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@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

When I went to a socially distant student rally today against uni cuts, I expected a police presence. I didn’t expect to see young students arrested in front of me and dragged away. Campus is open, classes are face-to-face, and suddenly these students are criminals?

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2 years

Went to the Australian War Memorial recently and was shocked to see Ben Roberts-Smith featured prominently throughout the exhibitions. Numerous soldiers have publicly testified that this man committed war crimes.Surely this unabashed celebration of his career is now problematic?

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4 years

@abcnews what are you doing? You follow up that press conference with @andrewprobyn passing judgement on the women's 'mental health' and calling #Christianporter a 'shattered man.' I feel sick

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

My friend died of cancer on Sat night in the UK. We were both diplo-brats from Canberra who did history at Sydney Uni, in the same Russian hist class, and then worked together as post docs. She was effervescent, irrepressible, brilliant, beautiful, I miss her. A jacaranda for her

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5 years

Confirmed as Lecturer in Australian history at the University of Sydney. Took me a few years, two babies etc, but que the relief, glad confirmation is done and probation over

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

So satisfying to watch Keating's take down of the Australian media which has egregiously encouraged pro-war rhetoric in Oz. Loved when Keating brought the spotlight of Australian moral grandstanding to bear on our dismal record re indigenous deaths in custody #AUKUS

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7 months

Thrilled that this book has a cover. Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, Gregor Benton have done a beautiful job with this ed. book (I provide the epilogue) braiding economic hist into the deep rhythms of overseas Chinese mobility in the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australasia. Out July

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2 years

@JanSlapeta @Sydney_Uni . @Sydney_Uni this shows that the current way of approaching hybrid teaching isn't working. We need a rethink. Lectures are a vital part of university life and can provide transformative moments in students' education. We need to value them. The current model does not.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

My daughter attends a public school, I attended a public school and my granddads were both public school teachers. Teachers need proper pay and proper support and at the moment they have neither. Tomorrow I'm supporting the NSW teachers’ strike @TeachersFed #MoreThanThanks

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@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

#chinozhist #ozhist happy to be on my 1st ARC, 'Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive,' with @AdrianVickers5 , Cat Moir, Josh Stenberg, Yixu Lu, Sonia Wilson, Rebecca Suter, Giorgia Alu Have missed out before, sad for the stellar researchers not funded

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

I'm thinking about all the scholars, many friends, who relocated their lives, their families across the country, across the world to work at ACU because they were promised good jobs, stability in unstable times. Academic 'change plans' rip lives, families apart, and for what?

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4 years

Imagine cutting HSTY2659 American Slavery at a time like this ? Well that’s what @usyd just went and did, along with HSTY2622 America in World Affairs and HSTY2626 Facism and Anti-Facism. This is part of a larger attack on course offerings in history, with 35% of courses cut

David Brophy

@Dave_Brophy

4 years

3 more History units getting the chop at #USyd - we've now lost 7 (35%) for Semester 2. At a time like this, do we really want to be taking these out of the curriculum? America in World Affairs: A History - HSTY2611 American Slavery - HSTY2659 Fascism and Antifascism - HSTY2626

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3 years

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11 months

In Innisfail, Queensland in 1928 Octavio Sorli walked into a cafe run by George Kolisperis and knocked his tooth out. Both men are long gone but the tooth - the tooth my friends - its still here, waiting for me innocently (or not so innocently) in the archives today.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

6 months

Lost another beautiful person to cancer, this time a young history student of mine. She was brilliant, a historian of indigenous Australian political movements. Someone deeply cognisant that true happiness in this world is always collective,always shared. This life is so fragile

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

With thanks to the Old Shops Australia fb page - a typically elegant Max Dupain shot of the Hacienda espresso cafe, Hunter St Sydney 1957.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Very special, emotional to have @hannahforsyth at the University of Sydney this morning for History of Wednesday organised by my brilliant colleagues @Niro_Kan and @find_findlay . Here is Hannah and her 🔥CUP new book which, like all her work, tackles inequality but finds hope

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@SophieLoyWilson

8 months

Ah Kam, a Chinese market gardener in Melbourne relentlessly harassed by larrikins in 1914 who fought back with the gun he kept to protect himself & kept notes on the racial abuse he received; he recited the exact language back to police because he had recorded it, years of abuse.

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@SophieLoyWilson

10 months

In my experience some of the best teaching in universities is done by those in precarious positions (so join your #NTEU ) so I take our team award with a large grain of salt, but it felt so good to be celebrating with my Department tonight, to be with historians & friends I love

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Still in a bit of shock . Thank you my wonderful friend @Briony_Neilson , who has put up with me since 2006 when we first met . Very happy . Very grateful . Sad for those who missed out . Grateful for all the many many people who helped me

Briony Neilson

@Briony_Neilson

3 years

Oh wow! Thrilled for dear colleague and friend @SophieLoyWilson who's just been granted a DECRA for her project on "Chinese Business: Economic and Social Survival in White Australia, 1870-1940"! Just wonderful news.

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Two PERMANENT history jobs in my department here at Usyd for ECRs. Come work with us.

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

@SholaMos1 Dr Mos-Shogbaminu I don’t know you , but you seem like a really great academic . Do you know these individuals personally ? Why publicly degrade them ? Do you know about their private lives apart from press coverage which we know is unreliable ? Seems cruel of u

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 months

Bei Hai park 北海公园 grounds in Beijing almost exactly twenty years apart (ok so second pic the Hou hai 后海 end) . July 1994 and July 2024. Still a diplo-brat at heart I guess. And still drinking the same 冰红茶 iced tea

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Archival work outside Sydney has been challenging lately because Young Kids but I made it, I finally made it to my beloved Public Records Office Victoria, nestled quietly in North Melbourne, holding all its explosive secrets close to its chest. I prised some free today. Also, 🍹

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1 year

Fo years I have watched @hannahforsyth manage to be a breathtakingly good historian, academic, teacher, intellectual, as well as a fantastic human being. Never did she let this profession, and all its toughness, stop her from being an immensely generous human being. Not once.

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@hannahforsyth

1 year

For some reason I can’t see the earlier parts of the thread that said 27 October my last day at ACU and acknowledged my closest most amazing colleagues. Maybe you can see it but it’s after my bedtime now. I’ll fix tomoz.

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4 months

Bendigo is a truly fascinating place. In 1866 two Chinese native place organisations went to war with each other in Bendigo in the European courts, tendering evidence like this - proclamations banning members of one society from using businesses belonging to a rival society.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Was such a privilege to host colleagues at the University of Sydney for our symposium on Land, Race, Capital: re-entangling histories of capitalism with the very generous @Sven_Beckert . Thanks to @SSSHARC for funding and to @hannahforsyth and @OGormanEmily for co-organising.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Have always loved this Brian Baird photograph of a tram passing by the Hotel Chatswood at night in Sydney's deserted north shore in what I think is the 1930s or 1940s. The rubbish on the ground (paper?) looks like snow.

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 months

Have always found this family photo eerie. My grandmother sits in the front with the braids. My great-grandfather, of Wiradjuri background, in the middle. He was suffering from severe shell shock, PTSD after WWI. It's the late 1920s on the outskirts of Sydney. The wreckage of war

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 months

Delighted that our panel for #AHA2025 has been accepted. Looking forward to speaking with Mae Ngai, Michael R. Cohen, Rebecca A. Kobrin and Simon Cinotto on 'Immigrant Economies and Ethnic Networks in Comparative Perspective.' My first trip ever to NYC:)

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Spring at Usyd

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

. @hannahforsyth first began telling me about this book years ago. I remember being excited then and I'm even more excited now - she did it, she pulled off this magnum opus, what a gift to the field, to History. Typical of the person I have the privilege of calling my friend.

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Excited to be giving my first keynote speech this week at the 19th International Conference of Australian Studies in China at Anhui University 安徽大学 in Hefei 合肥. Thank you to the organisers for inviting me to speak.

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4 months

This wonderful book arrived this morning. Congratulations to @ClaireLowrie1 @JuliaTMartinez1 Gregor Benton and all the contributors - I was delighted to write the epilogue for this collection.

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

. @JonPiccini in Sydney today challenging everything I thought I knew about Australian Decolonisation(s), with a 🔥paper on stolen colonial archives, PNG independence and librarian activists, with a quote from @hannahforsyth . So good.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

I try to resist posting photographs of my beloved roses because it confirms what many of my friends have long known to be true eg that I gave some seriously uncool tastes, but this rose, Dark Desire (its actual name), is just too epic not to share.

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@SophieLoyWilson

7 months

I learnt so much editing this special issue. I am proud that we published ECR scholars breaking new ground in Australia-East Asia hist. I hope also that we have provided new ways of thinking about Australia in Asia and Asia in Australia in more compassionate, imaginative ways 1/

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Over the past 5-10 years ACU has hired some of the best scholars in Australia & beyond; they were given hope, promises. I am absolutely disgusted by how they have been treated. Needless inhumanity. Needles destruction. Pls Sign this Petition!

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at Australian Catholic University

www.change.org

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

For example in the SMH: "...two serving members of the SAS testified this week that they witnessed...Roberts-Smith order the killing of unarmed Afghan detainees, while on a third occasion, the Victoria Cross recipient himself allegedly pulled the trigger in an unlawful slaying."

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

I was really honoured to launch The Australian History Industry @GmlHeritage last night, ed by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton with chapters from @history2wheeler @ZoraSimic @MichelleArrow1 @mcookhistory @TanyaEvans14 @wragge @fbongiornoanu @MFoster_history @MinnaMuhlen

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

. @AWMemorial can we please take down these displays now?

Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Went to the Australian War Memorial recently and was shocked to see Ben Roberts-Smith featured prominently throughout the exhibitions. Numerous soldiers have publicly testified that this man committed war crimes.Surely this unabashed celebration of his career is now problematic?

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 years

Oh wow finally. Routledge have been flogging my book at a stomach churningly expensive price for years Now, finally, it is retailing in paperback for 30 bucks AU. Thanks to all the stalwarts who still bought the hardback despite the $ it should have come with caviar #chinozhist

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 years

I’m teaching a course on the history of protest in Australia for the 2nd time this semester. Going to include these and many more- Australia is on fire': the political posters taking over bus shelters – in pictures #OzHist #twitterstorians

'Australia is on fire': the political posters taking over bus shelters – in pictures

Forty-one artists protesting against the government’s response to the bushfires say they do not accept the crisis is ‘business as usual’

www.theguardian.com

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@SophieLoyWilson

10 months

The Canberra Return or rather life in the Sydney-Canberra twilight zone balancing kids, work etc. Week 2 of my fellowship at the Australian Studies Institute at ANU @ANUausi , delighted to be here. Huge office and a swipe card that works. Thank all the Canberra gods.

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 months

. @JonPiccini @evansmithhist @paddygibson have put together a 🔥special issue, honoured to be involved. So many brilliant articles, international hist of the Oz Left at its very best & a hopeful new look at anti-colonial politics & its variable protest cultures in these dark days.

Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

5 months

The special issue @evansmithhist @SophieLoyWilson and @paddygibson put together on Australian labour's mixed record of anti-colonialism is now live! Subscriptions to LH start from $50 AUD. But hit me up if you'd like to read a particular article.

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@SophieLoyWilson

4 months

Teaching english (badly) in Beijing in 2001. Looking forward to getting back there in early July.

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 months

Very proud to have voted for this.

David Brophy

@Dave_Brophy

5 months

Very proud of my @NTEUnion branch for taking a meaningful stand against a horrifying injustice today - exactly what unions exist to do.

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1 year

Looking forward to speaking at Flinders Uni on Friday on Australia, China and the re-ordering of Australian history. The Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives project that I'm part of will be included & my DECRA research.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

. @NickRiemer1 gives me hope for higher ed. He has tirelessly worked to advocate for staff at USYD, tirelessly. Here he brings his usual astute analysis to what has gone wrong with higher ed, and what we can do about it. These are our universities, we need to fight for them

Nick Riemer

@NickRiemer1

2 years

As far as I know, tomorrow's 7th strike day at @Sydney_Uni makes this the (equal?) longest-running strike campaign by @NTEUnion members ever. A good opportunity to look at the background actors at the university who are making our current protracted struggle necessary. 🧵

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

8 months

Honoured to launch this book today in Sydney's Haymarket. Congratulations to all the authors: Ien Ang, Denis Byrne, Phillip Mar, Michael Williams, Chris Cheng, Alexandra Wong and Glen Mar.

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@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

@RonniSalt Thank you @RonniSalt for saving my sanity (and the household crockery) over the past while . Every time I feel like hurling my cup of tea at the wall, your tweets land in my life like a god damn miracle

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Far out my job is such a privilege sometimes. Reading the work of young Asian Australian students, claiming their history, their story through original research - completed in archives, completed in their communities - work they were able to finish despite Covid. All the tears

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

The Melbourne-Sydney thing is so weird tiring. I’ve lived in both cities, I’m *from* Canberra . Melbourne and Sydney are exactly the f-ing same. In fact many Melbournians were once Sydneysiders and vice versa. There are dicks in both places. And legends. And Covid

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@SophieLoyWilson

11 months

Happy Deepavali . Here is my little light and firstborn, Ishani Norma Muhilan, pulling my hair at a wedding in 2017 and eternally illuminating the path for me, through all the darkness.

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

My first real job in the 2000s was as an Assistant Archivist at the City of Sydney Council where I was in awe of Sydney City historian @SydneyClio & shared an office with wonderful senior archivists. Found these pics today. I volunteered there too, digitising Sydney's rate books

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Best cliff hanger ever

David Brophy

@Dave_Brophy

3 years

. @SophieLoyWilson breaking some bad historical news to Jeff Fatt from The Wiggles.

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5 months

'History is the raw material for nationalist or ethnic or fundamentalist ideologies as poppies are the raw material for heroin addiction. The past is an essential element...in these ideologies. If there is no suitable past, it can always be invented.' Hobsbawn, On History, p 6

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Tuesday morning. The guy who left his wife in a Covid ward in Sydney to travel to Byron Bay to look at property thus infecting the area ‘doesn’t believe in Covid and is refusing to cooperate with contact tracers and never used any QR code’s .’ Breathe, sophie, breathe.

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@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

Last week I gave a lecture on Jack Mundey and the Green Bans in my course on the hist of protest in Australia. We read a quote from Mundey about the movement . I was reminded anew how remarkable he was , and how his actions continue to inspire down the years.

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@Briony_Neilson

4 years

Sad to learn that Jack Mundey has died. Without the environmental activism of the Green Bans movement, greed and development would have gutted many working-class communities and razed Sydney's green spaces and heritage - The Rocks, Ultimo, Glebe, etc. An inspiration.

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11 months

Very excited to be speaking about the latest findings from my DECRA research at this brilliant conference in December. Thanks to @RuthBalint for the invitation. Link here:

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

. @DesleyDeacon I know I am not alone when I say that I return to your work very often. This critique of Australian history - your classic feminist critique of the Australian state - is so brilliant, generous and useful.

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

. @siobhaneilish ploughed through a large, complex archive to piece together the story of the destruction of the Sydney suburb of Darlington by the University of Syd in the 60s and 70s. She found a counter archive of resistance from Darlington residents. I am so proud of her work

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Congratulations to the #OzHA2023 organisers, has been so moving to go to panel after panel of sharp, fine, new Australian hist speaking so powerfully to the current moment. Can't capture it all but some pics:

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@SophieLoyWilson

5 months

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies

Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University Job no: 540928Work type: Fixed TermLocation: Canberra / ACTCategories: AcademicClassification: Academic Level A Salary pa…

www.csaa.org.au

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@SophieLoyWilson

8 years

Oh sweet Jesus I am glad this is done. Book is Out.

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@SophieLoyWilson

6 months

Family feels so far away even though I live in Sydney ('it smells of mould' mum says) and they live in Canberra. And so l look at photographs. I guess my kids won't see photographs like this, just the shitty stuff on my phone, usually out of focus.

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Recieved a beautiful package today from NSW land history expert extraordinaire Dr Terry Kass wrapped in a photocopy of an actual land document . Joy, all the joy . Now to actual untangle how Chinese Australians acquired land for my DECRA *looks up at Everest*

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

1/ So honoured to help launch the 'Ayays and Amahs' exhibition last night with these brilliant women: @heather586 @VictoriaHaski10 @ClaireLowrie1 @clemloz @srishti_guha . Bit of my speech in the next tweet:

Penny Edmonds

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The wonderful 'Ayahs and Amahs' launched by Heather Goodhall @heather586 & @SophieLoyWilson in Sydney. Important work on the racialised politics of care, power, gender & capitalism... Congratulations @VictoriaHaski10 @ClaireLowrie1 & Swapna Banerjee

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1 year

Frustratingly I was stuck in a broken elevator at the University of Sydney at midday on Monday (an allegory for so much really) so missed @kfullagar Kate Fullagar's book launch, but I was able to procure her beautiful and timely book in Glebe yesterday...

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@SophieLoyWilson

11 months

Australian summer is my heart. Love this pic of my husband and son taken before the Sickness and right before the Fires hit right at the end of 2019, maybe New Years Eve. The Before Times. Feels so so long ago.

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@SophieLoyWilson

11 months

Rough few weeks personally but felt the stars align this morning as I sat in Beirut Bites in western Sydney, the kids at swimming lessons, and ate freshly baked bread as part of this lavish breakfast. Western Sydney always always has my back

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Nothing gives me hope more than reading my student's work. This year I supervised honours thesis at Usyd in 1) history of smuggling 2) phosphate imperialism 3) Australia, ASIO and East Timor. All of the work is excellent, all of it bodes well for the future of Australian history.

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2 years

#USydStrike Day 2. So proud of the solidarity on show between staff and students. We all want a better University. We all want a University that puts staff and students first - not ridiculously inflated management salaries.

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4 months

What a brilliant conference! Congratulations @hongkonghistory . A longer post to follow on all the papers and everything I learnt (so much). Here is me giving one of three keynotes alongside friends @taomo_zhou and @viviankonghk . Really wonderful two days

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Honoured to help launch this fantastic exhibition next week. It is not only powerful labour and immigration history, but also a beautiful piece of postcolonial recovery, re-centering the voices (and labours) of Ayahs and Amahs in history. Register here:

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4 months

HK :)

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@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

My parents at ANU in the 1970s where they met. Beneficiaries of commonwealth teaching scholarships and Whitlam-era investments in higher education.

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

I've been on tenterhooks waiting to read Xu Daozhi's research for a while now as I think it is vital, new, fantastic. And now I don't have to wait - so excited to read this article on Chinese-Indigenous hist in Australia and Chinese-Indigenous solidarity

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@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

NEW HISTORY PODCAST #HWIR I know everyone is doing it but I like this one because Nick Eckstein keeps me on my toes & also we interview @EmmaKluge1 on Pacific Decolonization, Minerva Inwald on 1960s Chinese art/politics,for example @HstyMattersSyd @ArtSS_Sydney #twitterhistorians

usyd_humanities

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3 years

The Department of History is now on Soundcloud! #history #podcasting @HstyMattersSyd @ArtSS_Sydney #HWIR asks why historians do what they do.

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4 months

The question Telling the Time comes up frequently in perjury cases involving Chinese migrants in the Australian courts. Here a Chinese calendar from Melbourne was used as evidence; European time was Truth in Australian courts so using Chinese time was a lie. Bendigo, 1895.

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@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Absolutely brilliant paper from @kilderbenhauser on horrific german violence against Chinese workers in Samoa - brilliant exposition on race, labour and Empire. The wonderful Yun Jiang showing me her grandfather who was almost sent to Samoa close to this period #OzHA2023

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The newly minted Dr Judith Rozeboom with @AdrianVickers5 and me, have just received her Phd for her thesis 'Medeka Down Under? Indonesian Civilians and Military Personnel in Australia, 1945-1949.'

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

1 year

Call it what you want - I suspect its prob middle age - but I have so much nostalgia for my 80s Canberra childhood at the moment, esp these 50s, 60s Canberra houses with their generous windows, terrible carpet and spartan postwar kitchens. Mackennal St Lyneham, my childhood home

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@SophieLoyWilson

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Congratulations to my brilliant colleague @Niro_Kan on her Fullbright fellowship. Niro will "identify and assess how the US and Australia have responded to conflicts in the Indian Ocean region during the twentieth century."

usyd_humanities

@UsydSoH

8 months

Congratulations to the wonderful Niro Kandasamy @Niro_Kan from @USydHistory who has been awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship hosted by Georgetown University! 🇺🇸👏👏 Fabulous news! @ArtSS_Sydney @HstyMattersSyd

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1 year

Trying to finish a Conference paper for tomorrow on Chinese Australian hist and what it means in contemporary times and see the conf keynote, Linda Jaivin, in a taxi que. Not only does she help me order my thoughts, she hands me a copy of her keynote so I can better prepare,Umm😍

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Went to Crookwell recently on a Chinese Australian history trip. Wiradjuri country. Beautiful, sad, ended up in Bolong, the site of the famous Wong Sat family store #chinozhist

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Back from a research trip and avoiding all my rather intimidating accumulated responsibilities by looking at these pics from my son's childcare where they recently hatched these chicks 🐣

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

At the heart of all this is a Chinese Oz community put at risk not only by a rise in anti-Chinese violence, but by those like ⁦ @CliveCHamilton ⁩ who insist on fanning the flames and then walking away. ⁦ @Dave_Brophy ⁩’s comprehensive response here

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

My student Judith Rozeboom has just had her Phd thesis passed @ArtSS_Sydney . Called 'Merdeka Down Under? Indonesian Civilians And Military Personnel In Australia (1942-1949)' it constitutes a vital new intervention into the hist of WWII in Asia, blending new Dutch and Oz sources.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

I’ll be on this tonight talking Chinese Australian history with some of my friends including @baibi and @sophiecouchman

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

I felt sick reading this. And I wonder - how do those in Usyd management sustain this level of ruthlesness and denialism? So many of my brilliant colleagues treated in such ruthless ways in the name of a financial deficit that never even existed.

Mike Beggs

@mikejbeggs

2 years

USyd colleagues: I was an academic rep on the NTEU bargaining team for 18 months. Now that I also have a little distance, I’d like to share some honest thoughts about what has gone wrong this round (very long thread)

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

USYD students digging up the cemetery underneath Town Hall in 1974, right after crypts were discovered there. My first workplace (apart from KFC, itself a cemetery of sorts) was the archives at Town Hall. We would go down to the cellar for files and see the remnants of this dig.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

4 years

I believe you Kate

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

4 months

Spent the long weekend writing about notions of trust, debt, justice in Chinese Australian court depositions. Debt collection hist proved fascinating, often tragic, sometimes violent. Below from a court case to do with debt, trust, betrayal in Sale, Victoria 1/

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

8 months

Back on twitter for the first in 2024 and deeply honoured be invited as one of the keynote speakers for this conference @hongkonghistory together with colleagues I admire so very much: @viviankonghk and @taomo_zhou

Taomo Zhou 周陶沫

@taomo_zhou

10 months

Extremely honored to be invited as one of the keynote speakers for this conference @hongkonghistory together w/ the brilliant @viviankonghk & @SophieLoyWilson

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Yes we did @laurarads goes to show solidarity and friendship can win out in the competitive bear pit of academia . Laura read so many drafts, gave me so much help, even tho she was competing against me

Laura Rademaker

@laurarads

3 years

@SophieLoyWilson and I drafted and workshopped our decra applications together. Thrilled to share the results with her today. Here's to cooperation and collaboration.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

3 years

Well this is ominous. William A Stoltz @ASPI_org argues that security clearances should be introduced in Australian universities so that academics can manage the 'pressing economic and security challenges we will face.' No, that is actually a terrible idea.

ASPI

@ASPI_org

3 years

Security clearance overhaul needed to build Australia’s high-tech workforce | @WilliamAStoltz |

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

3 months

My Dad's intentional student card which took him to Moscow in the 1970s. It seems so inadequate seen through my post-digital eyes (I mean, how could anyone take this seriously, where is the QR code) but it took him on such a journey, across so many lines.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

2 years

Very excited about my upcoming visit to Queensland State Archives. Thank you Muhilan for watching the kids while I do this. Look at this digitised gem from their collection. Regulation for the guidance of Chinese gardeners 1904. SRS5263/1/6; A1 Item ID 847625. #chinozhist #ozhist

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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@SophieLoyWilson

10 months

That feeling when you've spent a hour on Abe books and you go to you 'shopping basket' and you convert the US dollars to AU dollars and you see the price and die inside - your finger hovers for a second - and you press 'purchase' anyway. The high, the guilt, the defiance.

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