Maria Tumarkin, work so far

Print:

• Essay, 'Seduction of the Imagination' about Mata Hari's real crime, The Age, 22 July 2006 Click Here
• Editorial about current school reports in Australia, The Age, 20 June 2006 Click Here
• Essay, 'Right to Grieve Not Public Property', The Age, 28 April 2006 Click Here
• Review of Carol Altman's book 'After Port Arthur', The Age, 13 April 2006 Click Here
• Review of ‘The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War’, by Robert Bevan Click Here
• Review of a book on the new relationship between Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, The Monthly, December 2005. Click Here
• Essay on the meaning of ruins for ‘Ruin. Body’ Exhibition Catalogue, Ian Porter Museum. Click Here
• Review essay about the clash between the world of children and the world of adults, The Monthly, no 5, September 2005. Click Here
• ‘Srebrenica: 10 years on, a wound still bleeds’, The Age, July 11, 2005 Click Here
• ‘The Witness in Contempt: Reflections on Overfamiliarity, Pain and Desecration’, Cultural Studies Review, March 2005 . Click Here
• Essay on the origins of Bohemians for Australian Ballet Catalogue. Click Here
• ‘Traumascapes, memory and the curse of indifference’, Overland, 175, Winter 2004.
• Book Review of Alan Atkinson’s ‘Three Weeks in Bali’, Journal of Australian Studies, no 17, July 2003. Click Here
• ‘Why we must resist the urge to lie to our children’, Sunday Age, 23 March 2003. Click Here
• ‘The Voyeuristic Tourist’, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 2001
• ‘Someplace Else’, Meanjin, vol. 59, no 1, 2000
• ‘Stranger in the Night’, Meanjin, vol. 58, no 1, 1999

Radio:

• ‘Tanya’s diaries’, Lingua Franca, Radio National, 28 May 2005 Click Here
• ‘Port Arthur. The Persistence of Ruins’, Hindsight feature, Radio National, ABC, broadcast on 31 October 2004, Click Here
• Ockham’s Razor, Radio National, ABC, 27 July 2003. Click Here

Online:

• With Justin Clemens, ‘Khrzhanovsky Is Not a Dirty Word’, New Matilda, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 – about a controversial (to say the least) Russian film-maker. Click Here
• ‘Soul Drain’, New Matilda, www.newmatilda.com, April 2005 Click Here

Academic:

• ‘Traumascapes’, Public Lecture, National Museum of Australia, October 2004
• ‘Love at Last Sight. Port Arthur and the Afterlife of Trauma’, Cultural Studies Review, September 2004
• ‘Manuscripts do not burn: Trauma, material culture and the persistence of memory’, paper presented at English and Cultural Studies Departmental Research Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, August 2004
• ‘Traumascapes as Sacred Sites’, paper presented at Desecration. A Symposium, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, May 2004
• ‘Heritage of Atrocity’, paper presented at the Cultural Heritage Centre Seminar Series, Deakin University, May 2004
• ‘ “Wishing You Weren’t Here…”: Thinking about Trauma, Place and the Port Arthur Massacre’, Journal of Australian Studies, New Talents 2001
• ‘Trauma, Space and Identity in Contemporary Australia’, paper presented at Diagrams of Space and Identity Conference, Duke University 2000
• ‘Russia and Australia. The History of a Disenchantment’, paper presented at The Sixth International Russia and the West: The Dialogue of Cultures Conference, Moscow State University, June 1999