Vannessa Hearman
@vhearman.bsky.social
Historian, writer, and university lecturer. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.
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I co-edited this bumper edition of Inside Indonesia no. 162, 'Indonesia and Timor-Leste Living Together' as we mark the 50th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in Timor-Leste and the Indonesian invasion. www.insideindonesia.org/indonesia-an...
I co-edited this bumper edition of Inside Indonesia no. 162, 'Indonesia and Timor-Leste Living Together' as we mark the 50th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in Timor-Leste and the Indonesian invasion. www.insideindonesia.org/indonesia-an...
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I co-edited this bumper edition of Inside Indonesia no. 162, 'Indonesia and Timor-Leste Living Together' as we mark the 50th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in Timor-Leste and the Indonesian invasion. www.insideindonesia.org/indonesia-an...
On the 34th occasion of the Santa Cruz shootings of protesters in Dili, Timor-Leste, we remember their sacrifice. Re-sharing this volume of writings and artistic work remembering the massacre. tlstudies.org/conference-p...
Conference Proceedings
The Santa Cruz Massacre, 1991: Thirty Years On. Now available to order or download: Proceedings of the 2021 TLSA International Symposium – The Santa Cruz Massacre, 1991: Thirty Years On. Hard-copie…
tlstudies.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
On the 34th occasion of the Santa Cruz shootings of protesters in Dili, Timor-Leste, we remember their sacrifice. Re-sharing this volume of writings and artistic work remembering the massacre. tlstudies.org/conference-p...
Here we go... the waiting is over.
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Here we go... the waiting is over.
A new chapter I just published with Brill on how oral history and testimonies have been used in Timor-Leste's independence campaign and their status as a potential resource for future generations. But what are the ethical, material and structural constraints? brill.com/display/book...
brill.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A new chapter I just published with Brill on how oral history and testimonies have been used in Timor-Leste's independence campaign and their status as a potential resource for future generations. But what are the ethical, material and structural constraints? brill.com/display/book...
Why does ABC News uses 'baku tembak' (crossfire) when the Balibo 5 journalists were murdered by Indonesian army operatives in October 1975? And the English version refers to 'murders'. Shame. #timorleste www.abc.net.au/indonesian/2...
Keluarga Jurnalis Australia yang Terbunuh Saat Baku Tembak Militer Indonesia Masih Cari Keadilan
Tahun ini adalah 50 tahun peristiwa Balibo Five, saat lima jurnalis Australia tewas saat meliput masa pendudukan Indonesia di Timor Leste. Keluarga masih berduka atas kehilangan orang yang mereka cint...
www.abc.net.au
October 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Why does ABC News uses 'baku tembak' (crossfire) when the Balibo 5 journalists were murdered by Indonesian army operatives in October 1975? And the English version refers to 'murders'. Shame. #timorleste www.abc.net.au/indonesian/2...
I'll be speaking at this event: The 80th anniversary of World War II & the formation of the #UN United Nations. What have we learnt and what may the next 80 years hold? Join us at
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.
September 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I'll be speaking at this event: The 80th anniversary of World War II & the formation of the #UN United Nations. What have we learnt and what may the next 80 years hold? Join us at
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.
Coming up in 2 days! Don't miss it.
Dr Samson Lim (Monash U) is giving the next seminar of the Historians of Southeast Asia Network (HiSEAs) on the 'feral territories' of Eastern Bangkok, Thailand. Intrigued? Join us on Thu 11 September, 4.00 pm AEST on Zoom:
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
September 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Coming up in 2 days! Don't miss it.
Dr Samson Lim (Monash U) is giving the next seminar of the Historians of Southeast Asia Network (HiSEAs) on the 'feral territories' of Eastern Bangkok, Thailand. Intrigued? Join us on Thu 11 September, 4.00 pm AEST on Zoom:
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
September 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Dr Samson Lim (Monash U) is giving the next seminar of the Historians of Southeast Asia Network (HiSEAs) on the 'feral territories' of Eastern Bangkok, Thailand. Intrigued? Join us on Thu 11 September, 4.00 pm AEST on Zoom:
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
Excited to be co-launching this book along with Dr Indah Utami from Universitas Negeri Malang - new and decolonial perspectives on Indonesian history. Join the Historians of SE Asia Network, 5.00 PM AEST Wed 27th, on Zoom.
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404...
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404...
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526
August 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Excited to be co-launching this book along with Dr Indah Utami from Universitas Negeri Malang - new and decolonial perspectives on Indonesian history. Join the Historians of SE Asia Network, 5.00 PM AEST Wed 27th, on Zoom.
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404...
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404...
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526
After a brief hiatus, the Historians of Southeast Asia network are back! Come join us for a book launch and discussion on Wed 27 August, 5.00 pm Melbourne time, on Zoom of @anupress.bsky.social new book (out Open Access on 21 Aug). #coloniality #decoloniality #sejarah
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
After a brief hiatus, the Historians of Southeast Asia network are back! Come join us for a book launch and discussion on Wed 27 August, 5.00 pm Melbourne time, on Zoom of @anupress.bsky.social new book (out Open Access on 21 Aug). #coloniality #decoloniality #sejarah
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Hamoris Lian Timor first show. Apollo Bay, Gadubanud
August 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hamoris Lian Timor first show. Apollo Bay, Gadubanud
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Economic inequality in Australia is the worst it has been in 20 years — if the goal is to improve living standards, our leaders should be addressing it.
~ Carl Rhodes
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
~ Carl Rhodes
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
Economic inequality in Australia is the worst it has been in 20 years — if the goal is to improve living standards, our leaders should be addressing it.
independentaustralia.net
August 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Economic inequality in Australia is the worst it has been in 20 years — if the goal is to improve living standards, our leaders should be addressing it.
~ Carl Rhodes
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
~ Carl Rhodes
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Five of the six primate species found in the Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands have traditionally been hunted. With widespread deforestation and the erosion of traditional practices that governed hunting behavior, all of the islands’ primates are now endangered news.mongabay.com/2025/05/indi...
Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates
SOUTH SIBERUT, Indonesia — As night falls over the Siberut jungle, a fire crackles inside the Tateburuk clan’s wooden home, or uma. The walls are covered in traditional Mentawai carvings of forest cre...
news.mongabay.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Five of the six primate species found in the Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands have traditionally been hunted. With widespread deforestation and the erosion of traditional practices that governed hunting behavior, all of the islands’ primates are now endangered news.mongabay.com/2025/05/indi...
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BOOK LAUNCH NEWS: You're invited to attend the launch of "Fathering: An Australian History"—details on the attached flyer.
@phavictas.bsky.social
@phavictas.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
BOOK LAUNCH NEWS: You're invited to attend the launch of "Fathering: An Australian History"—details on the attached flyer.
@phavictas.bsky.social
@phavictas.bsky.social
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** NEW REVIEW **
On the website, Peter Hobbins reviews Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation
aph.org.au/2025/08/book...
#auspol #COVID19 #Vaccines #healthhistory
On the website, Peter Hobbins reviews Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation
aph.org.au/2025/08/book...
#auspol #COVID19 #Vaccines #healthhistory
August 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
** NEW REVIEW **
On the website, Peter Hobbins reviews Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation
aph.org.au/2025/08/book...
#auspol #COVID19 #Vaccines #healthhistory
On the website, Peter Hobbins reviews Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation
aph.org.au/2025/08/book...
#auspol #COVID19 #Vaccines #healthhistory
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Release day. ffm.to/hamorisliant...
Various Artists - Hamoris Lian Timor
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July 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Release day. ffm.to/hamorisliant...
And with famine being increasingly human-induced, how does society deliver justice to famine victims? So many variables in a post-conflict, post-occupation country, such as East Timor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Challenges in the pursuit of justice for East Timor’s Great Famine (1977–1979)
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July 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And with famine being increasingly human-induced, how does society deliver justice to famine victims? So many variables in a post-conflict, post-occupation country, such as East Timor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
In 1979 Australian newspapers published images of famine in East Timor. What impact did famine images have in that particular case? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Australian News Photography and Contested Images of Famine in Indonesian-Occupied East Timor
The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 and subsequent military operations to suppress the East Timorese resistance led to widespread displacement and famine in 1977–79. With Indones...
www.tandfonline.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In 1979 Australian newspapers published images of famine in East Timor. What impact did famine images have in that particular case? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How does one mount an exhibition on women's history that is new, fresh and exciting in the context of a government intent on radical forgetting? Read about what I think are the manifest tensions. www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...
The absences that remain in a history of Indonesian women - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia
A quarterly magazine on the peoples of Indonesia - cultures, politics, economy and environment
www.insideindonesia.org
July 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
How does one mount an exhibition on women's history that is new, fresh and exciting in the context of a government intent on radical forgetting? Read about what I think are the manifest tensions. www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...
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#Tetum #TimorLeste on the airwaves. Speaking art and conflict in Timor-Leste, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina with #SBSTetum. Powerful photos by Bernardino Soares of the 12 November 1991 massacre survivors, 'Fitar/Scar', now on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. www.sbs.com.au/language/tet...
"Arte ho Paz": vizaun dame no perspetiva artista timoroan nian kona-ba funu no sosiedade
Espozisaun “Arte Dame nian: Arte Depois Funu” ne'ebe hatudu hosi artista visual Timor-Leste, Bosnia no Rwanda, ne’ebé esplora impaktu funu nian, rekonsiliasaun no esperansa liu hosi ekspresaun artísti...
www.sbs.com.au
March 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#Tetum #TimorLeste on the airwaves. Speaking art and conflict in Timor-Leste, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina with #SBSTetum. Powerful photos by Bernardino Soares of the 12 November 1991 massacre survivors, 'Fitar/Scar', now on at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. www.sbs.com.au/language/tet...
Proud to contribute to this beautiful #SBSTetum piece on 'Art of Peace' exhibition, part of Aust Research Council Linkage project hosted at Curtin University. Timorese artists on show, with artists from BiH & Rwanda at Art Gallery of Western Australia til 29 June 2025. www.sbs.com.au/language/tet...
"Arte ho Paz": vizaun dame no perspetiva artista timoroan nian kona-ba funu no sosiedade
Espozisaun “Arte Dame nian: Arte Depois Funu” ne'ebe hatudu hosi artista visual Timor-Leste, Bosnia no Rwanda, ne’ebé esplora impaktu funu nian, rekonsiliasaun no esperansa liu hosi ekspresaun artísti...
www.sbs.com.au
March 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Proud to contribute to this beautiful #SBSTetum piece on 'Art of Peace' exhibition, part of Aust Research Council Linkage project hosted at Curtin University. Timorese artists on show, with artists from BiH & Rwanda at Art Gallery of Western Australia til 29 June 2025. www.sbs.com.au/language/tet...
Reposted by Vannessa Hearman
IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: In Pursuit of Justice: Arnon Nampa, Article 112 and Human Rights in Thailand
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: In Pursuit of Justice: Arnon Nampa, Article 112 and Human Rights in Thailand
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
February 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: In Pursuit of Justice: Arnon Nampa, Article 112 and Human Rights in Thailand
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT
Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (NYLS)
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In Indonesia, a song censorship raises concerns about freedom of expression. Artists and activists decry the alleged intimidation of punk rock band Sukatani for their song that criticizes corrupt police officers, threatening freedom of expression in the country www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
In Indonesia, a song censorship raises concerns about freedom of expression. Artists and activists decry the alleged intimidation of punk rock band Sukatani for their song that criticizes corrupt police officers, threatening freedom of expression in the country www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
We need the Australian government to repeal the 'Jobs Ready Graduate' package. Who was it meant to benefit? It's hurting students.
Check out this post from President Michelle Arrow (@michellearrow.bsky.social) and VP Kate Fullagar (@kfullagar.bsky.social)on the current state of history in Australia on the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.bsky.social) blog:
A Saga and Other Stories: the Australian Historical Association | Historical Transactions
by royalhistsoc | Feb 24, 2025 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts | 0 comments
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February 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We need the Australian government to repeal the 'Jobs Ready Graduate' package. Who was it meant to benefit? It's hurting students.