If you have any information to share in the Newsletter please send it through to Anna, the newsletter will be published every fortnight on Monday. You can read all our news here, but don’t forget we regularly put out information by our social media channels including Facebook. We also now have a presence on LinkedIn.
News from Members
- Roy Hay has a new article in Soccer & Society – Multiple football codes and their spectators, fans and supporters
- Anna Kent has a new article published in the History of Education Review – Changing policy, changing plans: responses to the end of fee-free education. The article will be part of a forthcoming special issue that came out of a 2022 Australian Academy of Social Sciences Symposium organised by David Lowe, Kate Darian Smith, Jon Piccini and Melanie Oppenheimer – Post Pandemic Positions: Australian NGOs and Education in a Century of Internationalism: Students, Experts and Friends.
Bart Ziino was busy on Anzac Day with a number of radio interviews, including with ABC Melbourne. Research he and Brad Underhill completed was also featured in the Geelong Advertiser last week.- Lorinda Cramer has had a recent piece in The Conversation – Foy & Gibson’s 8,100,000 miles of yarn: how Australians were sold ‘fashionable’ (and ‘healthy’) wool 100 years ago
Seminar Series
You should have invitations for the remaining Trimester 1 seminars. You can find details for all the seminars on the CCH website.
- 1st May: Commissioning a History – behind the scenes of Line & Length.
- 8th May: Representations of women and men during Australian federal election campaigns
- 15th May: Female Agents in the Field
- 22nd May: Education in Cultures of Redress
We are now booking in presenters for seminars in Trimester 2. If you have an idea or some research you’d like to share, or you would like to make a recommendation for a presenter we should approach, please get in touch with Anna.
APH News
There is a new article on the APH website by Richard Trembath – Walking Towards the Führer. What Do These Neo-Nazis Signify?
The Australian Policy and History Network is currently seeking EOIs for book reviewers. APH invites reviewers from all career stages and welcomes EOIs from HDRs who may be new to book review writing and the editorial process. EOIs, which contain a brief summary of interests or a specific book to be reviewed, can be emailed to APH’s books editor Lyndon Megarrity: drlyndon@bigpond.net.au
Events
Russians in Cold War Australia – Book Launch
Tuesday 30th April, 12.00 – 1.30pm (via Zoom)
Russians in Cold War Australia, edited by Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick, explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants’ avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s, both through their own eyes and those of Australia’s security service (ASIO), to whom all Russian speakers were persons of interest. Registrations for the launch are required via this link.
CCH/ADI Work In Progress day for ECRs
Friday 10th May, 2pm (via Zoom)
Making Public Histories: Energy Transitions: Historicising Australia’s Nuclear Debate
30th May, 5pm (webinar)
Australia is in the midst of an energy transition, but specific policies and decisions around the shift to more renewable forms of energy production, storage and use have become the subject of heated debate. Historians have an important role to play in this debate, shedding light on the historical factors that shape ideas and attitudes in the present. How have Australians thought about nuclear energy, and the extractive processes that underpin it, over the last seventy years? What cultural attitudes have developed around coal and coal mining in Australia, and how do they shape attitudes and policy today? And how have we transitioned between energy regimes in the past? In this seminar, three leading scholars consider how Australia’s past shapes debates about the nation’s contested energy transition today. Booking and more information can be found on the History Council of Victoria website.
Wilson History Oration – Out of the Straight-jacket: The art of anti-colonial history
13th June 2024, 6pm – 7pm (online)
The Professional Historians Australia invites you to the Wilson History Oration, to be given by Dr Rachel Buchanan. From swamp to chateau to the House of Lords, as Dr Rachel Buchanan researched the wild, globetrotting journey of five magnificent 17th century carvings made by ancestors in Taranaki, she also received an education in the art of anti-colonial history. Through wānanga and discussions with the Hon. Mahara Okeroa and other mentors, Rachel learned how to escape the straightjacket of historical facts and write a story that is closer to the truth of ongoing tino rangatiratanga – or sovereignty – for Taranaki. More details can be found here.
- Discovering the Relevance: Understand why statistics are helpful in your social research pursuits.
- Core Concepts: Gain familiarity with key statistical ideas, from sampling to data collection.
- ABS Data and Excel: Learn to access and summarise ABS data effectively using Excel.
- Visualising and Interpreting Data: Acquire skills to read and present data using tables, graphs and charts.
- Real-world Impact: Explore how statistics contribute to addressing societal issues and shaping policies.
No prior statistical knowledge is required, but participants are encouraged to bring their own data to work with. Participants who attended the previous session in December may want to join for the after-lunch applied session.
The workshop will be held at Deakin Downtown and via Zoom. Please email mia.martinhobbs@deakin.edu.au if you would like to attend, indicating whether you intend to attend in-person (along with any dietary requirements) or via Zoom, by 27 May.
Graduate Oral History Intensive
4-day online course
April to May 2024 (Online)
In Autumn 2024, three of Australia’s leading oral historians, in partnership with Oral History Victoria, are pioneering an oral history intensive course aimed at university research students. We will teach you how to plan an oral history project and apply for ethics approval. You’ll learn how to create excellent interviews and document the recordings for use in research. We’ll explore approaches to analysing interviews and interpreting memories. And we’ll consider how to write a thesis using oral history as well as other types of oral history productions.
You will be active participants in the teaching and learning: reading a selection of key texts, bringing examples and issues from you own research, workshopping issues with the group, conducting practice interviews, discussing interview extracts from each participant, and developing a peer support group of graduate oral history researchers from around Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia. Each day school will be taught online via Zoom, from 9.30am to 4pm Australian Eastern Standard time. The course will be limited to 18 participants. Tickets are available here. Those without access to university funding for this event may be able to access a bursary – see the website for details.
CCH Research Grants
Our very popular CCH Grant Program is on again this year. We have changed the grant guidelines for 2024, so 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.
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
Ann Curthoys Prize 2024
Applications are now OPEN for the Ann Curthoys Prize 2024. This prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has published: Australian history; feminist history; Indigenous history; transnational/comparative/colonial history; and history and theory. The Prize is generously funded by Ann and the Australian Catholic University, the institution of the current History Australia editors. The winner will receive a cash prize, a citation in History Australia, and will be considered for publication in the journal. For any queries concerning this prize, get in touch with History Australia Editorial Assistant Karen Downing (karen.downing@anu.edu.au). More details are here.
2025 National Library Fellowships
Applications are now open for the 2025 Fellowships offered by the National Library of Australia. The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library’s collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes. There are several new Fellowships available this year, including a Fellowship in Asian Studies and a Fellowship in Australian rural, regional or environmental history.
You can find out more information about the Fellowships here. Applications will close on 5th May.
Axon: Creative Explorations
Creative Writing, Place and History (Dec–Jan 2024-25 issue)
This issue of the Axon: Creative Explorations journal will explore the relationships and connections between Creative Writing, Place and History and will be published in the December–January 2024-25 issue.
The editors, Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton, now invite 150-word abstracts for proposed articles related to the relationships and connections between Creative Writing, Place and History, which might include topics such as:
- Poetry and place
- Poetry and history
- Genius Loci as a concept
- Creative writing and the factual
- Writing about ‘what actually happened’
- Recreating histories
- The relationship between truth, facts and invention
- Visiting writing locations
- Understanding the ‘other’ in other places
- The creative use of documentary resources
- Biography and creativity
Abstracts for articles on other related topics are also welcome.
All abstracts should be submitted by 30 April 2024 at Axon’s Submissions Manager. You can find more information here – CFP_Creative Writing Place and History_Axon Journal.
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.
Cover Photo
Indian and Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove 1915