Member Welcome.
CHRG would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Victoria Duckett!
Victoria Duckett is a media historian and film curator who is Senior Lecturer in Screen at Deakin University. She is author of the award winning book, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film, and co-editor of the collection Researching Women in Silent Cinema: New Findings and Perspectives. She is currently completing a book that exploresFrench stage actresses and the development of transnational film industries (Media matriarchs: French stage celebrity and the development of transnational film, University of California Press). Chief investigator of the project Guglielmo Giannini: A digital archive of theatre, film, entertainment and political activism, she is co-hosting (with the University of Milan) a conference in November entitled Guglielmo Giannini: Entertainment and Political Activism. With Richard Abel (U. Michigan) Victoria is curating a series of programs for the silent film festival, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone) featuring the music hall performer Mistinguett and the comic actress, Réjane. Victoria is also developing a project entitled Building a popular memory bank in Australia: the people of Hong Kong at the end of the British Empire. This builds a popular memory bank of the English-speaking colonial history of Hong Kong, recording colonial Hong Kong residents in order to develop a case study of the end of British Empire.
Australian Policy and History Update.
Russell McGregor chatted with Lyndon Megarrity about his recent publication, Idling in green places: A life of Alec Chisholm, which was shortlisted for the National Biography Award.
Seminar Series.
Zoom invitations for Niro Kandasamy and Mia Martin’s Hobbs’ seminar have been emailed. If you didn’t receive an invitation (or if you would like to be re-sent the zoom invitation), please contact Jacqui (bakerjacq@deakin.edu.au). We look forward to seeing you there!
23rd September: Niro Kandasamy and Mia Martin Hobbs.
Mia Martin Hobbs.
Title: Codes, Nodes, and Memos: Using NVivo to Map Themes and Analyse Dynamics in Oral Histories of the US Military Reconstruction of Iraq.
Abstract: Despite the widespread use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software in social science research, many historians primarily analyse their historical sources manually, or combine multiple digital technologies for different stages of analysis. Software such as NVivo supports most stages and aspects of historical research, including data storage, examination, organization, analysis, and interpretation. Rather than “doing the work for you”, NVivo facilitates deep qualitative analysis, encouraging review and refinement of concepts, themes, and connections.
Drawing on research conducted with the United States Institute for Peace Oral History “Iraq Experience” Project, I will demonstrate how I use NVivo for mapping (“coding”) concepts and themes (“nodes”), reflecting on and interpreting dynamics (“memos”), and visualizing data in oral history research. I find NVivo useful for thinking through relationships between themes and concepts – such as interviewee observations on the impact of regime legacies on the occupied population – and attributes and meta-data – such as the interviewee’s gender identity, or the time of the interview – in historical research. I will also demonstrate how to use coding to create timelines in NVivo, allowing users to analyse change over time in qualitative data.
Niro Kandasamy.
Title: A middle power in the Indian Ocean? Australia’s foreign relations with Sri Lanka, 1972-1989.
Abstract: Australia’s foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s is generally characterised by its role and status as a ‘middle power’ – striking a balance between its ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’. During this period, the much tighter integration of the international community and the gradual recognition of interdependency advocated by Australia involved a key site: the Indian Ocean. Australia’s first white paper in 1976 placed the Indian Ocean as a potential site for an international crisis, mainly due to the military presence of the USSR and the US, with the former viewed as a threat to critical lines of oil supply, food, and other resources to Australia. For these reasons, Australia adopted an outward restraint against the Indian Ocean activities of both the US and USSR, showing support for key measures such as the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace that was initiated by Sri Lanka at the United Nations in 1971. Drawing on archival materials, this paper examines Australia’s foreign relations with Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 1980s in relation to the Indian Ocean. By considering the Indian Ocean as a key site for political and cultural-historical development, the paper aims to ‘think through oceans’ and complicates Australia’s status as being less a middle power than a ‘functional power’.
30th September: Greg Burgess, Senior Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.
Title: Completing the Work of 1789. France 1946, the Social and Economic Rights of Man, and Post-War Rights Ideas before the 1948 Universal Declaration.
Abstract: ‘It is at the grave hours of their history that a people rethink their institutions and the principles on which their societies are based.’ So stated the rapporteurof the Constitutional Commission of the French Provisional Government when he introduced a new Declaration of Rights in March 1946. The deputies of the Provisional Government were very conscious of their role in completing the historical task of updating and completing the original declaration of rights of 1789. They set about declaring social and economic rights, which alone would ensure true equality and therefore true liberty. I want to look behind this moment with a review of the period from the 1930s to the late 1940s, when, the sociologist Georges Gurvitch wrote when presenting his own bill of rights in 1944, declarations were the order of the day. We must suspend our assumptions of international human rights that are fixed on the 1948 United Nations Declaration and remember the purpose of rights – to assure freedom and equality certainly, but through them national governments would make a pledge to respect the dignity of their peoples through social and economic rights to complement civil and political rights. My focus is on France, but these ideals can be seen in wider contexts.
Funding Opportunities.
Patrick-Jean Guay has identified funding opportunities that could be of interest to CHRG members. Patrick has requested to be notified (via the Faculty Research mailbox artsed-research-grants@deakin.edu.au) and via the completion of the Faculty on-line NOIS form (https://deakinuniversity-vcjls.formstack.com/forms/nois) if anyone is interested in applying to any of those opportunities. If you need any further assistance, please contact Patrick (patrick.guay@deakin.edu.au )
Senior scholarly and professional development fellowships
American Institute of Indian Studies
These support established scholars who have not previously specialised in Indian studies and established professionals who have not previously worked or studied in India. Fellowships are worth INR 140,000 per month for between six and nine months in addition to travel.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20.
You can find more information here.
Grants for conservation and interpretation
Copland Foundation
These fund projects involved in the conservation, research or interpretation of historic houses or gardens, or collections and individual pieces held by an institution. Grants are worth a maximum of AUD 50,000.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
Villa I Tatti – Boğaziçi University joint fellowship
Harvard University
This supports early-career scholars whose work explores Byzantium’s cross-cultural contacts with Italy in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. The fellowship is worth up to USD 40,200 over 10 months.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Other project grants
Atlas Network
These support projects that promote liberty and that do not match any of the other grant opportunities offered by Atlas Network.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Visiting fellowships
Toulouse Institute for Advanced Study
These enable researchers to visit the institute and offer the chance to explore new territory in a cross-disciplinary direction. Fellowships include reimbursement of travel and living expenses and candidates are provided with a shared office.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Affiliated fellowship in Rome
Terra Foundation for American Art
This supports a postdoctoral or senior scholar in conducting research on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The fellowship includes accommodation, meals, a private study and a stipend of USD 2,500 per month for a period of four to six months.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Joining up to minimise poverty grants
Atlas Network
These support projects that aim to spread awareness to new audiences of how poverty can be reduced by increasing economic freedom. Grants are worth up to USD 15,000 each.
Closing date: 15 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
COMING SOON: Special major research grants – development finance
Centre for Economic Policy Research
*** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to close on 15 November 2020. The following information is subject to change. These grants support research on development finance within the context of private sector development in low-income countries. ***
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
COMING SOON: Regular major research grants
Centre for Economic Policy Research
*** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to close on 15 November 2020. The following information is subject to change. These grants support research related to private enterprises of all sizes that may focus on any aspect of private sector development in low-income countries. Grants are worth on average £300,000 each for between 24 and 36 months. ***
Closing date: 15 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Kemble fellowship in maritime history
Huntington Library
This supports research in maritime history using the Huntington Library’s collection. The fellowship is worth USD 50,000 over nine months to one year.
Closing date: 16 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
Octavia E Butler fellowship
Huntington Library
This supports research on a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the ideas and issues explored by Butler in her published works, ranging from speculative fiction through Afrofuturism to environmental studies and biotechnology. The fellowship is worth USD 50,000 for nine to 12 months.
Closing date: 16 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
Towards a national collection – discovery projects
Arts and Humanities Research Council
This supports projects addressing the lack of coordination between different online collections and catalogues in the UK cultural and heritage sector. Grants are worth up to £3 million at 80 per cent of the total project costs for up to three years.
Closing date: 17 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
Partnership projects
National Health and Medical Research Council
These assist in constructing partnerships among decision makers, policy makers, managers, clinicians and researchers to work together to define research questions, undertake research, interpret the findings and implement the findings into policy and practice. Grants are worth up to AUD 1.5 million for one to five years.
Closing date: 18 Nov 20
You can find more information here.
Soros justice advocacy fellowships
Open Society Foundations
These support US criminal justice reform research at the local, state and national levels. Fellowships are worth up to USD 127,500, over 18 months.
Closing date: 20 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.
Support programme for translation and publication on Japan
Japan Foundation
This provides financial support for non-Japanese publishers to translate or publish Japan-related books with the overall aim of promoting better understanding of Japanese culture and Japanese studies abroad. The average grant amount is JPY 570,000.
Closing date: 20 Nov 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here.