@sea-greeny
ocean + heritage + Southeast Asia living on Gadigal land DECRA Fellow 2025-2027 + Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney | President, Indonesia Council | Councillor, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | author #BelitungBook
Forty-five jobs are set to be cut at the Art Gallery of NSW (around 11% of the 385 full-time equivalent roles) including the curator of Australian art, the curator of Asian art, the music and community curator, the curator of film in international art, a new librarian, and a paper conservator.
Oil Spill Emerges from WWII Wreck in Chuuk Lagoon: The Rio de Janeiro Maru has begun leaking oil, raising urgent concerns for environment, tourism, and food security.
#PPW #PotentiallyPollutingWrecks are fast becoming #ActivelyPollutingWrecks
"[I]n an age where cultural heritage is central to issues of progress and justice, museums have an obligation to educate the public not only on the history represented by the artifacts but also the nuances of the origins of the artifacts themselves."
👏 @sea-greeny.bsky.social #belitungbook
I’m delighted to see this new review of #belitungbook - thank you @pkhardy.bsky.social for sharing, and Joanna Ellis for your great analysis and kind words! @nuspress.bsky.social
🚢 CFP: APCONF, Bali 26-31 Oct 2026🌊
"Session 7b: Mobilising WWII wrecks for communities, oceans & shared futures." Explore heritage, ecology & Blue Economy potential in the Asia-Pacific
🗓️ Proposals due 20 Sept
🔗 Submit: apconf-much.org?page_id=501
#WWIIwrecks #UCH #BlueEconomy #APCONF2026
To whitewash history… is not only a grave insult to Black and Indigenous Americans but a problem for us all. Because the fact is that the past explains the present, and without history, there’s no way of understanding how we arrived at the current moment.
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A national disgrace
“Hundreds of university courses within teaching, languages, archaeology and media are among those being slashed as the tertiary sector pushes back against “confused” government policies”
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Delighted to share my latest podcast for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Dr Jamie Wang speaks with me about human-environment dynamics in #Singapore, and how modernist, #sustainable #urbanism is imagined & practiced. Her new book is "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City", 2024, @mitpress.bsky.social 👇
Excellent open access article by Emiline Smith on the role scholarly facilitators play in the illicit trade in cultural objects and the harmful consequences of unethical scholarship and knowledge production, focusing on recent examples from Nepal and Cambodia.
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Read: Vannessa Hearman (@vhearman.bsky.social), author of the award-winning "Unmarked Graves" (NUS Press, 2018) writes about a new exhibition at the National Museum in Jakarta focusing on women’s contribution to social change in Indonesia. www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...
#indonesia #history
I’ve got so many fantastic books and authors lined up for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast!
It was an absolute privilege to conduct this podcast interview with Heather Sutherland for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
One particular sequence in the film appears to having a profound impact… Having established the extraordinary beauty & complexity of life in the shallow waters, the camera follows the chains of a bottom trawling net to the ocean floor; it is a scene from a horror movie
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The 10th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-10) is currently taking place in Darwin. Yesterday, Dr Fiona Earl presented on the recent discovery of a Beaufort bomber...
Great to present on sovereign wreck diplomacy & Australian defence UCH in foreign waters at #WAC10 as part of our AIMA session on global maritime archaeology in Guam, Aotearoa NZ, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, India, Greece, Colombia, Vietnam &Germany! @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social
Bill’s presentation was a wonderful start to the session on community, and to the whole day! #WAC10
This was a great session - the three papers I saw - on crystals at Uluru, a jail and a cafe in Ireland, and the Bamiyan valley caves in Afghanistan - were all fantastic
Karyn Moshe of the University of Cape Town on community maritime archaeology in South Africa #WAC10
Flinders Maritime Archaeology program @flindersmap.bsky.social recent graduate Sasha Joura on her community archaeology Masters research in Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand #WAC10
Kicking off the WWII maritime archaeology session with Dr Fiona Earl of the Northern Territory Heritage Branch on the recent discovery of a Bristol Beaufort aircraft in the NT #WAC10
Fabulous contribution to our WWII session! #WAC10
Assistant Professor Saravanan, University of Calicut, on locating the ancient city of Muziris #WAC10
Fascinating talk at #WAC10 by Sumit Kumar Pandey (Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology) on the Chola Kingdom’s far-reaching influence on maritime archaeology. 🌊⚓ A powerful reminder of South Asia’s seafaring past! #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
At #WAC10, Mauro Frontini and team virtually presented their methodology for reconstructing historical maritime structures—using Aegina’s ancient harbor (Greece) as a case study. ⚓🏛️ #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
AIMA-sponsored Maritime Archaeology session co-convened with @sea-greeny.bsky.social for #wac10 is all complete! We had a great time and thanks to all presenters! 🔱
James Hunter @seamuseum.bsky.social wraps up our #WAC10 Global Maritime Archaeology session with a talk on post-19th century VOC shipwrecks in Australia, including new discovery Koning Willem (lost 1857 near Robe, SA)
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Important insights from Carlos del Cairo Hurtado & Jesús Aldana Mendoza at #WAC10 on deep-sea heritage: the San José Galleon. 🏴☠️⚓ How can we safeguard its archaeological context from natural & human impacts? A crucial interdisciplinary challenge. #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025 @sea-greeny.bsky.social
⚓️ 🌊 Today’s the day - our Global Approaches to Maritime Archaeology session is on all day in DFL1.11. We’ve got shipwrecky books for sale and free nautical-themed tattoos courtesy of AIMA, plus sessions on community, WWII, ports and harbours, and wrecks! #WAC10 🌊⚓️
Do go for the book launch of Dr. Natali Pearson's (@sea-greeny.bsky.social) #Belitung if you're attending the World Archaeological Congress 2025 #WAC10!
