The AHA is deeply saddened by the death of Dr Tracey Banivanua-Mar, a brilliant scholar, teacher, colleague and friend. She will be greatly missed, but her inspiration will live on. Our heartfelt condolences to her children, her husband and all her family. Tracey’s funeral will be held at 11:30 am, Friday 25 August in the Read more …
The AHA’s Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. It is available to all early career historians (within five years of the award of their PhD degree), whether academic, professional, or public historians working in museums, war memorials and other institutions. Funding of up Read more …
The Western Australian Government has merged the State Records Office (SRO) into the State Library of Western Australia from 1 July 2017, effectively ending the existence of the SRO as an independent agency. The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) has protested against this change to the machinery of government, which was made without any proper process of Read more …
Warm congratulations to Ben Mountford, whose book Britain, China, & Colonial Australia has been awarded the 2017 Prue Torney Fellows’ Prize – an annual award for a book of history or biography about Australians who individually or collectively have contributed to an understanding of Asia or Australian perceptions of Asia.
Congratulations to Miranda Francis (PhD candidate, La Trobe University) and her project ‘Why did Mrs ‘Smith’ send a submission to the Royal Commission on Human Relationships? Family life in 1970s Australia’ and Holly Taylor (PhD candidate, University of Washington) with her project ‘Preserving Places That Matter: The Origins of Social Value in Australian Heritage Conservation’, Read more …
2018 is a big year for AHA prizes, with the full suite of biennial prizes and annual prizes on offer. All are now open. For full terms and conditions for each prize, consult the AHA website. The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. Read more …
The two annual AHA prizes were announced at the conference dinner on Thursday 6 July 2017. Congratulations to James Findlay, who won the 2017 Jill Roe Prize for an unpublished history essay by a postgraduate student with his ‘Cinematic Landscapes, Dark Tourism and the Ghosts of Port Arthur’ (full citation here) and to Benjamin Mountford whose Read more …
A big vote of appreciation to the conference organising committee from Newcastle: Philip Dwyer, Nancy Cushing, Victoria Haskins, Lyndall Ryan, Julie McIntyre, James Bennett, Kate Ariotti and Kit Candlin. Not only did they turn on magnificent weather, they put together a wide-ranging, stimulating and inclusive program – of both academic papers and social events – in beautiful venues. Thank Read more …
Digital History Workshop Associate Professor Michelle Moravec of Rosemont College, Philadelphia, will hold a workshop on the use of computational linguistics in historical research on the first day of the Newcastle conference: 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Monday 3 July 2017, University House. A few places remain; register through the conference website. Welcome reception Immediately after Read more …
There will only be one AHA Newsletter issued in July 2017 – on 13 July. There will be no newsletter during the week of the AHA conference in Newcastle and none during the last two weeks in July as the EO will be on leave. So – if you have any publications, prizes, CFPs or Read more …