Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Country, Kin & Kith: Coming Home to Culture Through Art
Published 2024‘Coming home to Country’ is an evocative descriptor that is spoken in many languages and dialects in Australia by all sorts of people. As a newcomer to Country over forty years ago, raising a family of five sons and ...Open AccessThesis -
“Fantasy of a Sound Regained”: Eighteenth-century German organ continuo practice elucidated by annotations in Georg Philipp Telemann’s sacred cantatas performed in Frankfurt am Main 1721– 1771
Published 2024Since the 1960s, portable continuo organs have been a mainstay of the historically informed performance movement, heard in countless performances and recordings. Designed for ease of transport and tuning, such instruments ...Open AccessThesis -
Mothers of calibre: reconfigurations of paid and unpaid work in neoliberalism
Published 2024This thesis explores reconfigurations the paid and unpaid work of women through the figure of “the good working mother.” Past studies of the ‘good mother’ have mostly focused on the relations and practices of motherhood, ...Open AccessThesis -
The campus romance: Patterns, repetitions and a popular imaginary of youth in contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese cinema
Published 2022This thesis concerns a genre of Chinese-language film that was especially popular in the period 2011-2016, catalysed by the commercial successes of You Are the Apple of My Eye (Taiwan, 2011) and So Young (China, 2013). As ...Open AccessThesis -
Design and synthesis of carborane-based antitubercular agents
Published 2024Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death globally, with 1.4 million people succumbing to the disease in 2021 alone. Current treatments for TB consist of extended drug regimens associated with moderate toxicity ...Open AccessThesis