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response (500 words max)
Stephen Muecke has responded to Ken Gelder's review "Reading Muecke: Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture, and Indigenous Philosophy"
The Ethics of Research
Frances Peters Little responds
to Mitchell Roll's essay, Why
I Don't Want to be an 'Ethical' Researcher.
The Exodus of Humanities Academics from Australian Universities
Kerryn Goldsworthy, Adi
Wimmer, Philip Neilsen and Nicholas
Birns respond to Gillian Whitlock's essay Leaving
"ME".
Public Intellectuals in Australia
McKenzie Wark has responded to David
Carter's essay Public
Intellectuals, Book Culture and Civil Society; and
Ned Curthoys has responded to Ivor Indyk's essay: The Critic and the Public Culture: for example, Walter Benjamin.
The Stolen Generation
Professor Lowitja
O'Donoghue responds to the Murdoch press coverage of her interview
with journalist Andrew Bolt.
The Male Pair
Monique Rooney has
responded to Jennifer Livett's essay: Odd
Couples and Double Acts, or Strange but Not Always Queer: some male pairs
and the modern/postmodern subject.
Time
Paul Gillen has responded to Tom Griffiths's
essay: Travelling
in Deep Time:La Longue Duréein Australian History.
Biography
Biography and Black Holes is Leith
Morton's response to an essay by Cassandra Pybus: Dogs
in the Graveyard.
Breaking Taboos
Marcia Langton responds to Alexis Wright's
essay, Breaking
Taboos.
Aboriginal Sovereignty
Therese-M. Caiter responds to Philip Batty's
Saluting the dot-spangled
banner: Aboriginal Culture, National Identity and the Australian Republic.
Autobiography and Disinheritance
Moira McAuliffe responds to Brian
Castro's Dangerous
Dancing: Autobiography and Disinheritance.
Reviews of Andrew Riemer's Sandstone Gothic
Lisbet de Castro Lopo and Jillian
Dellit respond to Riemer's memoirs, which has been reviewed for AHR
by both Stephen
Knight and Melissa
Hardie.
Culture
Simon During's essay Teaching
Culture has had responses from
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Don Anderson (Australia),
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John Frow (Australia),
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Paul Salzman (Australia)
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and Rob van Kranenburg (Belgium)
The Body in History
Beth Spencer's article
D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history
has had responses from
Needing His Signature
Kerryn Goldsworthy's article
Needing His Signature has had responses from
OzlitCriture
Dean Kiley's article Un-Queer
Anti-Theory has had responses from both
After Mabo
Responses to Henry Reynolds After
Mabo What About Aboriginal Sovereignty? by:
Aboriginal Land Rights: Australia and the Mabo Judgment: a conference organised by the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 18-19 April 1996. Report by Tom Griffiths
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) updates.
The Wik decision:
Peter Read and
Tom Griffiths on the Wik decision.
The travelling Turn the Soil exhibition is a long-term national project exploring alternative stories about Australia with the aim of putting the Republican debate on more fertile ground. Both
have resulted from workshops run as part of this project.
Russia
Responses to Robert Dessaix's essay Russia:
the End of an Affair by:
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Professor Paul Thom, who also comments on the fact that the Australian National University has this year cancelled first year Russian,
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and Kevin Windle who addresses both the Dessaix article and Paul Thom's reasons for cancelling first year Russian at the Australian National University.
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If you wish to protest the decision please email Paul Thom.
The Virtual Library and the Humanities
In The Virtual Library and the Humanities:
a report Graeme Johanson, Don Schauder, and Edward Lim report on the
impact of the WWW upon humanities scholars and researchers. The report
is accompanied by a comprehensive
list of related sites.
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