10 May 2010 Newsletter 12

Staff working hours   |   AHA Biennial and Regional Conferences   |   Excursion Seminar   |   Symposium   |   Conference   |   Summer School Staff working hours Carolyn Brewer, AHA Information Officer, will be working on Mondays and Thursdays from 9am to noon. Wherever possible, please send conference and vacancy notices for inclusion in the AHA Newsletter to Carolyn at least a month ahead of closing dates. Top of Page * * * AHA Biennial and Regional Conferences I am trying to construct a complete list of previous AHA biennial and regional conferences for the AHA website. I have managed to find a few details by sifting through files from the old AHA website. Can anybody help with the gaps on the website? Please send pertinent information to Carolyn Brewer. Thanks!! Top of Page * * * Royal Historical Society of Victoria Excursion On the Ramparts at Queenscliff Day excursion Saturday 15 May 2010 Don't miss the opportunity to hear Bob Marmion's latest discoveries about Victoria's defence planning, get a bird's eye view of ocean and bay, and enjoy a lunch with like-minded friends. Meet at Fort entrance 10.45am. Cost $50. Other details in April-May newsletter. See the RHSV Website. Bookings by Wednesday 12 May. Phone 9326 9288 or email Gerardine Horgan. Top of Page * * * Melbourne Feminist History Seminar Feminist History and the Testimonial Turn: Roundtable Jessie Webb Library 3rd floor, John Medley Building University of Melbourne Wednesday 26 May, at 6.00 p.m. Participants Shurlee Swain (chair and commentator), Vera Mackie, Anna Song, Vannessa Hearman and Kate McGregor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has defined testimony as 'the genre of the subaltern giving witness to oppression, to a less oppressed other.' In this roundtable we consider the issues involved in using women’s testimonies as resources for the writing of feminist history. The panellists have variously worked on women’s testimonial narratives emanating from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Australia. These are narratives that are implicated in demands for redress of human rights violations, in debates about the meaning of historical events, or in contemporary political debates. Questions include the boundaries between autobiography, confession, personal narrative, oral history and testimony, the methodological issues involved in reading these texts as feminist scholars, and the different uses made of testimonies by academics and activists. Vera Mackie is ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Asian Studies, University of Wollongong, where she is researching human rights in the Asia-Pacific region. Anna Song, co-founder of "Friends of Comfort Women," is undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law at the Melbourne Law School. Vannessa Hearman is researching the anti-communist violence from 1965 to 1968 in East Java. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Historical Studies, the University of Melbourne. Kate McGregor, Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, is researching a project on Islam and the politics of memory in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Shurlee Swain is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University is researching past child welfare practices in Australia. All welcome Inquiries: Shurlee Swain. If you would like to have a meal in Lygon Street following the seminar, please email Shurlee Swain by Tuesday 25 May. Top of Page * * * Visions of Sydney Symposium How have visions of Sydney shaped the city? This one-day history symposium and public lecture will explore 200 years of urban planning, from Macquarie to Moore. Prominent historians Dr Shirley Fitzgerald, Dr Grace Karskens, Professor Robert Freestone and Dr Paul Ashton will look at different eras in the city’s history, followed by an overview of the City of Sydney’s 2030 Vision by Bridget Smyth. A Macquarie 2010 event presented in conjunction with the History Council of New South Wales. Macquarie 2010 marks the bicentenary of the beginning of Lachlan Macquarie’s 12-year tenure as the fifth governor of the colony of New South Wales. When: Wednesday 20 May, Where: Museum of Sydney, Corner Phillip and Streets, Sydney. Cost: $90, $75 Concession or members. Bookings: The History Council of NSW: phone: 02 9715 8715 or email For more information visit the website Top of Page * * * Conference Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance RSAA Conference, Sydney, 10–12 February 2011 We invite submissions covering the full range of possible meanings of 'distance' in Romantic studies – including (but not limited to) Transportation, travel, exploration, emigration, settlement, and repatriation Transport, spiritual and material Distances real and imagined: writing the remote in time and place and culture The distance between social ranks or classes Gender and race and generation distances Linguistic distances, and cultural and textual translation Generic distances: the hierarchies of art Literature and science, literature and religion, science and religion Overcoming distance: Romantic correspondence The country and the city The Romantic period itself as a strange country Those interested in proposing 20-minute papers, or full panels of three speakers and a chair, should submit abstracts of between 250 and 400 words and a 150-word bio by 1 September 2010. Will Christie and Angela Dunstan University of Sydney Website Top of Page * * * Summer School: School of Advanced Study, University of London Memory, Empire and Technology 29 June–3 July 2010 Deadline for applications extended to 21 May 2010 Held at the School of Advanced Study and organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, this Summer School consists of a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects related to the relationship between memory and technology. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred round London understood as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour of the East End and Olympic Site on the famous Routemaster bus. This School welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London. Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from the School of Advanced Study, University London. Participants who wish to receive credit should make their own arrangements with their home institution/tutor to assess written work or another piece of assessable work. Deadline for Applications: 21 May 2010 For more info please visit Website or email. 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