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Arata Isozaki, the Japanese architect and winner of the Pitzker Prize 2019, is not only renowned for his fruitful portfolio of works built all over...

Recipients of our Summer Scholarships, funded through the generosity of the family of the late Norman McCann (a former National Library Council Member), Dr John and Dr Heather Seymour, Carol Moya Mills, Emeritus Professor Janice Reid AC and an anonymous donor. Since 2002, more than 50 Australian scholars have been supported to undertake six weeks of immersive postgraduate research, with special access to the Library’s collections.

Recipients of our Summer Scholarships, funded through the generosity of the family of the late Norman McCann (a former National Library Council Member), Dr John and Dr Heather Seymour, Carol Moya Mills, Emeritus Professor Janice Reid AC and an anonymous donor. Since 2002, more than 50 Australian scholars have been supported to undertake six weeks of immersive postgraduate research, with special access to the Library’s collections.

—National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020 U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence. This manufactured Pacific id...

Child Migration and Stolen Generations in Popular Historical Consciousness In the mid-1990s, harrowing stories emerged of child migrants and Stolen Generations who had been taken from their families. Side-by-side, these narratives produced unprecedented responses in public discourse, yet scholars have struggled to make sense of the cacophony of debate, the millions of marching feet and the mountain of writing inspired by these histories. Tim Calabria’s project will assess the extensive papers...

A timely and interesting guest blog from Isaac Kamola of Trinity College.