Newsletter – 24th November 2025

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.

HCV Making Public History – Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
27 November 2025, 5-7pm
Online
Heatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory, erased by the drama of fire, flood and storm. Environmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian life. Through hospital records, diaries and press reports, we examine daily life in the mid-twentieth century as heatwaves unfold, finding that decisions about sleep, food, housing, clothing and social interaction, as well as professional and domestic labour, were disrupted and negotiated. By uncovering the everyday practices by which people negotiate weather, in urban, regional and remote areas, we reveal how heatwaves have been crucial in shaping the Australian idea and experience of climate. Head to this link to register.

NLA Fellowship Presentation – International students and the Australian community
2 December 2025
National Library of Australia and online
In 2025 educational institutions in Australia must have professional staff to provide pastoral care and welfare support to international students. But before 1990, international students in Australia were supported by and in the community, through organisations known as Co-ordinating Committees for Overseas Students. Australian and international students also worked together to provide support and advocacy through the Overseas Student Service (part of the National Union of Australian University Students). These efforts enmeshed students with parts of the Australian community. Dr Anna Kent’s research has been focused on understanding how these organisations operated and worked with international students. This project aims to understand an important element of Australia’s international education history. It also examines the impact of the breakdown in formal links between international students and Co-ordinating Committees. More details via this link.

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.

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.

See here for more information.

Special Issue Call for Papers – “Connecting Research to the Field of Comparative and International Education Studies in Oceania.”

The outgoing NERO Co-Leaders, Dr Liberty de Rivera and Tim Baice together with the incoming NERO Co-Leaders, Manal El Mazbouh (University of Auckland) and Yaqing Hou (Monash University), are pleased to present the Special Call for Papers for the New and Emerging Researchers of OCIES (NERO) Special Issue, to be published in the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives. This call invites new and emerging scholars—postgraduate students, early-career academics, first-time authors, and community researchers—to engage a central provocation: “What is Comparative and International Education (CIE) in, for, with, and from Oceania?” CIE is a complex and shifting field, shaped by geopolitical changes, epistemic turns, and planetary crises. New researchers entering the field often discover that CIE defies simple definitions. Instead, this Special Issue asks contributors to embrace the complexity, curiosity, and criticality that have long characterised CIE in our region. Contributors are asked to submit a 250 to 350 word abstract, and abstracts are due on the 28 February 2025. Please read the full call for papers here.