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23/08/2022

Now that the rush of UniSQ Open Day is over, it's time to relax, put our feet up, and get engrossed in a good book. We're currently reading David Burton's The Man in the Water - our next featured book in the Alumni Book Club.

David will join Nike Sulway and Maria Arena in conversation this Thursday 25 August at 7pm.

Register here to join the webinar: https://bit.ly/3SR34hE

It's not to late to catch up on the assigned reading! 😉

20/08/2022

Phoenix Radio - Australia sat down with UniSQ alumnus and Lecturer in Theatre (in the School of Creative Arts) Dr David Burton to chat about his YA novel, The Man in the Water.

To listen to their chat, check out: https://bit.ly/3QLVyCR
And then for the chance to chat with David yourself, register for the next Alumni Book Club here: https://bit.ly/3SR34hE

19/08/2022

Our next Alumni Book Club is coming up, so make sure you pop down to your local bookstore this weekend (or your favourite e-bookstore) to grab your copy of our next book.

Man in the Water is a coming-of-age young adult thriller set in a rural mining town in Queensland and follows a teenager who launches an investigation into a mysterious dead body which promptly vanishes after he leaves to report it.

Author, UniSQ alumnus, and current UniSQ lecturer Dr David Burton will join Dr Nike Sulway and Dr Maria Arena in conversation about this novel next Thursday 25 August at 7pm.

Register to join the webinar here: https://bit.ly/3SR34hE

18/08/2022

We had so much fun last week, we're doing it again this week - at our Toowoomba campus!

It's University of Southern Queensland - Australia Open Day in Toowoomba this Sunday 21 August. Come along to tour our archaeology lab, meet the lecturers, and learn more about anthropology, English literature, history, international relations, and more!

We can't wait to meet you...

Check out the events and register to attend:

UniSQ Open Days give future students the opportunity to meet lecturers, tour campuses & experience student life. Register online today.

12/08/2022

What are your plans for this weekend?

Why not drop by University of Southern Queensland - Australia's Springfield campus to meet some of us and chat about the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Communications, or even a postgrad degree?

We also have fun sessions and activities about some of our majors, including English Literature, Social Justice, and Journalism.

When: Sunday 14 August, 10am-2pm
Where: UniSQ Springfield Campus

Check out the events and register to attend:

UniSQ Open Days give future students the opportunity to meet lecturers, tour campuses & experience student life. Register online today.

10/08/2022

A collection that Senior Lecturer in History Dr Jayne Persian has co-edited with Evan Smith and Vashti Jane Fox, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia (Routledge, Dec 2022), is also now available for pre-order at a discounted price.

‘This is an original and timely book with a stellar line-up of scholars. While research on the far right and fascism in Australia has grown over the years, anti-fascism and resistance have remained under explored and this book fills this significant gap magnificently.’
Aurelien Mondon, University of Bath, UK

Pre-order here:

Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the last century. In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social....

08/08/2022

Our Lecturer in Journalism Dr Caryn Coatney’s edited collection, Investigative Journalism in Changing Times: Australian and Anglo-American Reporting (Routledge, 2023) is now available for pre-order at a discounted price.

‘This is an important book, not just for journalism researchers, practitioners and educators, but for anyone concerned about the health of the Anglo-American democracies and the mechanisms which are supposed to ensure those in power are accountable to the rest. And isn’t that all of us?’
From the Book Foreword by Professor Ian Richards, Journalism Studies, University of South Australia

Pre-order here:

This book offers new insights into the crucial role of investigative journalism at a pivotal time of technological changes and upheavals. It surveys innovations and unexpected impacts of the field, from past and present challenges, and what may be in store for the future of the industry. The book be...

05/08/2022

📚 New publication alert! 📚

Associate Professors Kelly McWilliam and Jessica Gildersleeve have recently had their new, co-written article published, which brings together their expertise on Ana Kokkinos, Christos Tsiolkas, and trauma:
McWilliam, Kelly and Jessica Gildersleeve ‘Q***r disorientations in Only the Brave, Head On, and Blessed’, Studies in Australasian Cinema (2022).

Read it here:

In this article, we explore the orientation of q***r bodies to the city – and to Lisa French’s (2013) motif of ‘looking from the largely industrialised west at the city’ in particular – in three fi...

04/08/2022

Professor Laurie Johnson has published a review article, “Ancestry.com”, in Early Modern Digital Review (14.4, 2021), which is now available online, and in print in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme (44.4, 2021, 250-254). Laurie’s article outlines the use of the world’s largest digital genealogical resource for primary historical research into members of the playing industry in Shakespeare’s era, which he also demonstrated in a presentation to the School of Humanities and Communication Research Seminar series earlier this year. To access online = https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/emdr and https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref

Early Modern Digital Review (EMDR) is an online, open-access, and refereed journal publishing high-quality reviews of digital projects related to early modern society and culture. It is committed to productive evaluation of both established digital resources and recent tools and projects. Its publi...