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2010: Winners of Awards announced at the AHA Conference Dinner
Margarey Medal 2010: Awarded to Jill Roe for Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
Kay Daniels Award 2010: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart for Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station
W.K. Hancock Prize 2010: Natasha Campo, From Superwomen to Domestic Goddesses: The Rise and Fall of Feminism
Commended: Dr Clare Corbould, Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939
Serle Award 2010: Simon Sleight for his thesis entitled, 'The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne, c. 1870–1901'
AHA/CAL Joint Prize Winners 2009: Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Beating Around (In) the Bush: Corporal Punishment and Moral Reform at Hermannsburg Mission in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Australia' and
Claire McLisky, 'The Location of Faith? Power, Gender and Spirituality in the 1883-4 Maloga Revival'
Ernest Scott Prize Winner, 2010: Bain Attwood, Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
Allan Martin Award 2010: There was no award this year.
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New AHA Executive
At the recent AHA Annual General Meeting in Perth, the following members were elected to the AHA Executive.
President: Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University
Immediate Past President: Professor Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales
Vice-President: Professor Angela Woollacott, Australian National University
Secretary: Dr Susan-Mary Withycombe, Australian National University
Treasurer: Professor Erik Eklund, Monash University
Postgraduate Student Representative: Mr Dave Earl, University of Sydney
Journal Editors: As/Professor Penny Russell, Sydney University &
Richard White, Sydney University
Public Officer: Janet Doust, The Australian National University
Executive Committee: Members
Prof Andrew May, University of Melbourne
Prof Hilary Carey, University of Newcastle
Prof Jill Matthews, Australian National University
Dr David Roberts, University of New England
Dr Tom Dunning, University of Tasmania (co-opted)
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President's Report to the AGM
Treasurer's Report to the AGM
Auditor's Report for year ending 31 May 2010 (721 kb, pdf format)
Post-graduate Report to the AGM
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History Teaching Standards and Threshold Outcomes
How to keep informed and feedback
- Sign up to receive a regular monthly 'Disciplines Setting Standards' Newsletter from ALTC by sending a blank email to join-standards_newsletter@edna.edu.au
- Contribute to the History forum discussions on the ALTC website 1 or website 2.
- Attend sessions on standards in WA, SA, NSW, TAS, QLD, NSW and ACT to be held July-Sept. Will be advertised widely and through ALTC website and other media (see above).
- Respond to the formal call for comments to be made in July/August.
- Phone, write to, or email the Discipline Scholar.
Proposed LTA Standard for History Draft Version 5
- Demonstrate knowledge of one or more periods of the past
- Identify, analyse, contextualise, and synthesise a wide variety of primary and secondary materials
- Identify, analyse, contextualise, synthesise and reflect critically upon historical scholarship
- Formulate historical problems and propose and review means for their resolution in a timely fashion
- Construct and support an argument in oral and written form, according to the conventions of the discipline, including ethical conventions
- Demonstrate knowledge of the varieties of approaches to understanding, constructing and interpreting the past
- Demonstrate understanding of how historical phenomena-and historians-inform the present
- Identify, and reflect critically upon capabilities developed in the study of history
Click here for History Threshold Learning Outcomes – Draft 5.
Click here for the ALTC website
AHA Draft Submission 12 May 2010
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Advertising in the AHA Newsletter and Website
Members and Affiliates of the Australian Historical Association are able to advertise on the AHA Website and in the Newsletter free of charge.
There is a charge of $75 for non-members and organisations that are not affiliated with the AHA.
The AHA Advertising Policy and Fees can be viewed at http://www.theaha.org.au/conferences/advert_policy.htm
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Conferences, Workshops, Seminars and Lectures
Reaching Out or Going Down? The History of Tabloids
Workshop to be held at Macquarie University
Friday 24 September 2010.
A dinner will also be held the evening before. There will be no charge for attending the actual workshop, but for catering purposes anyone intending to attend must advise Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley or or Professor Murray Goot by 9 September 2010.
See the flyer for more details.
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François Péron and the Figure of the Scientific Traveller
A symposium to be held at the Aurora Ozone Hotel in Kingscote on South Australia's Kangaroo Island
26–28 November 2010
Late proposals are still welcome, please ignore the due date.
For more information email John West-Sooby
Telephone: (08) 83035634
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History in Conversation Series 2010 – A Northern Town
Talk and Film Screening
Thursday 22 July 2010, 6.00pm supper for 6.30pm start.
Surry Hills Library, 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills
Bookings Essential. Free for Library and HCNSW members, $10.00 for non-members. Light refreshments provided.
(02) 8374 6230 or City of Sydney Library
In 2009, the History Council NSW and the City of Sydney Library hosted a series of successful talks showcasing winners of the NSW Premier's History Award. In 2010, we are pleased to announce the return of our History in Conversation series, starting with A Northern Town.
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A Northern Town is a sobering look at racism in Kempsey, New South Wales. Set in an Indigenous owned and operated aged care facility housing both Indigenous and non- Indigenous people, this powerful documentary challenges the viewer to consider the past and present in new ways.
Director, Rachel Lander, and Producer, Dylan Blowen, won the NSW Premier's History Award for Multimedia in 2009. They will show excerpts from the film and discuss its making. This is a NAIDOC Week event.
Visions of Sydney Lecture Series: Building Sydney
Did Lachlan Macquarie really have a grand vision of Sydney?
Join historian James Broadbent and Government Architect Peter Mould as they explore the consequences of Macquarie’s ambitious building program.
Thursday 5 August 2010, 6.00 – 8.00pm
Museum of Sydney, Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney
$25.00, Concessions/Members $20.00
02 8239 2211 or website
Awards
NSW Indigenous History Fellowship – Closing soon!
Applications close Monday 9 August 2010, 5:00pm.
Contact: Zoe Pollock at the History Council of NSW or phone (02) 9252 8715.
For more details see the website.
The biennial NSW Indigenous History Fellowship is offered by the Government to assist a person living in New South Wales to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to New South Wales from an Indigenous point of view. Applicants may be independent historians, or historians working in conjunction with Indigenous communities. In both instances, applicants should provide evidence of support and agreement from relevant peak bodies or representative community groups.
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