Friday 3rd July 2020.

Membership welcome.

CHRG welcomes its newest member, Dr. Ali Mozaffari.

Ali is interested in understanding the various uses of the past in the present and how those uses may canvas alternative futures. Ali is, therefore, interested in the politics of the past, and the use and role of material culture in transmitting, sustaining or contesting shared identities and histories. Generally, this falls within the remit of critical heritage studies. Ali is critical of two related processes: the understanding and deconstruction of relationships of power, and more importantly, to the application of critical thinking, underpinned by scepticism, to claims advanced in heritage scholarship itself as much as the social-historical relationships addressed by that scholarship. The research utilises various methods and builds on his previous experience in the fields of the built environment (as an architect and urbanist) and heritage studies. Geographically, Ali focus on West Asia and the Caucasus. Much of his work has been on Iran (and he has life experience of living in Middle Eastern countries). Ali’s current projects are focussed in on South Caucasus, particularly the Republic of Azerbaijan.

You can read more about his work here.

Publications.

Dr. Bart Ziino and Anne-Marie Condé (National Archives of Australia) are guest editors of the just-released special issue of Archives and Manuscripts on the theme ‘Engaging with war records: Archival histories and historical practice’.

The First World War (1914-1918) produced an explosion of record making and record keeping, from state agencies conducting a war of unparalleled scale, to individuals and families producing testaments of experience which also often became objects of remembrance and memorialisation. The effort to document has a history; so too does the determination—or otherwise—to retain those records, organise and describe them, and provide for or otherwise deny access to them. In turn, the ways in which contemporaries recorded and then archived the First World War have powerfully shaped the kinds of histories produced over the last century. The war was being recorded and archived as it happened – and for decades after – for particular reasons and particular purposes. The processes of recording and archiving have bequeathed in different times and places alternately a very rich, very partial, and very prejudiced record of conflict and its legacies. This special issue of Archives and Manuscriptsgrew out of a 2018 conference, hosted by the International Society for First World War Studies and supported by the Contemporary Histories Research Group, taking as its theme ‘Writing, narrating and archiving the First World War’. This selection of papers from that conference revisits the creation, recreation and transmission of knowledge about the war. Together, a series of archivists and historians investigate the ways in which a war that has been so critical not only to defining the modern world, but also individual and cultural identities, has been shaped and reshaped by those who recorded and archived its record for a century since 1914.

The special issue is available here. Bart and Anne-Marie’s introductory essay is on open access.Associate Professor Cassandra Atherton edited Scars: Anthology of Microlit. This collection, which includes CHRG members Dr. Alyson Miller and Professor Paul Hetherington, has an introduction and piece of microlit written by Gabrielle Fletcher, director of NIKERI.

Still Here: Poetic. Portraits of Older Australians. This book is edited by Cassandra Atherton and Jessica Wilkinson and based on interviews with older Australians. Supported by an Australia Council Grant and VicArts grant, the poetic biographies are written by Australian poets and accompanied by watercolours of the older person.

In the media.

Last week, the Uniting Church’s Victoria/Tasmania Synod became involved after volunteers at a church charity shop in Horsham declined to stop selling golliwogs. Associate Professor Clare Corbould provided context for an ABC report, available in print and radio (from 10:40).

Opportunities.

Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2020.

The Ken Inglis prize is usually presented to the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at The Australian Historical Association conference. In the absence of a 2020 conference, it will awarded to the best paper submitted by a postgraduate student intending to present at the 2020 conference (please click on the picture to enlarge for more details).

Patrick-Jean Guay has identified 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 )

    Social Policy in Africa conference travel grants
    Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
    These provide support for individuals presenting papers at the Social Policy in Africa conference, to be held from 25 until 27 November 2019 at the University of South Africa in Tshwane. A limited number of grants are available.
Closing date: 30 Aug 20 (Forecast) .
You can find more information here.

    Conference awards
    Handel Institute
    These support individuals who wish to attend an overseas conference in order to read a paper on a Handel-related subject that has already been accepted by the conference organisers. Awards may be used towards travel and accommodation costs.
     Closing date: 31 Aug 20.
You can find more information here

    Information materials on nature and biodiversity
    Directorate-General for the Environment
    The tenderer will perform communication activities focusing on the production of information materials that support the implementation of EU nature and biodiversity policy. The contract is worth a total of €510,000 over 36 months.
    Closing date: 31 Aug 20
You can find more information here.

    Grants
    Aboriginal Benefits Foundation
    These enable Aboriginal communities and individuals to undertake projects that advance the aims of the foundation, with the current focus on supporting art, literacy, education health and cultural projects with a connection to Aboriginal art or artists.
Closing date: 01 Sep 20.
You can find more information here.

  Publication support programme
    Korea Foundation
    This aims to encourage the publication of Korea-related books in fields such as the humanities, social sciences, art or culture in languages other than Korean. Grants are worth up to USD 20,000 each.
    Closing date: 02 Sep 20 (Forecast)
You can find more information here

Creative Koori projects funding
    Create NSW
    This aims to build support for a strong, resilient and exciting Aboriginal arts and cultural sector for New South Wales.
    Closing date: 02 Sep 20 (Forecast).
You can find more information here.

Membership welcome.

Publications.

In the media.

Opportunities.

Australian Policy and History

Australian Policy  and History