Publication news
Congratulations to Professor David Lowe and Associate Professor Tony Joel who, as editors, recently saw the publication of the eighth volume in the Remembering the Modern World series, Remembering Asia’s World War Two.
Carla Pascoe Leahy has just published an edited collection with Petra Bueskens entitled Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave, 2020). This interdisciplinary collection of 22 chapters from eminent and emerging scholars defines the field of Australian maternal studies for the first time. Carla also published an article on changes to parenthood and childhood in the Conversation followed by an interview on ABC radio’s national summer drive program.
Professor Klaus Neumann has written about Australian, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and German cultures and pasts, memories and histories. Professor Neumann’s latest publication is How Australia’s love affair with coal looks from afar, and why it matters
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Member welcome
The CHRG welcomes their latest member, Dr Gwyn McClelland. Dr McClelland holds a Master of Divinity from the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Japanese history from Monash University. In 2020 he will teach in the Deakin University unit, “Conflict and its Legacies in Modern Asia”. Gwyn was a secondary teacher of Japanese and Geography for some twenty years and while doing his PhD at Monash he taught in Education (Bilingualism and Languages Methodology), History and the Japanese language. In 2019 he coordinated a modern Chinese history unit at Monash University, ‘The Fall and Rise of Modern China’. Gwyn is the winner of the 2019 John Legge prize for best thesis in Asian Studies, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA). Gwyn has taught at Monash, RMIT and Melbourne Universities and he has participated in recent workshops at Copenhagen University (Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies) and the University of California, Berkeley. His monograph, based on his work interviewing Catholic survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing was published in 2019 by Routledge in Mark Selden’s series, “Asia’s Transformations” and is entitled ‘Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives’.
