Dear All,

Please find below the latest news, opportunities, and publications in Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 🙂

 

News:

A fascinating online seminar series on ‘Naturalization’ will be taking place at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria (Vic.), Australia between 6 May-3 June 2021. Speakers include Dr. Jordana Silverstein, Dr. Jatinder Mann, Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer, Professor Kim Rubenstein, and Dr. Kate Bagnall.

The 2021 Global Encounters Seminar Series at Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia will be holding a talk on ‘Did the Spice Routes Connect Australia to Indonesia and Beyond’ by Dr. Hilmar Farid on Thursday 22 April at 6pm (AEST). He will be joined by Dr. Leigh Penman as discussant.

The Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, Australia has launched a wonderful new series on ‘Yindyamarra: In conversation with Dr Virginia Marshall’. Yindyamarra means respect in Wiradjuri. The first episode is ‘In Conversation with Senator Lidia Thorpe’.

The Menzies Australia Institute is co-hosting an interesting online seminar in collaboration with the National Centre of Biography, the Australian Studies Institute, and the College of Law at the ANU on ‘Ceremonial Lives of the Australian Nation’ on Tuesday 27 April 2021 at 10am (GMT). Speakers include Dr. Karen Fox, Dr. Heather Roberts, and Dr. Anne Macduff, with Professor Frank Bongiorno as a discussant.

A fascinating online seminar series is taking place on ‘Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South’ between April-July 2021.

Professor Swapna Banerjee, Professor Victoria Haskins, and Dr. Claire Lowrie have launched the website for their fantastic Australian Research Council funded project on ‘Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain, 1780-1945’.

The Canadian Bar Association recently published a very topical article on ‘The Transitional Space to Learn Indigenous Law’ by Christina Gray and Jessica Asch.

“‘The Economy Really Does Matter’ A seminar on ‘Not in Narrow Seas’- The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand (2020): A Panel Discussion” is being organised by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand on Wednesday 21 April 2021 at 4.10-6pm (NZST).

 

Opportunities:

Call for Papers

Call for papers for a special issue on ‘Why Do Migrants Stay? Migrant Retention in Small and Mid-Sized Cities in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand’ by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario (ON), Canada

Deadline: 10 May 2021

Jobs

Assistant Professor in Education Studies at Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta (AB), Canada

Deadline: 23 April 2021

3 Professors in Social Science (Indigenous Studies) at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada

Deadline: 30 April 2021

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Art Studio at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Deadline: 30 April 2021

Assistant Professor in Education (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teacher Education) at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada

Deadline: 1 May 2021

Assistant Professor in Social Work at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Deadline: 3 May 2021

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Deadline: 6 May 2021

Faculty Position in Gender Studies and Sociology (Critical Socio-Legal Studies, Indigenous Law and Transformative Justice) at Brock University, St. Catherines, ON, Canada

Deadline: 8 May 2021

Associate Professor/Professor in Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Toronto (St. George’s Campus), Toronto, ON, Canada

Deadline: 12 May 2021

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies (Mi’kmaw language/linguistics or law/governance or history/culture) at Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS, Canada

Deadline: 12 May 2021

Assistant Professor in Political Studies (Black Political Thought) at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Deadline: 15 May 2021

Faculty Position in English and Gender Studies (Black Creative Writing and Cultural Production) at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Deadline: 15 May 2021

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Anishinaabemowin Language and Culture at the University of Toronto (St. George’s Campus), Toronto, ON, Canada

Deadline: 17 May 2021

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Education at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Deadline: 20 May 2021

Fellowships

Macquarie University Research Fellowships, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia

Deadline: 16 August 2021

Ph.D. Scholarships

Postgraduate Research Scholarship on Multilingual Australia at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Deadline: 3 May 2021

 

Publications:

Paula Michaels and Christina Twomey (Editors), Gender and Trauma since 1900 (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Robert Hadler, Mutineers: A True Story of Heroes and Villains (Wilkinson Publishing, 2021)

 

Please let me know of any future news, opportunities, and recent publications via email at acnzsn@gmail.com, which I can then include in the fortnightly newsletter. For ACNZSN to work as well as it can, it will be great to receive contributions from its supporters 🙂 I would also encourage you to subscribe to its blog (so you are able to receive this newsletter directly into your inbox), and follow/or like its social media platforms on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Best Wishes,

Dr. Jatinder Mann

Creator and Manager of ACNZSN

Editor-in-chief, JACANZS