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Uncommon choices: The Australian Festival of Travel Writing
I am attending the Australian Festival of Travel Writing at the University of Melbourne this weekend. I have never been to such an event and find it extremely useful as two important life narratives; travel and education- have come together. In my case, they have never really been linked except that a love of independent…
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
As part of their Meet the Filmmaker series, Underground: the Julian Assange story has been playing at Cinema Nova all this past week in Melbourne. The movie was principally made as a telemovie and was primarily funded by Channel 10 (and it was aired last year). Alex Williams, Laura Wheelright, and Robert Connolly The movie…
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War Horse in Melbourne
I was lucky enough to see War Horse in Melbourne recently. I usually see something other than high-end and popular international theatre productions but prefer local independent theatre (which has an extraordinarily vibrant community in Melbourne). I only saw Warhorse because my mother was in town, and I was familiar with it as I worked…
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Wanderlust
A personal project that I have been working on in my spare time over the past few months involved locating, digitising, tagging, and putting into neat little country boxes (on Flikr) all the photos that I have taken on my travels since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And there are a lot…
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Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!
It our pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH…
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Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive
Milkbar: The Everyday City and Globalisation was a project that sought to uncover some of the stories and concerns of some of the residents of Fitzroy, an inner-city Australian community. The videos assembled here are part of a larger project completed in October 2002 (more details below). Forty four people within the suburb were interviewed…
