eNewsletter
Newsletter 8 September 2020
Editor: Jessica Fairey
Members News
Annual General Meeting
The History Council's AGM will be held at the Historian Hotel on Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 6pm. All members are welcome, although due to COVID restrictions the maximum number of attendees is capped at 40.
Please RSVP to our Secretary Sandra Kearney at [email protected] by Wednesday 30 September.
(Dr. Annmarie Reid, President - OHA SA/NT)
Interview with Pauline Cockrill, AHMSEC's Curator
Pauline Cockrill is the Curator at the soon-to-be-opened Adelaide Holocaust Museum & Andrew Steiner Education Centre. In this interview she talks about her role, the museum, and the challenges that have come with its development.
Read the interview here.
The History Trust of South Australia: Talking History is online!
The second talk for the Talking History series is Death on the cricket field: Fatal accidents in Australian cricket from 1858 to 2014, presented by Tom Gara, Historian.
The Talk will be via zoom on 8 September 2020, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM ACST.
Further information and registration available here.
News
Dictators, Despotism, and Democracy (online event)
Professor John Keane talks about how governments around the world have mastered tools that threaten the established practices of power-sharing democracy.
Further information and registration here.
History Seminar series
Flinders University's History Seminar Series is held each Friday from 11.15am to 12.30 in room SSS149. Up to 45 are allowed to attend, in accordance with latest COVID-19 information. To get online access, email [email protected] for a personal Microsoft Teams link.
This week's seminar is by Kate Fullager on Three Lives in an Age of Empire: Exploring Pacific and Atlantic Worlds during the eighteenth century. This week's seminar is online only.
Further information and schedule here.
SA Museum Content for connection: Collection Stories
The South Australian Museum has announced its first podcast series, Collection Stories. Each episode will feature collection managers and researchers sharing stories on the objects that form the Museum's collection. The second episode: Both Ancient and Modern, is available for listening on Soundcloud here.
Heritage SnAps 2020
The South Australian Heritage Council has recently launched this photo competition to help celebrate State, Maritime, and coastal heritage. Entries close midnight, 30 October 2020.
Further information here.
Around the country
History Week 2020 - History: What is it good for?
The History Council of NSW's 2020 History Week kicked off on Saturday 5 September. This year's theme invites participants to explore why history matters to them and their community. A variety of events have been registered with many available in an online format.
View the events list here.
Further information on History Week here.
History Council of New South Wales Annual History Lecture
This year Professor Stan Grant will deliver the lecture with a paper titled Coronavirus at the end of history. It will be recorded and streamed tonight, 8 September, 6.30pm.
Further information and stream link here.
Panel Discussion: Ways of Knowing
An online event discussing different ways of knowing and learning about the past, the present, our identities, and our cultures.
Further information and registration here.
"Humanities And..."
Registrations are now open for the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres Annual Meeting. It is a three-day event, beginning with a public lecture on Wednesday 2 December 2020.
Further information here.
Webinar: The 1970s and the making of modern Australia
Free webinar hosted by the University of Melbourne. Thursday 24 September 2020, 6:15-7:15pm.
Further information here.
Calls for Papers
Lilith: a Feminist History Journal: submissions due 30 September 2020.
Further information here.
History of Education Review Special Issue: the history of knowledge and the history of education. Abstracts due 1 October 2020.
Further information here.
Trove's impact on historical research: History Australia is seeking short pieces (around 1500 words) about the impact of Trove on their research field for a special feature.
Further information here.
Australian Army Research Scheme
The Australian Army is looking for scholars to undertake paid research on a number of topics. Applications due 31 August 2020.
Further information here.
Opportunities
Australia and France in a Regional and Global Context. Due to ongoing travel bans, it has been decided that some sessions of the symposium will be online. Abstracts are due 30 September 2020.
Further information here.
Call for contributions: European Society for Environmental History Conference 2021. To be held in Bristol, UK. 5-9 July 2021, with some online opportunities due to Covid. Abstracts and proposals due 31 October 2020.
Further information here.
Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies, Harvard University. Expressions of interest from persons wishing to be considered for appointment in the 2022-2023 academic year. Applications due September 30, 2020.
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.
Society for the History of Children and Youth: Challenges, Interruptions and Opportunities". The SHCY is inviting proposals for panels, roundtables, and papers for their eleventh Biennial Conference. The conference is to be held 23-26 June 2021. The deadline for submission is 21 October 2020.
Further information here.
Journal of Pacific History Covid-19 Grants applications due 30 September 2020.
Further information here.
