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Don’t forget to send Anna your publications, seminars, conferences, calls for papers and other news and celebrations for publication in the newsletter (now published fortnightly on a Monday).
Seminar Series
This week’s seminar will be given by Alice Garner – Sounding out the archives. Next week we have Deborah Lee-Talbot sharing her research from her State Library of NSW Fellowship – Archive of the Archivist: Phyllis Mander-Jones and Australian Pacific History, 1901-1957.
And don’t forget that you can catch up with some our previous seminars in podcast form – now on Spotify!
CCH Advisory Board
We are really excited that the Centre for Contemporary Histories Advisory Board has been finalised. You can read all about the board here. We have our first board meeting coming up in a few weeks.
New CCH Hub Site
We are very excited that our digital evolution at CCH continues. We now have a Sharepoint site (for Deakin staff and students only). This is where you can find CCH templates and logos, and importantly – new grant application forms. CCH members should have access, but you will need to use your Deakin login. We will have a new externally facing website soon – stay tuned!
Publications, Research and Media
Gwyn McClelland and Hannah Gould (Uni of Melbourne) have a new edited volume focused on olfaction that is published this week in Penn State Uni Press’s Perspectives on Sensory History Series – Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats. You can order the book with a 30% discount available using the code NR23.
Mia Martin Hobbs wrote an article in Australian Policy History to coincide with the ABC documentary Our Vietnam War and Long Tan anniversary, expanding on her research on memory myths and war legacies.
Mia was also interviewed on the ABC documentary Our Vietnam War about the international context of the war, soldiers’ experiences, and memory myths of veterans. The documentary tells the story of Australia’s involvement in the words of the men who were sent to fight; the battles, the protests, returning and the long shadow the war cast on the people whose lives were turned upside down. All 3 parts of the documentary series are available now on ABC iView.
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 check out this page (Deakin login required).
Opportunity
EOIs sought – Community History Book
The Valguarnera Italian Social Club (VISC) has released a Brief for an Expression of Interest to conduct a Community History Project (publication) for the Association. You can read the brief here.
Australian Policy History
On the APH website James Watson reviews Ryan Cropp’s Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country.
Reminders
New Archive Trial – Boston Herald
Deakin Library has arranged for a trial of the Boston Herald Archive 1848-1992. The trial gives us access to historical issues (May 1848-April 30 1992), text archive (July 26 1991 – current) and the Image Edition (2018 to current) of the Boston Herald.
The Conversation Talk
7 September 2023
Deakin University Arts and Education Faculty academic staff are invited to attend a one-hour session on September 7 at noon to learn how and why to write for The Conversation. The Conversation Australia attracts 20 million unique reads worldwide each month through its Creative Commons republications in outlets that include the ABC, IFL Science, Channel News Asia, Apple News and many more.
Register your attendance via Deakin’s media training page here.
In this session, The Conversation Executive Editor Liz Mnchin will cover:
* the benefits of writing for The Conversation
* what sort of ideas the editors are seeking
* how to pitch an idea
* how editors decide what pitches to accept
* what happens if you get accepted / rejected
* how to write for The Conversation’s non-academic readership
* a Q+A
Come and learn how to make The Conversation work for you.
Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2023
Australian Historical Studies is currently welcoming applications for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2023. This prize is awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at the 2023 AHA Conference. The prize consists of a two-year subscription to Australian Historical Studies and a $250 Routledge book voucher. Applications close 30th September 2023. You can find further information here.
AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship
The AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship is an award expected to be offered annually designed to support career-building publication activities, and attendance at the AHA annual conference in the year of the award. The $11,000 Fellowship is funded by donations to the AHA’s Public Fund, which supports the creation, publication, dissemination and discussion of historical literature in Australia. Applications are due 27 October 2023 – see here for more details.
AHA Prizes
There are a number of AHA prizes and awards now open for expressions of interest – check out the opportunities here and get your EOIs in!
International Studies Association Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The International Studies Association (ISA) invites applications for a new graduate student fellowship for 2024-2025. This award is targeted at students in the later stages of their PhD program (typically the final 2 years). The fellowship is intended help students offset the costs incurred as a result of research and writing activities necessary for the successful completion of the dissertation. Applicants must be working on a topic in the international studies field. Applicants must also be members of ISA. Applications close 1 September 2023. More information can be found here.
2023 S. J. Butlin Prize
The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand is inviting nominations for the 2023 S. J. Butlin Prize for best Masters or PhD thesis in Australian or New Zealand economic history, awarded in calendar years 2020, 2021 or 2022. The applied definition of ‘economic’ is broad, encompassing business history and labour history, as well as more cross-disciplinary work in fields such as environmental history, urban history, agricultural history, political history. Nominations close 1 October 2023. More information can be found here.
Call for Papers
New Housing History Network
Revisiting Classics in Australian Housing History
February 2024
This project, tentatively titled Revisiting Classics in Housing History, seeks to revisit canonical texts in the historiography of Australian housing. It comes out of a research agenda under the aegis of the New Housing History Network (NHHN), established in 2023, which has identified the current moment as a transformational one in understanding the cultural and social meaning of housing in Australia. The task of uncovering forgotten histories and historical imaginaries looms as an urgent task in our present moment, widely perceived to be one of exceptional historical crisis. Revisiting Classics in Housing History recognises the rich tradition of scholarship on housing across the twentieth century – much of which has slipped out of public consciousness – and asks what these texts might offer for readers today. While certain landmark texts in Australian urban and housing history have in recent years been “revisited” – notably Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness and Janet McCalman’s Struggletown – a host of other histories remain under-read, and under-appreciated.
We invite proposals by authors to revisit key texts in the historiography of Australian housing. Proposals should nominate up to three landmark texts in the history of housing and briefly outline the reasoning to conduct a reflection on the enduring significance of the book in question. You can find more information about this call for papers here.
European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference 2024: “Cities at the Boundaries”
University of Ostrava
4-7 September 2024
Main Session 3: Interrogating Historical Value: A Place for People and the Past in Urban Heritage Conservation
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2023
How might urban historians push the boundaries of heritage conservation in cities across the world? Our purpose is to interweave history and heritage, both conceptually and practically, to address the enduring failure of conservation to centre historical, social and community perspectives.
All paper proposals (max. 300 words) must be submitted by 30 September 2023. Please follow the guidelines for paper submission published on the EAUH website. Submissions should include a short bio. Please mark the paper for Session M3. For further details, please contact the session organisers: James Lesh, Deakin University (james.lesh@deakin.edu.au), Rebecca Madgin, University of Glasgow (Rebecca.Madgin@glasgow.ac.uk), Tanja Vahtikari, Tampere University (tanja.vahtikari@tuni.fi).
Cover Photo
Lantern Slide – ‘Cootamundra Wattle’, Archibald James Campbell, taken before 1921 (Museums Victoria)