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News from Members and Associates
News from Members and Associates- Congratulations to Kerri Garrard and Rebecca Cairns who have a new article in The Curriculum Journal – Having their say beyond the classroom: Engaging student curriculum perspectives through digital methods. This is a research output from the international History teachers conference that Kerri and Rebecca were given CCH funding for in 2024.
- Good luck to Amy Nethery, Zim Nwokora, Andrew Young and Anna Wilkinson for their Anti-Corruption Commission Conference at Deakin Downtown today and tomorrow. This conference will consider the reasons that Australia’s anti-corruption institutions have failed to live up to public expectations and develop a roadmap for reform. Presenters include Members of Parliament including the Hon Helen Haines MP and Senator David Pocock.
- Luke James has been quoted in an Art Newspaper piece Outrage over heritage listing of temple in Mexico tied to sex-abuse scandal.
- The AHA this week debuted a column in The Guardian – Past/Present. The first is by Roland Burke The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price.
Call for Papers
Beyond Borders: Reimagining Asian societies in and across a Shifting World – 26th Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference
29 June 2026 – 2 July 2026
Deakin Waterfront
As the largest gathering of experts working on Asia in the southern hemisphere, the biennial ASAA Conference offers a unique platform for developing and discussing research ideas, broadening the scope and foci of area studies and related disciplines, and fostering the growth of academic and institutional networks. A regular feature of Australian scholarship since 1976, the ASAA conference brings together aspiring, emerging, and experienced scholars and practitioners to shape and inform future trajectories of Asian Studies in the country and beyond.
The 2026 conference will explore the evolving connections within and between Asian societies in an era marked by rapid change – geopolitical realignments, climate challenges, digital transformation, and shifting cultural identities. It encourages a rethinking of traditional boundaries – geographic, disciplinary, ideological – and promotes dialogue on how best to co-create inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures.
We invite contributions that interrogate the concept of ‘borders’ – physical, cultural, intellectual – and explore how (and how much) societies are being reconnected and reshaped in the 21st century. Whether through the lens of migration, heritage, media, diplomacy, or digital innovation, this conference seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and reimagine what regional connections means today. The deadline for submissions is 7 November 2025. More details can be found here.
Events
HCV Annual Lecture
Can I Help You? Recognising and Improving Artificial Intelligence as History Maker, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO
16 October, 6pm
State Library Theatrette
This oration explains how these offers of help are part of a wider invitation for us to recognise AI as history maker. Using examples, it shows how AI makes meaning from past data to make recommendations for the present and the future. It also argues that seeing AI as history maker is important for making better AI technologies, and histories. Knowing what histories are written about you and others, and knowing how those histories can be made is critical for social and economic health. For bookings and more information use this link.
ANZASA 2025
26-28 November 2025
University of Melbourne
ANZASA is pleased to announce its biennial conference to be held November 26 – 28, 2025, on the campus of the University of Melbourne, as part of the 2025 Congress of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). The theme of the conference is ‘Democracy and Resilience’. It will bring together scholars researching and teaching all aspects of the history, politics and culture of the United States of America. There is a rich diversity of accepted papers. Registration for the conference is now open.
CCH Research Grants and other opportunities
CCH Research Grants and other opportunitiesIf you have plans for research in 2025, apply for a research grant now!It is important that you read the guidelines before you apply for a grant. Check out the guidelines and the application forms in our hub site.
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
Postgraduate Curator – Royal Historical Society of Victoria
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is offering an opportunity for a recently completed postgraduate in History or Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies to propose and curate an exhibition utilising the Society’s unique collections. The successful applicant will explore an exhibition topic of their choosing, drawing upon material from the Butler and Willingham Collections, particularly their rich photographic resources. They will enjoy full collaboration and research support provided by RHSV representatives. Full details are available here. Applications close 23 October 2025. Contact: Cathy Dodson, Gidleigh Archives manager at RHSV archivemanager@historyvictoria.org.au
Higher Education Partnership Grants – Australia Awards Papua New Guinea
The Higher Education Partnerships (HEP) Grants is open for applications. Offered by Australia Awards PNG, the HEP Grants provides an opportunity for Australian universities to partner with a Papua New Guinean university for a collaborative project.
The Australian university can apply for up to AUD200,000 while their partner PNG institute can apply for K200,000.
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Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE). This institute offers courses in agriculture, fisheries and the environment.
Gunson Essay Prize
A prize of AUD $1,000 will be awarded at the 2025 Pacific History Association Conference, for the winner of the Gunson Essay Prize Competition. Postgraduate or senior students from any country are invited to submit an essay in English between 5,000 and 8,000 words on any topic relating to the pasts of the Island Pacific and its peoples by 1 November 2025. For further details and eligibility requirements see this link.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Journalism History journal calls for scholarly essays that explore the media conditions of 1776 and subsequent revolutionary movements across a variety of global contexts – from the eighteenth century newspapers and pamphlets of the new United States, as well as from contemporaneous media and political developments around the world. We encourage an expansive and inclusive view of media that encompasses writing and printing, but also oral communication and illustration in cultures where writing and literacy were not emphasized. And we’re also interested in when and how later revolutionary movements took up, invoked, echoed, and/or critiqued the principles of the US Declaration of Independence in any national context.
- A brief CV (including publications).
- A 500-word synopsis of the topic you plan to discuss in your essay, along with a short list of key primary and secondary sources you plan to draw from.
- An affirmation that the essay has not been proposed or published elsewhere.
CCH Hub Site
We 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.
Cover Photo
American delegates to the International Congress of Women which was held at the Hague, the Netherlands in 1915. The delegates include: feminist and peace activist Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954), social activist and writer Jane Addams (1860-1935), and Annie E. Malloy, president of the Boston Telephone Operators Union. To the right of Malloy may be labor journalist and activist Mary Heaton Vorst (1874-1966) and the woman wearing a hat on the far right may be Lillian Kohlhamer of Chicago. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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