Uncurated

Centre for Advancing Journalism
Uncurated

The saying ‘truth is hidden in plain sight’ paints an appropriate picture of the University of Melbourne - hidden within the walls of its notorious buildings, and the people that gave them their names, are colonial legacies of injustice and tales of multiculturalism.  Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey to discover the stories behind our iconic buildings in 8 illuminating episodes where we uncover what our University was really built on, both literally and figuratively. Uncurated Season 3 coming October 2024.

  1. COUNTRY

    HACE 3 DÍAS

    COUNTRY

    What would Australia look like if we had monkeys swinging around our cities? In the late 19th Century, a number of associations called “acclimatisation societies” sprung up across Australia with the goal of bringing familiar plants and animals to what the British colonists saw as an impoverished landscape.  This episode explores the massive ecological transformation that shaped what the university’s environment looks like today, and how Indigenous knowledge about land preservation was ignored for decades. INTERVIEWEES Dr Pete Minard (historian of colonial science and environmental history) Prof Lynette Russell AM (historian of Indigenous Australians and colonial anthropology) SOUND ATTRIBUTIONS axe chopping (in the forest) by Selector, accessible at www.freesound.org/s/410768, License: Creative Commons 0 1.0 Pied Currawong Strepera graculina by Sunny Tseng, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/871215, License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus by Peter Boesman, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/859826, License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Australian Raven Corvus coronoides by Zebedee Muller, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/801431, License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Laughing Kookaburra Daceolo novaguineae by Ken George, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/858185, License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis by Greg McLachlan, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/331396, License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Peace Piano song by Calvin Clavier. https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-peace-piano-song-216338/  Birds and Insects near Dam - Cathedral Ranges by Sassaby, accessible at freesound.org/s/427877, License: Creative Commons 0 1.0 180081 Sheep Farm 01 by FST18008, accessible at https://freesound.org/s/441801, License: Attribution 4.0 Cinematic rythmline by SamuelFJohanns from Pixabay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    19 min
  2. STONES

    18 OCT

    STONES

    The Old Quadrangle is one of the most photographed spots on the University of Melbourne campus, with students and tourists alike posing under its iconic archways.  The romantic European architecture feels like you've been transported to the set of Hogwarts, but did you know that the stones used to create this effect were stolen from Indigenous lands in Tasmania?  Reporter Giulia Scenna investigates the history of our campus's architecture and its relationship with Indigenous Australia.  —  Interviewees:  Dr Philip Goad, Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne  Dr James Waghorne, Senior Research Fellow and University Historian at the University of Melbourne  Inspiration for this episode was informed by the recently published book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia by Ross L. Jones, Dr. James Waghorne, and Professor Marcia Langton of the University of Melbourne. If you would like to know more about The University of Melbourne’s response, you can download the book for free here.   MUSIC CREDITS (In order of appearance)  Our Fingers Cold from Blue Dot Sessions  Cold Summers from Blue Dot Sessions  Crosswire from Blue Dot Sessions  Temperance from Blue Dot Sessions  La Costilla from Blue Dot Sessions  10 Minutes Past from Blue Dot Sessions  Watercool Quiet from Blue Dot Sessions  Tape Player Sounds -Free for use under the Pixabay Content License  A Common Pause from Blue Dot Sessions  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    19 min
  3. REMAINS

    11 OCT

    REMAINS

    Between the 1800s to1950s, anthropologists at the University of Melbourne were digging up burial sites of First Nations ancestors who had been laid to rest and collecting, rather stealing, their bodies. And while some of these human remains were returned to land and reburied, one collection remained hidden away at the university in a storage room until 2003.  Uncover the true story of The University of Melbourne’s troubled past of grave robbing and the efforts to repatriate the hundreds of Indigenous ancestors’ skeletal remains back to their land and families.  — Interviewees: Marie Havea, Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council  Rohan Long, Curator of the Harry Brookes Allen Museum   Inspiration for this episode was informed by the recently published book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia by Ross L. Jones, Dr. James Waghorne, and Professor Marcia Langton of the University of Melbourne. If you would like to know more about The University of Melbourne’s response, you can download the book for free here.  MUSIC CREDITS (In order of appearance) The Lonely Instrument Series -Cello -Played by Natalie Haas - Music by Trygve Larsen from Pixabay Cold Sad Pianos - Music by Mike Kripak from Pixabay Meditative Background Mystical Yoga Nature Fantasy Music - Music by Dubush Miaw from Pixabay June  - Music by Marcel Pequel from Free Music Archive  Sad Tragic Dramatic Music Slow Melancholic - Music by Denis Pavlov from Pixabay Loneliness_Outro- Music by Grand_Project from Pixabay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    19 min
  4. Real Life Jurassic Park

    18/10/2022

    Real Life Jurassic Park

    The thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Tiger, remains one of Australia’s most identifiable animals despite having gone extinct almost 100 years ago. In its time, it was hunted, mishandled and neglected, yet people are still captivated by it today. They desperately hope the animal still exists in hiding, and one scientist at the University of Melbourne is on the brink of a discovery unlike any other...one that could reverse the fate of the thylacine and right the wrongs of the past. This week on Uncurated, Aania Tandon and Sasha Gattermayr explore the story of this mystical animal and why it has not been forgotten. -- Interviewees: Rohan Long - Curator, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at The University of Melbourne Professor Andrew Pask - Professor in Epigenetics at The University of Melbourne -- Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from SoundCloud, Incompetech, Adobe Sound and Youtube under relevant licensing agreements: Ethereal - "Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Galvanic Birds by Jade Then - https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/jade-then-galvanic-birds News bites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxwLMXyuHfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUMuY98X_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZGy56gk8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_gL2EIhmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEKGLjzjBE This episode also referred to the following for research purposes: Jeff Sparrow - Provocations: New and Selected Writing (Chapter- What if we found a thylacine?) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    18 min

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The saying ‘truth is hidden in plain sight’ paints an appropriate picture of the University of Melbourne - hidden within the walls of its notorious buildings, and the people that gave them their names, are colonial legacies of injustice and tales of multiculturalism.  Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey to discover the stories behind our iconic buildings in 8 illuminating episodes where we uncover what our University was really built on, both literally and figuratively. Uncurated Season 3 coming October 2024.

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