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AHA Newsletter 31: 18 December 2009
AHA Office Closure The AHA Executive Office will be closed from Monday, 21 December 2009 to Thursday, 4 February 2010. Zoe Pollock (Executive Officer History Council of NSW) has provided two updates regarding the National Archives of Australia proposed office closures.
NT GOVT TO URGE FED GOVT NOT TO CLOSE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Date: Friday, 11 December 2009 Time: 07:51 Duration:1 Min 0 Sec/s Station:ABC Darwin Programme:News Station CallSign: 8DDD Newsreader/Compere: Danielle Parry Interviewee: No Interviews Summary: The NT Govt has made a submission to the Fed Govt to stop the National Archives from closing down. The Govt says the NT Arts Minister has written to the Federal Minister responsible, asking the closure not go ahead. 7.45AM ABC RADIO NEWS 11/12/09
9.00AM ABC RADIO NEWS 11/12/09
NT GOVT FIGHTS NATIONAL ARCHIVE CLOSURE ABC Online – Eleni Roussos – The Northern Territory Government says it has made a submission to the Federal Government to stop the National Archives office in Darwin ... NATIONAL ARCHIVES CLOSURE BID ANGER The Guardian (Australia) – Mahala Strohfeldt – Dec 8, 2009 Indigenous groups across the Northern Territory have vowed to fight a decision by National Archives Australia (NAA) to close its Darwin office by 2010. ... Three PhD Scholarships Applications are sought from suitably qualified persons for three Australian Research Council funded PhD scholarships to commence in 2010. These scholarships arise from a Discovery Grant awarded to a multidisciplinary team comprising Professor Tim Murray and Associate Professor Susan Lawrence (La Trobe University), Associate Professor Andy May (University of Melbourne), and Dr Linda Young (Deakin University), entitled 'Suburban archaeology: approaching an archaeology of the middle class in nineteenth century Melbourne'. As members of the research team at the University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Associate Professor Andy May (School of Historical Studies), two PhD students will explore the topics of Importing Goods-examining the broad movements of people, capital and technology that sustained the transfer of material culture into the 19th century city-and Circulating Goods- examining Melbourne as a centre of consumption and provisioning, both in terms of the production of consumer items as well as the shaping of taste, value and demand through advertising, distribution and circulation. As a member of the research team at Deakin University, under the supervision of Dr Linda Young (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies), a PhD student will examine the topic of Archaeology in the Museum: The Evidence of Standards of Living. This project aims to identify and analyse the large resource of personal and domestic goods in local history museums, in order to draw conclusions about the consumption of everyday domestic and personal material culture in the study period. In this it will contribute the middle ground resource of 'entire' historic objects to the larger project's studies of documentary history and archaeological collections. The topics will be refined in consultation with the Project Team, and students are to commence full time before 30 March 2010. The scholarships are available for three years, and will be pegged to the ARC's Postgraduate Scholar Stipend (AU$20,427 p.a.). The successful applicants must have a good honours degree in History, or another relevant discipline, and meet the entry requirements for PhD study at the respective institutions. A letter of application, with 1) a curriculum vitae, 2) the names and addresses of two referees, 3) a research proposal and 4) a sample of academic writing (at least 3,000 words in length), should be submitted for the history or museum topics respectively to: Associate Professor Andy May, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. Dr Linda Young, School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia. Closing date Friday 29 January 2010. Further information can be obtained from Associate Professor Andy May or Dr Linda Young The ANU is offering a Research Fellowship at the National Centre of Biography, advertisement (A473-09LB). The Research Fellow will work with Professor Melanie Nolan in the National Centre of Biography (NCB), History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. The NCB was established in 2008 to serve as a focus for the study of life-writing in Australia, supporting innovative research and writing to the highest standards in the field. It also has responsibility for the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) and for developing ADB Online. The ADB is a long established national, co-operative enterprise, the largest in the arts and social sciences in Australia and a world leader in digital biography. You will pursue an independent research program in the NCB, edit entries for the ADB, contribute to our teaching program at Honours, Masters, M. Phil and PhD level and assist in developing our digital capacity. Applications are encouraged from female and indigenous scholars. Please visit the National Centre of Biography web-site for more information about the NCB. Enquiries: Professor Melanie Nolan, T: 6125 2131, Applications close 31 January 2010. For more information, please see the attached link. When: 18–19 February Location: University of New South Wales, Sydney Registrations are now open for the third Australasian Social Welfare History Workshop to be held in Sydney on the 18th and 19th February 2010. Papers from scholars in history, social policy and social work will be presented, covering a range of subjects including Australasian welfare's intersections with the histories of gender, war, race, childhood, disability, mental illness, religion, volunteering, labour, philanthropy and activism. Special plenary session with Stephen Garton, Jill Roe and Brian Dickey. Program and registration form website. University of Sydney, Australia, 23–25 July 2010 Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals for the third International History Postgraduate Intensive at the University of Sydney on July 23–25, 2010. Its theme is "States of Statelessness". Faculty From Harvard, Birkbeck, Paris, Sydney and other Australian universities – see the website for further information. Theme In recent years, historians have begun to reconsider the lenses through which the past may be viewed, and to restore an emphasis on the breadth of human experience beyond national and statist contexts. In particular, they are increasingly engaged in examining the complex transnational nature of economies, cultures, societies and politics. The Postgraduate Intensive 'States of Statelessness' invites graduate students to reflect on ways of seeing beyond the state and beyond the nation. The remit is broad, and we are interested in students working on the history of migration, movement, mobility, and memory, and in fields including, but not limited to: diplomatic history, international history, economic history, environmental history, gender history, black diaspora history, migration history, histories of empire, human rights, legal history, histories of social movements. There is no restriction on the regions or periods covered. However, students should be open to a consideration of the broader historiographical implications of their work, and in some way engage with the literature on transnational and or international historiography. Eligibility Places will be offered to around twenty (20) research students. Applicants can be enrolled either full or part time. Further information For further information, funding and costs, and to obtain an application form, visit the website or email Professor Glenda Sluga. Applications close 31 January 2010. The expansion of the British and American empires during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history. Irish and Scots migrants were major participants in this process. Their experiences have traditionally been framed in terms of push-pull factors, of exile, struggle, opportunity, and acculturation. But there is another side to the story; as the Irish and Scots spread throughout the world, they interacted extensively with indigenous cultures and peoples. In many areas, these encounters led to the displacement and destruction of indigenous peoples, while at other times and places they generated a wider range of experiences with greater opportunities for mutual cooperation and cultural exchange. At the same time, the Scots and Irish existed in an ambivalent, tense and sometimes hostile relationship to England. In what ways did their own experiences of colonialism affect their attitudes towards indigenous peoples? To what extent were they agents or critics of imperialism and how were these interactions reflected in literature, music and the arts? How did the Irish, Scots and indigenous peoples shape their political, social, religious, and economic relations with one another? And how were Scots, Irish and indigenous peoples’ understandings of the world transformed as a result of these encounters? These are some of the issues that will be addressed in this international conference to be held in Toronto and Guelph 10-12 June 2010. It is being jointly organized by the Celtic Studies Program, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto; the Scottish Studies Program, Guelph University; and the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. Keynote speakers:
I have a different idea of a universal.
Aimé Césaire Expressions are sought for a series at the Institute for Postcolonial Studies that explores Australia's place in the emerging south-south conversations. This 'call' in Australia will be followed by a 'response' in 2011 from elsewhere in the south. 'South' is used here as a trope to frame new conversations that are emerging beyond the transatlantic metropolitan grid. In the colonial 'hub and spokes' model, non-Western countries needed to connect to the colonial centres in order to engage with each other. But recently there have emerged alternative south-south networks for academic dialogues. The concept of the Global South developed in the 20th century as an attempt to represent the fundamental divide between rich and poor countries, with an argument that the wealth of the North was dependent on the low wages and prices for resources of the South. While this reading continues in south-south dialogues, there is also discussion about the reformulation of knowledge to reflect conditions unique to the South, particularly in regard to Indigenous cultures. Australia's intellectual engagement with the South has been partly through postcolonial theory. This has involved rich dialogue between the centre and periphery about the impact of colonisation, not only in economics but also in cultural identity. While this dialogue continues, an important question emerges: How do we engage with the emerging south-south conversations? These are not to be found in the expected places or heard through familiar voices. So what is Australia's relation to south-south? Though geographically very much at the bottom of the world, Australia's orientation in culture and economy seems mostly of the North. Is there a 'middle path' parallel to that taken by Australia in diplomatic relations? What does it mean to be the 'most Asia literate nation in the collective West'? The Southern Perspectives seminar series is designed to explore the emerging south-south discourse. It begins by reviewing Australia's place in the world, with particular regard to its engagement with the Global South, including Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the Pacific. From this basis, it will be possible to explore the new (and old) thinking here that engages with south-south. Then some of the new southern voices themselves can be heard. Topics include:
Please email responses by 31 January 2010. For more information, go to www.southernperspectives.net. Publication Deadline: 2010–01–09 We invite proposals for an edited volume that seeks to bridge a gap between the academic study of literature dealing with the aftermath of gross human rights violations and the teaching of this literature. We hope to bring together instructors/critics from a variety of disciplines who discuss reconciliation in the wake of U.S. slavery, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and Apartheid South Africa, for example. Essays will investigate not just how literature approaches the thorny issue of reconciliation, but how the often contradictory demands of this literature confront the unambiguous demand for ethical action provoked by ultimate horrors. In some cases, the text itself both explores the ambiguities of resolution and begins to do the work of reconciliation. In other cases, it is the pedagogical approach the instructor brings to the text which combines the theory and practice of reconciliation. Recent theoretical and literary approaches to the aftermaths of large-scale atrocity typically insist on the impossibility of any ultimate 'truth and reconciliation.' Yet where does this necessary open-endedness leave us as teachers and scholars of literature in terms of cultivating in our students and readers a critically-informed moral engagement in the world, an engagement necessary to achieving real-world reconciliation and preventing future genocides? You may engage with this question or others. For example: Do fictional representations cloud the history of these events? What is forgiveness? What is reconciliation? What’s the relationship of the grand public apology to the private apology? How is the grand public apology or commission a kind of performance? How can we engage readers and students in these questions and discussions? How do texts engage readers and students in these questions? We welcome proposals for papers to be included in this volume. Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words and C.V. before January 9, 2010. Email attachments as Word documents to: Jack Shuler Leo Riegert Jack Shuler Denison University The Australian Forest History Society is offering one scholarship to an enrolled tertiary student to attend its 8th National Conference on Australian Forest History to be held in Lismore, NSW, from Tuesday 8 to Friday 11 June 2010. The scholarship provides the full cost of conference registration, accommodation at the conference venue and up to $500 in travel expenses (see website for details). Applicants should submit their C.V. and a one page abstract of a proposed paper dealing with any aspect of 'historical understanding of human interactions with Australian and New Zealand forest and woodland environments' to the President, Dr Brett Stubbs by 15 March 2010. For further information contact Brett Stubbs or John Dargavel, or phone 02 6258 9102. Dr John Dargavel ANU Website The 16th annual conference of the Australian Mining History Association will be held in Greymouth (Aotearoa/New Zealand) from 7–10 July 2010. Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of mining history. These should be sent to Dr Philip Hart, University of Waikato, by the end of February. For further information contact him; for information about the Association, visit the website. The Asian Sea: A Transnational Maritime History of the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1918. The fellowship is supposed to start as early as 1 April 2010 but no later than October 2010. Fellowship funding, monthly 1000 EUR, is initially available until October 2012 with the possibility of extension to a full three year period. Dissertations may be in any field of modern Asian History from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century that have a maritime, coastal, port, and interregional dimension and place their theme or local case study in the broader transnational development of the region as a whole. Successful candidates will have completed a Masters degree prior to taking up the position. Fluency in English, knowledge of one Asian language and ideally some command of a second European or Asian language is expected. Applications including a cover letter, CV, university grade transcripts, three-page dissertation proposal and a writing sample (initial publication, chapter from MA thesis or research paper) and two recommendation letters should be directed to Professor Harald Fuess, director of the Asian Sea project, and submitted via email to Ms Shupin Lang. Interested people please see http://h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=39936 in the first instance. The Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the History of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation published in the previous year. Entries close on 31 January 2010. 
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