l M e e t ing : T h e Publ ic Humanit ies

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Volume 9, No. 1 of Transnational Literature

was published in November 2016. This open-

access journal was established in 2008 by the

then Flinders Humanities Research Centre,

under the editorship of Dr Gillian Dooley, and

has come out regularly every six months since.

It now has an international team of 10 editors.

The continuing success of the journal is in

no small part down to the vision of Flinders

Foundation Lecturer, Dr Syd Harrex. He was one

of the founders of the Centre for Research in

the New Literatures in English (CRNLE), and the

CRNLE Reviews Journal that began in 1979. That

journal was the direct ancestor of Transnational

Literature, so without the pioneering work of our

genial, unassuming and dedicated late colleague,

Transnational Literature would not exist.

Every issue broadens the journal’s reach. Nearly

60 residents of 15 countries have contributed

to the latest issue, each telling a transnational

story in prose or poetry, or contributing to a

vast international literary conversation about

writing across countries and cultures.

The journal is also read widely. After the tenth

issue was published in 2013, a major survey of

the number of downloads showed that to date

the 607 full text articles had been downloaded

245,663 times. A more limited survey done

recently showed that 61 major articles from

the past six issues (peer-reviewed articles,

review essays etc.) had been downloaded an

average of 466 times each. Naturally these

numbers increase with time: the papers from

May 2014 have each been downloaded nearly

800 times each. These figures don’t include the

dozens of poems, stories, creative non-fiction

and book reviews that enrich every issue.

Syd died in May 2015. In the November 2015

issue we included a collection of tributes to Syd.

In December 2016, we published a special

issue dedicated to Syd and his work, including

new essays and reprints. Some of his later

poems were also published for the first time.

MELINDA GRAEFE, EDITOR AT LARGE, AND GILLIAN DOOLEY, EDITOR, TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE

T R A N S N AT I O N A L L I T E R AT U R ESpec ia l I s sue : Syd H a r rex

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Dr Syd Harrex (left) and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. John Lovering c, 1987.

F E A T U R E


From 24-26 November 2016, Flinders

University and the UNESCO UNITWIN

Network for Underwater Archaeology

organised a workshop on 3D-modelling

and Interpretation for Underwater

Archaeology. Over 60 people, including

UNITWIN Members, Recognized Partners,

Flinders staff and students, and industry

partners attended the workshop. The

event was generously sponsored by

Acoustic Imaging, International Society

for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

(ISPRS), the Australasian Institute

for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA), SA

Heritage, Wessex Archaeology, Cosmos

Archaeology Pty Ltd, the Honor Frost

Foundation, and the Flinders Institute for

Research in the Humanities (FIRtH).

Building on the presentations and the

discussions at the November workshop,

a special monograph will be produced in

partnership with the UNESCO UNITWIN

Network for Underwater Archaeology.

Funding has been secured through the

Honor Frost Foundation small project

grants scheme. This international, peer-

reviewed monograph will be based upon,

but not limited to, papers presented at

the UNESCO UNITWIN Workshop on 3D

for Underwater Archaeology. The content

of the volume will include recording and

interpretation of underwater archaeology

through emerging technologies, including

practical and theoretical contributions to

the field of archaeology under water.

The aim of the monograph is for it to be

a landmark international publication in the

rapidly growing field of the application

of 3D and digital techniques to cultural

heritage. Theoretical contributions have

also been solicited, which will enrich

the volume beyond merely technical

application of applied methods.

DR WENDY VAN DUIVENVOORDE, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Image: Representation of canon from Dutch East India Company Shipwreck, created by Flinders University, PhD Candidate, John McCarthy.

U N E S C O U N I T W I NB ringing togeth e r le a d ing inte r nat ional experts and exper ienced pract i t ioners working in 3 D a ppl icat ions for under water archaeology

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U N E A R T H I N GS U B M E R G E D L A N D S C A P E SDr Jonathan Benja min on T h e Deep His tor y o f Sea Countr y

Flinders department of Archaeology was

awarded the largest ARC Discovery

project at the university for the second

consecutive year. The November 2016

announcement has meant that the newly

funded project: ‘The Deep History of

Sea Country: Climate, Sea Level, and

Culture’ will begin in early 2018 and will

run for three years. It is described by

a pioneering multi-disciplinary study of

submerged landscapes in Australia that

includes a European component for

international comparison. The project will

integrate cultural and environmental studies

and will contribute a unique Southern

Hemisphere study into world prehistory

that will also see cutting-edge marine

and aerial survey techniques applied

to the coasts of Western Australia. The

project is led by Flinders CI Dr Jonathan

Benjamin, A/Prof Jorg Hacker and Prof.

Geoff Bailey, in partnership with James

Cook University, University of Western

Australia, Airborne Research Australia,

University of York (UK), Aarhus University

(Denmark). The team will be bolstered

by the addition of new Flinders staff,

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Ingrid

Ward and Ph.D. Candidate Peter Ross.

The study of submerged landscape

archaeology is an under-researched

field in Australia and represents a major

opportunity to address knowledge gaps

in Australian archaeology since nearly

one-third of Australia’s landmass was

drowned after the last ice age. This

means that thousands of generations

of Australians, who lived on coastal

margins would have been living in areas

impacted by changing sea-levels during

the majority of the time since people

arrived here at least 50,000 years ago.

While over 3000 submerged prehistoric

sites have been found and recorded in the

Northern Hemisphere, none have been yet

identified on Australia’s continental shelf.

Submerged archaeological landscapes

offer a unique window into early human

occupation, cultural adaptation, land-use

and resource exploitation during a period

of dramatic global climate changes.

The ARC Discovery project will also

consider questions that relate to

submerged shell midden deposits, by

investigating known sites in the Baltic Sea.

Information obtained in Denmark will be

studied in order to better understand the

formation and preservation of submerged

features, which could have international

application, not only relevant here in

Australia, but also to the Americas,

Africa and Asia. Field campaigns are

scheduled to begin in 2017 and analysis

will be on-going until at least 2020.

The project will have an online web

presence and project blog which will

go live in the second quarter of 2017.

DR JONATHAN BENJAMIN, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Dr. Jonathan Benjamin records a submerged archaeological feature. Photo: E. Galili.

With 29 articles featured since 2012 and just over 285,000 reads, Dr Alice Gorman is one of Flinders University’s most successful contributors to The Conversation. In September 2016, PhD candidate, Bronwyn Lovell, authored The Conversation’s, ‘Friday essay: science fiction’s women problems’. This article attracted 41,855 reads (the most for a Flinders Conversation article that month), the attention of the media, as well as that of the current director of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Gorman and Lovell met in the Allan Bray Special Collection to discuss their research, communicating it to the public, and making it count for research impact.

Alice: We’ve both come to the space

world from very different angles, me as

an archaeologist and you as a poet. I

think we’re both a little bit iconoclastic

and using our work to shake things

up a bit. What’s your perception of the

potential of poetry to change ideas?

Bronwyn: I think poetry operates

outside of rational thought. Presenting

scientific facts might persuade a

person to decide to change their mind

on an issue, but an artistic approach

might move them emotionally and

prompt a profound change of heart.

Alice: I’ve quoted poetry in my own

science writing - to explore how people

felt about the Moon before and after the

Apollo moon landings in the 1960s, the

experience of seeing the surface of Pluto

for the first time when the New Horizons

spacecraft flew by in 2015, and even the

fall of Skylab! I think using multiple ways to

communicate science is important, which

is why I like writing for The Conversation.

Bronwyn: Is that because, as a publishing

venue, you find it more open to creative

ways of approaching academic writing?

Alice: Absolutely. Everything still

has to be backed up by evidence,

but there’s much more scope to

pull multiple themes together to say

something interesting. I can talk about

quantum computing and European

colonial history in the same article.

Bronwyn: Yes, I think that’s the appeal of

articles in The Conversation. When I receive

The Conversation’s daily email in my inbox,

I read outside of areas I might normally,

because the information is presented in a

way that is interesting and accessible to

the general public. The publication attracts

a much broader audience than a closed-

access, subject-specific peer-reviewed

journal might allow. Perhaps that’s why

they called it ‘The Conversation’: it draws

people from different backgrounds into

the discussion and reveals the wider

relevance of academic findings beyond

their respective fields. It encourages

interdisciplinary connections.

Alice: What I love about your work is

that is draws together such diverse

strands into something new - space

exploration, feminism, science fiction,

planetary science, futurism - and very

controversial contemporary politics. You

stepped into the fraught waters of the

Hugo Awards with your Friday Essay on

Science Fiction’s Woman Problem. That

was a very courageous thing to write....

Bronwyn: It was a commissioned piece,

so I have to thank The Conversation’s Arts

and Culture Editor Suzy Freeman-Greene

for encouraging me to write it after she read

a review I’d written on Letters to Tiptree in

Limina journal earlier that year. The essay

did cover controversial territory about

gender diversity in science fiction, and it did

provoke quite a response. It had more than

40,000 reads on The Conversation, and

was picked up by the ABC news website

as well. I was approached by some

interstate radio programs for interviews

and I received emails from a whole lot of

people, including the current director of

the Arthur C. Clarke Award, who was really

generous and supportive. However, not all

the responses I received were so positive.

But I think that is unfortunately to be

expected when taking a feminist stance as

a writer-activist. I received some backlash

from both men and women, which can

A C O N V E R S AT I O NA B O U T T H E C O N V E R S A T I O NSpace Archaeologist Dr Al ice Gorman and Fl inders Creative Writ ing PhD Candidate , Browyn Lovel l , discuss their work and communicating it to the public

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feel confronting. The whole experience

was somewhat overwhelming, but it was

rewarding too, and I’m glad I did it.

Alice: I think my biggest impact came

from an article about the Aboriginal

music on the Voyager golden records

- only a few thousand people read it,

but the research I presented has now

been incorporated into the Australian

Government’s Indigenous music web

page, and numerous online sources about

the records. It’s far more immediate and

accessible than journal publication - which

can be a double-edged sword sometimes,

as your experience shows. I think every

academic should try it at least once!

Bronwyn: That article you wrote about

the Aboriginal music featured on the

Voyager record is so important and

it’s great that it’s open access via The

Conversation. Also, you should know

that the article you mentioned earlier, in

which you looked at poetry to consider

cultural perceptions of the Moon, is the

reason I moved interstate to study here

at Flinders with you as my supervisor.

One thing prospective contributors should

be aware of is that The Conversation

doesn’t pay. That surprised me, and I think

it’s disappointing to be honest. It’s a pity

the publication doesn’t receive funding

to pay writers. Because that could be a

great thing for struggling PhD students.

Alice: The Conversation is more like the

academic journal economy in that respect

- people put huge numbers of hours and

hard intellectual work into writing, revising,

reviewing, and editing, all unpaid, for the

big publishing houses to profit from. We

have no choice about participating in

that economy because our performance

is measured by it. By contrast, The

Conversation is not-for-profit and assists

us by providing metrics about our impact

that we can use in grant applications and

applying for promotion. That’s fine for fully

waged academics, but it might be worth

proposing payment for struggling PhD

students - it can make a difference.

Bronwyn: I enjoyed our trip to

Special Collections to see the Allan

Bray Science Fiction Collection.

Alice: Wasn’t it a blast? Have to go back!

The Allan Bray Science Fiction Collection, is held in the Flinders University Central Library’s Special Collections.

The collection was donated to the library by Mrs Lesley Bray in June 2000. The collection had belonged to her husband, Allan Bray (1937-1998). Mr Bray had been a keen science fiction collector, as well as an amateur theatre director. It consists of approximately 330 feet of books and 93 feet of periodicals dating from the 1930s to the 1990s. Parts of the collection, including all the periodicals, have been catalogued and can be found by searching for Allan Bray Science Fiction Collection in FindIt@Flinders.

Photos: Elizabeth Weeks

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Last July the Flinders University Philosophy

Department was privileged to host a

conference for one of the most important

living moral philosophers, Professor Cora

Diamond from the University of Virginia.

Diamond is also one of the most

controversial moral philosophers: her

work challenges most of the assumptions

that define the discipline, and in a

career of more than 40 years she has

outlined an alternative view of moral

thinking on a large and brilliant canvas.

Some thirty or so of her Australian

admirers gathered at the Victoria Square

campus for a two-day symposium to

celebrate this work – with Diamond

as the guest of honour. She delivered

the opening address, which outlined,

in fresh ways, many central themes of

her work, and displayed its continuing

relevance to some recent mainstream

theorizing, especially the growing

trend to seek ethical understanding

from sciences like psychology.

A distinguished list of speakers

followed. Some spoke directly on

Diamond’s work, such as Associate

Professor David Macarthur (Sydney)

on Diamond’s relevance to art, and our

own Associate Professor Craig Taylor

on Diamond’s form of ‘realism’ in ethics.

Other speakers discussed topics of

their own in a Diamond-ian spirit, e.g.

Associate Professor Chris Cordner

(Melbourne) on ‘Unconditional Love’.

It is intended that these and other

papers will be published in a festschrift

for Diamond to be edited by Taylor

and his colleague Andrew Gleeson.

DR ANDREW GLEESON, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

MORALITY IN A REALISTIC SPIRIT

A conference held in honour of Cora Diamond

Cora Diamond is Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Virginia and author of The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind .

Diamond visiting Clealand Wildlife Park during her stay in Adelaide.

CHANGE, COMMEMORATION, COMMUNITY

22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference

The 22nd Australasian Irish Studies

Conference was held over four days in

November and December at Flinders

in the City and was the first time the

conference had been held in South

Australia. This reflects the growth

of Irish Australian Studies in South

Australia. The conference title ‘Change,

Commemoration, Community’ centred

on the centenary of Ireland’s fight for

independence in the 1916 Rising in Dublin.

The conference keynote speakers were:

Professor David Fitzpatrick from Trinity

College, Dublin who controversially

proposed four fallacies about the Rising;

Professor Melanie Oppenheimer from

Flinders’ Department of History and

International Studies, who shed new

light on the fate of the families whose

breadwinners were killed during the

Rising and who were subsequently

assisted by volunteers under the banner

of The White Cross; and Dr Maggie

Ivanova from Flinders’ Drama, who

posed questions about the premier

staging in English of Swedish playwright

Augustus Strindberg’s play Easter two

months before Ireland’s Easter Rising.

The newly appointed Irish Ambassador

to Australia, Breandáin Ó Collaí and his

wife Carmel were among the conference

dinner guests held at Ayers House, which

was chosen because the building was

designed by George Strickland Kingston,

Deputy Surveyor to Colonel Light

who was born and educated in County

Cork, arriving in South Australia in 1836

aboard the Cygnet. Other early Irish-born

founders were acknowledged in the bus

tour on the conference Tuesday: Colonel

and Robert Torrens, father and son (County

Derry and Count Cork), Judge John

Jeffcott (Tralee, County Kerry), and Charles

Harvey Bagot, founder of the Kapunda

copper mine and hailing from Nurney,

County Kildare. The conference organisers

were supported by Flinders’ students

Darragh Kearns and Brendan Kearns.

DR DYMPHNA LONERGAN, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, CREATIVE WRITING & AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

Front L to R : Susan Arthure , Dymphna Lonergan, Ambassador Breandán Ó Caollaí and his wife, Carmel Callen.Back row L to R: Katrina Wilson, Stephanie James, Fidelma Breen

In August 2016 Dr Amy Matthews and

Flinders University partnered with Romance

Writers of Australia to deliver a large-

scale international conference, bringing

together scholars, writers, publishers,

editors, agents and booksellers. Harlequin

(HarperCollins) was the major industry

partner, with other partners including

the Flinders Institute for Research in the

Humanities, the Centre of Excellence for

the History of Emotions, the International

Association for the Study of Popular

Romance, the Journal of Popular

Romance Studies, Penguin Random

House, Hachette, Dymocks, Jolleys

Boathouse Restaurant, the Australian

Romance Reader’s Association, the

SA Writers Centre and Fuji Xerox.

The core conference on August 20-21 had

401 registered delegates, with another 260

attending a writing masterclass on Friday

19th August, and another 150 attending

a public lecture at the Stamford Plaza on

Thursday 18th August, making the total

conference attendance 811 people. The

core program featured six concurrent

streams over two days, with an academic

stream (focused on Popular Romance

Studies on the Saturday and the History

of Love on the Sunday), a publishing

stream, and four writing/industry streams.

Our keynote speakers for the academic

streams were Professor Catherine Roach

from New College at the University of

Alabama (Catherine also writes romance

under the name Catherine LaRoche and

was the first recipient of the Romance

Writers of America academic grant and

a key scholar in the field of Popular

Romance Studies; her scholarly book,

Happily Ever After: the romance story in

popular culture, was released in 2016);

Professor Stephanie Trigg from the

University of Melbourne headlined our

History of Love stream; and Dr Danijela

Kambaskovic from University of Western

Australia spoke in her capacity as the

leader of the Love research node of the

Centre for the History of the Emotions.

The keynotes and major speakers for the

core conference were New York Times

bestseller of more than 100 novels,

Heather Graham; Daphne du Maurier

Award-winning husband and wife writing

team Nikoo McGoldrick and Professor Jim

McGoldrick (writing as May McGoldrick

and Jan Coffey); Hollywood screenwriter,

script consultant, and story developer

Michael Hague; and Australian bestselling

authors Fiona McIntosh, Keri Arthur,

Anne Gracie, and Rachael Johns.

The conference had major national

impact, with stories and interviews

with the authors syndicated to national

papers including The Age and The

Australian, and the conference hashtag

(#RWAus16) trending number one on

Twitter over the course of the weekend.

The scholarly outputs from the conference

include publications in The Journal

of Popular Romance Studies and an

anthology of creative work to be published

by Midnight Sun in August 2017 (featuring

many Flinders University students

alongside published authors, and co-edited

by Dr Amy Matthews and postgraduates

in Flinders Creative Writing program).

DR AMY MATTHEWS, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, CREATIVE WRITING & AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

AIN’T LOVE GRAND

Romance Writers’ Association of Australia’s 25th Anniversary


Student literacy and writing development

are responsibilities shared across the

University and, the best strategies take

a cross-curricular and institution-wide

approach to place literacy at the centre

of student experience. Organized and

facilitated by Karen Orr Vered, ‘From the

Margins to the Centre: The Future of

University Literacy Support and Writing

Across the Curriculum’ brought together

eight guest speakers and sixty-six

delegates from across Australasia to

discuss and reflect upon policies and

practices in support of undergraduate

student literacy and writing in the region.

Showcasing and interrogating a selection

of paradigm-busting practices, From

the Margins to the Centre provided

an opportunity to speak across the

boundaries that segregate us into

disciplines, professions, structural

silos, and administrative allegiances.

An Ian Potter Foundation grant supported

Lisa Emerson’s presentation (Massey, NZ)

on writing in the sciences. Lisa discussed

her qualitative research about how the

writing practices of scientists inform their

pedagogy and engagement with student

writers. In order to teach writing to the next

generation, she said, science writers need

a vocabulary about writing and should

focus on the process of writing rather than

the product by viewing writing as thinking.

In the closing discussion, delegates

called for the development of an online

Australasian writing resource and for an

expanded symposium to be held next

year including colleagues from Asian

universities and with a dedicated focus

on Indigenous writing practices. A peer

reviewed publication on whole of institution

approaches to literacy and student

writing is currently in development.

For the full program, speakers, and

photographs, please visit the website: www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/firth/firth-

conferences/from-the-margins-to-the-centre

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, KAREN VERED, DEPARTMENT OF SCREEN & MEDIA

FROMTHE MARGINSTO THE CENTRE

The future of university literacy support and writing across the curriculum

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U P D A T E

P O S T G R A D U AT E A S S O C I AT I O N

It was another positive year for WHIP

and the Humanities and Creative Arts

Postgraduate Association. The annual

April conference was a huge success,

allowing our continuing students the

chance to present on their progress,

while also introducing some new faces

on the commencing student panel.

While the WHIP Lock-Ins continued this

year, the HCA Postgraduate Association

introduced a few new initiatives to help

bolster the postgrad sense of community,

and to offer some practical guidance

about the more daunting aspects of

the RHD experience. These initiatives

included seminars, WHIP Arounds, end of

semester celebrations, and a newsletter.

Our first seminar, ‘Preparing for

Conferences’, was delivered by Dr

Gillian Dooley in September. The session

considered essential aspects like where

to look for CFPs, how to approach writing

abstracts, and how to manage the logistics

of getting to international locations.

The first WHIP Around took place in

August, and Dr Eric Parisot joined us to

give some practical tips about the RHD

journey, as well as some valuable insights

into his own pathway through academia.

Our second WHIP Around in October was

an informal opportunity for students to

report back on their individual progress.

Our newsletter, The Whipping Post,

has been a triumph, providing another

platform for students to spread the word

about opportunities, performances,

achievements, meet-ups, and general

tips and tricks for postgraduate survival.

We’re excited to see what happens

next for WHIP, and look forward to

its continuing success in 2017.

PETER BEAGLEHOLE, ALICIA CARTER, AND ZOË WALLIN

‘WHIP ’ : Work (H onest ly ! ) I n Progress

The annual 2016 WHIP conference. Photos: Stefano Bona.

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Grants

Dr Jonathan BenjaminARC Discovery Project entitled ‘The Deep History of Sea Country: Climate, sea level and culture’ ($597,000).

Prof. Julian MeyrickARC LIEF entitled ‘Visualising venues in Australian live performance research’ (‘Phase 6’ of an ongoing AusStage project) ($465,000).

Dr Ian MoffatARC DECRA entitled ‘The Drumbeat of Human Evolution: Climate Proxies from Rockshelter Sediments’ ($346,536).

Dr Martin PolkinghorneARC Discovery Project with the University of Sydney (CI: Professor Roland Fletcher) entitled ‘Urbanism after Angkor (14th-18th century)’ (total funding: $787,945).

Dr Daryl WesleyARC DECRA entitled ‘Rock art as proxy for environmental change’ ($359,586).

Dr Jeffrey GilChinese Language and Culture In-country Program, Consortium between Flinders University and Charles Darwin University ($27,500; single-year funding shared across both universities)Partners: Charles Darwin University and Anhui Normal University.

Dr Eric ParisotFletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship (Huntington Library, US$3,000) and the Franklin Research Grant (American Philosophical Society, US$4,500). This project is dedicated to examining the Larpent Collection for staged and unlicensed depictions of suicide in eighteenth-century drama, and the emotions likely to be elicited - and indeed feared by authorities - by such representations.

Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants

A/Prof. Eric Bouvet and his team (Dr Daniela Rose, Dr Maria Palaktsoglou, Lynn Vanzo, Javier Diaz and Dr Rossi von der Borch) for their project: Enhancing language students’ WIL learning experience in the community through the development of a framework for language placements.Awards.

A/Prof. Jane Haggis, Dr. Antonella Strambi, and Dr Jessie Jovanovic for Risky business and knowledge partners: A pilot learning initiative for socialised personal learning to nurture innovative resilient cultures in Humanities and Social Sciences students at Flinders University.

Awards

Dr Christèle Maizonniaux and Dr Son Vivienne were awarded the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Researchers in recognition of their outstanding contributions as ECRs.

Prof. Claire Smith was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the World Archaeological Congress.

Dr Alice Gorman was shortlisted for the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2016, shortlisted for ‘Pluto and the human gaze’.

Dr Danielle Clode’s, Prehistoric Marine: Life in Australia’s Inland, was awarded a Whitley Award for Popular Zoology.

Dr Susan Arthure was awarded the Best Research Higher Degree Student Publication for her paper: ‘Being Irish: The Nineteenth Century South Australian Community of Baker’s Flat’, Archaeologies, 11 (2), 2015, 169-188.

Dr Luciana d’Arcangeli won a prestigious Premio d’Italia award in recognition of her fostering of Italian culture.

A/Prof. Karen Vered was the recipient of a 2016 citation from the Australian Awards for University Teaching for ‘Leadership in pedagogy that moves literacy development from the margins to the core of student learning experience and teaching practice - making writing everyone’s business.’

A/Prof. Giselle Bastin received a 2016 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.

Major Publications

Old and New, Tried and Untried: Creativity and Research in the 21st CenturyProf. Jeri Kroll, Andrew Melrose and Jen Webb (eds)Published by The Learner, a book imprint by Common Ground Publishing

The Fiction of Thea AstleyEmeritus Prof. Susan Sheridan, Cambria Press

Graila play by Rosalba Clemetepublished in The Kennedy Center New Visions New Voices 25 years / 25 playsDeirdre Kelly Lavrakas and Kim Peter Kovac (eds),The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, American Dramatic Press

Border CrossingsProf. Diana Glenn and Emeritus Prof. Graham Tulloch (eds), Wakefield Press

Places for Happiness: Community, Self, and Performance in the PhilippinesDr William Peterson, University of Hawaii Press

Ageing Between Cultures: The experiences and challenges of Italian migrants in South AustraliaDr Daniela Rose (ed), Troubador Publishing Ltd, Leicester, UK

Bound for EdenDr Amy Matthews (Tess Le Sue), Harlequin

S U C C E S S


This image formed part of the ‘Technologies of Memory and Affect’ art exhibition and shows the recipients of ten years of Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Funding (for projects commencing 2008-2017) colour coded by gender. Number of projects: 678 (led 579 times by men; 85.4% of all project leads). Red nodes: Male investigators (79%). Blue nodes: Female investigators (21%). Edges are coloured by mixing the colour of the source (lead investigator) node and target (other investigators) node. Curved edges are used, with the direction of the edge being clockwise from the source (lead) node to the target (other investigators) node. Average project team size = ~12

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Image:LIEF Grant Research Networks,Deb Verhoeven and Stuart Palmer


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Production and DesignElizabeth Weeks

Copy EditorsMelinda Graefe and Elizabeth Weeks

ContributorsTully BarnettPeter BeagleholeAlicia CarterGillian DooleyWendy van DuivenvoordeJulie ErhartAndrew GleesonDiana GlennAlice GormanMelinda GraefeDymphna LonerganBronwyn LovellAmy T MatthewsJulian MeyrickRobert PhiddianHeather RobinsonCraig TaylorKaren VeredSon VivienneZoë WallinElizabeth Weeks

Cover imagePeriodicals from the Allan Bray Science Fiction Collection, held in the Flinders University Central Library’s Special Collections. Photo: Elizabeth Weeks

FIRtHInstitute DirectorCraig Taylor

Research SupportJoyTenannt / Elizabeth Weeks

Advisory GroupTully BarnettGillian DooleyKate DouglasJeffrey GilSteve HemmingMelanie OppenheimerCraig TaylorAnne ThompsonMichael TsianikasWendy van Duivenvoorde

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