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AHA Newsletter 26: 30 October 2009

ERA Journal Lists   |   AHA Financial Report 2009   |   NWS Premier's History Awards
Conference   |   Symposium on Gender, politics and biography   |   Marnie Hughes-Warrington


ERA Journal Ranking Lists

Attached are files for the latest list of journals to be issued by the ARC for purposes of ranking under the ERA exercise, a form for adding a journal to the ERA list and a file for comments.

Martyn asks that you note it's not a final ranking, just a list of titles that are included.

You are invited to respond using the forms provided if you want to nominate a journal which is currently absent from the list.

Complete ERA List of Journals
Form to use to add new journal to ERA list
Form for ERA Comments

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AHA Financial Report 2009

For those members who attended the Annual General Meeting of the AHA at the Sunshine Coast Regional Conference, treasurer Erik Eklund announces that the auditor's report has been finalised and there is a $5,244 deficit. To view the report click here.

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2009 NSW Premier’s History Awards Winners

The Australian History Prize ($15,000)

Robin Gerster (Brunswick, Vic) for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan – which details what life was like for the 20,000 Australian volunteer servicemen and families stationed in Hiroshima after WW II.

The General History Prize ($15,000)

Warwick Anderson (Surry Hills, NSW), for The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen – an account of medical research into a deadly brain disease in Papua New Guinea.

The Multimedia History Prize ($15,000)

Rachel Landers (Avalon Beach, NSW) and Dylan Blowen (Avalon Beach, NSW) for A Northern Town – a documentary film which explores the history of race relations in the NSW town of Kempsey as seen through the Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents of an Indigenous-owned aged care facility.
The NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000)

David Bollen (Goulburn, NSW) for Up on the Hill: a History of St Patrick’s College, Goulburn – as well as detailing the college’s 125-year history, it also explores the broader history of education and religion in Australia.

The Young People’s History Prize ($15,000)

Anthony Hill (Yarralumla, ACT) for Captain Cook’s Apprentice.





Dr Caroline Ford (Petersham, NSW) was awarded the annual NSW Archival Research Fellowship, a $15,000 award which enables a NSW historian to make substantial use of the records collection of the State Records Authority of NSW to research an aspect of the State’s history. Dr Ford will write a history of Sydney’s relationship with its ocean foreshores, from the 1820s to the 1920s.

Dr Janette Holcomb (Manilla, NSW) was awarded the annual NSW History Fellowship, a $20,000 award which enables a NSW historian to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to NSW. Dr Holcomb will write a book-length history of the early merchant families of Sydney during the period 1788–1850.

Full details are on the Arts NSW website.

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Conference

Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present?
The 29th Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Conference
will be held in Melbourne from 3–5 December 2010.

Submissions of Abstracts

Please include:

  • Paper title
  • 300-word abstract
  • Contact details (name, postal address, telephone number and email address)
  • Short biographical statement
Email abstracts (and/or enquiries) to: lawandhistoryconference@latrobe.edu.au
Closing date: 1 March 2010
Website

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Symposium on gender, politics and biography

Social Dynamics and Well-being



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Keynote Address, AHA Regional Conference 2009

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, What Does it Mean to be Educated in History?

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