Effie Karageorgos

Effie Karageorgos is a historian of protest, war and psychiatry, and author of Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War.

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Effie Karageorgos

Effie Karageorgos is a senior lecturer of history at the University of Newcastle whose work focuses on protest, war, violence, gender and psychiatry. Her writing has been published in various media outlets, including The Guardian and The Conversation and she has spoken on Radio National, Triple J Hack and ABC Life Matters. She appeared in the Network Seven/Australian War Memorial documentary Tears of Hope with David Wenham, and SBS program Who Do You Think You Are?. She is deputy co-director of the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Society, Health and Care Research and co-editor of Health and History journal. With Natalie Hendry (University of Melbourne), she coordinates the critical seminar series Social Production of Mental Health, from which their co-edited book Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives (Palgrave, 2025) has emerged. Her latest book, Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War is published by UNSW Press.

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Radical Newcastle: A History Walk

DATE March 27 TIME 10:00 am WHERENewcastle Museum Book now

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A book cover featuring a black and white photograph of a crowd of people protesting in a street, and the title "Quiet Protest" in large white letters overlaid

Quiet Protest

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