Interpretations of the legacy of Kartini in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Kartini (1879-1904) was a Javanese princess and is acclaimed as Indonesia’s first feminist and a national heroine. Petra investigated how Kartini’s writings and personal history are being reinterpreted in Indonesia since the fall of President Suharto in 1998. She drew on the Library’s extensive collection of Indonesian national and regional newspapers and published works.
Norman McCann Summer Scholars
Elizabeth Todd,
“Pain, Anaesthesia and the Clinical Encounter in the second half of the nineteenth century in Australia and Great Britain”.
Elizabeth was studying the individual experience of anaesthesia in the clinical encounter – the experiences of the patient, the doctor and those witnessing the procedure, such as family, medical students or newspaper journalists. She used medical casebooks and journals, hospital reports, personal papers, manuscripts and medical periodicals. Her aim was to unders
Charles Conder Primary principal Jason Walmsley,and with family and community engagement co-ordinator Cate Robson.
SOUTH Canberra’s Charles Conder Primary is the first school in the ACT to join the nationwide Fathering Project, says principal Jason Walmsley.
The project, which began in 2013 in WA, has expanded to more than 480 schools across the country.
It engages fathers and father figures – including grandfathers and carers – to be involved in their children’s studies and with each other, says Jason.
“The research tells us that if dads are more engaged in their children’s learning, and will try to be involved as much as they can, the outcomes are really good for children,” he says.
Impressionism: An intercontinental response to modernity
How an art movement became global. Tom Roberts. A Break Away. 1890.
April 12, 2021
As one of the earliest and most celebrated works of the era, Impression, Sunrise (1867) by Claude Monet is an undeniably seminal work of the Impressionist movement, lending its name and legacy. The rise of Impressionism in Paris stemmed from the dissatisfaction felt by a new generation of radical artists with classical traditions of art and the institutions which upheld them. In particular, the Paris Salon, which, as the official exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, was the academic authority on art and rejected any works deemed poor due to their transgression of traditional art imagery. This drove the development of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. Displaying 165 works by 30 artists, the exhibition was organised by names that remain seared into the popular consciousness even today: Monet, Pissar
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