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Q&A with Madeline G.P. Robinson, author of Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects: A Manual

Q&A with Madeline G.P. Robinson, author of Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects: A Manual
Madeline G.P. Robinson is an archaeologist at the University of Sydney. Madeline specialises in 3D photogrammetry modelling and has worked at several sites in Australia and overseas, above and underwater, since graduating from USYD with a Science and Arts degree and first-class honours. Over the past few years, Madeline has been working with the Chau Chak Wing Museum developing an online catalogue of 3D modelled objects and is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Sydney.

Q&A with Carmel O’Shannessy and Myfany Turpin, co-authors of Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle

Q&A with Carmel O’Shannessy and Myfany Turpin, co-authors of Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle

Carmel O’Shannessy is an Associate Professor at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University. She was resident in Lajamanu community for four years (1998–2001), working to support the teaching and learning of Warlpiri and English in the bilingual education program in the school.

Myfany Turpin is an Australian Research Council fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney.

 

Q&A with John Tidmarsh, Author of After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan

Q&A with John Tidmarsh, Author of After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan
Dr John Tidmarsh is a specialist in the Hellenistic period, with extensive archaeological experience especially at Pella in Jordan and Jebel Khalid in Syria, as well as Nea Paphos in Cyprus and Torone in Greece. He was formerly President of the University of Sydney's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation and is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.

Q&A with Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley, Authors of Making Animals Public: Inside the ABC’s natural history archive

Q&A with Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley, Authors of Making Animals Public: Inside the ABC’s natural history archive
Ben Dibley is a visiting fellow at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. Gay Hawkins is an Emeritus Professor at...

Q&A with Richard Twine, Author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals

Q&A with Richard Twine, Author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals
Dr Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Relations (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, UK.

Q&A with Georgia Curran, editor of Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs

Q&A with Georgia Curran, editor of Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs
Georgia Curran is an anthropologist who has undertaken collaborative projects in Warlpiri communities since 2005. She is currently a research fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.

Q&A with Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors of The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

Q&A with Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors of The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

Chris Vening is an independent researcher in Australian colonial culture and a major contributor to the Charles Harpur Critical Archive.

Paul Eggert FAHA is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He is a scholarly editor, book historian and editorial theorist.

Q & A with Simon Chapman, author of Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction

Portrait image of Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman AO is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney where he ran public health advocacy and tobacco control courses...

Q & A with Peter Charles Gibson, author of Made in Chinatown

Q & A with Peter Charles Gibson, author of Made in Chinatown

Peter Charles Gibson’s Made in Chinatown was published in March this year. The book delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. We caught up with Peter to ask him a few questions about his motivations for writing the book, its significance and his writing process.

Q & A with Denise Varney, author of Patrick White’s Theatre

Colour photograph of two actors in a 21st century production of Patrick White's The Ham Funeral.

Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Australian theatre and performance, and modern and contemporary drama. Her new book, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018, explores how White’s plays have been staged and received over a period of 60 years, and offers a new analysis of his place in wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.

Image: a production of The Ham Funeral by Patrick White, State Theatre Company of South Australia. 

Q & A with Melissa Kennedy, editor of A Land in Between

A young woman with light brown hair wearing brown-and-blue checkered shirt and jeans covered in dirt, is shown excavating with a trovel. She is shown seated on the edge of the trench and looking down.

Melissa Kennedy is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia for the Project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is the editor of A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age, a book which documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours from the fourth through to the second millennium BCE (photo from the author archives).

Q & A with David Brooks, author of Animal Dreams

Q & A with David Brooks, author of Animal Dreams
David Brooks is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer and essayist. He has taught literature at various Australian universities and is honorary as...