Dear All,

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

News

The Book Reviews Editor of ACNZSN’s Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, Ms. Emily Cornish is looking for reviewers for a list of books for the journal. If you are interested in reviewing any of the titles please contact Emily at jacanzsbookreviews@gmail.com 🙂

In light of the proposed disastrous cuts at several universities in Aotearoa New Zealand, targeted in particular at their Humanities programmes, an Open Letter has been written to the Tertiary Education Commission and the Minister of Education in the country to call on them to step in and provide extra funding to the institutions in question. Please consider giving your support to these efforts by adding your signature here.

The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Te Heranga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand is co-hosting a wonderful symposium on ‘Katherine Mansfield – Last things and Legacies’ on 7-8 July 2023. You can register to attend here.

Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge will be launching their excellent new book: Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1958 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023) on 13 July 2023 at 6.00pm (NZST) at Unity Books, Willis Street, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Professor Joanna Kidman recently wrote an extremely engaging in-depth review of Bain Attwood’s ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History.

‘Australian Legacies of British Slavery Conference,’ State Library of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 1-2 December 2023.

The current issue of the Australian Studies Journal, published by the German Association for Australian Studies is now available online and also in print.

Opportunities

Awards and Prizes

The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research, The Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Deadline: 31 July 2023

Lynette Russell Prize for First Peoples’ History in Schools, History Council of Victoria, Victoria, Australia

Deadline: 31 July 2023

Donna Coates Book Prize, ACNZSN

Deadline: 31 December 2023

Subsidies

2023 International Australian Studies Association Early Career Researcher Publication Subsidy Scheme

Deadline: 15 July 2023

Call for Papers

8th Asian Australian Identities Conference, 3 November 2023, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Deadline: 23 July 2023

Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Annual Conference 2023

Deadline: 15 August 2023

Jobs

Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Social Justice & Community Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Deadline: 3 July 2023

Director, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Deadline: 19 July 2023

Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: 1 August 2023

Associate Vice-President, Indigenous at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Deadline: 20 August 2023

Assistant Professor in Political Science, Public Administration at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: 31 August 2023

Fellowships

State Library of NSW Fellowships 2023

Deadline: 14 July 2023

2024 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards

Deadline: 25 August 2023

Editorships

Calls for applications for the Editorship of the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Applications close on 31 August 2023. For further information contact history@rahs.org.au.

Scholarships

The Northcote Postgraduate Scholarship for United Kingdom residents to undertake postgraduate studies in Australia

Deadline: 25 August 2023

Publications

Margaret Cook, A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2023)

Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge, Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1958 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023)

Anna Olijnyk and Alexander Reilly (Editors), The Australian Constitution and National Identity (Canberra: ANU Press, 2023)

Alexandra Roginski, Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and New Zealand (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Jordana Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2023)

Ethel Tungohan, Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2023)

Stephen Wilks (Editor), ‘Order, Order!’: A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives (Canberra: ANU Press, 2023)

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 monthly 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