September 2023 EdVic
September 2023 EdVic 4 September 2023 | Newsletters, September 2023 President’s report September 2023 By Margaret Trudgeon AE The new Editors Victoria committee has hit the ground running after the ABM back in July. Our new members are settling into their roles, after handovers and assigning email addresses,…
Year in review 2020 – Union House Theatre
Year in review 2020 – Union House Theatre Originally appears in UMSU’s Union House Theatre – Year in Review 2020
Broken Waves
I slip the lens cap into my jean pocket and fumble with the lens, zooming in and out, trying to frame the picture. I hate when I can’t capture the scene properly because people are blocking it from my view. Now this is different, there…
11th IPEd Editors Conference – my key takeaways
The 11th IPEd Editors Conference was packed with practical advice and food for thought and if I were to go into detail about everything that I found memorable, this article could fill a book! Instead, I’ll just share a few things that resonated with me…
FUTURE IMAGININGS: ‘REVIEW OF THE 37TH UFD CONFERENCE (NEW LAGOS), 2057’
*This is a fictitious conference review that emerged from a Heritage as Placemaking team discussion on decolonisation from the vantage point of various disciplinary backgrounds. As a creative experiment, we envisaged a future conference taking place in 2057, when decolonisation as an ongoing process might…
Heritage as Placemaking – Thirangie Jayatilake
Thirangie Jayatilake, MA, is a writer, editor, and storyteller. She has an undergraduate degree in literature and creative writing with a minor in mathematics from New York University and a master’s degree in creative writing, publishing, and editing from the University of Melbourne. She has…
International Institute for Asian Studies – NL 90
Originally appears in the International Institute for Asian Studies, The Newsletter, No. 90
Where were you?
Where were you when the apocalypse started? At least zombies are visible Corona is silent. They say the world came to a halt, It didn’t. It continued on cracked waves, jolting and spilling, creaking towards its ports but sometimes got abandoned. Everyone became poorer except…
Chatting About Our Latest Book with Author Jacinta Dietrich
He used to smell like laundry detergent. Even with cologne, you could smell him underneath. Always the same smell. I would nuzzle my face into his chest and breathe it in. They didn’t tell me his smell would change. Ella and Theo have just said…
My Year of Zoom and Isolations
I sat at my desk at home in Sri Lanka and stared into the black Zoom interface that read: ‘Please wait, the host will let you in soon.’ It was the last time I would feel those “first day of class” nerves, and I hoped…