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Freud doing cocaine. Psychologist William James experimenting with nitrous oxide. A new history tells of the Romantic rebels who first sampled psychoactive substances.
As the craft beer industry grows, so too do the dedicated communities that form around it – an expert explains.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
Americans of all stripes have long embraced the culture of the ancient Mediterranean, using ancient ideals to navigate a new world.
Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
Under lockdown, Cineteca Milano is releasing 20 archived films a week online. Why aren’t we seeing this from our National Film and Sound Archive?
Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can’t really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
When it comes to valuable African fossils, much is at stake. They often unearth disputed ways of debating archaeology as a science of ‘discovery’.
Ask any young woman whether she feels embarrassed by her periods and she’ll likely deny it. Her grandmother might have hidden all evidence of “the curse” but not today’s liberated women. Right?
This Remembrance Day, spend some time with Claire Adams Mackinnon – the silent Hollywood movie star who stole the heart of Melbourne bachelor and lived the last 40 years of her life in Victoria.
50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
President Obama’s recent condemnation of the Confederate battleflag mirrors the current and rapidly-changing public mood on this artefact. But attitudes to the flag have deeper roots.
Transgender is a relatively new word. So when an academic seeks to create a transgender historical archive, complications abound.
It’s easy to dismiss fashion as trivial but the clothes we wear have stories to tell. Fashion is part of everyday experience and our memories are often stitched into the seams of our favourite dresses.
For most of us stamps have become infrequent objects of daily life but they continue to be produced, and collected by devotees – so what do they say about us as a nation?
It was in Mesopotamia that the world’s first cities emerged, along with the invention of writing and the codification of laws.
In William Shakespeare’s comedy Merchant of Venice, the play’s heroine Portia sings: Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head. If you look at Valentine’s Day cards, it’s clear fancy…
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Creative Arts, La Trobe University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Cultural Researcher, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Scientist of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Digital Archivist
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
