AHA Newsletter 15: 13 July 2009
Ernest Scott Prize: 2009 | Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2008 | Churchill Fellowship Award | Calibre Prizes
AHA Conference 2010
2009 Ernest Scott Prize Winners
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Marilyn Lake & Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality, (Melbourne University Press)
This prize was awarded on 2 July 2009 at the Australian Historical Association Conference held at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
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The judges' citation is as follows:
This is a very important book for what it says about the evolution of ideas about race and nation-building, mainly but not entirely in North America, Australia and South Africa, from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the inter-war period, and especially in the way it combines those ideas with new understandings of gender. The argument is woven through biographical sketches and accounts of intellectual exchange, so as to anchor contemporary ideas in palpable humanity. The focus is on propagators of theory rather than on victims, although the outrage among leading non-Whites in response to ideas about White supremacy is very powerfully conveyed. The story of Gandhi in South Africa and London works especially well in this respect. The broad geographical dimensions of the argument are extremely impressive. The result is a work of considerable moral imagination, which will be a considerable addition to international debate.
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The 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History has just been announced
Desley Deacon has alerted us to the fact that two writers have been jointly awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History 2008: Tom Griffiths and Robert Kenny. Some of you will remember that Robert Kenny won the AHA 2008 W.K. Hancock Prize.
Tom Griffiths has been awarded joint first place for Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica, along with
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Robert Kenny for The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
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In addition to the joint winners, a further three nominations were shortlisted:
John Fitzgerald for Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia
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Philip Jones for Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
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Paul Rudd, Stephen Amezdroz, Tony Wright, Wain Fimeri and Matthew Thomason for Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
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Churchill Fellowship for Heritage Research
Heritage could push its way firmly into the sustainability debate thanks to the research interest of one of Queensland's latest Churchill Fellows.
Ken Horrigan of Kelvin Grove will travel to Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in September, studying environmental rating systems and energy efficiency measures in heritage buildings.
Mr Horrigan is an architect in Queensland's Department of Environment and Resource Management and works closely with the Queensland Heritage Council (QHC), the state's independent advisor on heritage issues. He is one of 19 Queenslanders to receive a Churchill Fellowship this year.
Mr Horrigan said many methods attempted to measure the environmental performance of a building but none sufficiently accounted for the retention of historic material and cultural values nor the energy already used to create existing structures. 'The three major aspects of sustainable development are generally agreed to be environmental, social and economic,' Mr Horrigan said. 'Rating tools tend to focus on environmental aspects alone, and specifically concentrate on current and future technologies, overlooking past experiences that help determine true sustainable environmental practices.'
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Mr Ken Horrigan, winner of a Churchill Fellowship for Heritage Research in 2009.
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Mr Horrigan said that English Heritage led the way in research into environmental performance of heritage buildings and the impacts of climate change on the historic environment. 'There's a growing body of knowledge in the US and Canada as well,' he said.
Mr Horrigan's research will investigate:
- leading environmental rating tools and systems and how they address heritage buildings
- current thinking and policy positions of key government and non-government heritage organisations with regard to environmental sustainability and heritage conservation
- case studies focusing on energy efficiency and heritage buildings.
He will also attend Heritage Canada Foundation's conference, 'The Heritage Imperative: Old Buildings in an Age of Environmental Crisis', and the Association for Preservation Technology conference 'Preservation in the City without Limits', to be held in Los Angeles.
QHC chair David Eades said the project could cement the argument for sustainability to look beyond an ecological perspective. 'Whilst the Australian built environment industry is responding well to the likely impact of climate change on buildings generally, it lacks an emphasis on heritage buildings,' Mr Eades said. 'This project will do much to fill the void developing in knowledge of the true impact of building rating in Australia and widening the debate to include the intrinsic worth of heritage, embodied energy and the advantages of heritage design, construction methods and building systems.'
Issued by Heather Grant
on behalf of the Queensland Heritage Council
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The Calibre Prize worth $10,000 – and introducing Young Calibre worth $3000
Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) are delighted to seek entries for the fourth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The Calibre Prize, with a first prize of $10,000, is one of the world's major essay competitions.
We are also pleased to introduce the inaugural Young Calibre Prize which is open to those who are 21 or under. The first prize is $3000.
The Calibre and Young Calibre Prizes are intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights into culture, society and the human condition. We welcome essays from leading authors and commentators but also from emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible: from life writing to literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.
The guidelines and application form are now available on the ABR website: www.australianbookreview.com.au . Essayists must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas. They will have until 1 December 2009 to submit their works. Multiple entries are permitted, and all essays will be judged anonymously.
Calibre essays must range from 3000 words to 10,000 words.
Young Calibre essays must range from 1000 to 3000 words.
ABR will publish the winning essays.
ABR once again thanks CAL for funding the Calibre Prize. Previous winners were
- Elisabeth Holdsworth: 'An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After' in 2007;
- Rachel Robertson: 'Reaching One Thousand' and Mark Tredinnick: 'A Storm and a Teacup' in 2008; and
- Kevin Brophy: '"What're yer lookin' at yer fuckin' dog?": Violence and Fear in Žižek's Post-political Neighbourhood' and Jane Goodall: 'Footprints'
For further information, please contact:
Peter Rose
ABR
Tel: (03) 9429 6700
Email
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AHA Conference 2010
The AHA Conference Website for 2010, 'ReViewing History,' is currently under development. We'll keep you posted as new information is added.
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