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Jayne Persian

8 months

New book 🔊 Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia. Please review! Also happy to do author talks 🤓

Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between...

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Jayne Persian

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9 months

Historian here. Indiscriminate bombing of a trapped remnant people is genocidal.

Ed Husic cautions against using the word 'genocide'

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2 years

Heartbreaking reading tweets from postdocs who weren't successful in DECRA today and now unemployed and/or planning to 'leave' academia ie. give up hope. Postdocs shouldn't be competing with Level Ds. This system is well and truly broken.

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@6NewsAU It wasn't human error. It was reading far-right posts online ..

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10 months

Delighted to share officially that I have been promoted to Associate Professor (Level D) 🎉

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8 months

omigosh the first copy has hit Australian shores, into my parents' hot little hands 😂 🥳

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9 months

I had my first baby in 2nd year UG. She turns 21 tomorrow 😱😱

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Jayne Persian

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10 months

War crimes are war crimes are war crimes. Even when you have sympathy with the cause. Especially when you have sympathy with the cause.

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1 year

manuscript approved! Fascists in Exile: Postwar Displaced Persons in Australia is a go 🎉

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1 year

@RebeccaBuxton "it's not a profession, it's a vocation" so I don't have to act professionally 🤡

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6 months

@fbongiornoanu @newscomauHQ "slightly tired and emotional"

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

10 months

Here's a tip. Before clapping or publicising anyone who fought WW2 from Central or Eastern Europe, do some research.

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

1 year

My next book has a website and is available for pre-order! It's already on sale!! 😁

Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between...

www.routledge.com

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

7 months

It is really infuriating seeing an excellent colleague, with a h-index higher than most professors, having to take a job outside of academia. Oz unis should be ashamed. Idiots.

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Jayne Persian

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10 months

Overseas fellowships should be shorter. I can't leave my kids for a minimum of 5 months.

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1 year

We should cheer decline of newspapers

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@drjpersian

2 years

can we nominate @ARC_Tracker for Australian of the Year

Jason Clare MP

@JasonClareMP

2 years

Today I am announcing the next steps in the reform of the ⁦ @arc_gov_au ⁩ at the ⁦ @FinancialReview ⁩ Higher Education Summit 👇👇

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11 months

this is always a thrill 🤓

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1 year

It all needs a final polish but it's done ✔

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2 years

@ameenalpayne @JanSlapeta @Sydney_Uni ha, they don't show up for tutorials either, but nice try

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

10 months

12 years after completing my PhD I have finally realised why I was floundering throughout. I wasn't doing any/much archival research. I'm an archival historian at heart, I just didn't know it.

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

10 months

Proofs 🤩

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4 months

I was very kindly invited to peruse a private collection today, nerd's paradise 🤓

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Jayne Persian

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9 months

My book is going to be published soon. What if people read it? What if they review it 😱

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@drjpersian

9 months

how about no

John Ross

@JohnRoss49

9 months

Rather than allowing a “free-for-all” of research topics, universities should muster their efforts around a handful of “overarching” themes such as climate change, intergenerational policy or defence and security, with “critical mass” in each.

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9 months

I haven't really read Foucault. But after a parent-teacher meeting last week I found myself heatedly explaining to my 16yo that schools are prisons 🙃

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

11 months

I wonder what happens when graduates stop being 'very recent' 🤔

Amy Sargeant 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

@amy_sargeant_

11 months

Update: She somehow came up with an even shitter take 🫠

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8 months

My eldest baby's graduation @ANUmedia BSc 👩‍🎓

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@drjpersian

1 year

@OzKitsch how is this not no. 1

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7 months

Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII via @ConversationEDU

Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals...

Official investigations of suspected Nazi collaborators have long closed. But families are still grappling with the hidden secrets of loved ones, a new book details.

theconversation.com

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

2 years

This photo shows the exact moment that Gough Whitlam whispered 'you're a dirty Nazi bitch' to an Estonian protester, 1974

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@drjpersian

2 months

I have a lovely time at Brisbane Writers Festival today talking about my new book, and signing a few copies! Extra security because of right-wing threats but audience was brilliant 🤩

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2 years

And of course the key word in that sentence is JOB. Stop casualising teaching and hire good people permanently. 😡

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2 years

@Adam_Crymble hardly anything is digitised ..

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1 year

sent 😬😱😓🥱💌

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@drjpersian

4 months

I was brought up as a fundy Jehovah's Witness and left at 23yo, I'm still really proud of myself because I was so sheltered and unsupported but so brave 💪

ethan !!!

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share a piece of lore about yourself

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is this the most historically illiterate post ever

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@drjpersian

1 year

Twitter was the best in a crisis. Real-time, verified information and *community* #RIPTwitter 😭

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

3 months

He was a working-class schizophrenic, with few resources and on his own. Schizophrenia isn't a fucking joke and the number of sufferers in this country killed by cops is a disgrace.

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

2 months

If you're an Australian-Croatian sending me hate mail after Hamish McDonald's inaccurate and unfair review in @insidestorymag , please don't. Also, read. the. book.

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

2 years

Confession: I was never confident enough to apply for a DECRA. So you're all winners for even applying! 🎉

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Jayne Persian

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7 months

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

10 months

New piece, by moi The case of Yaroslav Hunka, and its echoes in Australia’s history via @overlandjournal

The case of Yaroslav Hunka, and its echoes in Australia’s history - Overland literary journal

Dismissing inconvenient histories and the problematic pasts of individual migrants to both Canada and Australia, however, is not useful. The complicity of the West in assisting perpetrators to escape...

overland.org.au

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

4 months

my first Amazon review! 1 star!

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

1 year

Copywriter changed 'Second World War' to 'World War II'

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

6 months

new chapter just dropped

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

3 months

First they took our office bins, then they made us schlep down to get our own milk. And the stapler doesn't work. #academicpoem

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

9 months

War crimes are war crimes are war crimes. People are people are people.

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

11 months

I am writing a proper book review but gosh, this book is AWESOME @jordana_s_

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

1 year

Critics' reviews are up! Thank you to these generous scholars 😍

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@drjpersian

6 months

great pic

Melbourne Captain Cook statue sawn off at ankles, Queen Victoria monument defaced

Police in Melbourne investigate after a metal statue of Captain Cook was sawn off at the ankles and red paint was daubed over a monument to Queen Victoria.

www.abc.net.au

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@drjpersian

2 months

make it 1.0 cheapskates

CHASS

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2 months

**JOB OPP** Assistant Lecturer in History @UniMelb Applications close on May 30th For details, visit

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Jayne Persian

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3 months

I need a funky title for my survey ancient history course. Something better than World History to 1200 CE. Suggestions?

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@drjpersian

11 months

hand. me. my. Marx. right. now.

Financial Review

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11 months

Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."

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2 years

I have to retweet this, don't I? ☺

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5 months

I have completed my ARC assessments and now I would like a round of applause please

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@drjpersian

8 months

This 2021 article is now open access due to generous funding from @CHC_USQ European Post-War Migrants and Indigenous Australians: A History in Fragments

European Post-War Migrants and Indigenous Australians: A History in Fragments

This article will outline a series of historical fragments which represent encounters between the early post World War Two European migrants and indigenous peoples. While both displaced persons and...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

8 months

My ATAR was not great and I will remember the actual number forever. I only got into a BA @UOW with the extra 7 points granted to local high school students. Forever grateful. Now I'm a genius. 😄

Caitlin Cassidy

@caitecassidy

8 months

Twitter callout! Atar results are around the corner. Did your Atar define your career trajectory? Or was it a meaningless number that you no longer remember? DM me! Particularly keen on any chaotic exam stories (ie, I wore a Bill Murray shirt to every one of my year 12 exams)

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

6 months

Some research offices, especially at smaller universities, don't always have the best advice. I guess I am suggesting that sometimes we need to push back and add postdocs to our grants as an activist move for the future health of our discipline.

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10 months

If I were a university, I would want to keep hold of amazing academics like Hannah. I've heard her teach! What a loss.

Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉

@hannahforsyth

10 months

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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1 year

Blurb from Sheila Fitzpatrick ☺

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

18 days

does any profession have less autonomy than an academic trying to change a minor detail in one of their own courses

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

9 months

I claim Sheila Fitzpatrick as my supervisor and name drop at *every opportunity* 👑

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

@llassabe

9 months

The most pretentious (and insecure) thing you can do as an academic is drop your advisor genealogy when it isn’t relevant to the conversation

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@drjpersian

2 years

apparently available on e-book right now 🥳

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@drjpersian

11 months

we really need some anti-management action, this has all gone too far and we know that it affects every last one of us

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@DrDreHistorian

11 months

Never do you see senior management face negative consequences of their decisions, only gloating about the positives. Their failures become others’ lost livelihoods. It’d be refreshing to see “we’re cutting some DVC bloat and the VC will tutor in his supposed field of expertise”

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6 months

A wonderful email for the covid-afflicted to wake up to this morning 🥰

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11 days

I am not so thrilled

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1 year

omigosh I have drafted a whole book. besides the intro and conclusion but let's not speak of those today.

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4 months

including an article by Ebony Nilsson and myself on an early migrant-run trade union 1950s, established by Polish DP (and concentration camp survivor) Jerzy Bielski

Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

4 months

Great to see proofs for the special issue of Labour History Co-edited by @evansmithhist @paddygibson @SophieLoyWilson and myself. Our introductory essay considers labour history in light of the 46 years since the publication of 'Who Are Our Enemies', and the genocide in Gaza.

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6 months

booking research trips to Canberra and London today

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10 months

My husband of 22 years just told me he has a *favourite* Slim Dusty song. Reconsidering the relationship.

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1 year

If you are running a Go8 history department in Australia and you do not have anyone who works on migration history in this country, why not. Serious question.

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5 months

reporting an assault at local police station today (not me), the cop smirked throughout the whole thing. I can only imagine his attitude towards DV ..

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2 years

happy place @statelibrarynsw

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@drjpersian

2 years

Huge grants should be either genuine postdoc opportunities with a job at the end OR the icing on the cake. Not both things at once.

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2 years

carpet python outside 14yo's window this morning! 🐍

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11 months

This is a great thread but also shows why we need more working-class academics, who understand this stuff from lived experience.

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11 months

Every scholar of American political behavior needs to spend some time bartending as a form of field work. People are never more honest than with their friends after a couple drinks. I bartended this summer at a neighborhood bar & grill. Here is what I learned. A 🧵

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2 years

Woohoo, hard copy!

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3 months

Trying to help my Yr11 daughter with modern history assignment. I can't understand the instructions 🤯 this is harder than anything I give my undergrads. why.

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6 months

fuckity fuck

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10 months

The Holocaust relied on the firepower and administrative skill of non-Germans, particularly in the East. 🧵

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3 months

peak productivity

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@drjpersian

6 months

secretly a detective

Mathias

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6 months

So you're an historian - so are you the kind that's secretly a sociologist or secretly an anthropologist?

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@drjpersian

2 years

Finally, a picture of those infamous 'souvenirs' apparently found in Oz migrant camps

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@drjpersian

1 year

will the @AWMemorial remove the big pic now??

Judge throws out Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case, backs media reports of war crimes, murders

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's decision to sue the publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, and three journalists, in the Federal Court over a series of...

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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian

9 months

My best teacher was my honours supervisor, John McQuilton, who struck out every 'whilst' and paras of 'purple prose'

Dr. Lisa Munro

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9 months

I'm on a personal mission to dismantle the academic culture of "you'll just figure it out" around how to actually do academic writing and instead just teach people how to do stuff. Almost no one receives actual writing instruction.

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at my sacred place, waiting for the @naagovau high priest/ess to let me in