“For pretty much my entire life I have been surrounded by theatre: both my mother and father were involved in the local theatre company. I have participated in several theatre…
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Behind the scenes of Australian comedy
Posted by hcollett | Arts, Humanities, Research | No CommentsUNE’s Professor Anne Pender has dedicated years getting to know Australia’s best-loved comic actors. Awkward stage moments, biggest fears, childhood memories – there’s no topic left unturned in Anne’s meticulous…
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Performing arts is proving to be a powerful antidote to disunity and displacement in the Middle East. Since 2011, Ben Rivers, UNE Peace Studies Graduate, has used therapeutic drama and…
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Database tracks rise of canonic techniques in music
Posted by hcollett | Arts, Education | No CommentsA comprehensive database tracking more than 2,000 of the earliest surviving music compositions using ‘canonic’ techniques has been developed by a team of Australian university researchers. Music teachers, students, performers,…
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Ghosts, the afterlife and a new novel materialise for PhD student
Posted by hcollett | Arts | No CommentsSophie Masson, Australian author of more than 60 books for children, young adults and adults, will graduate with a PhD at UNE after successfully completing a novel, ‘The Ghost Squad’,…
Read moreOur Mythical Childhood
Posted by eedwar20 | Arts, Education, Humanities, Research, Social Science | No CommentsAn update on the Our Mythical Childhood Project Since late 2016, I have been working in the Our Mythical Childhood project, surveying the reception of Classical Antiquity in children’s culture…
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