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Newsletter 30 March 2021
Editor: Jessica Fairey
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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 are now 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 information here.
South Australian Maritime Museum: Two new exhibitions
The SA Maritime Museum has recently opened two new exhibits. The first, Windjammers, is a permanent exhibition that explores the tall ships of the 20th century that carried grain and other goods from South Australia to Europe.
Further information here.
The second, Pamela and the Duchess, is a temporary exhibition on English journalist Pamela who got bored with her day-to-day life and left to work aboard the windjammer Herzogin Cecile.
Further information here.
SLSA Collections policy survey
The State Library of South Australia is currently developing an updated collecting plan for their Archival Collections. The updated policy is available for viewing on their website here, and feedback is being sought until 5 April.
Further information here.
2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
Nominations are open for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Presented every two years during Adelaide Writer's Week, the awards include six national and five South Australian categories. Nominations close 30 June.
Further information here.
Nominate a work here.
Community Alliance SA screening of French Exit
Community Alliance SA - which Burnside Historical Society is a member of - is holding a fundraiser, screening the movie French Exit alongside a raffle and silent auction. It will be held Friday 16 April, starting at 7:00pm.
Further information here.
Call for submissions, Studies in Oral History journal
Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia, has a special themed issue in 2021 focusing on oral history, place and environment. The Editors are seeking project reports of 1000-1500 words and exhibition or website reviews of 800 words that relate to the themes of the special issue.
Please contact Carla Pascoe Leahy [email protected] and Skye Krichauff [email protected] with your ideas.
Historical Society of South Australia: Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens
The HSSA would like to invite you to their April meeting, featuring Dr. Roger Irvine speaking on his recent publication: Colonial Settlers of the River Torrens: A different approach to local history. The meeting will be held on 9 April, 7.30 - 9.00pm.
Further information.
Registration here.
Follow the HSSA on Facebook.
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Seminar: History Matters - Community History
A free online seminar discussing the production of histories that inspire communities to reconsider and reconnect with their past in creative and meaningful ways.
Further information here.
University of Adelaide History Seminar Program
All seminars will be taking place on the North Terrace Campus in Napier 209 (2nd floor Napier building) on Mondays at 12:05pm.
The program is as follows:
12 April: Tamika Glouftsis (University of Adelaide)
‘“Don’t Ask Where the Train Is Going”: Complicity and Choice in Historical Gaming’
and Tess Alana Watterson (University of Adelaide)
‘“Your judgement must be your guide”: Persecuting Witches in Medievalist Fantasy Computer Role-Play Games’
10 May: A/Prof. Christine Winter (Flinders University)
‘Mourning the Dead: New Guinea Villagers and the Pacific War’
17 May: Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington (University of South Australia)
‘Sizing Up the Ethics of History’
24 May: A/Prof. Catherine Kevin (Flinders University)
‘From Reform to Decriminalisation with a Pandemic in Between: COVID 19 and the History of Abortion in SA’
Flinders History Research Seminars
The History Seminar Series is back! Held Fridays 11.15 to 12.30, Room 149, Social Sciences South, Flinders University. No seminar is scheduled for 2 April as it is a public holiday.
View further information and the schedule here.
World Art Deco Day Event
The Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia is hosting an event to celebrate the inaugural World Art Deco Day. To be held at Piccadilly Cinema on O'Connell Street, Wednesday 28th April, 6pm.
Further information here.
Save the trees of 28 Sturt road, Brighton
A petition has been started to save twenty six significant and five regulated trees on the land at 28 Sturt Road, Brighton. The parcel of land is set to be subdivided by the developer which would mean the removal of many of these trees.
Sign the petition here.
September 2020 update on the situation by the mayor.
Celebrating 200 years of Greek Independence: A cultural journey in Greek art and History
To acknowledge the anniversary of Greek independence the Parliamentary Library of South Australia is hosting a display of items graciously provided by the Greek Museum of Adelaide Inc. The display will be available for viewing from 22 March to 15 April, including tours at 10am and 2pm on non-sitting days.
View the exhibit flyer 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.
Around the country
Unreserved: The Reserve Bank of Australia's online archive
Unreserved is an online platform to access the Reserve Bank of Australia's archives, containing digital copies of select records as well as information about their archival collection.
Further information here.
Agora: Women in History
The latest issue of Agora has now been published by the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria. It explores the theme ‘Women in History’, with profiles on the ju-jitsu suffragettes, the working women of WWII, indigenous activists, Australia's ‘brazen hussies’ and 'women of steel', Cold War dissidents, ancient oracles and Viking queens, as well as exploring issues such as Wikipedia's gender bias.
Further information here.
AHA History Graduates Survey
Do you have an undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree in history or related field? Then we want you to take our survey! The Australian Historical Association is conducting this survey:
- To gain a better understanding of the career pathways and employability of all those with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in history or a degree that was historically-focused.
- To facilitate wider discussion of diverse employment pathways for history graduates.
- To identify and address issues relating to the employability of history graduates.
The survey is open from 1 March to 30 June 2021. We are hoping to capture the diverse experiences of as many history graduates as possible so please circulate the link below to your networks!
Take the survey here.
The Australian Heritage Festival: Call for event registrations
The festival is back for 2021, running from 18 April - 19 May with the theme 'Our Heritage for the Future'. Registration closes 30 March.
Register an event for the festival here.
Further information here.
2021 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference - Oral History in Troubling Times: Opportunities and Challenges
To be held 14-16 October. Call for Presentations due 1 April.
Further information and registration here.
Flyer available 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.
Opportunities
Maritime History Awards sponsored by the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian National Maritime Museum. Nominations close 30 April 2021.
Further information here.
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.
Calls for papers
AHA 2021 UNSW Conference. Submissions due 31 May 2021.
Further information here.
New Zealand Historical Association: Ako - Learning from History? Submissions due 28 February - 30 June 2021
Further information here
Queer Theory Reading Group Symposium Submissions due 30 April.
Further information here.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography Is seeking submissions of prominent Pacific Islanders in Australian History.
Further information here.
Essays In History. Submissions due 2 April 2021. Further information here.
Special Issue of Labor History: Gender, War, and Coerced Labour. Proposals due 15 April 2021. Further information here.
Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies. Manuscripts due 30 June 2021. Further information here.
