History, Culture, Identity
Research projects in this theme
- Asian-Australian Public Policy Project
This project investigates the representation and engagement of Asian-Australian populations in public spheres. It particularly focuses on analysing their roles in education and research in major Australian universities, local and national policy making processes, and diplomatic relations with Asia and the Pacific. More information...
- Insights from the Invisible Drama: Shakespeare, Lost plays and Theatre History, circa 1585-1613
Over 700 plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries have been lost or exist only in fragmentary form, yet Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre continues to be understood exclusively in terms of plays that were printed or survived in manuscript. The purpose of this project is to add lost plays to scholarly discussions of early modern theatrical activity. More information...
- Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to present
This project aims to generate new and powerful understandings of the impact and experiences of child refugees in Australia throughout the twentieth century and early twenty-first century. The research will incorporate national, international, social, political and cultural discussions to produce a complex understanding of child refugees since 1920. More information...
- Minutes of Evidence Project: Promoting new and collaborative ways of understanding Australia's past and engaging with structural justice
The Minutes of Evidence project is a unique collaboration which creates a number of 'meeting points' to bring together leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous education experts, performance artists, researchers, and community members. These aim to promote new ways of publicly engaging with historical and structural injustice through education, performance, and research. More information...