If you have any information to share in the Newsletter please send it through to Anna, the newsletter will be published every fortnight. 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 and Associates

• Bart Ziino has a chapter in the new Routledge History of the First World War, titled ‘The First World War in Australia: Commitment and Division’. You can find details here.
• Amy Nethery and Andrew Young recently met with the president of the Queensland Parliamentary Former Members Association to discuss how the Queensland Parliament can better assist MPs at the end of their parliamentary career.
• Klaus Neumann has a new publication in Inside Story – In Germany, it’s “not over yet”.
• Congratulations to Jacqui Baker, who is the new History Australia Social Media editor. HA is now on X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, so you can now stay up-to-date with all the latest publications on your preferred platform.
• Later this week the second meeting of the CCH Advisory Board will be held. You can read more about the members of the Advisory Board here.

Seminar Series

All our seminars for the rest of the trimester have been announced with a great and diverse line up of topics and speakers. Please feel free to share the details with your networks.

• 18th September: Not Lightning in a Bottle: Conversations to Continue with Deb Lee-Talbot, Fiona Gatt and Jacqui Baker.
• 25th September: Pilgrimages and postmemory with Joan Beaumont
• 2nd October: A special 90 minute seminar with Deakin librarians and archivists. Joining us will be Antony Catrice (archives), Kristen Thornton (special collections) and Jackson Mann (exhibitions).

APH News

There are two new book reviews on the APH website – Georgina Downer reviews Alexander Lefebvre’s Liberalism as a way of life and Richard Trembath has reviewed Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia.

Events

The 20th AQHC Conference
20 & 21 September 2024
Victorian Pride Centre, Melbourne

The AQHC conference has been held since 1998 and brings together a diverse range of academics, emerging scholars, community historians and creative practitioners involved with LGBTIQ+ histories. Registrations are now open – see the website for more details.

NFSA Deadline 2025 White Paper, Australian Society of Archivists Panel
8 October 2024, 6 – 7.30pm
Swinburne Studio, ACMI, Federation Square or online

Join the Victorian Branch for a panel discussion about the urgency around the NFSA Deadline 2025 White Paper. MC Nick Henderson (Curator, Cultural Connections Team, NFSA) will lead the expert panel of Gordon MacPhail (Senior Manager Collection Digitisation at NFSA), Ben Abbott (Time Based Media Conservator at ACMI), Sophie Farrar (Manager Collection Care at State Library Western Australia) and Melissa Begg (Librarian/Weather Producer, Nine Entertainment) as they discuss the urgency around the NFSA Deadline 2025 White Paper and how essential it is for collecting organisations to implement its recommendations. This event is being held in the lead up to World Day of Audiovisual Heritage, which is on 27 October, to acknowledge the importance of preserving our audiovisual heritage. Register for in person attendance here. Register for online attendance here.

‘Remaking Futures: ‘Justice, Equality and Global Flourishing’ – ADI Conference
25-26 November 2024
Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre

We are pleased to advise registrations for the ‘2024 ADI Conference – Remaking Futures: Justice, Equality and Global Flourishing’ are now open via Cvent. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in organising panels or who has submitted an abstract for an individual paper – we are excited about the breadth and depth of contributions we have lined up. All Deakin staff and students are entitled to a complete waiver of the registration fee.

CCH Research Grants

Don’t forget that CCH Research Grants are still available. If you have plans for research at the end of T2, get your application in now! Funds are limited.

You can still apply for CCH Research Grants in 2024. We have changed the grant guidelines, 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.

The University’s Research Development Academy is also running grant writing and grant managing workshops. You can find details and registration details 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

Journalism History – 2024-25 Essay Competition Call

The Journalism History journal calls for scholarly essays that explore the development of journalism’s norms and practices – those subtle but significant values and beliefs that define journalism within and across national and cultural contexts.

This year’s competition seeks essays that explore the historical construction and development of the mosaic of professional norms and practices across cultural, generational, or national contexts around the globe. This exploration can be done through a significant historical event or individual within a specific national context, or it can be an examination of a norm or practice’s evolution over time or across cultural contexts in a given era.

The winning essay will receive a $100 (US) prize. Top essay(s) will be published in the Journalism History journal; runners-up will be published on the Journalism History website. See this document for more details, and entries (not including an essay) are due 15 December.

International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2025 Biennial Conference
5-7 February 2025

This InASA conference will revolve around the theme ‘Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds’. It aims to foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogues on Critical Indigenous Studies, history, literature, culture, creative arts, politics, media, sociology, anthropology, geography, ecology, and other disciplines that engage with human experiences and/or more-than-human worlds.
The organisers welcome proposals for individual papers, 3 member panels, or 4-5 member roundtables for plenary sessions, that engage with the conference theme from diverse disciplines, perspectives, and methodologies. We particularly encourage submissions that prioritise Indigenous voices.
More details on submission guidelines and topics of interest can be found on the website. The submission deadline is Monday 30 September 2024.  

The Melbourne Colonial and Post-colonial Histories Symposium
20 March 2025
ACU Melbourne Campus

Postgraduate students researching any aspect of colonialism and post-colonial pasts are invited to apply to participate in this one-day symposium hosted by the Australian Catholic University and Victoria University. The workshop aims to provide collegial feedback on doctoral research and build scholarly networks. Student participants will pre-circulate an article manuscript or a thesis chapter. In addition to receiving feedback from the group, each student will be paired with an experienced academic who will provide detailed comments on their work in progress.

We particularly welcome research focused on Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas after 1600. Possible themes include but are not limited to:

• Colonial and other archives
• Mobilities and connected colonial histories
• The invention of race and colonial difference
• Feminist theories and methods
• Colonial law and (in)justice
• Violence in colonial projects
• Anti-colonial rebellions and the limits of colonial power
• Colonial relics: objects and material culture
• More-than-human actors
• Colonialism and popular memory

To apply, please send an expression of interest  to Dianne.hall@vu.edu.au and kristie.flannery@acu.edu.au by 1 November 2024. Your expression of interest should include your name, contact information, an abstract of the chapter or article you wish to present (200 words), up to 5 key words, and a short note on your thesis progress to date (100 words). Successful applicants will be notified by 1 December 2025.

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

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman from Batman (1967)