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Andrew Bolt:
‘…To see the mindset reinforced by a modern Australian university, browse through the post-graduate research now being undertaken at the University of Sydney. Note the language, heavily coded to maintain privilege. Note the arcania. Note how little practical and optimistic grappling with practical issues, Note the drive to a disengaged elitism:

– My thesis uses the concepts of acculturation, place and allegiance to underpin an account of the Free French Movement in Australia, 1940-44.
– I’m interested in how and why deeply ingrained acoustemological differences created cultural conflict between natives and newcomers both in and beyond the colonial period in the New World.
– My thesis studies death rituals and funeral culture in the city of Shanghai and its surrounding region from 1843 to 1966.
– In the early nineteenth century, asylums for the mentally ill appeared throughout Europe and its colonial territories… I parallel the moral treatment in lunatic asylums with practices in penitentiaries, juvenile prisons, schools and other institutions, reconstructing an empire of the mind stretched across the geographical empire, working to form and reform the child, the criminal, the lunatic, the native and the empire itself.
– My research focuses on the early Egyptian cinema, and in particular examines Egyptian uses of the cinema to respond to western stereotypes of Egyptians, Arabs and Muslims.
– I am tracing the commodification of knowledge and the consequences of a shift from academic authority to the authority of the market – from academic freedom to market freedom.
– As they encountered local species, the settlers incorporated their perceptions of indigenous animals into a dynamic matrix of moral, economic and emotional relationships. … My research triangulates scientific, cultural and animal perspectives to explain the construction of identities for venomous fauna in colonial Australasia…
– A biographical study of West Australian nurse and author, Mollie Skinner; informed by her relationship with D H Lawrence following his encounter with Therevada Buddhism in 1922. Uses Modern discourses on the nature of being, with Cognitive Science and Buddhist theories, to develop a biographic model that does not circumscribe a unified cognizing subject.
– My thesis explores how ‘the road’ as both a physical and cultural entity has been imagined, experienced and represented in Australia, with particular focus on the motoring era from late nineteenth century to the present.
– My thesis explores the development, definition and implications of the concept of the ‘nation’ in histories and geographies published in the vernacular in England between 1570 and 1630.
– My research examines conflicting ideas about mass culture and colonial modernity in Australia, China and the Pacific between 1890 and 1945. My analysis focuses on the personal papers and archival remains of ‘smiling professionals’ and people on the make… My aim is to show how these commercial networks de-center the Anglo American story of consumer society…
– My thesis examines the place of rank-and-file soldiers and sailors within the society of the colonial Philippines – including the Mariana Islands – during the seventeenth century.
– My research interests are war journalism and peace journalism exploring the psychological impacts of different framings of conflict.
– Research interests: adult conversion and recruitment to the religious life, ca. 1000-1200; ‘textual communities’ and the problem of hermeneutic contingency; the historic links between Cîteaux, La Chartreuse, and Afflighem with Vallombrosa, Molesme and the neo-Cluniacs…
– My PhD thesis explores the triangular relationship between animal rights’ thought and practice (specifically looking at the cases of vegetarianism and anti-vivisectionism), evolutionary theories (from Erasmus Darwin to Henri Bergson) and radical and alternative religious movements (Bible Christianity, Deism, theosophy, spiritualism) in Britain from the time of the French Revolution to the end of World War I.
– I investigate and historicise two crucial aspects of British expansion into Oceania: the use of languages of love and friendship in imperial endeavour and the impact of imperial endeavour upon relations of friendship and love…. . I suggest that British-Oceanic relations were imagined as amorous or amicable in efforts to secure the virtue of an imperial mission charged with corruption.
– Ephraim Moses Lilien is widely recognised as the major modern Jewish and Zionist artist whose construction of a ‘New [Male] Jew’ formed an important part of fin de siècle discourse on Jewish alterity.
– I am investigating the connection between witchcraft, illness, and healing in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on cunning folk… It thus suggests the imperial genealogy of public health and social welfare interventions in Australia and the United Nations.
– The thesis chronicles the history of one of the twentieth century’s most resilient literary cults, that of the eccentric English novelist Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913)…’