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

• Congratulations to Brad Underhill whose book Preparing a Nation? was published by ANU Press last week!
• Congratulations to Carolyn Holbrook, who this week was announced as one of the three new incoming editors of the Australian Historical Studies journal!

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.

• 4th September: Arresting Cows and Impounding Dogs: Erasing Animals in Santa Rosa, California with Robert Chase
• 11th September: Has Politics Become More Professional? Career and Legislative Professionalisation in the Australian Parliament Since 1950 with Peter Ferguson, Zim Nwokora, Amy Nethery and Andrew Young.
• 18th September: Not Lightning in a Bottle: Four 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

On the APH website Hirokazu Matsui has reviewed Kate Darian Smith and David Lowe’s edited collection The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia–Japan Relations.

Events

Research and Archive Use (Emerging Writers Festival)
7 September, 2.15pm
The Wheeler Centre

Deborah Lee-Talbot will be joining a panel to discuss research and archive use at the Emerging Writer’s Festival.
Whether you’re stitching together a work of fiction or non-fiction, digging through the archives, and undertaking research are inevitable parts of the process. But how does one find and access the archives you need? And how do you become a dutiful, efficient researcher? Hear how these research virtuosos go about archive fossicking. Learn tips on how to keep track and organise your research, and questions to ask yourself throughout your investigations. You can register for the event here (Editors note: This even has now sold out).

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.

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

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.  

AQuA Thesis Prize

Since 1999 the Australian Queer Archives has offered a prize for the best fourth year thesis (honours or equivalent of about 10,000 words) submitted at an Australian university in the field of LGBTIQ studies.The thesis may be in any discipline and must have as its major concern some aspect of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and/or queer experience, contemporary or historical, in Australia. Once submitted, theses become part of our collection. Submission date is 12 September, for more details see the website.

Media Training

Deakin’s in-house media training program is running through July, August and September, with plenty of great opportunities to build your media engagement skills. This includes broadcast interview workshops and a Writing for The Conversation workshop on 12th September, that you can register for via this link.

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

A flowering wattle on the Plenty River. Photo by Anna Kent