Victoria Haskins
@VictoriaHaski10
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Joined September 2019
9/12 – Virtual Workshop, “The Portrait of Joanna de Silva, the native nursemaid from colonial Bengal”
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THIS EVENING Ayahs and Amahs project: Online exhibition goes live https://t.co/gDqVhMIPby via @uni_newcastle
newcastle.edu.au
The Ayahs and Amahs online exhibition brings to life the stories, memories and histories of the intrepid Indian and Chinese nursemaids who travelled the circuits of the British Empire in the ninete...
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The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese \ https://t.co/Rity6s4jgL via @uni_newcastle
newcastle.edu.au
Join Dr Sachiyo Tsukamoto and Purai Global Indigenous History Centre for the launch of her book, 'The Politics of Trauma and Integrity.'
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Film released today! 'Biraban and Threlkeld: Finding the Third Space' tells the story of a bilingual Aboriginal man, and a British missionary, who together undertook the first systematic study of an Aboriginal language anywhere in the country. Watch here: https://t.co/T9VKDSsdld
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And look out for this!
If you click on the link & register, you will be notified when the exhibition goes live. @clemloz has done a beautiful job of curating some of our research finds @VictoriaHaski10, swapna banerjee, @srishti_guha & @charmainehlam 😊
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Biraban and Threlkeld - really important history - a must watch
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Film released today! 'Biraban and Threlkeld: Finding the Third Space' tells the story of how two men became this nation’s first civil rights activists....
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conference paper out and available open access #ayahs
https://t.co/xZharTc0lI
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TikTok’s decision to use a woman’s voice without her permission is only one recent example of a problem that some mistakenly think we’ve moved past.
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Oral History Transcripts: Amahs in Singapore https://t.co/Pn980k3duo via @wordpressdotcom
ayahsandamahs.com
The collections of the National of Archives of Singapore include a series of oral history interviews with Chinese women who worked as amahs in Singapore between the 1930s and the 1980s. The intervi…
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We’re hiring! Lecturer in History and Asian Studies (3-4 year convertible tenure track contract, with possibility of Scientia research package). Seeking an expert in East Asia, with capacity to teach into History, Asian Studies, Gender Studies @UNSWADA
https://t.co/cdwtGYQ9Yt
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Locating Ayahs in Transit: A Passage to Australia and other Parts of the World https://t.co/0FjHtWTTWq via @wordpressdotcom
ayahsandamahs.com
As a social historian whose work focuses on domestic laborers in colonial India, I intend to unravel the story of Indian female domestic workers who travelled to Australia, directly or via England,…
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Ahh, now that Naomi has been informed that "death recorded" does NOT mean the person was executed, she thinks every death that is recorded does not mean the person has died.
"The claim of a worldwide pandemic should be subject to the strictest possible degree of verifiability. All the more so if one considers the inconceivably serious consequences that this will have for the people."
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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time. #digitalbooks
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So, this bloke saw all those shitty “unemployed ppl won’t work on farms!!” stories, so started applying to work on farms. And guess what — they all rejected him https://t.co/VLS64AgZAD
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Interesting thread
Why did Myanmar coup surprise many foreign analysts & diplomats, even though the generals telegraphed their intentions? Partly it's because predictions are hard, esp about the future. But there's another important factor behind what spies might call an intelligence failure 1/
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How did we find things out before Google? Remember going to the library!? | First Dog on the Moon
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Remember encyclopedias? They were expensive and racist and immediately out of date
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