Dear All,

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

News:

Please find a Call for Papers for an edited collection on ‘Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination‘. The collection will be edited by Dr. Jatinder Mann and Dr. Ali Clark and is anticipated to be published in the ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ book series at Peter Lang Publishing (subject to a successful peer review) under the auspices of ACNZSN. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 30 April 2024.

The Book Reviews Editor of ACNZSN’s Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, Dr. Jatinder Mann is looking for reviewers of the following books. If you are interested in reviewing any of the titles please contact him at jacanzsbookreviews@gmail.com.

You can hear a recording of The 2023 Rod Wallace Memorial Lecture at the National Film and Sound Archive [of Australia] given by Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking on ‘Burnt files, lost files, and denials of public access: censoring Archives and the falsification of history’ here.

Royal Australian Historical Society Day Lecture, ‘Building a Place for Virtue in Australian Capitalism’ by Dr. Hannah Forsyth, Online, Wednesday 6 March 2024, 1.00pm to 2.00pm (AEST)

Public Records Office of Victoria International Women’s Day Lecture 2024, ‘Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women in the United States, 1910-1960’ by Dr. Yves Rees, Victorian Archives Centre, North Melbourne and online, Friday 8 March 2024, 2.00pm to 3.00pm (AEST)

Opportunities:

Call for Applications

The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada invites applications from Graduate Students studying Canada who are based outside of the country for an online Canadian Studies Summer School on 11-13 June 2024.

Deadline: 4 April 2024

Call for Papers

The Australian Migration History Network seeks contributions to an edited volume to mark the 125th anniversary of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act 1901

Deadline: 1 April 2024

The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) invites panel and/or paper proposals for its 27th biennial conference devoted to the theme ‘Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Crises and Contested Futures: Canada in an Interconnected World.’ The conference will be taking place at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 14-16 November 2024.

Deadline: 1 May 2024

Jobs

Assistant Professor in English (Black Atlantic Decolonial Literatures) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland (NL), Canada

Deadline: 15 March 2024

Assistant Professor in Gender Studies (Black Feminisms) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada

Deadline: 15 March 2024

(9) Faculty Positions in Multiple Disciplines (Indigenous Cluster Hire Appointments) at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Deadline: 15 March 2024

Assistant Professor in Law & Justice at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Deadline: 29 March 2024

Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies (1-year sabbatical replacement) at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

Deadline: 31 March 2024

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literature and Haudenosaunee Lifeways at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Deadline: 1 April 2024

Associate or Full Professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: 5 April 2024

Fellowships

McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Deadline: 8 March 2024

2024 British Academy International Fellowships

Deadline: 13 March 2024

Scholarships

Australian Catholic University Ballarat Arts Industry Ph.D. Scholarships

Deadline: 22 March 2024

Prizes

The International Australian Studies Association’s biennial Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize

Deadline: 30 June 2024

Publications:

Linda Bryder, The Best Country to Give Birth? Midwifery, Homebirth and the Politics of Maternity in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1970–2022 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023)

Barry Cahill, A Biography of Robert Henry Winters (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023)

Kate Laing, Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915-2015 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2023)

Liza Piper, When Disease Came to This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Greg Ryan, Continuous Ferment: A History of Beer and Brewing in New Zealand (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023)

Carsten Wergin, Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

Gabriele Abbondanza and Simone Battiston (Editors), Italy and Australia: Redefining Bilateral Relations for the Twenty-First Century (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Vicki Chatrand and Josephine Savarese (Editors), Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System (Athabasca: Athabasca University Press, 2024)

Anna Kent, Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024)

I. S. MacLaren, Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America (Montreal & Kingston: MQUP, 2024)

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 bi-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 X (Twitter).

Best Wishes,

Dr. Jatinder Mann

Creator and Manager of ACNZSN

Editor-in-chief, JACANZS