Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter. 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 LinkedIn. Please tag us in the news that you are posting on Linkedin so we can share it!
News from Members and Associates
News from Members and Associates- The Bully Beef Club and the Birth of Papua New Guinea is a new digital history project developed by Brad Underhill and Jon Ritchie, in partnership with the Somare Institute of Leadership and Governance (SILAG) and the Australian Government. The website commemorates the student debates that helped shape Papua New Guinea’s independence, honouring the young leaders who turned discussion into nationhood.
Explore the project at www.bullybeefclub.com
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Luke James has recently been involved in quite an interesting published exchange in relation to his most recent journal article with a former Australian Supervising Scientist/UNESCO Director that he thought members might find interesting:Original article: James, L., Hamman, E. and Hølleland, H. (2025) ‘The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 31(7), pp. 918-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2520752Response: Bridgewater, P. (2025) ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, pp. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2579237Authors’ reply: James, L., Hamman, E., & Hølleland, H. (2025). Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025).’ International Journal of Heritage Studies, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2579238
- Anna Kent gave a short address at the recent Australia Awards completion ceremony at Deakin. Australia Awards students are not able to stay in Australia until their graduation ceremony, so the event offers an opportunity to celebrate their achievements with friends and family.
Anna Kent gave a short address at the recent Australia Awards completion ceremony at Deakin. Australia Awards students are not able to stay in Australia until their graduation ceremony, so the event offers an opportunity to celebrate their achievements with friends and family.Events
SHAPE Futures 2025 Annual Convention
27 November 2025
University of Melbourne
Navigating the Funding Landscape – Join us for an afternoon to explore the often-daunting and unpredictable world of grants and funding. The SHAPE Futures 2025 Convention will provide SHAPE EMCRs with the opportunity to discuss, as a community, the realities of building a sustainable research career while sharing practical strategies and hearing honest accounts from those who have “been there”. For more details click 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.
Education Histories Now – 2025 ANZHES Symposium
11-12 December 2025
University of Melbourne
This year’s Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Symposium is a 1.5-day gathering exploring how histories of education continue to shape, unsettle, and inspire contemporary debates. Find out more here.
CCH Research Grants and other opportunities
CCH Research Grants and other opportunitiesIf you have plans for research over summer, 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
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.
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COP30 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025.
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