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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 7d

How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · Aug 20

Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm

Please register here to attend in person or online

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Everyday aesthetics in place and memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance

This Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory seminar is held jointly with the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy. Emeritus Professor Tracy Ireland will examine the ...

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Can't wait to be back in Scotland in a few short weeks and to take the @everydayheritage.bsky.social roadshow to Stirling's exciting new @memoryplace.bsky.social

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · Aug 5

Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thanks for a fantastic Winter School experience. So wonderful to meet you and the emerging generation of scholars!

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Jun 24

Check out this fascinating post by Sharpay Wu, thinking about techonationalism and the recent film Ne Zha 2!

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National Treasures on the Big Screen: What Ne Zha 2 Can Tell Us about Techno-Nationalism - Asian Studies Association of Australia

Early this year, a BBC article reported that a Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 (2025) has become ‘a source of national pride.’ During my field trip to China in March this year, I was fortunate enough t...

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Jun 21

Yes! Independent session Contemporary archaeology and nuclear heritage

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Everyday Heritage @everydayheritage.bsky.social · Jun 3

PhD researcher Ieuan Rees presented his ongoing PhD project on local place plans, heritage, placemaking, and the everyday to a public audience at an Australia ICOMOS ACT talk on 21 May 2025. This event was supported by the Everyday Heritage ARC Linkage Project, GML Heritage and Australia ICOMOS.

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Jun 3

You are a bloody breath of fresh air Imogen! ☺️

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Everyday Heritage @everydayheritage.bsky.social · May 15

Pleased to share that Prof Tracy Ireland has been invited as the keynote speaker at the conference, Heritage & Conservation, in Beijing from 9-11 May 2025. It was a fascinating opportunity to share some of the work we have done for Everyday Heritage with audiences outside Australia #everydayheritage

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · May 6

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · May 6

Very excited to be heading to Beijing and the Centre for Ethical Studies at Renmin University to talk about the ethics and aesthetics of everyday heritage!

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Emlyn Breese @credittodubois.com · May 3

whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · May 3

Sad to see Dan Tehan retain his seat: he was the architect of Job Ready Graduates, one of the most destructive, punitive higher education policies we’ve ever seen. Labor needs to get rid of it as soon as possible

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate

Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Apr 23

New book on our Environment & Society Portal: Deborah Bird Rose's 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (ANU Press, 2024), edited by Darrell Lewis and Margaret Jolly. #EnvHum #CCBY

Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia

Full volume of Deborah Bird Rose's posthumous book Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Apr 3

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 31

In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.

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World Archaeological Congress @worldarch.bsky.social · Apr 1

🕊️ Call for Nominations: Peter Ucko Memorial Award
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!

🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Apr 1

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.

There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.

By @donnadlu.bsky.social

Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn

Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say

www.theguardian.com

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Mar 10

I'm very pleased to be a member of the academic committee for WAC-10 in June in Darwin. Please follow @worldarch.bsky.social to see exciting developments and hope to see you in Darwin in June!

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · Mar 1

👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University:

Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory.

'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y

Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory

This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past.

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Yes completely agree about this sad irony 🫠We didn't have funding for open access for this one unfortunately .

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Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Our collection 'Alternative Economies of Heritage' is now published! Easily available for those who have library subscriptions to Routledge! Proud of this collaboration with my University of Canberra colleagues Denise and Bethaney
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...

Alternative Economies of Heritage: Sustainable, Anti-Colonial and Creative Approaches to Cultural Inheritance

Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the...

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · Feb 24

This is appalling. Tim is about as open and public in his work as it's possible to be—the fact that the NLA shut off access, informed him by email, and then said 'get in touch if you want to have a conversation' feels more like Meta or X than a national library. Why not *start* with a conversation?

Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 24

Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 24

Many thanks to all the people supporting me on Bluesky! I can see your comments, but can't respond to them from here in the Fediverse unless your account is bridged via https://fed.brid.gy/

Bridgy Fed

<a href='https://fed.brid.gy/'>Bridgy Fed</a> is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the <a href='https://indieweb.org/'>IndieWeb</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse'>fediverse</a>, <a href='https://bsky.social/'>Bluesky</a>, and others. <a href='https://fed.brid.gy/docs'>More info here.</a>

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