{"results":[{"title":"Despairing at the state of the world? Ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/heraclitus-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling","publisheddate":"2026-04-07","summary":"
If you’re feeling fed up with the way things are in the world, then, no matter your politics, you are experiencing an emotion people have felt for millennia.","sxaTags":[{"title":"International"},{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"International relations"}]},{"title":"George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/george-eliot-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/george-eliot-is-best-known-for-middlemarch-but-she-also-wrote-an-early-work-of-science-fiction","publisheddate":"2026-03-30","summary":"
George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Martel's latest book descends into implausibility","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/papyrus-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/ancient-texts-and-marital-breakdown-martels-latest-book-descends-into-implausibility","publisheddate":"2026-03-26","summary":"
Son of Nobody is about a Canadian scholar named Harlow Donne who wins a one-year fellowship to go to Oxford to work on papyri with the eminent scholar Franklin Cubitt.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"Does The Bride! finally get Mary Shelley right on screen?","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-bride-of-frankenstein_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/does-the-bride-finally-get-mary-shelley-right-on-screen","publisheddate":"2026-03-24","summary":"
Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/conversation-greek-heads_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/how-to-live-a-long-and-healthy-life-according-to-the-ancients","publisheddate":"2026-03-04","summary":"
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Forrest Creative Fellowships announced","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/forrest-creatives-2026-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/forrest-creative-fellowships-announced","publisheddate":"2026-01-15","summary":"
A Sri Lankan-born Australian choreographer, performer and researcher and a Canadian writer, educator and filmmaker have been awarded 2026 Forrest Research Foundation Creative Fellowships. ","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Global Engagement"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Philanthropy"}]},{"title":"How the ancients invested in precious metals","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/roman-coins-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/how-the-ancients-invested-in-precious-metals","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
Like today, people in ancient times understood that investing money could help them consolidate and grow their wealth.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"Summer reading recommendations of six dedicated readers","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/summer-reads-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/summer-reading-recommendations-of-six-dedicated-readers","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
Summer reading is often characterised as paperback romance or detective fiction but it’s also anything your tired, finally well-rested brain wants to apply itself to in the sunnier months.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ancient-books-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/what-were-books-like-in-ancient-greece-and-rome","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like?","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"How to party like an ancient Greek","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ai-statue-ancient-greek-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/january/how-to-party-like-an-ancient-greek","publisheddate":"2026-01-05","summary":"
There were different types of parties in ancient Greece. Not all involved lots of alcohol and debauchery. Some featured moderate eating and drinking, and intellectual conversation.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]}]}