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Syrian artists take photos of murals they painted on the wall of a war-damaged house in Daraya earlier this month. Omar Sanadiki/AAP

November 30, 2025

Checkpoints, camps and control: how violence and the law intertwine

Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney

In 58 Facets, legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski reflects on displacement, violence, resistance and her own family history.

Mark Raphael Baker at Treblinka death camp on a research trip. Provided by Raimond Gaita

January 20, 2025

Death shaded the life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer memoir he began in hospital was a final ‘act of love’

Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney

How does one write the essence of a life once it has come to an end?Mark Raphael Baker’s A Season of Death is an intimate, at times harrowing, portrait of grief.

Author Lily Brett and co-stars of Treasure, Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry. The Conversation, AAP

June 17, 2024

Lily Brett’s trip to Poland with her Holocaust survivor father inspired her novel, Too Many Men. 25 years later, it’s a film: Treasure

Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney

Too Many Men won acclaim for its depiction of a father and daughter and their different emotional responses to the crimes of the past. Tess Scholfield-Peters considers the book’s impact today.

Cynthia Banham with Kevin Rudd in 2008. Banham’s memoir explores both the trauma she experienced during a plane crash in 2007 and her family’s history. Dean Lewins/AAP

May 12, 2019

Inside the story: writing trauma in Cynthia Banham’s A Certain Light

Tess Scholfield-Peters, University of Technology Sydney

In her fragmentary family memoir, Cynthia Banham interweaves narratives of war and migration with her own traumatic plane crash - ultimately reclaiming her identity in the process.

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