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Newsletter 17 May 2024
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SA Medical Heritage Society May meeting
Featuring Emeritus Professor Doug McEvoy speaking on the topic of sleep medicine.
May 23, 6pm. Dulwich Community Centre, 14 Union Street, Dulwich. Replies to Joy Copland [email protected]
Further information through the SAMHS website
SA Medical Heritage Society May meeting
Featuring Emeritus Professor Doug McEvoy speaking on the topic of sleep medicine.
May 23, 6pm. Dulwich Community Centre, 14 Union Street, Dulwich. Replies to Joy Copland [email protected]
Further information through the SAMHS website
Word of Mouth Autumn 2024
This latest edition of Oral History SA/NT's Word of Mouth is out now.
Further information and download through their website
The history of legal deposit: sixteenth century France to the Library today
This blog post by the National Library of Australia explores the history of legal deposit.
Read the post on their blog here
The History Council has issued a media release outlining its position on proposed reforms at the South Australian Museum.
Read more on our advocacy page here.
Save the Queen: The Priscilla Project
A project is underway to restore the Priscilla bus from the film 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'. She was discovered on a property in rural New South Wales, having survived fire, floods, and exposure to the elements. The History Trust of South Australia is seeking donations to restore the bus and display her at the National Motor Museum in Birdwood.
Further information through the HTSA
Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act review final report and Government response released
Following an extensive review by an expert panel, the Government is adopting over 100 recommendations to make the planning system more efficient and user-friendly.
More information on the Review's March newsletter here.
Adelaide Museum of South Australian History
The History Trust are inviting responses to a survey about a proposed new museum: the Adelaide Museum of South Australia's History.
Find out more and have your say on the proposed museum here.
Around the Country
Exhibition: Rameses and the Gold of the Pharaohs
This exhibition, exclusive to the Australian Museum in Sydney, features 181 priceless artefacts and relics, many of which have never left Egypt before. This wonderfully preserved collection includes sarcophagi, animal mummies, jewellery, royal masks, and ornate tomb treasures which showcase the workmanship of Egyptian artisans.
Open in Sydney until May 19 2024.
Further information and ticket purchase through the museum website
Lectures, exhibitions, and events
Charity event: IAF literary luncheon
Join Dr. Kiera Lindsey and Professor Penny Edmonds for a charity event with the Independent Arts Foundation (IAF) supporting SA emerging artists. Listen to the story of Adelaide Ironside, the subject of Dr. Lindsey's latest narrative-driven biography, Wild Love.
19 May 2024, 12-3pm. $45 members, $50 non-members.
Further information and tickets through Trybooking
Webinar: Historicizing Australia's nuclear debate
In this seminar, three leading scholars will consider how Australia's past shapes debates around the country's energy transition today.
30 May, 5pm AEST.
Further information and registration here.
2024 Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration: Looking back to look forward - lessons from the past to influence actions of the future, by Professor Tom Calma AO
Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide.
29 May, 6.30 - 8pm.
Further information and tickets through Humanitix
Public lecture: After the shipyards - Whyalla in the 1980s
When the BHP Whyalla Shipyards closed permanently in 1978, it led to an exodus of some of the skilled workers and their families. As Whyalla was built around the heavy industries, the whole story of the city has been described as being continually in decline since. Was that notion correct? This lecture from Maritime Museum curator Paul Mazourek is now available to watch on Youtube.
Watch it here.
The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies
A new website which maps the nature and extent of frontier conflict in South Australia, contributing to the truth-telling called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Explore this highly interactive site which is informed by extensive archival research and oral histories of Aboriginal people and settler descendants.
29 May, 2-4pm.
Further information and registration through the SA History Festival website
Power to the people
Delve into citizen and resident activism demonstrated through petitions submitted to the Australian Government from records held in the national archival collection.
28 May 2024, 12-1pm, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library of South Australia.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Public talk: Cuttlefest 2024 - People in the landscape
A talk on Barngarla country with Maritime Museum Curator Paul Mazourek about the amazing story of the landscape development and people's histories in the Northern Spencer Gulf.
Every Thursday in June and July, 2-3pm, Point Lowly Lighthouse, Point Lowly SA.
Further information through the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse website
South Australia's History Festival 2024: Power
The program for South Australia's History Festival 2024 is now available. The festival will be running throughout May with events for everyone.
View the online program on the official website
Exhibition: Children's voices from the Bob Hawke Collection
This exhibition explores Hawke's commitment to future generations and Australia's youth, unveiling the 'voices of children' in the Hawke Collection.
On now until 28 June 2024, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building level 3, UniSA City West Campus.
Further information through the UniSA website.
Exhibition: Now showing... Cinema architecture in South Australia
From suburban cinemas to palaces in the middle o the city, these often highly decorated buildings became centres of entertainment for South Australians in the twentieth century.
On now until 30 May 2024
Further information through the UniSA website
New exhibition: Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world
This exhibition, explores the many ways people have achieved social change in Australia, from noisy protest to quiet persistence. On at the State Library of South Australia, 20 April - 11 August.
Further information through the SLSA website
University of Adelaide Historical and Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2024
The schedule for semester one is now available. Check it out on the University of Adelaide website here.
The next seminar will feature Elizabeth Bor on 'Using a theory of news values in historical research' on 20 May. Held in-person on Mondays at Napier 420, 12pm. Zoom links TBA.
Historical Society of South Australia 2024 program
The HSSA has announced its program for 2024 as follows:
7 June: Skye Krichauff: The South Australian Frontier and Its Legacies: A Truth-Telling project.
5 July: Benjamin Nicholls: "There are pianos everywhere": Oscar Comettant and other travel writers on South Australian music.
2 August: Robert Foster: The role of environmental factors in shaping Aboriginal/settler relations in colonial South Australia.
6 September: Elizabeth Bor: Responses to Bushfires in South Australia from the 1820s to Federation.
4 October: Martin Hamilton-Smith: Western Democracy Under Challenge: The interesting case study of South Australia.
1 November: Erin Reardon: RA&HS Archives – Walking into 185 Years of History (and Wondering What to do With It).
Australian Heritage Festival 2024: Connections
Australia's largest annual community-driven celebration of heritage will take place in South Australia from 18 April to 19 May 2024.
Event registrations are now open on their website.
Flinders University History Research Seminars semester 1 2024
The schedule for the semester one seminars is now available.
The next seminar will be Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch speaking on ‘Spiritual Health, Holy Land Pilgrims, and Premodern Healthcare, c. 1100–1300’ on 24 May.
Held in-person at Humanities North Theatre 2 (Bedford Park, SA) or through Microsoft Teams, Fridays, 11.15am - 12.30pm.
See the flyer for the full schedule and Teams details here (pdf).
Book releases
Book launch: Celebrating 25 Years of the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery
‘The First 25 Years’ is a volunteer-oriented account of the Gallery’s journey from the original idea to the wonderful repository it is now. 19 May 2-5pm.
Further information and registration through the History Festival website
Book launch: The recollections collection: a people's history, by Karen Joyce and Colin Ball
Unabashedly The Recollections Collection is a peoples’ history of Hindmarsh in South Australia, particularly of locals who lived in the neighbourhoods of Bowden and Brompton. It conflates two modern eras by combining the long-first-half of the twentieth century, the 1890s to 1960s, with the much shorter and radically transformational times of the 1970s and 80s. 29 May, 7-9pm, Brickmakers Arms, Brompton SA.
Further information and registration through the History Festival website
An insider's history of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, by Paul Blackman
This history of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra tells the story from its creation through to the world class ensemble that performs today.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
Calls for papers
Call for Submissions: New Thinking About Old Histories
Later this year HTAV’s journal Agora will explore the theme ‘New Thinking about Old Histories’. The Editor is seeking contributors who can discuss recent evidence or academic debates that History teachers should know about to update their knowledge and inform their teaching. Referenced articles of up to 2000 words in plain language, aligned with the History curriculum, are due in July.
Prospective contributors should contact the Editor ([email protected]) with a brief outline of their topic and how it would describe ‘new thinking’.
Opportunities
SLNSW Fellowships
The State Library of New South Wales has several fellowships open for applications, including many on historical research and writing.
Further information through their website
NLA 2025 Scholarship and Grant applications
Applications are now open for the 2025 National Library of Australia Scholarships and Asia study Grants.
Applications close 24 June 2024.
Further information through their website
Oral History Australia Awards 2024
Applications are now open for three awards from OHA - the Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History and the OHA book and media awards.
Nominations and applications for the three awards close on 31 August 2024.
Further information through Oral History Australia
Bernadette Bean South Australian Records Management Service Excellence Award
Awarded to celebrate those who have dedicated their careers to managing, preserving, and innovating within the fields of records and information management, knowledge management, history and cultural heritage, museum and library collections management. Nominations are now open until 8 July 2023.
Further information on the award website.
The Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia
The next issue is scheduled to be published in November 2024 and they are inviting scholars from all disciplines who are researching South Australian history to submit papers, or proposals for papers, for inclusion in this, and subsequent editions. They would particularly like to encourage post-graduate student and early career researcher contributions.
For more information, visit their website here or contact the editor [email protected]
