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Seminar Series
We have a limited number of spots available for the seminar series in Trimester 2. If you have some new research you’d like to talk about with the CCH community please get in touch. We are especially keen to hear from our HDR students!
First up next Trimester will be Tiffany Shellam on the 12th July.
And don’t forget that you can catch up with some our previous seminars in podcast form – now on Spotify!
Publications and Media
Roy Hay has reviewed The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford for the Footy Almanac – read it here as you get psyched for the World Cup in July!
Congratulations
Congratulations to Anna Wilkinson – who has been awarded a NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarship for her project ‘The History of Marriages between Asian War Brides and Australian Servicemen in Occupation Zones, 1945-1975′.
Congratulations to Dr Fiona Gatt and Dr Deborah Lee-Talbot on their PhD graduation last week!
CCH Grants
Don’t forget that CCH has a number of grants available for staff and HDR students. These include Grant Application Support, ECR (including HDR) Development and Seed Funding Activities. For more information on which grant might be right for your circumstances check out this flowchart or get in touch with Anna.
A Message from the History Council of Victoria
In his role as Deputy Chair of the HCV, David Lowe has asked for this to be shared.
Many of you will already know of the decision in the State budget not to fund the Victorian Community History Awards.
The awards, and a range of other community grants for public history from the state government, have been modestly funded programs whose impact far outweighs the cost. They help sustain the widespread activities of Victorians who reflect on the deep, rich and often contested history of this special part of the continent.
The History Council has urged the government to reverse its decision. This response is supported by a majority of individual Board members but does not necessarily represent the views of all of the institutions they represent.
You can find more information in this letter from Richard Broome AM, President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
Events
RHSV Weston Bate Oration
27 June 2023, 6.30pm
The 2023 Weston Bate Oration will be delivered by Dr Bart Ziino and Dr Brad Underhill, Protected Industries, Protected Men: The dilemmas of wartime service, 1939-46. Bart and Brad have been researching protected industries in Australia during WWII. This lecture reflects on their findings. This is a hybrid event, so you can attend in person or online. More details and RSVP here.
Calls for Papers
Call for Papers – Centre for Contemporary Histories HDR Conference 2023 ‘Making Histories’
9 October, Deakin University, Melbourne
The theme of the conference is ‘Making Histories’. As developing researchers, we HDRs are not only building understanding of our own work but also how we produce history itself. At the Centre for Contemporary Histories, we are constantly in conversation with history as a living discipline – what is past still impacts our present, and writing history is an act of creation and knowledge production. ‘Making Histories’ can also be understood in terms of the content of history itself – can we say that history has been ‘made’ by individuals and movements, and if so what could this have meant to them? How has history been produced in the past and what role has it played in how power and control operates? You can find more information here, and submissions are due by 14 July.
Call for Papers – ‘Cities Past’: Australasian Urban History/Planning History (AUHPH) Group Postgraduate Symposium
22 September 2023, Online
We invite postgraduate researchers exploring topics related to urban and planning history in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific nations to participate in a one-day online PhD Symposium to present and discuss their work. The symposium will provide a supportive and collegiate environment for students to receive thesis feedback and advice from academics working in the general field. We aim to foster connections, constructively critical discourse and build relationships among scholars working on city pasts in our region. You can find more details here.
Events Reminders
CCH Research/Planning Day
30 June, Deakin Downtown
Deakin staff and student members of CCH should have received an invitation to the CCH Planning day to be held on Friday 30th June at Deakin Downtown. Further details and an agenda for the day will be circulated shortly. The day will include a short workshop on applying for CCH Grants. Please get in touch with Anna if you have any questions.
Guglielmo Giannini: Showman and Politician (exhibition)
CoAsIt (until June 30)
The exhibition Guglielmo Giannini: showman and politician (11 May – 30 June 2023) sheds light on one of the protagonists of Italian politics after World War II: Guglielmo Giannini, the founder of the ‘qualunquismo’ movement. Employing a historical-biographical approach, the exhibition showcases the many professional activities carried out by Giannini (from journalism to dramaturgy, from criticism to film direction). What these activities highlight are the depth and breadth of Giannini’s creative talents, as well as a period of incubation of political activity. The ‘showman’ Giannini, who subsequently emerged as a politician, was adept at intuiting and grasping the needs (and desires) of postwar Italian audiences. Today, Giannini’s story serves not only as a historical window onto the past, but sheds significant light on the ‘qualunquismi’ present in contemporary politics.
The exhibition is supported by Deakin University (which holds the Guglielmo Giannini Digital Archive) in collaboration with the Centro Studi del Teatro Stabile di Torino (Teatro Nazionale), the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna – Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna (Rodrigo Pais Fund), the University of Pavia, and the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma, and by COASIT, that hosts it.
Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
April 28 to June 30
Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man initiative is a film retrospective and exhibition that celebrates the 100th (and one) birthday of Ugo Tognazzi, the famous protagonist of Italian cinema. Curated and realised by Victoria Duckett (Deakin University) and Elena Mosconi (University of Pavia), it runs from April 28 to June 30. It includes the screening of three films that have been recently restored by the Cineteca Nazionale at the Cinema Nova. These works represent milestones in Tognazzi’s career: The Fascist (Il federale, Luciano Salce, 1961), Crazy Desire (La voglia matta, Luciano Salce, 1962) and The Terrace (La terrazza, Ettore Scola, 1980). At the same time that a retrospective of film showcases Tognazzi’s cinematic virtuosity, the exhibition traces the actor’s career through a range of original materials. This includes posters and memorabilia on loan from the Tognazzi Archive in Cremona. Collectively, the Tognazzi works demonstrate a peculiarly ‘Italian style’ of comedy: this is a comedy in which an entire country is reflected, albeit through a critical, caricatured, and even tragicomic filter. Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man is the result of a collaboration between Deakin University, the Italian Cultural Institute, Co.As.It, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, and the University of Pavia, where the Tognazzi Archive is based (with the Cremona City Council).
Please see this TOGNAZZI Melbourne – interactive flyer, or click on the individual links: Exhibition Opening, The Fascist Screening, Crazy Desire Screening and The Terrace Screening.
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Woman Reading Alone in a Library, Texas State Archives.