eNewsletter
Newsletter 2 February 2021
Editor: Jessica Fairey
Members News
Congratulations
We warmly congratulate our past President, Wilfrid Prest, for receiving an Order of Australia Award. This award is very well deserved; Wilf’s intellectual contribution to the field of law and legal history is immense (in Australia and internationally), and Wilf has proven himself extremely generous in contributing to and assisting the South Australian 'history' community. Huge congratulations Wilf!
Wakefield Press Essay Prize 2021
Applications are open for the 2021 annual Wakefield Press Prize for the best essay on a topic relating to the history of South Australia.
The prize is open to anyone who during the year 2020 has written or published an essay dealing substantially with some aspect of South Australian history. The word length should be between 2,000 and 10,000 words. Applications are due 30 April 2021.
Further information here.
HCSA Historian Awards 2021
Applications will soon open for the 2021 Historian Awards. Categories include: Emerging Historian; Historian of the Year; Life Long Historian; Regional/Community Historian; Digital Technologies Award (demonstrating innovation and excellence using digital technology in a history related field); History Group/Community (a group who have worked together on a history project). Applications will open on 28 February and close on 30 April. All nominations are welcome. Further details will be provided in our next newsletter.
The UniSA Oral History Hub
The University of South Australia has made available a developing archive of oral histories and digital stories.
Further information and access here.
2021 Labour History State Conference
(Dr. David Faber)
The Labour History Society SA will be celebrating its State Conference on 6 February 2021 at the Ucity venue, corner of Franklin & Pitt Streets. The Conference will canvass issues in South Australian and broader Labour History, including questions of method thrown up by the demands of research digitization.
Flyer available here.
Petitions to protect our heritage
The National Trust has organised a petition to protect our built environment. Further information here.
A petition specifically on protecting the Gatehouse and significant trees at the Waite is available here.
News
Hidden Histories: Causing a stir with Arcadian Adelaide
The third instalment of Wakefield Press's Hidden Histories series is on the recently republished Arcadian Adelaide, a satirical guide to living in Adelaide first published in 1905.
Read the post here.
2021 AISTSIS Summit
The AIATSIS National Native Title Conference and the National Indigenous Research Conference will be held together over five days, from 31 May to 4 June 2021. Flexible registration packages and alternative modes of delivery will be available.
Further information here.
The Dublin Dispatch
The latest edition of the Dublin History Group's newsletter, The Dublin Dispatch, is now available.
View their latest newsletter here.
Further information here
The Muriel Matters Society
Established in 2009 to research South Australian suffragette Muriel Matters and promote her ideals for equality, the society has published their most recent newsletter.
View their website here.
View their latest newsletter here.
Parham and District Action Group
The latest edition of the group's newsletter is now available.
View their latest newsletter here.
Research Assistant Database
A centralised register of professionals across Australia and internationally who are available to assist on history research projects.
Further information here.
Around the country
2021 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference
To be held 14-16 October. Call for Presentations due 1 March.
Further information and registration here.
GLAMSLAM 2021 Calls for Participation
GLAMSLAM 2021 will be held on March 12 at UTS. It is a day for all those working in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums - the GLAM sector - to come together, talk, and share their work. CFPs are due by 11 February.
Further information and registration here.
AFFHO Conference: 'History in Paradise' on Norfolk Island
The next Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry will be held in 2021, in the first week of August.
Further information here.
Virtual Symposium: Documenting COVID-19 in Australia
Presented by the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program and the National Archives of Australia in December 2020, a recording of the symposium is now available on Youtube.
View the recording here.
Opportunities
Collaborative Doctoral Program PhD Scholarships offered by flagship national institutions in partnership with the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Applications are due 15 April 2021.
Further information here.
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. The Society is seeking papers for its seventeenth biennial conference, with the theme “Fighting For Life: Class, Community and Care in Labour History”. The conference is to be held 3-5 December 2021, in Bendigo, Victoria. Abstracts are due 15 February 2021.
Further information here.
Calls for papers
Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Biennial Conference 2021. Proposals due 28 February 2021. Further information here.
Writing Australian History on Screen. Abstracts Due 27 February 2021. Further information here.
