Historian living on Wurundjeri Country, who collaborates with Nyungar people, archivists and curators to reveal hidden stories about the past.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined November 2017
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Very excited to see this book in print, @AlexRoginski !!!! Great cover
Great to be working with #Entangledknowledges team @NHM_Library on a portfolio of fish rich with Menang Kaartdijin from 1841! @NHM_London @Deakin @nma @wamuseum @WestOzFish @clarkers @beardiddley
Yes! Can’t wait to read this, Alex!
Well it's definitely real when there's both a cover AND a website.
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Our ARC Entangled Knowledges project, unpacking a fish collection rich in Menang Noongar knowledge, with Menang families. @WestOzFish @clarkers @beardiddley @NHM_Library @NatHistGirl @nma @coyne_shona @NtlMuseumsScot @wamuseum @agpaterson abc.net.au/news/2022-11-30/m… via @ABCaustralia
I’m learning so much here in Menang Country. It is an honour to hear Menang fishing stories, ancient and new, and connect them to fish sketches, specimens and objects. @clarkers @NHM_Library @NtlMuseumsScot @SSNDeakin @WestOzFish @wamuseum @DeakinArtsEd
This week Andrew Kitchener from @NatSciNMS & I are in Albany on Menang country w/the ARC Entangled Knowledges team @TShellam to discuss fish & mammal specimens & Menang objects brought together by Scot commissariat officer Robert Neill in the 1840s currently held @NtlMuseumsScot
Please circulate this exciting opportunity!
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The Queen's complicated legacy for Indigenous Australians abc.net.au/news/2022-09-11/w…
Really looking forward to this tonight!
Very excited to be talking on Late Night Live tonight with @PhillipAdams_1 about histories of self-improvement, work undertaken as part of my Currey Memorial Fellowship at @statelibrarynsw. Join me for fitness, banana diets and DIY therapies. @LNLonRN
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Beautiful uncovering by Gaye Sculthorpe. How one of Australia's earliest surviving Aboriginal artefacts ended up lost in Paris abc.net.au/news/2022-07-07/g…
Thanks @clarkers it was a really stimulating morning and fantastic to hear about the ways in which academics, curators and other researchers are working across disciplinary boundaries in science, history and beyond!
Fantastic workshop organised by the amazing @TShellam it was great to hear about the variety of work being undertaken on institutional histories, networks of collections and the push to work outside of disciplinary silos.
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And great to look through the Robert Neill watercolors with @clarkers and Dr Andrew Kitchener, courtesy of @NHM_Library
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Thank you @Epi_Vaccaro for blogging about our article in Studies in WA History with @agpaterson It was great to work on this collection! Collecting the West and the NHM Petrology collection | Curator of Petrology naturalhistorymuseum.blog/20…
Thanks @clarkers for sharing the local/global networks of empire from this 🐠 collection. With Menang families and researchers, @WestOzFish @agpaterson @coyne_shona, Ross Chadwick, Shino konishi, Ian Coates @NtlMuseumsScot @NHM_London @nma @wamuseum @UWAresearch @Contemp_History
When researching museum collections also reveals the colonial histories of your local area ➡️ The ARC project 'Entangled Knowledges: Kaartdijin, Science and History in the Robert Neill collection' led by @TShellam examines Menang cultural heritage held @NtlMuseumsScot @NHM_London
This story, unearthed by @clairemoodie deserves wide readership. Monastic land at New Norcia bought by Andrew Forrest has an extraordinary Stolen Generations history @Contemp_History @deakinresearch abc.net.au/news/2022-02-16/h… via @ABCaustralia
Congratulations to @GraceKarskens for People of the River winning #PMLitAwards in Australian History. A beautiful book full of important stories. Congratulations to all shortlisted authors: @JasonMGib @AmandaHarrisSyd @markdhistory and Michael Bennett!
I am really looking forward to this exciting symposium on the dynamic history of global encounters! @coyne_shona
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On the anniversary of the Tandanya declaration on archives, our ARC team ‘Ancestors’ Words’ were honoured to give the Geoffrey Bolton Lecture. You can listen to our yarning here. Thank you @StateRecordsWA and @StateRecordsWA and Sarah Tout!
Listen to the story of an extraordinary project at bit.ly/GBL2021Yarning - the 2021 Geoffrey Bolton Lecture: Yarning Ancestors Words - with thanks to the research team @CurtinUni and @Deakin and the amazing Sarah Tout from @useyourvoicebox #WalkingTogether #Yarning #Archives
Read this!! Remarkable story and important research by @BuchananRachel about Taranaki and the long journey home for the epa! abc.net.au/news/2021-10-20/s…
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Thanks to the State Records Office of Western Australia and Sarah Tout for producing this podcast about a petition for land by Nyungar men in 1886. Thanks to Darryl Kickett, Anna Haebich and archivists at @StateRecordsWA @Contemp_History @deakinresearch
Listen to (or read) this second podcast in our series Voices of the #Archives - bit.ly/MMPod2 - produced by the very talented Sarah Tout from @useyourvoicebox with @TShellam and the Ancestors Words team #WalkingTogether #Yarning #Archives