This is a loooong time coming, but finally here is our three-part podcast on Unsettling Portraits! I undertook this with my good friend Michael McDonnell a few years ago. We interviewed our friends through 2023. We were lucky to have two wonderful sequential producers, Helene Thomas and Catherine Freyne; with executive producer History Lab, Impact … Continue reading Unsettling Portraits
OPENBOOK at the State Library of NSW asked me to write an essay about writing Bennelong & Phillip. It was fun to do; I also wrote this in reverse, as I wrote the book, reflecting on what the method gave me, how it felt for the book to come out in the same month as … Continue reading On Writing Bennelong & Phillip
In October 2023, I had the great honour of delivering the Annual Greg Dening Memorial Lecture in Melbourne. It does talk about my new book a bit but also talks about Greg Dening, his influence on me, and my growth as a historian (and also contemporary ACU shenanigans, which are ongoing). It's one of the … Continue reading Greg, Arthur, Bennelong, and Me
Reviewed in American Historical Review Sept. 2022. Oceanic metaphors do a lot of work in this new book by Sujit Sivasundaram. Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire analyses the “clash of waves” that occurred when Europeans moved into the Indo-Pacific region during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries... To … Continue reading Waves Across the South
Kate Fullagar 