By Professor Ruth Balint

Books

Balint R, 2021, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe After 1945, Cornell University Press, New York

Balint R; Kalman J, 2021, Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2021.1989829

Balint R, 2005, Troubled waters: borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW

Book Chapters

Balint R, 2023, 'Hopscotch Australia: Displaced Persons Taking the Long Way Around to the Rest of the World', in Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S (ed.), When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 35 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355514.ch-002

Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S, 2023, 'Introduction: Departures – Why Migrants Fail to Stay', in Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S (ed.), When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355514.0004

Balint R, 2015, 'The Use and Abuse of History: Displaced Persons in the ITS Archive', in Boehling R; Urban S; Anthony E; Brown-Fleming S (ed.), Freilegungen Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen, Wallstein Verlag, Gottingen, pp. 173 - 188

Balint R, 2014, 'Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács's Private Hungary', in Young G; Monahan B (ed.), Amateur Filmmaking : the home movie, the Archive, the Web., Bloomsbury Academic, Oxford, England, pp. 193 - 206, http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/amateur-filmmaking-9781441191496/

Balint R, 2012, 'The War Crimes Case of Karoly Zentai and the Quest for Historical Justice', in Tatz C (ed.), Genocide Perspectives IV; Essays on Holocaust and Genocide, UTSePress, Sydney, pp. 272 - 311, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/research/bitstream/handle/10453/19824/GenocidePerspectivesIV_Tatz.pdf?sequence=1

Balint R, 2012, 'The Yellow Sea', in Walker D; Sobocinka A (ed.), Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, UWA Publishing, Perth, WA, pp. 345 - 366

Balint R, 2009, 'Der »Somerton Man«: Eine dokumentarische Fiktion in drei Dimensionen', in Butis Butis (ed.), Goofy History: Fehler Machen Geschichte, Bohlau, Weimar, pp. 264 - 279

Balint R, 2007, 'Mare Nullius and the Making of a White Ocean Policy', in Perera S (ed.), Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Power after 9/11, Network Books, Perth, pp. 87 - 105

Edited Books

Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S; Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S; Henrich E, (eds.), 2023, When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departure and Migration, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2024.2327236

Journal articles

Balint R, 2023, 'Margaret Taft delves into the lives of two remarkable Australian Jews', History Australia, 20, pp. 182 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2159460

Balint R, 2019, 'My grandmother's cookbook: a personal history of migration', Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, 24, pp. 486 - 500

Balint R, 2019, 'Before Australia: Historicising Russian Migration via China after World War II', Australian Historical Studies, 50, pp. 3 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1543333

Alba A; Balint R; Lanicek J, 2018, 'Holocaust Education at Australian Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Opportunities', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 131 - 133, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2018/12/02/holocaust-education-at-australian-universities-in-the-twenty-first-century-challenges-and-opportunities/

Balint R; Simic Z, 2018, 'Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1479438

Balint R, 2017, 'Alexander and Anastayzia: the separation and search for family among Europe’s displaced', The History of the Family, 22, pp. 432 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2017.1292181

Balint R, 2016, 'Children left behind: Family, refugees and immigration in postwar Europe', History Workshop Journal, 82, pp. 151 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbw021

Balint R, 2015, ''To Reunite the Dispersed Family': War Displacement and Migration in the Tracing Files of the Australian Red Cross', History Australia, 12, pp. 124 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2015.11668573

Balint R; Balint , 2014, 'Industry and Sunshine: Australia as 'Home' in the Displaced Persons Camps of Postwar Europe', History Australia, 11, pp. 102 - 127, http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/1103

Balint R, 2014, 'The Idea of Home in Postwar Australia', History Australia, 11, pp. 6 - 12, http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/1138

Balint R, 2012, 'Aboriginal Women and Asian Men: A Maritime History of Color in White Australia', Signs, 37, pp. 544 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662685

Balint R, 2011, 'Soft Histories: Making history on Australian television', History Australia, 8, pp. 175 - 195

Balint R, 2010, ''Remembering Balibo'', History Australia, 7, pp. 15.1 - 15.2, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100015

Balint R, 2010, 'Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone [Review]', Asian Studies Review, 34, pp. 262 - 263

Balint R, 2010, 'The Somerton Man: An Unsolved History', Cultural Studies Review, 16, pp. 159 - 178

Balint R, 2010, 'The Ties That Bind: Australia, Hungary and the Case of Károly Zentai', Patterns of Prejudice, 44, pp. 281 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2010.489737

Balint R, 2009, 'First Australians: An Illustrated History [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 33, pp. 489 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050903308725

Balint R, 2008, 'Being Australian, Narratives of National Identity [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 32, pp. 147 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050801995185

Balint R; Dolgopolov G, 2008, 'Film', Sydney Journal, 1, pp. 33 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v1i2.659

Balint R, 2008, 'I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 32, pp. 406 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802294158

Balint R, 2007, 'A Death in the Harbour', The Monthly, pp. 32 - 38

Balint R, 1999, 'The last frontier: Australia's maritime territories and the policing of Indonesian fishermen', Journal of Australian Studies, 23, pp. 30 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059909387530

Conference Papers

Balint R, 2009, 'Australia Gets Lost and Goes Missing: Baz's Tourism Australia ad', http://www.nma.gov.au/research/baz_luhrmanns_australia_reviewed/speakers_and_program/, National Museum of Australia, National Museum of Australia, 07 December 2009 - 08 December 2009

Conference Presentations

Balint R, 2009, 'The Somerton Man Mystery and the Unsolved Case of History', presented at Scandals, Crime and Corruption, State Library of NSW, 09 September 2009

Balint R, 2008, 'The Water Hemisphere: Australia and its exilic sea', presented at Graduate School Mediale Historiographien, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany, 19 June 2008

Balint R, 2007, 'Mare Nullius and a White Ocean Policy', presented at Indian Association for the Study of Australia Annual Conference, Pune India

Balint R, 2006, 'Sweeping the Seas Clean: A White Ocean policy in Australia's north', presented at Historicising Whiteness, University of Melbourne, 22 November 2006 - 24 November 2006

Balint R, 2005, 'Seascape and Memory in the Australian Psyche', presented at EASA conference: ReVisions of Australia: Histories, Images, Identity, Debrecen, Hungary, 20 September 2005 - 24 September 2005

Reports

Balint R, 2019, Michael Robert Staindlv Joshua Anthony Frydenberg High Gourt of Australia Proceedings No. M96 of 2019

Creative Written Works

Balint R, 2012, Small Fry: The Story of a People Smuggler, The Monthly, Schwartz Publishing

Balint R, 2009, Australia, Hungary and the Case of Karoly Zentai, Inside Story: Current Affairs and Culture, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, and Australian National University

Balint R, 2009, Where are the Historians?, Inside Story: Current Affairs and Culture, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, and Australian National University

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Balint R, 2019, ABC Radio Documentary 'Cooking for Assimilation', written and produced by Ruth Balint, ABC Radio National, Radio, Published: 26 March 2019, Duration: 30 minutes, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/cooking-for-assimilation/10595470

Balint R, 2014, Radio Program, ABC Radio National - The Somerton Man: A Mystery in Four Acts, Published: 23 February 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/somerton-man/5259946

Balint R, 2013, The Pearling Families of Broome - a two part documentary series, ABC Radio National, Radio National, Editor(s): ABC , Published: 2013, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Balint R, 2003, The Death of Mansur, SBS Television, Sydney, Video, Published: 2003, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Balint R, 2001, Troubled Waters, Resonance Production, Sydney, Video, Published: 2001, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Media

Balint R, 2022, Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard, , https://theconversation.com/young-womens-memoirs-of-migration-dispossession-and-australian-unbelonging-demand-to-be-heard-182223

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