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Revolutionary Violence and our Modern Identity

At the end of his session, Joe Zizek posed the question, “how important is remembering (or forgetting) revolutionary violence to our modern identities?” following his discussion of collective violence leading to revolution. This question connects directly to both how...

Research is personal.

I've always been taught to keep as many confounding variables out of the data as possible - including myself, my views, thoughts, and opinions. But Dr Hirini Kaa and Patrick Thomsen told a different story. Their personal experiences guided them to their research...

Hi, I’ve just got a “few” questions

Historian Jennifer Frost is publishing a book titled, “Let Us Vote,” dedicated towards the significant events that led up to the 26th amendment in 1971, which granted youth voting rights in America. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar with American politics. Although I am more...

Meditations on Positionality; A Game of Faces.

I am not usually one for sentimental blog posts; emotions can be tedious and robust motivators for the academic drives but messy to express amidst robust research and detailed critical thinking. Kate Hannah’s and Dr. Madhavi Manchi’s lectures impacted the idea that...

The Path of an Inside Outsider

My cultural identity has always stood at the forefront of my research interests. But I had neglected to consider the potential of it also becoming a barrier. Throughout the discussion, I had resonated with Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath when she recalled the challenges you...

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Change

Various revolutions across the past 200 years have caused changes in social structure, political control, and the movement of our everyday lives. Today I tried to write about the french revolution. It is intriguing to look back upon the past and in their perspective...

Preparedness for Conflict in Domestic and Foreign analysis

When assessing preparedness for conflict, the institutions for peace conflict with the absence of historical precedent. Hence we must look beyond our borders to observe foreign response to conflict: in doing so we facilitate the transformation of livelihood and relationships in a domestic context of conflict.

Conflicts in the Media

I always wondered how conflicts were shown in the media overseas. This is because I used to watch the news and think about why we only got to see a certain perspective of the conflict. It usually is seen to make your own country look really good or make them look like...

Collecting Notions

For a presentation last year, I researched Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey". You might also have heard of it as the "monomyth". If not, here's a simplified summary: the Hero's Journey is a sequence of plot points, which are said to loosely match every story we...

Gender and War

When we talk about war, so often it is in terms of the male soldier or male head-of-state. When women are mentioned, it is often in the lumped phrase ‘women and children’. As we’ve progressed through this term, it has left me wondering: where are the women?  Simply,...

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Hated in our Nations

Hated in our Nations

Spoilers  for episode 6 of season 3 of Black Mirror below.  Civilian casualties are as common as they are condemned. Numbers remind us that governments, be it democratic or authoritarian, kill large numbers of civilians as a military strategy. In his lecture, Thomas...

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Labels and Positionality

Labels and Positionality

Of all the sessions we had this year, one of the most impactful for me was Dr. Madhavi Manchi's session on research positionality. She answered a lot of the questions that I didn't know had been at the back of my mind since I started my Arts degree, the core of these...

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