It has been a big week for historians. Take a breath and catch up with news from the world of CHRG.

Don’t forget to send Anna your publications, seminars, conferences, calls for papers and other news and celebrations. 

CHRG Seminar Series

We kicked off the 2022 Seminar Series with Luke Keogh discussing his book, The Wardian Case. Next week we have Mia Martin-Hobbs with Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys.

AHA Conference

Urgent Histories
27 June – 1 July 2022, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus
‘Urgent Histories’, on Wadawurrung country in Geelong, Australia, invites historians to focus on the uses and usefulness of the past in pressing contemporary public debates, disputes and narratives. It welcomes histories and history-making distinctive to the local and particular through to addressing shared human conditions. 
The convenors (CHRG) welcome proposals for papers and panels on any geographical area, time-period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of urgent histories. AHA and affiliated streams include environmental history, women’s and gender history, children and youth history, religious history, economic history, oral history, migration history, GLAM and more to be confirmed.  To ensure everyone has a chance to submit proposal, the deadline for submission of abstracts for individual papers, panels and roundtables has been further extended to 13 March 2022 (THIS SUNDAY). The new website is here.

Publications

• CHRG affiliate, Nathaniel L. Moir, published a review essay in the recent issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies (University of California Press).  In the essay, Nate assessed Tuong Vu’s Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Alec Holcombe’s Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1960 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2020).
• Klaus Neumann has a new article in German Politics and Society (vol. 40, no. 1, March 2020, pp. 77-103): “Black Lives Matter, a Princess from Zanzibar, Bismarck, and German Memorial Hygiene”.
• Christopher Mayes has a new publication: Mayes, Christopher. “Co-producing Bioethics: How Biomedical Scientists and Applied Philosophers Established Bioethics in Australia.” Social History of Medicine (2022).
• Susie Protschky has an article published in The Conversation – Dutch government apologises to Indonesia for war abuses, but knowledge of atrocities is nothing new.

Media, podcasts and more

• Nate Moir discussed his forthcoming book, Number One Realist – Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare – which Oxford University Press will publish on April 1, 2022 – in a New Books Network Podcast on February 8, 2022.
• Murray Noonan has a chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, Zak Cope and Immanuel Ness eds., Oxford, 2022. The chapter is titled ‘Classical Marxist Imperialism Theory: Continuity, Change, and Relevance’.
• Carolyn Holbrook made a submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs’ Inquiry into Constitutional Reform and Referendums about ‘How to better engage young people with the Constitution’. You can read the final report here.
• Clare Corbould joined Richard Glover on ABC Sydney to discuss politics in the USA. You can listen back here (starting at 1:53:55).

Medicare Survey

Calling all people who are over 18 and own a Medicare card!

Carolyn Holbrook and David Lowe, together with colleagues Catherine Bennett and Kat Bogatyreva in the Health Faculty, are conducting research about our attitudes to Medicare & how they affect what services we access. You can win one of 4 $50 vouchers and 3 $100 vouchers by doing the survey. Thank you!

Events

Environmental History Meets Public Policy
22 March  – 21 June 2022
A series of training webinars ending with a hybrid stakeholder debate.

Through a series of practical workshops and roundtable discussions, participants will be introduced to different policy actors and the process of policy engagement will be demystified. Channels for engagement will be explored, and researchers will leave equipped with the tools and practical skill-set to actively bridge their research and the policy community. The climax of our series is a hybrid event in Berlin, which will feature lightning talks on possible policy lessons by invited environmental historians, and a feedback debate with policy stakeholders. You can find more details here.

Opportunity Reminders

NAA-AHA Scholarship
National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Association scholarships assist talented postgraduate scholars with the cost of copying records held in the Archives. For example, scholars may be based in one city and want to see records located in an Archives office in another city. Assistance with digital copying costs will provide access to material that might not otherwise be possible. Students enrolled in a Masters or PhD degree in history are invited to apply. Four scholarships are awarded annually, with applications opening 1 March and closing 5pm 31 March. You can find more information here.

Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme
The Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme supports five Early Career Research historians to attend and present at the AHA annual conference. The scholarship, valued at $1000 per applicant, provides financial assistance for ECR applicants with little or no institutional support. The money is to be used towards assisting with registration costs, travel and accommodation. Applications close 31 March 2022. More information here. 

Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary
The Patrick Wolfe Bursary assists two early career researchers to participate in the AHA annual conference. The prize honours the career of Dr Patrick Wolfe (1949-2016), an eminent historian and forerunner in the field of settler colonial studies. This award is designed to extend Patrick’s legacy and support early career researchers to participate in the AHA Conference. The bursary will cover conference registration and attendance at the conference dinner.  Applications due 31 March 2022. Further information here. 

AHA Postgraduate Conference Support Scheme   
In 2022 the Australian Historical Association is offering writing and financial support linked to the AHA annual conference. The scheme is intended to encourage and support up to six emerging historians who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference. The scheme will cover the cost of recipients’ registration to attend the 2022 AHA conference, as well as workshops and mentoring to assist them to turn their conference paper into a submissible journal article or book chapter. Applications close 31 March 2022 and there is further information here.

NLA Summer Scholarships
The National Library of Australia Summer Scholarships program supports PhD students who require access to the Library’s collections to assist their postgraduate research. Summer Scholars spend six weeks at the Library, from 9 January to 17 February 2023. Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to undertake their scholarship from 17 July to 25 August 2023. Scholars receive $6000 for use as a stipend, travel and accommodation support, special access to collections and access to the Fellows room and a personal workstation. Applications are due 5pm, 26 April 2022. More information is here.

There are a number of other NLA grants and fellowships that are also due on 26th April and may be of interest: Asian Study Grants, Creative Fellowships and Fellowships.

If you would like further information about the NLA Summer Scholarships you can contact Deb Lee-Talbot who is currently in Canberra as an NLA Summer Scholar.