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News from Members and Associates
- Anna Kent has had two pieces published about her current research projects at the National Library of Australia: Historical perspectives on the social licence of international education in Australia; and the Deakin Archives – How Deakin built its global profile: insights from the Margaret Cameron Residency.
- Kerri Garrard and Rebecca Cairns’ research featured in an article by Michelle Arrow in The Age on Saturday – Competing Histories with more in common than you’d think. You can read the article here.
Call for Papers
Beyond Borders: Reimagining Asian societies in and across a Shifting World – 26th Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference
29 June 2026 – 2 July 2026
Deakin Waterfront
As the largest gathering of experts working on Asia in the southern hemisphere, the biennial ASAA Conference offers a unique platform for developing and discussing research ideas, broadening the scope and foci of area studies and related disciplines, and fostering the growth of academic and institutional networks. A regular feature of Australian scholarship since 1976, the ASAA conference brings together aspiring, emerging, and experienced scholars and practitioners to shape and inform future trajectories of Asian Studies in the country and beyond.
The 2026 conference will explore the evolving connections within and between Asian societies in an era marked by rapid change – geopolitical realignments, climate challenges, digital transformation, and shifting cultural identities. It encourages a rethinking of traditional boundaries – geographic, disciplinary, ideological – and promotes dialogue on how best to co-create inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures.
We invite contributions that interrogate the concept of ‘borders’ – physical, cultural, intellectual – and explore how (and how much) societies are being reconnected and reshaped in the 21st century. Whether through the lens of migration, heritage, media, diplomacy, or digital innovation, this conference seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and reimagine what regional connections means today. The deadline for submissions is 7 November 2025. More details can be found here.
Events
HCV Book+Author – No Power Greater (Liam Byrne)
30 October 2025, 6pm
Bard’s Apothecary
The HCV’s final event in the 2025 Book+Author series sees a return to Bard’s Apothecary to hear from author Liam Byrne, discussing his book No Power Greater – A History of Union Action in Australia. Bookings and more details are available here.
ANZASA 2025
26-28 November 2025
University of Melbourne
ANZASA is pleased to announce its biennial conference to be held November 26 – 28, 2025, on the campus of the University of Melbourne, as part of the 2025 Congress of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). The theme of the conference is ‘Democracy and Resilience’. It will bring together scholars researching and teaching all aspects of the history, politics and culture of the United States of America. There is a rich diversity of accepted papers. Registration for the conference is now open.
Education Histories Now – 2025 ANZHES Symposium
11-12 December 2025
University of Melbourne
This year’s Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Symposium is a 1.5-day gathering exploring how histories of education continue to shape, unsettle, and inspire contemporary debates. Find out more here.
CCH Research Grants and other opportunities
If you have plans for research over summer, apply for a research grant now! It is important that you read the 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
Higher Education Partnership Grants – Australia Awards Papua New Guinea
The Higher Education Partnerships (HEP) Grants is open for applications. Offered by Australia Awards PNG, the HEP Grants provides an opportunity for Australian universities to partner with a Papua New Guinean university for a collaborative project.
The Australian university can apply for up to AUD200,000 while their partner PNG institute can apply for K200,000.
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Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE). This institute offers courses in agriculture, fisheries and the environment.
Gunson Essay Prize
A prize of AUD $1,000 will be awarded at the 2025 Pacific History Association Conference, for the winner of the Gunson Essay Prize Competition. Postgraduate or senior students from any country are invited to submit an essay in English between 5,000 and 8,000 words on any topic relating to the pasts of the Island Pacific and its peoples by 1 November 2025. For further details and eligibility requirements see this link.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Journalism History journal calls for scholarly essays that explore the media conditions of 1776 and subsequent revolutionary movements across a variety of global contexts – from the eighteenth century newspapers and pamphlets of the new United States, as well as from contemporaneous media and political developments around the world. We encourage an expansive and inclusive view of media that encompasses writing and printing, but also oral communication and illustration in cultures where writing and literacy were not emphasized. And we’re also interested in when and how later revolutionary movements took up, invoked, echoed, and/or critiqued the principles of the US Declaration of Independence in any national context.
- A brief CV (including publications).
- A 500-word synopsis of the topic you plan to discuss in your essay, along with a short list of key primary and secondary sources you plan to draw from.
- An affirmation that the essay has not been proposed or published elsewhere.
CCH Hub Site
We 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
On the night of 17 July 1916, a severe storm hit Adelaide and the suburbs. Variously described in the press as a hurricane, a gale, a tornado and the ‘storming of Adelaide’, it caused at least one fatality and wrought havoc on buildings, parks and gardens. The impact on Botanic Park was particularly severe with many pines at the Hackney end being damaged. As many as 100 trees in the Park and near vicinity came down although damage was less in the Botanic Gardens. The History Trust of South Australia.