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Conferences | Phd Studentship | History Newsletter | History Week
Eligibility period: Works first published or produced between 28 March 2009 and 31 March 2010 Entry Fee: $40.00 (incl. GST) per nomination (exemptions may apply) Nomination forms and guidelines are available for downloading from the website. The NSW Archival Research Fellowship and the NSW History Fellowship are open only to people living in New South Wales. Please refer to the Fellowship guidelines on the Arts NSW website for details. Closing date: Tuesday 27 April 2010. There is no entry fee. Nomination forms and guidelines are available for downloading from the website.
Grant applications close Friday 7 May 2010. For further information and application forms contact: Northern Territory Archives Service GPO Box 874 Darwin NT 0801 Telephone: +61 (0)8 8924 7677 Website Two Research Higher Degree anthropology students at The University of Queensland, Kim de Rijke and Tony Jefferies, have recently announcing their discovery of the research papers, photographs and other materials of Caroline Tennant-Kelly. From 1930 to 1970 Caroline Tennant-Kelly worked on research with Aboriginal communities in southern Queensland and parts of New South Wales, on immigration and related subjects, and on urban planning issues. Preliminary examination of these materials indicates they include field notes, unpublished documents, photographs and correspondence between Tennant-Kelly and her close friend anthropologist Margaret Mead. Other correspondence with a range of professional colleagues includes letters from Ursula McConnell, Phyllis Kaberry, A P Elkin and Camilla Wedgwood. The discovery of these materials, some 1800 separate items, has resulted from sustained effort by Kim de Rijke and Tony Jefferies, who have followed leads and dead-ends over a period of several years. Kim and Tony initially became interested in finding the materials through native title research; however, they now intend researching broad aspects of Caroline Tennant-Kelly’s professional and personal life. In order to ensure the preservation and availability of the collection, Kim and Tony are generously donating it to the Fryer Library at The University of Queensland. Those interested in a preliminary, though highly informative, account of the nature of the collection and the process of discovery will find the announcement document under News and Events at the web site of the School of Social Science, University of Queensland. A direct link to the document is at: http://www.socialscience.uq.edu.au/documents/newsevents/news_caroline_tennant-kelly_collection.pdf Writing the Empire: Scribblings from Below An international and interdisciplinary conference Over recent decades, scholars of colonialism and post-colonialism have explored the representations of peoples and places in a host of texts and the written word has been acknowledged as a key technology of power. However, while some attention has been paid to gender difference, there has been more limited consideration of how other less powerful and less privileged actors made use of the written word. This conference asks key questions about the appropriation of reading and writing by subaltern groups in empire. It brings together scholars who study less privileged, lower class Britons like convicts and sailors with those who work on histories of the colonized. It thus foregrounds the fact that these groups were often becoming more fully exposed to the written word at much the same moment and that literacy was regarded as a civilizing and disciplining mechanism more generally. The primary interest of many of the presenters is less in the formal published text than in a wide variety of everyday writings including diaries, letters, petitions, folk song, suicide notes, graffiti and more. Rather than assuming that literate cultures smoothly and fully replaced their oral counterparts, our participants instead ask questions about the entangled and dynamic character of relationships between the spoken and the written word. A number of presenters also go beyond the writing and reading of texts, to examine their performance with papers on topics like courtroom oratory, ‘folk’ music, street ballads and broadsides. Finally, a range of papers also explore the conceptual and methodological issues that arise from working with fragmentary and often fleeting types of sources and so with a less hegemonic ‘imperial archive' than those created by colonial states. Speakers include: Tony Ballantyne, Karin Barber, Antoinette Burton, Norman Etherington, Gareth Griffiths, Jonathan Hyslop, Isaac Land, Marilyn Lake & Paul Pickering. The conference will be held at the University of Bristol (UK) from 24 – 26 June 2010. Visit the conference website for more information. Victoria University of Wellington 30th and 31st August 2010 The postgraduate students from the History Programme of Victoria University of Wellington are holding the fifth annual New Historians Postgraduate Conference at Victoria University on the 30th and 31st August 2010. This conference has proved to be a great chance for postgraduate students from New Zealand and further afield to present their work in a friendly, supportive environment. It is an excellent opportunity to get feedback, for discussion on a wide range of topics, and to network with students from around the country. Papers are invited on all historical themes, topics or issues from MA or PhD students. In previous years the conference has been interdisciplinary in nature and papers on historical topics from disciplines other than history will also be welcomed. Presentations will be twenty minutes in length. Provisionally, registration will be $20. There will also be a conference dinner on 31st August. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, a brief biographical statement of no more than 200 words, and your contact details to newhistorians@myvuw.ac.nz The deadline for submissions is Monday 12 July 2010. For more information, please contact Grace Millar, Catherine Falconer-Gray, Matthew Cunningham or Lisa Sacksen at: newhistorians@myvuw.ac.nz. New Historians Postgraduate Conference 2010 History Programme Victoria University of Wellington The University of Newcastle, Australia 22–24 November 2010 From the early modern period through to the present day, both combatants and non-combatants who lived through war have written about their experiences in autobiographical works. Sometimes published, but often not, such memoirs entail not only authors recalling their wartime lives but recasting, re-imagining and reprocessing their experiences. The popularity of war memoirs in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in particular raises questions about why, when and the manner in which conflicts are recalled and remembered, how these texts contribute to or conflict with collective memories, and how they can be read and interpreted by the reading public and scholars alike. The highly specific nature of war memoirs means that comparative work is rare. The aim of this symposium is to compare different aspects and or approaches to war memoirs and, by so doing, lay the foundations for new potential interdisciplinary collaborations. It will also contribute to a broader discussion on the experience of war across cultural boundaries. The Keynote speaker is Jay Winter (Yale University). Other speakers include Leonard Smith (Oberlin College), M. G. Sheftall (Shizuoka University), and Andreas Renner (University of Cologne). Proposals for papers of thirty minutes are invited from scholars from across the disciplines working on any aspect of the war memoir from the early modern period to the present day, from European, Central and South American, African, Middle Eastern, and Asian conflicts. Proposals should be between 300 and 500 words long. Offers of papers (as well a brief C.V.) should be submitted to the conference organizers: The symposium will be limited to no more than twenty participants. The program of the conference will be published in September 2010. Papers will be circulated before the symposium. The conference fee, payable by all speakers and attendees, will be $50 for one day and $150 for three days. The symposium is being held as part of an Australian Research Council research project on Veteran Culture and War Memoirs. The organizers intend on publishing the proceedings. Associate Professor Philip Dwyer University of Newcastle School of History and Philosophy The University of New South Wales We invite papers papers for a conference that seeks to address, and historicise, the idea of home since the Second World War: the meanings attributed to it, and how time and place have shaped meanings of exile, refuge, community, homeland and belonging in the 20th century. The Second World War was the catalyst for the uprooting and displacement of millions of people, leading to the category of the refugee in western legal thought and the perception of exile as a newly modern phenomenon. The loss of home and the mourning of displacement, it has since been argued, became the core of the modern condition. Theodore Adorno, exiled to America during the war years, was to write upon his return to Germany that: "Dwelling, in the proper sense has become impossible”, and that, it is “part of morality not to be at home in one’s home." For Adorno, the home could no longer be understood as a place of physical refuge, although exile also taught him that language, rather than spatial territory, was what ultimately constituted a sense of belonging. Since then, the loss of home and the impulse of return have become universal themes of the recent history of migration. Many scholars in recent decades have begun to refashion older notions of exile, transferring the qualities of marginality, instability and loss into desirable qualities of the postmodern condition, while at the same time asserting the home as a myth. Nomadism and diasporism have become the dominant explanatory modes of existence in a global, deterritorialised, world. The imagination of the utopian home is now more often a virtual one, and even the phenomenon of videoing, or blogging about, one’s home space online has transformed the association of privacy into one of projection, instant transportation and mass communication. However as Eva Hoffmann notes, the new postmodern scholarship of home and exile is problematic in that it underestimates the sheer human cost of exile; it also leads to a dangerous devaluing of the importance of actual space and territory in the politics of the dispossessed. Many are still fighting, killing and dying, for soil, and for the right of return to homelands. This conference thus asks what forms the idea of home have taken since World War Two. We invite papers that historicise the meanings of exile, homelessness and displacement and/or those that explore the relationship between the concept of home as it has been shaped by the refugee and migration experience, and the contrapuntal notion of exile. We also invite consideration of the ideological function the ‘homeland’, as a site of yearning, has played in recent times and places. In some cases, the ‘phantom homelands’ created out of nostalgic longing have also led to real cases of extreme politics. Further, we do not restrict considerations of home to national space. Scholars have been considering the home as a site of resistance, conformity, or surveillance in relation to the state. The ideas and ideals circulating around the postwar home in cities and suburbia have attracted recent scholarly attention in a diverse range of fields, and led to a new awareness of the role ideas of home have played in shaping the politics, ethics and values of contemporary society. Proposals should include a title, a 250-word abstract, a one-paragraph biographical note on the speaker and full contact details. They should be addressed no later than 16 July, 2010 to Dr Ruth Balintor or Dr Julie Kalman Call for Panel Members for "Empires and Identities": a special session at the conference: Deadline for abstract submission: 25 July 2010. (Note: The submission deadline for abstracts for this session has been extended for this session) The organising commitee for the conference cycle "Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness" to be held for the fourth time in Mexico City is seeking further panelists for a special session/ "sub-conference" dedicated to "Empires and Identities" that will take place during the conference. This special session will consist of 4 panels, each with 3 or 4 presentations. Proposals for this special session should address the general themes of the conference, which is devoted to colonial and post colonial remembering and forgetfulness viewed from a wide range of different interdisciplinary perspectives with particular attention to communicative issues and reflections on "self" and "otherness", memories, historical myths and other expressions of historical and political memory. The conference "Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness" will will focus on conceptualizations and representations of cultural categories in colonial and post colonial realities, and the ways in which individuals have understood and enacted these frameworks in their lives. The program is organised in a large number of special thematic sessions and subconferences covering a diverse series of topics extending from a special session on "Voices of slaves in inquisitorial records" to "Education and Nation-Building" and "Representations of the 'Other' on the Theater Stage". We welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences, humanities, as well as the arts. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of perspectives. Presenters are encouraged to interpret the themes of the conference broadly and may explore any historical period, with any geographic focus. Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of perspectives. 500 word abstracts should be submitted as e-mail attachments to the organising committee liowlb@enkidumagazine.com, in English, Castilian, German or French by 25 July 2010. The conference languages will be English and Castilian. Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged. More information about the conference and the different special sessions and sub-conferences during the event is available on the conference homepage. Enkidu Centro Cultural Calle Ezequiel Montes #37, int. 2 Colonia Tabacalera 06030 Mexico D.F. Mexico website
Global History and Culture Centre The GHCC is an interdisciplinary research centre set within the History Department. It has an active membership from History, English, Art History, Sociology, Economics and Politics. The GHCC provides a focus for the interdisciplinary study of global history and culture at an international level. It encourages the development of research projects in the field of Global History and Culture that will benefit both the University and the wider academic community. Its activities include symposia, conferences, day schools and seminar series; honorary visiting fellowships, postgraduate exchanges and postdoctoral fellowships. It runs a regular seminar series and hosts a number of externally-funded research projects including Global Jingdezhen: Local Manufactures and Early Modern Global Connections (AHRC) Everyday Technology in Monsoon Asia, 1880-1960 (ESRC), Chinese Cities: a Comparative View (ESRC), Connected Histories / Connected Sociologies: Rethinking the Global (ESRC), Kenya: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism (British Academy), Textiles in India (Pasold Foundation), and Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century (British Academy). The Project This is a major European Research Council Fellowship project whose goal is to bring to bear global perspectives and interdisciplinary method on histories of industrialisation, consumer society and material culture. It investigates the key connector that transformed the early modern world: the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture. That trade stimulated Europes consumer and industrial revolutions, re-orientating the Asian trading world to European priorities. With a team consisting of the project leader, 3 postdoctoral fellows, a museums advisor, a PhD student, and a project administrator, it investigates the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe (17thC early 19thC) in material goods and culture. This project addresses the part played by mercantile with Asia in the early modern period as a fundamental origin of the Industrial Revolution. It investigates the making, trade and exchange of manufactured products and material cultures from China and India to Europe. The objectives of the project are:
The Award The studentship is funded full-time for 3 years. The award covers postgraduate fees up to the level of the Home/EU fee (currently 3,390 per annum), and includes a stipend of 12,000 per annum tax free. Informal inquiries about the studentship may be directed to Professor Maxine Berg. How To Apply The deadline for applications is 16 April 2010 and interviews will be held in May 2010. Applications should be sent to the Centre Secretary, Mrs Amy Evans, or in hardcopy to: Global History and Culture Centre, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, England CV4 7AL. Please note that hardcopy applications must arrive by the deadline date in order to guarantee their consideration. Your application must include the following:
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The History Council of New South Wales invites event registrations for History Week 2010 to be held 4–12 September 2010. History Week is our state's annual festival of history. The official theme for this year is Faces in the Street. Join us in History Week 2010 for a walk down the streets of the past and into the lives of those you pass. Explore the biographies of our leaders, those who shaped our world and the worlds of lesser known identities. Registering your event online is easy and FREE. Registrations must be received by Friday 16 April 2010. Mikhaila Dunn Administrative Assistant History Council of NSW PO Box R1737 Royal Exchange NSW 1225 T: (02) 9252 8715 F: (02) 9252 8716 Website 
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