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Engaging a new generation of students in Holocaust education
22 August 2022 The Holocaust is one of the darkest chapters in human history. Learning about the Holocaust can evoke empathy for minority groups persecuted worldwide, and can also help students better understand pertinent problems in our contemporary society, bigotry among them. Yad Vashem, the main Israeli Holocaust research and education...
We Bleed the Same: Reflections on an exhibition combating racism through the arts
17 June 2022 Are you a Star Wars fan? Ewan McGregor, lead actor and Executive Producer of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi TV miniseries posted a video message to millions of Star Wars fans on 1 June 2022 in support of his co-star, Moses Ingram, who was being racially vilified online. McGregor started by thanking the fans of the show but said that: …...
Thinking beyond heteropessimism: A Q&A with The Heteropessimist podcast
28 April 2022 One of this year’s ECR grant recipients was a project focused on Asa Seresin’s (2019) concept of ‘heteropessimism’. Seresin describes this concept as ‘performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness about the straight experience’ (2019). To emphasise just...
Combining art, technology, and law to tackle the difficult history of the Western Balkans
17 February 2022 Over the past decade, forensic aesthetics has emerged as a new interdisciplinary field, designed as a bridge between artistic and legal practice. Most commonly associated with the work of London-based research agency Forensic Architecture—a cohort of artists, architects, software designers, investigative journalists,...
Children’s picture books still overwhelmingly white, middle-class & heteronormative
16 December 2021 The call for the publication and use of diverse books for children is gaining momentum worldwide. Dr Helen Adam (Edith Cowan University) and Dr Sally Murphy (Curtin University) studied award-winning Australian picture books in 2019 and 2020. They argue that we have a long way to go before we realise the importance and potential...
Zines and social justice
13 January 2022 For many years, zines have been a means for diverse and often disadvantaged people to reject mainstream and technological modes of publication and communication in favour of low-fi, hand-made print. They have been associated with nostalgia, a commitment to craft, subversive or artistic self-expression, and the underground or punk...
