Saskia Beudel Saskia Beudel i(A7806 works by) (a.k.a. Saskia M. Beudel)
Born: Established: 1964 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 The “Living Humanities” : Creative Arts and Academic Humanities in Tension Saskia Beudel , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
'When the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) was established in 1969, poet Judith Wright was elected as a founding fellow. Scholar and fellow poet A. D. Hope saw her inclusion as boding well for the Academy’s purpose to foster and promote the humanities. Six years later, Wright complained about a lack of opportunities for creative practitioners and claimed that she was being excluded from Academy life. While some fellows supported Wright, the majority disagreed that creative practitioners belonged in the fellowship. This incident is representative of a broader “unclear connection” between the “living humanities” – as H. C. Coombs described the creative arts – and what Simon During terms the “academic humanities”. Focusing on the AAH’s first three decades, this article traces different ideas held by leading humanities scholars towards the creative arts and shows how the AAH maintained boundaries and created exclusions. A major shift occurred with the John Dawkins reforms to higher education. Key figures at the AAH played leading roles in seeking solutions to alarmingly low levels of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for “creative arts research”. Despite such efforts, the AAH continued to elect very few creative arts practitioners into its core fellowship throughout the 1990s and ARC data shows that funding inequities for creative arts research remain an intractable problem.'(Publication abstract)
1 Listening to Birds in a Changing World Saskia Beudel , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Living with the Anthropocene 2020;
1 Perched on the Edge of the Ocean, Writing Saskia Beudel , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;

'Since pre-colonial days in northern Australia, cultural practices, material objects and living things have been exchanged and transformed across the sea. Biologists and archaeologists believe that Australia’s dingo was introduced by Asian seafarers around 4,000 years ago. It adapted and spread across the continent and was incorporated within Aboriginal cosmologies. From at least 1700, Makassar fishermen harvested trepang (or sea-cucumber) on an annual basis in Australia, with China also participating in this trade. Anthropologists in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Alfred Cort Haddon and Donald Thomson, noted the interweaving of cultural traditions among Indigenous populations spread across the Arafura Sea.' (Introduction)

1 Cycling in the City Saskia Beudel , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 148 2017; (p. 90-100)

'While walking has spawned much literature, cycling's literary offerings appear few. Here Saskia  Beudel adds her contemplation of cycling. writing and urban landscapes.' (Introduction)

1 4 y separately published work icon A Country in Mind : Memoir with Landscape Saskia Beudel , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2013 6152210 2013 single work autobiography prose travel

'After a period of loss, and much change, Saskia Beudel began walking. Within eighteen months she had walked in the Snowy Mountains, twice along the south coast of Tasmania, the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs, the Arnhem Land plateau in Kakadu, the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, and in Ladakh in the Himalayas. Throughout the course of her journeys, she experienced passages of reverie, of forgetfulness, of absorption in her surroundings, of an immense but simple pleasure, and of rhythm. A rhythm that began to integrate into thoughts, words, language.

'A Country in Mind is a narrative memoir of one woman's reflections on home, family and belonging while traversing remote and ancient landscapes.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 City of Skies [From a Work-in-progress] Saskia Beudel , 2009 extract prose
— Appears in: Heat , no. 21 (New Series) 2009; (p. 119-134)
1 View from Yuendumu Mining Store Saskia Beudel , 2008 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Heat , no. 18 (New Series) 2008; (p. 33-37)
1 Desert Grasslands Saskia Beudel , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 20-26)
1 Kim Mahood's Evolving Geographies Saskia Beudel , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , August no. 42 2007;

— Review of Craft for a Dry Lake Kim Mahood , 2000 single work autobiography ; Blow-Ins on the Cold Desert Wind Kim Mahood , 2007 single work essay
1 Walking Saskia Beudel , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Heat , no. 10 (New Series) 2005; (p. 7-25) The Best Australian Essays 2006 2006; (p. 292-310)
An account of Beudel's 2002 walk along part of the Larapinta Trail in the West MacDonnell Ranges.
1 5 y separately published work icon Borrowed Eyes Saskia Beudel , Sydney : Picador , 2002 Z974966 2002 single work novel historical fiction
1 Borrowed Room Saskia Beudel , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 1 1999; (p. 40-44)
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