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Newsletter 7 December 2021
Members News
From the editor
Happy holidays and end of year to all our wonderful members and readers!
We will be taking a break from the newsletter in January, so if you would like to get any items in to be advertised in February, please send them in. You can email me directly at [email protected]
HCSA Regional Lecture photos
We would like to thank all involved and all who attended for a fantastic night at our Annual Regional Lecture this year. Wayne Gallasch has kindly provided a link to his Google photos album from the night of the regional lecture.
View the photo collection here.
Protect Our Heritage Alliance
The POHA has recently given a statement on the Government's attacks on heritage and history.
Read the statement on the POHA website.
The Historical Society of South Australia is pleased to announce resumption of its Grants Scheme in 2022 for research, publication or promotion of South Australian history.
Further criteria and application and acquittal forms are available from the society’s website [link here] or by email from the secretary at [email protected]
The closing date for applications is Monday 28th March 2022. Successful applicants will be announced at the lecture meeting during the annual History Festival on Friday 6 May and all applicants will receive notification by Monday 15 May 2022. Payment of the monies awarded in grants will happen in June 2022.
Applications should be addressed to:
The Convenor
HSSA Annual Grants Scheme
PO Box 519
Kent Town SA 5071
SA Medical Heritage Meeting
On 10 December, Professor Glenn McCulloch will be speaking on 'The Origins of Neurosurgery in South Australia'.
Further information here (pdf).
Wakefield Press Essay Prize
Applications for the 2022 Wakefield Press Essay Prize Award open in December 2021. The prize is for the best essay on a topic relating to South Australian history.
Further information here.
SA Digihistory
Dr. Susan Marsden has made available an outline for the South Australian Digihistory Project here.
Do you have a favourite South Australian History book that is difficult to find? Would you like to see such books made available in digital format to buy or borrow from your library? Join us by nominating SA histories that were published only in 'hard copy' so they can be included in the South Australian Digihistory Project.
You can email your nominations to Susan Marsden at [email protected]. Please include author, title, date and place of publication as well as any comments about the book. Nominations are due 31 December 2021.
A list of some books that have been nominated is available here.
News
AICCM Disaster Preparedness Calendar
In this age of increasing natural disasters, the Australian Institute for Conservation of Cultural Materials has put together a disaster preparedness calendar. It is designed to assist cultural collecting organisations in being prepared for disasters likely to impact their region.
Access it on the AICCM website here.
Around the country
Working with Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property: An Introduction to the True Tracks ICIP Protocols
Part of the First Nations Speakers Series, presented by the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University with GML Heritage and Sydney Living Museums. Presented by Terri Janke, Wuthathi/Meriam Woman and International authority on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. 9 December 2021, online and in-person in Sydney.
Further information here.
Virtual Seminar: Historians on Planetary Futures
Presented by New Earth Histories and the Laureate Centre for History and Population, UNSW. Held Tuesdays in February to April 2022.
Further information on Eventbrite
Virtual Conference: Romantic Generations
Presented by the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia. The conference is a chance to revisit the generations of the romantics, as well as to ask what they generated. Held 9-11 December 2021.
Visit the conference's website here.
Online Seminar: Making Time and Selling Luxury in 18th and 19th Century England
Speaker Diana Volonakis will focus on women's training and employment at the Lancashire watch company, Prescot (1889-1910). Amy Erikson will examine the trades and training of women who owned and operated luxury shops in the most expensive part of London in the 18th century. Held 9 December 2021.
Information on the ReWomen website here.
Book releases
Broken Spear: The untold story of Black Tom Birch, the man who sparked Australia's bloodiest war, by Robert Cox
The story of the most feared man among the settlers in Van Diemen's land, a charismatic Aboriginal patriot who fought against invasion.
Further information and ordering on the Wakefield Press website
Cars we used to drive: Australians on the move, 1940s to 1960s, by Don Loffler
Well-known Holden author and HCSA lifelong Historian award winner Don Loffler has assembled here a collection of 280 colour slides and black-and-white photographs of owners and their cars. Many of the images feature beautiful Australian scenes, and record the social history of a different era.
Further information and ordering on the Wakefield Press website
Opportunities
Extended: Indigenous Research Fellow at Swinburne University, Melbourne. Applications due 20 December 2021, 5.00pm.
View the job posting here.
2022 Alfred Deakin Institute Research Fellowship two research fellowships are being launched for early career researchers in areas of humanities and social sciences. Applications due 23 January 2022.
Further information on their website here.
Public Environmental History Prize awarded by the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand History Network. Applications due 1 February 2021.
Further information on their website here.
Archivist positions at the Lutheran Archives. Applications due 11 December 2021.
Link to the Lutheran Archives webpage
Lecturer in History at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Applications due 10 December 2021.
Link to the job advertisement here.
Mike Smith Student Prize for History of Australian Science or Australian Environmental History. Applications due 17 January, 2022.
Further information here.
Trove trial
Thanks to Commonwealth government funding, Trove is offering a free trial to Australian galleries, archives, museums, and historical societies that would like to reach a vast audience and see their collection in a national context. The trial period ends 30 June 2022.
Further information here.
Donna Coates Book Prize for a monograph published by an Early Career Researcher and/or someone who has published their first book in 2021, that examines at least two countries out of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Applications due 31 December 2021.
Further information here.
Calls for papers
Ngā Pūtahitanga/Crossings is a joint conference between the Society of Architectural Historians, Australian and New Zealand, and the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group. They are seeking papers that examine historical moments of overlap, collaboration, tension, or dispute between built environment disciplines. Abstracts due 28 February 2022.
Further information on their website here.
'WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities' workshop focusing on international mobilities and migration as a way to understand the impacts of WWII across the Asia-Pacific. Proposals due 17 January 2022.
Further information on Ritsumeikan University's website here.
(Re)Writing Care: Critical Histories of Community Mental Health Services in Australia. This special issue aims to showcase novel approaches, leaders, experiences and challenges for developing effective and inclusive mental health services. Titles and abstracts are due 31 January 2022.
Further information here (pdf)
Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents. Submissions due December 31 2021
Further information here.
