This will be our last newsletter of the year. Thank you for all your contributions across the year and we hope you have a restful and safe break. The newsletter will be back in February 2025.
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News from Members and Associates
As we round out the year we have a whole lot of great news to celebrate!
Congratulations to those who have been awarded Science and Society Network Incubator Grants. These include:
- Deborah Lee-Talbot and colleagues for her project – History, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics (HAE): An interdisciplinary project to show how to use publicly available historical personal data ethically in Artificial Intelligence models.
- Carolyn Holbrook, Brad Underhill and colleagues from the Health Faculty (Alison Yung and Carl Moller) for their project titled Hepatitis C in Serious Mental Illness. They will be looking at the history of health promotions efforts.
ARC Discovery Project Grants were also announced last week.
- Carolyn Holbrook is part of a successful project- Derailing Empire? A transcultural and gendered history of Australian rail. This project investigates what the history and memory of rail (1870s-1960s) can tell us about some of Australia’s most neglected social histories. Focusing on transcultural and gendered histories of railway, it aims to ‘derail’ a more familiar progressivist or technological story of nation-building to highlight histories of non-European and gendered labour and community-building.
- Emily Potter (who will move from Associate to Full membership in January 2025) is leading a team with a project titled Understanding place-based repair in climate-affected communities. Community-based repair work is a vital but often overlooked aspect of responding to the impacts of climate change and to mitigating the increasing costs of disasters. Through storytelling and creative methodologies, this project will document, map and analyse how people are responding to environmental change through diverse, locally attentive practices of repair. Generating understandings of the nature of repair work for researchers, governments and communities, as well as practical tools, guides and resources, the project will contribute to improved strategies and actions for more inclusive and equitable community-led responses to climate change.
Anna Kent was awarded a NLA Fellowship for 2025 for a project titled Shared histories, shared communities – a history of connections between International Students and the Australian Community.
David Hundt and David Lowe also received a Australia-Korea Foundation Grant ($39,000) for their project ‘Memories of the Korean War and the deepening bilateral relationship’. The project will commence in 2025.
Scott McCarthy has a new article that has been published ahead of print. It will be included in a special issue with JAS on elites – ‘Insiders and Outsiders, Winners and Losers: Close-ups of the Struggle for Power and Status in Australia’ – to be published in March next year:
- S.D. McCarthy, ‘The Catholic Elite and the Issue of Loyalty During the Great War in Australia’, Journal of Australian Studies (2024), 1–15, doi:10.1080/14443058.2024.2431969
Annual Report
We are really excited to release our 2024 Annual Report. You can look back and see all of the great things that members of the Centre have been up to, including publishing books, running workshops, writing articles and more.
APH News
Two great new book reviews on APH this week:
- Rosita Henry reviews Brad Underhill’s Preparing a Nation? The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea.
- Richard Scully reviews Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism.
Events
Pacific History Association Conference
2 – 4 December 2025, Samoa
The 26th Pacific History Association (PHA) Conference will take place from December 2-4, 2025, at the National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa.
The conference theme, “Le Solosolo’ū: Resilience in the Face of Adversity,” explores the historical resilience of Pacific communities in navigating challenges. We invite historians and scholars from diverse disciplines to contribute to discussions on historical narratives of resilience, cultural practices demonstrating adaptability, and innovative solutions to adversity in Pacific contexts. Through these multifaceted perspectives, we aim to deepen our understanding of how Pacific people have historically confronted and overcome various challenges, showcasing their enduring strength and adaptability. This theme provides a rich framework for examining the ways in which Pacific communities have demonstrated resilience throughout history, offering insights into their cultural practices, problem- solving approaches, and adaptive strategies in the face of adversity.
A formal call for papers will go live in January, you can find more details here.
CCH Research Grants
If you have plans for research in 2025, you can apply for a 2025 research grant now!
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
PHA Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series
The Pacific History Association will be holding its first “Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series” in 2025. Conceived as both a platform for early career researchers whose works relate to the Pacific area and as preparation towards the association’s biennial conference, the event will take place as a series of 4 one-hour sessions held over Zoom, each one welcoming two speakers, on Thursdays 3-10-17-24 April 2025 from approx. 9 to 10 am NZST (tbc). Each speaker will have an allocated time of 15-20 minutes for their paper presentation and 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion (total 30 minutes each).
This series does not have a particular theme set, so please feel free to submit a paper proposal to the coordinators on any topic relating to the pasts of the Pacific, its islands and its peoples by 10 February 2025. Any paper proposal relating to the 2025 conference theme “Le Solosolo’ū : Resilience in the Face of Adversity” are also most welcome.
We welcome proposals from HDR students (Master’s and PhD) and recent PhD graduates in the wider humanities : history, art history, anthropology, ethnography, law, literature, philosophy, political science, international relations, as well as from contributors from the heritage and museums sectors. You can find more information here.
2025 OER Grant Program
Do you have ideas for innovative resources for use in teaching? Have your students had issues with accessing texts or provided suggestions for content? What support would you need to develop your ideal resource? Would it be useful to others in higher education landscape for use in their teaching?
Applications are now open for the 2025 Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Program. As part of the Open Education 2025 Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), the OER Grants will support staff in using and developing OER in their teaching, learning and assessment. Check out this link for more details and applications. Examples of current and past projects can be found here.
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.
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
Australian Golden Christmas Beetle