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Newsletter 7 November 2023
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Call for volunteers: Highgate Park Heritage Register Nomination
Recently Peter Harvord submitted a SA Heritage Register Nomination Application for Highgate Park. Previously known as the 'Julia Farr Centre' and the 'Home for Incurables', the site has a history of caring for the disabled community of South Australia.
He is now looking to submit a National Heritage nomination application - which requires more depth than the state application.
He is searching for volunteers with an interest in the Julia Farr Centre, including its founders Julia Farr and Dr. William Gosse, or more broadly the history of disability care and institutions in South Australia or nationally.
If interested, please contact Peter at [email protected]
Call for volunteers: be part of an invention-adventure.
Adelaide-based DunnART Services Inc. is diving into an exciting new project due to premiere at the 2024 Adelaide Fringe.
In a thrilling Escape Room adventure, players will have limited time to transform their team into scientists, unravelling codes to rescue our world. Inspiring generations, young and old, to explore and engage with the world of inventions. dunnart.com/inventors
Are you ready to make a difference? They are looking for volunteers to support them:
Unearth the secrets of SA’s famous inventors and inventions! Help bring the Escape Room to life. Craft mind-bending challenges for participants.
If you can lend a hand to build, design, share your invaluable knowledge, have input in your field of expertise, like to assist during our Fringe events, you can contact their Project Coordinator below:
Stefanie Roeske
0474376318
[email protected]
Labour History News Spring 2023
The Labour History Society SA have published the Spring edition of their newsletter
Read it here (pdf)
Australian Catholic University's Proposed Budget Cuts
The Australian Catholic University has announced its plan to cut its staffing and resources across humanities disciplines. We join other History Councils of Australia in condemning this decision.
View the joint statement to ACU here (pdf).
United Aborigines Mission Archival Records
Are you a former resident of Tanderra Hostel, Colebrook, or Oodnadatta Children's home? If so, you or a representative of former residents are invited to a community consultation meeting to discuss how best to manage United Aborigines Mission archival records which the State Library of South Australia has recently received.
Further information and EOIs through The library website
Around the Country
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 November 18 2023 - May 19 2024.
Further information and ticket purchase through the museum website
Lectures, exhibitions, and events
2023 HCSA regional lecture
The HCSA's Annual Regional Lecture 2023 will be held in Whyalla, co-hosted by the Whyalla City Council.
The lecture will take place at 11am on Thursday, 16 November, in the Vicki Ledo Room at the Whyalla Public Library, 19 Ekblom Street, Whyalla Norrie SA.
This year's lecture will be delivered by past President of the History Council, Dr Skye Krichauff (University of Adelaide), and will focus on Uncovering and Understanding the South Australian Frontier and its Legacies.
Seats are limited, so please book your tickets through Humantix here
After lunch that day, at 1.30pm, the Oral History Association of SA & NT will hold an information session on Aspects of Oral History: Skills, Ethics and Final Product Options. The History Council's Vice President, Dr David Sweet and Christeen Schoepf will be conducting the session.
Tickets for the afternoon session are also available through Humantix here
Information on both events is on our regional lecture page here
Women's war effort
The latest part of the National Archives' SA Selections series, reflecting on stories of women who stepped out of their domestic roles to support the war effort.
28 November 2023, 12-1pm, National Archives of Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide.
Further information and registration on the NAA website
Artificial intelligence and oral history: the good, the bad, and the ugly
World leading authority on oral history and technology Professor Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History will be presenting this free lecture online.
11.30am ACDT, 21 November 2023.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Lecture: From Georgio Vasari to M+: a global tour of architectural collections and their missions to “purify taste, ignite imagination… and awake genius”
This public lecture will take you through the history, evolution, and impact of architectural museums and archives.
16 November, 5.30 - 7pm, Level 2, Pridham Hall, Hindley Street, Adelaide.
Further information and registration through Humanitix
State Library Exhibition: Cornucopia: Gardens and Gardening in South Australia
This exhibition explores South Australia's rich gardening heritage, from First Nations peoples' caretaking of the land through to gardens of the mid-20th century. The exhibition draws from the State Library's collections, including books, oral histories, photographs, maps, and a 1947 silent film by Hubert Wicks. On now until 30 June 2024 at the State Library.
Further information on the SLSA website
Talk: In plain sight: Twentieth century LGBTQIA+ writers in our collection
Learn what a recent discovery by a long-time volunteer tells us about twentieth century LGBTQIA+ writers in our collections.
11am - 12pm, 21 November 2023, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library SA.
Further information and booking through the library website
2023 Musicological Society of Australia Conference: Open Borders: The Future of Music Research
Being held 29 November to 2 December 2023, Adelaide.
Further information available here.
The Pioneer's Association of South Australia
The association has released their calendar of events for 2023.
Book an event by emailing your details to [email protected]. Please include the event code i.e. (E23-02)
For further information, including payment details, view the events page on their website here.
Book releases
Agora: Rights and Freedoms
The latest edition of Agora is on the theme ‘Rights and Freedoms’. Articles in this issue discuss:
- the history of protest from ancient Rome through to modern civil rights movements
- how Melbourne’s Jewish community sought safety from the re-emergence of fascism by finding common ground with movements fighting colonialism and racism in other parts of the world
- the civil rights arguments employed in the campaign for the 8-hour day
- how the 1998 waterfront dispute was fought, and how its ramifications affect Australian workers today
- the contested nature of rights arising from the Eureka rebellion
- how politics influenced the enactment of the death penalty in Victoria
- the history of abortion rights in the US and Australia
- how the decline in the governor-general’s influence since Federation reveals the history of Australia’s disentanglement from Imperial British control.
Agora is available to purchase as a digital download from the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria
The Liberal Story : A history of the Liberal Party in South Australia 1910-2022 by Baden Teague
A significant study of the Liberal Party authored by Dr. Baden Teague, a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1977-1996 and member of the State Council of the Liberal Party 1973-1996.
Further information and purchase through Wakefield Press
Calls for papers
South Australian Church History Network conference 2024: Paradise of dissent
Expressions of interest due 11 December 2023, abstracts due 12 February 2024.
Further information here (pdf).
Symposium, Sparking Joy? Reckoning with Queer, Trans, and Gender Diverse Histories in Australia'
4 December 2023, University of Melbourne. Call for papers closes 4 November 2023.
Further information here (pdf).
Symposium, Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia
18 - 19 July 2024, Macquarie University and online. Call for papers closes 30 November 2023
Further information here (pdf).
Journal Special Issue: Culturally Specific Museums: Between Diasporic Culture and Australian Heritage
Call for papers closes 20 December 2023.
Further information here (pdf)
Symposium: Political Lives: Political Biography, Memoir, and Australian Democracy
Symposium being held 4-5 December 2023, at the University of Adelaide. Abstracts due 29 September 2023.
Further information here (pdf)
Studies In Oral History: Oral histories of working lives and workplace culture
Submissions due 1 December 2023.
Further information here (pdf).
2023 Australasian Drama Studies Conference: Archives, Artists, and Absences
Being held 27 November to 1 December 2023, Adelaide.
Further information here.
Opportunities
War Studies Workshop, UNSW Canberra
A one-day workshop in Canberra for outstanding Honours students interested in pursuing PhD study in the history of war.
Further information and application form (pdf)
HCSA Fellowship
Dear HCSA members and friends,
Our annual HCSA Fellowship will be open for applications in the coming days on 1 October 2023, and closing 30 November 2023.
The History Council of South Australia (HCSA) Fellowship provides support for all Australians researching and writing in an area of South Australian history up to $2,000. The HCSA Fellowship was launched on 21 August 2020 in association with the State Library of South Australia and through the generous support of donors, including the Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation.
Applications may be made by email to: [email protected]
See details and the application form on our website here
