Paul Longley Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 126732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Longley Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Longley |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1494-0533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Paper Life
My Ukrainian grandmother Nadia Olijnyk lived in Adelaide, South Australia, from the time she arrived as a postwar refugee in 1949 until her death at the age of 95 in 2009. She left a bundle of notebooks in which she had written down her memories, mostly in the final decade of her life. They include stories about her life in Ukraine, including from the early 1940s when her home city of Kharkov was at the epicentre of a series of momentous battles.…
Exhibiting slavery in Australia
The history of slavery has often been located on the same continuum as that of incarceration. This article explores the development of an exhibition representing the legacies of slavery in Australia, analysing Australian and international exhibitions alongside theories of museology, historiography and memory. It begins by considering the growth of slavery memory since the latter twentieth century, and Australia's own slavery heritage. The second …
How “open” are Australian museums? A review through the lens of copyright governance
Museums are increasingly employing innovative digital techniques to curate, link, and market collections, enabling new kinds of public engagement to better connect with popular culture. By embracing contemporary modes of delivery to open access to their collections, museums are signalling a drive toward greater democratisation of knowledge and information through increased interaction and accessibility. Yet with this has come a series of copyrigh…
The Digital Environmental Humanities (DEH) in the Anthropocene
Researchers in the complementary fields of the digital humanities and the environmental humanities have begun to collaborate under the auspices of the digital environmental humanities (DEH). The overarching aim of this emerging field is to leverage digital technologies in understanding and addressing the urgencies of the Anthropocene. Emphasizing DEH’s focus on natural and cultural vitality, this article begins with a historical overview of the f…
Exhibiting slavery
Within museums, interpretation and curation have increasingly employed personal stories and intimate storytelling to present broader narratives about the past. This article explores some of the opportunities and challenges of biographical storytelling in museums and public sites of memory that engage with the issue of slavery, analysing Australian exhibitions alongside international contexts and theories of museology, historiography and memory. I…
Human journeys in the digital age
Accelerations in migration, mobility, and processes of globalization in recent decades have intersected with parallel developments in information and communications technology (ICT). These advances have had profound influences on historical and cultural research. With reference to a diverse range of international projects, this paper outlines major directions and opportunities in the growing field of Digital Historical Migration Studies (DHMS). T…
The Reshaping of Home, Privacy and Identity During a Pandemic
The ways we experience and construct our homes help us know and define who we are. The digital age and the immense presence of social media in people's lives have led to the redefining and, some argue, erasures of the boundaries between ‘private' and ‘public' spheres. Recently, with wide-scale lockdowns and the mass movement of workspaces to homes in response to COVID-19, these boundaries have been altered particularly radically and universally. …
Things Fall Apart
We are in the midst of a data revolution that has penetrated the daily life of most of the world’s population so suddenly and deeply that it is impossible to grasp the extent of its impact on the concepts of self and identity. At the same time as accessing the ever-expanding realm of data via our networked devices, we are also contributing to it with every click or touch and generating a new kind of self in the free and open space of the Internet…
Data Portraits
“Our pasts are becoming etched like a tattoo into our digital skins,” wrote J. D. Lasica in 1998 (qtd. in Mayer-Schonberger 36). Since then, developments relating to online identity and privacy hav
Material Memory and the Digital
Over the past two decades, memory, understood as both the act of remembering and a means of storing memories, has been relocating itself. In its daily usage it has been moving from the mind to the computer—from neurological systems to digital technologies—as people increasingly outsource memory to digital devices. In this essay I focus on the changing nature of remembering—and forgetting—in the digital era. With an emphasis on personal stories I …
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Coda
It may be that the digital revolution has had a more profound effect on biography than any other branch of the arts. At the intersection of life writing and digital humanities, key questions can be posed: In what ways does the Web act to co-shape identities? How permanent are digital records of lives? Will we soon remember differently
Reclaiming the Past
My Ukrainian grandparents Nadia and Petro Olijnyk arrived in Australia as post-war refugees in 1949. Petro died in 2005 and Nadia in 2009, each in their mid-90s. My grandfather loved telling stories and holding an audience. Nadia would sit with him, listening, but Petro would never allow her to take over. However, when he was not with her she would sometimes tell her own stories and I was struck by how different they were from his. This paper foc…
Out of Frame
No, no, I am but shadow of myself:You are deceived, my substance is not here;For what you see is but the smallest partAnd least proportion of humanity:I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,Your roof were not sufficient to contain’t.(Shakespeare 2.3.52–58)Framing occurs but there is no frame.(Derrida, qtd. in MacLachlan and Reid 6)
International Life Writing
Introduction Paul Longley Arthur 1. Tense and Tender Ties: Reflections on Lives Recovered from the Intimate Frontier of Empire and Slavery Cassandra Pybus 2. The Politics of Writing Convict Lives: Academic Research, State Archives and Family History Lucy Frost 3. The Murderer and His Victim: Tracing a Lost Convict of the Botany Bay Decision Emma Christopher 4. Narratives of Natural History: Recovering Lost Lineages in Margaret Levyns' Life-Writin…
Unearthing the Past
When Hitler's troops invaded and occupied the city of Kharkov in Ukraine, my grandparents Nadia, 26, and Petro, 30, had two young children, aged 7 and 5. My mother had not yet been born. In this tense and uncertain period it was unclear whether Ukraine would ultimately be controlled by Stalin or Hitler. There was nothing to recommend one over the other, they often said. Both regimes were brutal and both targeted Ukrainians. Mid-1943 marked a turn…
Gallipoli Online
Virtual strangers
This paper gives an overview of the ways that humanities research is embracing new digital resources and formats and suggests that the e-research revolution that is well advanced in the sciences is at an early stage in the humanities. Many of its potential benefits, and challenges, are different from those in the sciences and are just beginning to be understood. While researchers in the sciences have been accustomed to working collaboratively, th…
Digital Biography
(2009). Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 74-92
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction The unexplored regions of the southern hemisphere, known as the ‘antipodes’, existed in the European imagination for at least two thousand years before Europeans set foot on antipodean lands. By that time this distant and elusive place had inspired a vast and varied mythology. Rival European nations, with different aims and agendas, each had their own specific visions of the ‘great south land’ that they sought to fulfil thro…
Antipodean Myths Transformed
Australia and the South Pacific held a special status in the eighteenth century: this was the farthest region from Europe and the last part of the earth remaining for Europeans to explore and chart. In the context of European nations’ own histories of discovering and exploring the world beyond Europe's borders, this region is unique in the sense that no other part of the earth had such a substantial and well‐documented body of European thought de…
Capturing the antipodes
(2001). Capturing the antipodes: Imaginary voyages and the romantic imagination. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001, pp. 186-195
Imaginary conquests of Australia
Participating in the Past
The article focuses on the impact of digital media on the recording and presentation of oral history. It discusses some issues such as the finance for oral history research, the problems associated with maintaining and updating digital histories and the demands of interdisciplinary collaboration in Australia. It also looks into some oral history projects to describe the essence and impact of digitalization on oral history. Moreover, it explores t…
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Out of Frame
No, no, I am but shadow of myself:You are deceived, my substance is not here;For what you see is but the smallest partAnd least proportion of humanity:I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,Your roof were not sufficient to contain’t.(Shakespeare 2.3.52–58)Framing occurs but there is no frame.(Derrida, qtd. in MacLachlan and Reid 6)
Digital Biography
(2009). Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 74-92
Material Memory and the Digital
Over the past two decades, memory, understood as both the act of remembering and a means of storing memories, has been relocating itself. In its daily usage it has been moving from the mind to the computer—from neurological systems to digital technologies—as people increasingly outsource memory to digital devices. In this essay I focus on the changing nature of remembering—and forgetting—in the digital era. With an emphasis on personal stories I …
Unearthing the Past
When Hitler's troops invaded and occupied the city of Kharkov in Ukraine, my grandparents Nadia, 26, and Petro, 30, had two young children, aged 7 and 5. My mother had not yet been born. In this tense and uncertain period it was unclear whether Ukraine would ultimately be controlled by Stalin or Hitler. There was nothing to recommend one over the other, they often said. Both regimes were brutal and both targeted Ukrainians. Mid-1943 marked a turn…
Participating in the Past
The article focuses on the impact of digital media on the recording and presentation of oral history. It discusses some issues such as the finance for oral history research, the problems associated with maintaining and updating digital histories and the demands of interdisciplinary collaboration in Australia. It also looks into some oral history projects to describe the essence and impact of digitalization on oral history. Moreover, it explores t…
Imaginary conquests of Australia
Capturing the antipodes
(2001). Capturing the antipodes: Imaginary voyages and the romantic imagination. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001, pp. 186-195
Antipodean Myths Transformed
Australia and the South Pacific held a special status in the eighteenth century: this was the farthest region from Europe and the last part of the earth remaining for Europeans to explore and chart. In the context of European nations’ own histories of discovering and exploring the world beyond Europe's borders, this region is unique in the sense that no other part of the earth had such a substantial and well‐documented body of European thought de…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction The unexplored regions of the southern hemisphere, known as the ‘antipodes’, existed in the European imagination for at least two thousand years before Europeans set foot on antipodean lands. By that time this distant and elusive place had inspired a vast and varied mythology. Rival European nations, with different aims and agendas, each had their own specific visions of the ‘great south land’ that they sought to fulfil thro…
Virtual strangers
This paper gives an overview of the ways that humanities research is embracing new digital resources and formats and suggests that the e-research revolution that is well advanced in the sciences is at an early stage in the humanities. Many of its potential benefits, and challenges, are different from those in the sciences and are just beginning to be understood. While researchers in the sciences have been accustomed to working collaboratively, th…
Digital Biography
(2009). Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 74-92
Gallipoli Online
Unearthing the Past
When Hitler's troops invaded and occupied the city of Kharkov in Ukraine, my grandparents Nadia, 26, and Petro, 30, had two young children, aged 7 and 5. My mother had not yet been born. In this tense and uncertain period it was unclear whether Ukraine would ultimately be controlled by Stalin or Hitler. There was nothing to recommend one over the other, they often said. Both regimes were brutal and both targeted Ukrainians. Mid-1943 marked a turn…
International Life Writing
Introduction Paul Longley Arthur 1. Tense and Tender Ties: Reflections on Lives Recovered from the Intimate Frontier of Empire and Slavery Cassandra Pybus 2. The Politics of Writing Convict Lives: Academic Research, State Archives and Family History Lucy Frost 3. The Murderer and His Victim: Tracing a Lost Convict of the Botany Bay Decision Emma Christopher 4. Narratives of Natural History: Recovering Lost Lineages in Margaret Levyns' Life-Writin…
Reclaiming the Past
My Ukrainian grandparents Nadia and Petro Olijnyk arrived in Australia as post-war refugees in 1949. Petro died in 2005 and Nadia in 2009, each in their mid-90s. My grandfather loved telling stories and holding an audience. Nadia would sit with him, listening, but Petro would never allow her to take over. However, when he was not with her she would sometimes tell her own stories and I was struck by how different they were from his. This paper foc…
Out of Frame
No, no, I am but shadow of myself:You are deceived, my substance is not here;For what you see is but the smallest partAnd least proportion of humanity:I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,Your roof were not sufficient to contain’t.(Shakespeare 2.3.52–58)Framing occurs but there is no frame.(Derrida, qtd. in MacLachlan and Reid 6)
Material Memory and the Digital
Over the past two decades, memory, understood as both the act of remembering and a means of storing memories, has been relocating itself. In its daily usage it has been moving from the mind to the computer—from neurological systems to digital technologies—as people increasingly outsource memory to digital devices. In this essay I focus on the changing nature of remembering—and forgetting—in the digital era. With an emphasis on personal stories I …
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Coda
It may be that the digital revolution has had a more profound effect on biography than any other branch of the arts. At the intersection of life writing and digital humanities, key questions can be posed: In what ways does the Web act to co-shape identities? How permanent are digital records of lives? Will we soon remember differently
Things Fall Apart
We are in the midst of a data revolution that has penetrated the daily life of most of the world’s population so suddenly and deeply that it is impossible to grasp the extent of its impact on the concepts of self and identity. At the same time as accessing the ever-expanding realm of data via our networked devices, we are also contributing to it with every click or touch and generating a new kind of self in the free and open space of the Internet…
Data Portraits
“Our pasts are becoming etched like a tattoo into our digital skins,” wrote J. D. Lasica in 1998 (qtd. in Mayer-Schonberger 36). Since then, developments relating to online identity and privacy hav
Exhibiting slavery
Within museums, interpretation and curation have increasingly employed personal stories and intimate storytelling to present broader narratives about the past. This article explores some of the opportunities and challenges of biographical storytelling in museums and public sites of memory that engage with the issue of slavery, analysing Australian exhibitions alongside international contexts and theories of museology, historiography and memory. I…
Human journeys in the digital age
Accelerations in migration, mobility, and processes of globalization in recent decades have intersected with parallel developments in information and communications technology (ICT). These advances have had profound influences on historical and cultural research. With reference to a diverse range of international projects, this paper outlines major directions and opportunities in the growing field of Digital Historical Migration Studies (DHMS). T…
The Reshaping of Home, Privacy and Identity During a Pandemic
The ways we experience and construct our homes help us know and define who we are. The digital age and the immense presence of social media in people's lives have led to the redefining and, some argue, erasures of the boundaries between ‘private' and ‘public' spheres. Recently, with wide-scale lockdowns and the mass movement of workspaces to homes in response to COVID-19, these boundaries have been altered particularly radically and universally. …
The Digital Environmental Humanities (DEH) in the Anthropocene
Researchers in the complementary fields of the digital humanities and the environmental humanities have begun to collaborate under the auspices of the digital environmental humanities (DEH). The overarching aim of this emerging field is to leverage digital technologies in understanding and addressing the urgencies of the Anthropocene. Emphasizing DEH’s focus on natural and cultural vitality, this article begins with a historical overview of the f…
Exhibiting slavery in Australia
The history of slavery has often been located on the same continuum as that of incarceration. This article explores the development of an exhibition representing the legacies of slavery in Australia, analysing Australian and international exhibitions alongside theories of museology, historiography and memory. It begins by considering the growth of slavery memory since the latter twentieth century, and Australia's own slavery heritage. The second …
How “open” are Australian museums? A review through the lens of copyright governance
Museums are increasingly employing innovative digital techniques to curate, link, and market collections, enabling new kinds of public engagement to better connect with popular culture. By embracing contemporary modes of delivery to open access to their collections, museums are signalling a drive toward greater democratisation of knowledge and information through increased interaction and accessibility. Yet with this has come a series of copyrigh…
Paper Life
My Ukrainian grandmother Nadia Olijnyk lived in Adelaide, South Australia, from the time she arrived as a postwar refugee in 1949 until her death at the age of 95 in 2009. She left a bundle of notebooks in which she had written down her memories, mostly in the final decade of her life. They include stories about her life in Ukraine, including from the early 1940s when her home city of Kharkov was at the epicentre of a series of momentous battles.…
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