The Australian Historical Association
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The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the 2020 NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships, which provide assistance with digitisation of material held by the National Archives. The judges noted the successful applicants had ‘exciting, diverse and challenging research projects,’ and we congratulate the four recipients: Yianni Cartledge for the project ‘Aegean Islander Migration to the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, Read more …
The Australian Historical Association expresses its dismay and fierce disapproval to the significant increase in costs for undertaking humanities undergraduate subjects announced today by the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan. This decision is severely short-sighted and reveals a lack of understanding of the vital importance of humanities training for the employees of tomorrow. It is unnecessarily punitive and displays Read more …
The AHA Executive Committee is delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2020 AHA Prizes and Awards. We would like to thank the judges for their work in arriving at their shortlists. The AHA and judges congratulate all the historians on the below shortlists. The Magarey Medal for Biography is awarded biennially to the female person who Read more …
Congratulations to Michael Bennett for the publication of War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner’s achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. Read more …
Congratulations to Pat Wheatley and Charlotte Dunn for the publication of Demetrius the Besieger (OUP, 2020). This book offers the first historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Demetrius was known as ‘The Besieger of Cities’, and presided over the disintegration of Alexander the Great’s Empire after 323 Read more …
The upcoming issue of History Australia features a forum responding to the theme of ‘urgent histories.’ The forum consists of three papers with a response by Paul Kramer: ‘Here we stand: temporal thinking in urgent times’by Tamson Pietsch and Frances Flanagan; ‘Doing environmental history in urgent times’by Katie Holmes, Andrea Gaynor and Ruth Morgan; and ‘Training historians in urgent times’ by Yves Rees Read more …
A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This week’s entry by Tamara Cooper writes about pursuing a teaching career, emphasising that we need to think in different and healthier ways about the employment options and career goals of higher degree research students. Further information
Dear AHA Members The 2020 AHA AGM will take place as scheduled, despite the cancellation of the AHA annual Conference due to COVID-19. The meeting is open to all financial members of the AHA and we strongly encourage you to attend. The Agenda and other documentation will be circulated closer to the date, but please Read more …
Congratulations to Yves Rees for winning the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize for their essay ‘Reading the Mess Backwards,’ ‘a story of trans becoming that digs into the messiness of bodies, gender and identity.’ Further information
Congratulations to Mark Dunn for the publication of The Convict Valley (Allen & Unwin, 2020). The book examines the impact of the British invasion and use of the valley as a penal station between 1804 and 1821, the environmental impact of the convict coal mines and timber getting and then the opening of the valley to emigrant farmers in the Read more …