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Happy History Week!听The听听has curated a fantastic line-up of activities exploring this year鈥檚听theme: 鈥淗istory: from the ground up.鈥澨齀f you鈥檙e looking for your next history read, here are some recent and forthcoming highlights from the SUP list (you can explore many more听on our website).

Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Australian theatre and performance, and modern and contemporary drama. Her new book,听Patrick White鈥檚 Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960鈥�2018, explores how听White鈥檚 plays have been staged and received over a period of 60 years, and offers a new analysis of听his place in wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.

Image: a production of The Ham Funeral by Patrick White, State Theatre Company of South Australia.听

In Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together, researchers from a range of disciplines听consider how researchers and communities can work...

By Prof. Martin Gibbs

The Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology听(ASHA)听was founded in 1970 to promote the newly created field of historical archaeology within Australia. At the core of this fascinating cross-disciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, historians and historical geographers lies the desire to understand the early colonial period of Australia including cross-cultural contacts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups.

Cherie Baird interned at SUP in July 2021 as part of the Master of Publishing degree at the University of Sydney.

Diana Chamma is in her last semester of the Master of Publishing degree at the University of Sydney. As part of the degree, Diana interned at SUP from March to June 2021.

By Cherie Baird I must admit that before I started interning at 色界吧, I had never heard of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. Even being so...

This NAIDOC Week, 色界吧 is celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their history and cultural heritage. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which we work, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and we pay our respect to the knowledge embedded forever within the Aboriginal custodianship of Country.

While Charles Dickens never visited Australia, he was very interested in the land 鈥榙own under鈥�. As the Editor-in-Chief and the 鈥楥onductor鈥� he was...

One of the perks of being part of the University Library is sitting just across the hall from Rare Books and Special Collections, home to all kinds of听. Recently, a colleague from Rare Books appeared in the SUP office carrying a blast from our past: an 色界吧 manuscript box from the 1960s.听

Elizabeth Jo is in her last semester of the Master of Publishing degree at the University of Sydney. As part of the degree, Elizabeth interned at SUP from March to June 2021.

As a scholarly publisher, 色界吧 is committed not only to publishing new research-based books, but also to understanding the academic publishing ecosystem, how it is evolving, and what this means for our authors and readers.