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AHA Newsletter 2: 22 February 2010 Conferences | Vacancies | Library Travel Grants | Panel Discussion AHA/CAL Postgraduate History Prize 2010 Entries are now open for the AHA/CAL Postgraduate History Prize. Details of the prize can be found on the AHA website along with the application form. The application should be lodged by email and include as attachments:
Enquiries and applications should be emailed to: history.australia@sydney.edu.au with the subject heading: "AHA/CAL Postgraduate Prize". The Australian Historical Association (AHA) in association with the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is pleased to announce the availability of ten Travel and Writing Bursaries linked to this year's AHA conference to be held at the University of Western Australia and Notre Dame, 5–9 July 2010. For more details see the AHA Website. Applications for the AHA/CAL Travel Bursaries are due by Wednesday, 31 March 2010 Applications should be made on the form provided and sent electronically to the editors at history.australia@usyd.edu.au - with the subject heading "AHA/CAL Travel and Writing Bursaries".
In the week commencing 22 February, the draft K-10 Australian Curriculum in the four learning areas of English, mathematics, science, and history will be released for national consultation, which will extend through to 23 May, 2010. For more details see acara announcement.
Applications are due by 2 April 2010. For more information see the attached flyer.
The Centre for Media History at Macquarie University will be hosting a one-day workshop in September on the history of the tabloid press. The workshop will be an occasion to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Sydney Sun, launched on 1 July 1910, and the 20th anniversary, in October, of the merging of the Sydney Daily Mirro and the Daily Telegraph, and the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial and the Herald, effectively ending Sydney and Melbourne's paid afternoon press. Friday 24 September 2010 State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie St, Sydney Papers may cover any of the following:
The CMH anticipates that selected papers from the workshop will form the core of a special issue of a journal on the tabloid press. Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present? Melbourne 13–15 December 2010 (note change of date) The conference is hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Closing date for submission of abstracts: 30 March 2010 – (extended to 1 May 2010).
The following sub-themes have been organised:
Gender in World History and the Pacific in World History 24–27 June, 2010 Call for Papers Deadline: 28 February 2010 The Nineteenth Annual World History Association Conference begins with registration and a reception on June 24. Panel sessions and other conference-related activities commence June 25 and continue to midday on the 27th. Information regarding accommodations, registration, the keynote speakers, and related issues will regularly updated on the WHA website (www.thewha.org). The World History Association invites proposals from scholars and teachers around the world for panels (up to 3 panelists, one chair, and one discussant), single papers, and roundtables (between 4 to 5 participants) on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference's themes, Gender in World History and The Pacific in World History. The Program Committee encourages mixed panels composed of K-12 teachers, university professors, and independent scholars in which cutting-edge scholarship is presented and then discussed as to how it might be introduced into the classroom, as well as panels devoted to research in progress and sessions dealing with the current scholarship of big issues in world history and how these issues might be brought to the classroom. The committee also invites proposals for sessions in which all papers and commentary have been posted on the WHA website in advance and the entire session is devoted to open discussion of the issues raised. Priority will be given to full panel submissions, but individual papers will be considered, and if accepted will be placed into panels put together by the Program Committee. Papers and proposed panels that do not fit into the conference themes will be considered and might be accepted, as space allows. Each proposal should include: a 250-word abstract of each paper, a curriculum vitae for each participant, and a statement noting how each paper makes an original contribution to scholarship or pedagogy. Audio-visual support is exceedingly costly. Please make A/V requests only if absolutely necessary. This will also help prevent the inevitable mechanical problems. As always, handouts are welcome. Please submit proposals online using the forms and guidelines available at www.thewha.org. Guidelines for panel organizers, paper presenters, commentators, and chairs are posted at www.thewha.org and should be read with care and followed. Please note the strict 20-minute time limit for paper presentations. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 28 February 2010. Due to the need for early notification and travel planning, no proposal will be accepted after the deadline. Presenters must register for the conference by 1 May 2010 to be included in the program. Maryanne Rhett Website Indigenous languages and colonial linguistics University of Western Australia, Perth, W.A. 5 July 2010 The conference is open to all interested in linguistics and its history. We are particularly keen to solicit interest from historians, and for this reason we are running the conference concurrently with the Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference. The theme of our conference is relevant to some of the subthemes of the AHA conference, including: Indigenous histories and Indigenous knowledge; Colonial encounters; and Place and history. However, papers are invited on not just the conference theme, but on any topic in the history of linguistics in the Pacific. Prof. William McGregor, Afdeling for Lingvistik, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark For more information please visit the conference Website Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships for 2010–2011 in International Environmental History and related subjects The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung), the Rachel Carson Centers major goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the current political and scientific debates about the environment. Special emphasis is being placed on international, comparative and historical perspectives. The Center is designed to bring together academics from all over the world who work on the complex relationship of nature and culture across disciplines. Individual projects will focus on different time periods and different geographic areas. The institute is conceived as a national and international think tank that discusses and analyzes the role of human actors and the role of nature in this relationship. The Rachel Carson Center invites applications for its 2010-11 class of postdoctoral and senior fellows. The program, directed by Professor Christof Mauch of Munich University and Professor Helmuth Trischler of the Deutsches Museum is designed to bring to Munich a cohort of excellent scholars working in environmental history and related professional disciplines. The Center will award fellowships to scholars from around the globe and from a variety of disciplines. Research and writing of applicants should pertain to one (or more) of the topics that will be at the core of the Centers 2010-2011 research agenda:
Contact Info: Rachel Carson Center Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships Leopoldstra 11a 80802 Mchen Germany Phone: (0049) 89 2180 72352 Fax: (0049) 89 2180 72353 Website De Montfort University, UK The MA in Photographic History and Practice is the first course in the UK dedicated to the study and research of photographic history and the history of photographic practice. Further details about the course are available at: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/art_and_design/pg_courses/photographic-history-practice.jsp This GBP 5,000 scholarship is available to one student entering the MA Photographic History and Practice in September 2010. Funding has been made available by The Wilson Fellowship in Photographic History, and can be used towards tuition fees and other programme-related costs. You can apply for the scholarship if you have received a course offer for MA Photographic History and Practice, for entry in September 2010. UK, international, full-time and part-time students with a course offer are all eligible to apply. We must receive your scholarship application by 1 August 2010. To apply for the scholarship you should submit a piece of written work (in English) about any photographic history topic. The essay must be no more than 8,000 words in length. Closing date for applications: 1 August 2010. Applicants for MA Photographic History and Practice should apply online. For further information, please contact: Art and Design Student Recruitment T: +44 116 257 7555 For any specific questions about the course or the Wilson Fellowship please contact the Course Leader, Dr Kelley Wilder. PhD position on the modern history of Southeast Asia NIOD currently invites applications for a PhD-position on the modern history of Southeast Asia, 1.0 fte (38 hours), four-year contract The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) is a center for the study and dissemination of knowledge relating to the history of both world wars and their long-term effects on society. Recently, NIOD has formalized its ties with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). CHGS was co-founded in 2002 by the University of Amsterdam and NIOD. The primary activities of CHGS are university teaching and scholarly research into Holocaust-and-genocide-related studies. The institute works toward an integrated view of the Holocaust and other cases of genocide. Applicants are invited to submit an open proposal on an aspect of the history of Twentieth Century Southeast Asia that fits within the NIOD/CHGS research profile (see NIOD research program). NIOD is a partner in the University-of-Leiden-based Encompass Program. The Encompass Research Agenda is highly relevant for the orientation of the PhD position. Candidates are invited to reflect on the NIOD and the Encompass programs, and in particular on one of the three following topics:
Applications should include a letter, a CV, a dissertation proposal (2000 words) and two reference letters. The project is planned to start as early September 1st, 2010 but not later than December 2010. For further information about the position please contact the project leader, Dr. P. Keppy. For further HRM information please contact the Head of Administration, W. Arink. Please submit your application before Monday, March 15th, 2010 to the Head of Administration, W. Arink, Herengracht 380, 1016 CJ, Amsterdam. You can also apply by email. Please send your application (as a PDF or Word file) to vacature@niod.knaw.nl indicating the vacancy you are applying for in the subject line: PhD position on the modern history of Southeast Asia. Interviews will be held in April 2010. Contact Info: NIOD William Arink Head of Administration Herengracht 380 1016 CJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Website Postdoctoral Fellow, Atlantic/Pacific and/or Empire historian Carnegie Mellon University, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to accept applications for two A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for the 2010-2012 academic years. These fellowships are designed to foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of one of Carnegie Mellons four humanities departments (English, History, Modern Languages, and Philosophy) in which they will be housed. The Department of History seeks a historian of the Atlantic/Pacific and/or Empire. Time period, thematic emphasis, and region open. Fellows will teach two courses in their home department(s) in each year of their residency. They will have the opportunity to teach in their existing areas of expertise to prepare themselves for a competitive academic job market. Fellows will be encouraged to take part in the many cross-departmental colloquia, conferences, or seminars though the universitys Humanities Center, the Center for Arts and Society, and the undergraduate Humanities Scholars Program. A 2010–2012 Fellow will receive an annual stipend of $50,000 plus benefits, an annual research allowance of $2,500, and, for the first year of the appointment, three summer months salary. Applicants for the 2010–2012 fellowships must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than January 1, 2008. Candidates who do not yet hold a Ph.D. but expect to by June 30, 2010 should supply a letter from their home institution corroborating such a schedule. Applications for the 2010–2012 fellowships must be received in the Administrator's office by February 26, 2010. Review of applications will begin February 15. Incomplete dossiers will not be reviewed. Candidates should submit a cover letter, a CV, three letters of reference, academic transcripts (photocopies of undergraduate degrees are acceptable but original copies are required for post graduate degrees), a writing sample (of about 25 pages), and personal statement (of no longer than 2000 words) outlining their complete research (including dissertation), work in progress, professional goals and plans for publication, proposed major field(s) of teaching, and the Carnegie Mellon department in which you would want to be based. Fellowship applications and departmental requests to house a fellow will be evaluated by Carnegie Mellons Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Advisory Committee, in consultation with the Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. Strong fellowship applications will be circulated to relevant departments. Should you have questions, please direct them to hssdean@andrew.cmu.edu. All application materials and other correspondence should be addressed to:
Each year several Harold White Fellowships are awarded to enable established scholars and writers to undertake research at the National Library for periods of between three and six months. The Fellowships provide a return economy fare to Canberra, a living allowance, a fully equipped office and special access to Library collections and services. Honorary Fellowships are also awarded to scholars and writers who do not require financial assistance but would benefit from other privileges associated with the Fellowship. Research projects supported by Harold White Fellowships can be in any discipline or area in which the Library has strong collections. Past Harold White Fellows have undertaken research in fields including Asian studies, history of science, biography, media history, Australian history, musicology, religious history, anthropology, children's literature, art history, politics, Indigenous history, Australian literature, Pacific studies, eighteenth century studies, geography, international relations and folklore. Past Fellows have included leading Australian creative writers including Frank Moorhouse, Sara Dowse and David Foster. Fellowships have been awarded to researchers working across Australia, in the USA, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Germany and South Africa. More information, a link to the online application form, and contact details are available at www.nla.gov.au/grants/haroldwhite The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies has announced the establishment of travel grants for scholars of China to use the University of Michigan Asia Library. These grants are awarded on a competitive basis to help defray the cost of travel, lodging, meals, and photo-duplication for scholars of China at other institutions who wish to utilize the collection at the University of Michigan Asia Library. The grants will be paid as reimbursements of expenses in compliance with the University and International Institute's travel guidelines. Candidates must secure approval prior to travel. The Asia Library collection includes over 789,143 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Further information about the library is available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/. Scholars (faculty and advanced graduate students) of China at other institutions who wish to utilize the collection at the University of Michigan Asia Library from July 1, 2009 until June 30, 2010. Amount: Up to $700 per trip. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through May 31, 2010. Applicants must submit the following by email
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