The project reveals how literature circulates in a globalized world and demonstrates the diversity generated by globalization processes. As a case study, Iran exemplifies a rich culture constrained by recent political changes and decentralized in diasporic communities.
This project examines how indigenous and community media can contribute to mainstream media and policy. It involves the development of policy recommendations and practical guidelines to support effective responses to community media.
This is the first project to examine gendered violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere.
Performance Space is a Sydney-based organisation that has been at the forefront of experimental art nationally and internationally since the early 1980s.
Music with violent, misogynistic and anti-social themes is often blamed for antisocial or criminal behaviour, but its psychological effects are largely unknown. This project examines the impact of violent music on aggression, emotional states, cognitive function and brain activity.
This project investigates the way social anxieties, provoked by the strangeness of Charlotte Bronte's unorthodox novels, were converted into aesthetic pleasures by publishing institutions and practices.
We investigate how drones and other technologies of perception are changing how we bear witness and determine the meaning, importance and truth of events. It includes the cultural impact of increase reliance on drones in war and culture.
Throughout history, literary writers have struggled to communicate the collective trauma felt by families and communities who suffer in the wake of riots.
We investigate the roles of media, journalism and social media activism in the ground-breaking Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-17).
Two very different stories about forced migration and detention will be the focus of a Sydney Film Festival panel featuring UNSW's Su Goldfish and Iranian-Dutch director Arash Kamali Sarvestani.
Jenny Zhang will discuss her role as a ‘subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience’ in one of the highlights of UNSW-affiliated events at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Staff within the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences has been awarded 16 grants following former Education Minister Simon Birmingham's controversial veto last year.
