Welcome to the first CCH Newsletter of 2025! We hope you are keeping cool in the face of the weather and everything else happening right now. If you have things you’d like to share with the CCH community, please email Anna before the next fortnightly newsletter. We will also share news and updates on Facebook and LinkedIn.
News from Members and Associates
Congratulations to Jennifer Martin who has been shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her biography-in-progress of Eva Sommer. Jennifer was also runner-up in the U.S. Journalism History journal 2024/25 essay writing competition, with an essay on Eva Sommer.- Mathew Turner contributed a chapter to an edited book published by the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, or IfZ). The book is part of the IfZ’s 75th anniversary commemorations, and was published in late 2024: Turner, ‘Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess und das IfZ’ (‘The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the IfZ’) in F. Bajohr and M. Brechtken (eds.), Zeitzeugen, Zeitgenossen, Zeitgeschichte: die Frühe NS-Forschung am Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Eyewitnesses, Contemporaries, and Contemporary History: the Institute for Contemporary History and its Early Research of the Nazi Period), Wallstein (2024), pp. 307-328.
- Mia Martin Hobbs has been busy over the break with a piece in the Conversation in January – The New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Tesla explosion are examples of the US military’s violent extremism problem and a new article in the Journal of Australian studies on the AUKUS pact and Australia’s defence relationship with the UK.
- Klaus Neumann had a piece published in Inside Story in January – Chronicle of a catastrophe foretold.
- Deakin’s Parliamentary Research Unit (Andrew Young, Zim Nwokora, Amy Nethery and Peter Ferguson), in conjunction with the Accountability Round Table, ran a workshop on Ministerial Codes of Conduct on 16 December, Downtown. The aim of the workshop was to develop a set of principles for revising Ministerial Codes.
- Sarah Pinto was a presenter at the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Annual Symposium on The Ideas and Ideals of Australia in November last year. Recordings of the Symposium, including of Sarah’s paper, ‘Thinking about place in so-called Australia’, can be viewed here.
Congratulations to Jennifer Martin who has been shortlisted for the Events
War, Memory & Diplomacy: celebrating the career of Professor Joan Beaumont
14 February 2025, 9.30am – 5pm
Deakin Downtown
Following Joan Beaumont’s retirement from the Australian National University, we are delighted to advise that there will be a symposium to celebrate her distinguished career as a scholar and academic leader on 14 February 2025 in Melbourne, at Deakin Downtown. You can see the agenda for the day here. Registrations are open via Eventbrite here. This event is being organised by CCH and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (ANU).
Pacific History Association Conference
2 – 4 December 2025, Samoa
The 26th Pacific History Association (PHA) Conference will take place from December 2-4, 2025, at the National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa.
The conference theme, “Le Solosolo’ū: Resilience in the Face of Adversity,” explores the historical resilience of Pacific communities in navigating challenges. We invite historians and scholars from diverse disciplines to contribute to discussions on historical narratives of resilience, cultural practices demonstrating adaptability, and innovative solutions to adversity in Pacific contexts. Through these multifaceted perspectives, we aim to deepen our understanding of how Pacific people have historically confronted and overcome various challenges, showcasing their enduring strength and adaptability. This theme provides a rich framework for examining the ways in which Pacific communities have demonstrated resilience throughout history, offering insights into their cultural practices, problem- solving approaches, and adaptive strategies in the face of adversity.
A formal call for papers will go live shortly, you can find more details here.
CCH Research Grants and other opportunities
If you have plans for research in 2025, you can apply for a 2025 research grant now!
It is important that you read the new guidelines before you apply for a grant. Check out the guidelines and the application forms in our hub site.
Keep an eye out for Researcher Development Academy workshops available over coming months. For full details of workshops ranging from recruiting graduate researchers to impact to grant writing support and running mostly just 1-2 hours in length, see this RDA page.
There are also research training opportunities available through Deakin eResearch for high-performance computing, MS Excel, programming, data management, cleaning, visualisation, exploration and more. More details are here.
CCH Shut Up and Write
every Monday, 9am-1.30pm, via Zoom.
Start the week strong with a Shut Up and Write! We will run 4 x 50 minute blocks of writing/focus, with breaks in between to chat, grab coffees, etc. All CCH colleagues welcome, especially ECRs, HDRs, and those who work remotely. Feel free to join at any time – it doesn’t matter if you can’t make it to every session, or every block in a session, just come when you can.
The zoom link is here. (Meeting ID: 822 0730 8335, Password: 65182364)
If you would like a recurring invite in your calendar, or you have any trouble joining, email Mia at mia.martinhobbs@deakin.edu.au
Opportunities
Opportunities
Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professorship
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) is excited to announce applications are now open for the Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo, 2025-26 and 2026-27. InASA is seeking individual appointments for both terms. You can find out further details here, and applications are due on the 14th February.
ADI Policy Briefing Paper
As you might be aware, ADI and CRIS have developed the ADI Policy Briefing Paper series which draws on the expertise of the Institute to examine important issues facing Australia today. The purpose of each paper is to inform public debate and policy discussion, and to set out practical proposals that will contribute solutions to complex issues.
The Policy Briefing Papers Series is part of ADI’s approach for engage and taking our excellent research into our communities. This will help us contribute to and influence public policy debates related to our research areas or, indeed, humanities and social science research more broadly.
There is a template for you to use. For more information please email Mark Duckworth and Ciara Barker.
PHA Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series
The Pacific History Association will be holding its first “Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series” in 2025. Conceived as both a platform for early career researchers whose works relate to the Pacific area and as preparation towards the association’s biennial conference, the event will take place as a series of 4 one-hour sessions held over Zoom, each one welcoming two speakers, on Thursdays 3-10-17-24 April 2025 from approx. 9 to 10 am NZST (tbc). Each speaker will have an allocated time of 15-20 minutes for their paper presentation and 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion (total 30 minutes each).
This series does not have a particular theme set, so please feel free to submit a paper proposal to the coordinators on any topic relating to the pasts of the Pacific, its islands and its peoples by 10 February 2025. Any paper proposal relating to the 2025 conference theme “Le Solosolo’ū : Resilience in the Face of Adversity” are also most welcome.
We welcome proposals from HDR students (Master’s and PhD) and recent PhD graduates in the wider humanities : history, art history, anthropology, ethnography, law, literature, philosophy, political science, international relations, as well as from contributors from the heritage and museums sectors. You can find more information here.
2025 OER Grant Program
Do you have ideas for innovative resources for use in teaching? Have your students had issues with accessing texts or provided suggestions for content? What support would you need to develop your ideal resource? Would it be useful to others in higher education landscape for use in their teaching?
Applications are now open for the 2025 Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Program. As part of the Open Education 2025 Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), the OER Grants will support staff in using and developing OER in their teaching, learning and assessment. Check out this link for more details and applications. Examples of current and past projects can be found here.
CCH Hub Site
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.
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