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News from Members and Associates
Thank you to all the CCH members who were able to make it to Waterfront on Friday for our end of year workshop. We hope you enjoyed an interesting day, and got to spend some time with colleagues reflecting on some of the great achievements of the year.- Huge congratulations to those CCH Members who were recognised in the Faculty Awards announced last week. These include:
- Clare Corbould – Julie Rowlands Excellence in Research Leadership and Mentoring Award
- Alyson Miller – Excellence in Research Supervision and Training Award
- Amy Nethery, Peter Ferguson, Zim Nwokora, Andrew Young and Ainsley Mcdonald – Engagement, Collaboration and Impact through Research Award.
- Sarah Pinto, Anna Kent, Amanda Lourie and Matthew Richards – Teaching and Assessment Practice Award.
- Clare Corbould has been publishing about the election (before the election!). Read more here.
- Scott McCarthy has two new publications including book reviews:
- S.D. McCarthy, ‘“I fear we Irish people are too much given to scratching one another”: Catholic Socio-Economic Mobility and the Irish-Australian “Shoneen” in Victoria and New South Wales, 1883–1917’, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 24 (2024), 24–43.
- Reviews of Darragh Gannon’s Conflict, Diaspora and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Christopher Morash’s Young Ireland: A Global Afterlife (New York: New York University Press, 2023) in Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 24 (2024),159–162.
Kristine Moruzi has had two books published this year, both through Edinburgh University Press. Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840-1930: The Charitable Child and The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals.
APH News
On the APH website Sybil Nolan has reviewed Lyndon Megarrity’s Rex Patterson: A Voice for the North.
Events
HCV Annual Lecture 2024
14 November 2024, 6pm
State Library of Victoria
Drought, flooding rains and futures: environmental history in the Murray Darling Basin – Professor Katie Holmes. The cycle of drought and flooding rains provides a dramatic stage for the history of environmental change in the Murray Darling Basin. It is also the backdrop for much of the social, cultural and political history of the Basin. And it is around such histories that storytellers gather, shaping narratives that tell of nature and place, love of Country, conflict, climate, community, family history and survival, technological change, and the contentious topic of water. More details and registrations 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 for ECRs and HDRs. If you have plans for research before the end of 2024, get your application in now! Funds are limited.
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
Powerhouse Research Scholars Program 2025
Powerhouse invites academic and independent researchers including those with established creative practices to apply for the 2025 Powerhouse Research Scholars Program.
The 12-month scholars program provides a supportive environment to undertake research related to the Powerhouse Collection or areas of professional museum practice such as education, curation and conservation. Scholars will have access to a range of Powerhouse resources including the Powerhouse Research Library and Archives, while collaborating with Powerhouse Staff.
The program will enable researchers to deepen specialist knowledge while providing a springboard for additional research trajectories, including funded national and international project work.
Applications close 25 November 2024, 5pm. Find out more and apply now via this link.
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Winter 2024:
Application deadline: 25 November 2024
Results: 11 December 2024
All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, including previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi
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.
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.
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Today is Remembrance Day.