Dear All,

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

News:

It has been nearly nine months since Israel began its War on Gaza. Since that time nearly 38,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 86,000 injured. The vast majority of both have been women and children. Over 20,000 Palestinian children are also missing, presumed to be dead under the rubble of destroyed buildings or taken to Israel with no trace. It is truly heartbreaking to see this living hell for Palestinians go on for so long and with no end in sight. The war has seen numerous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even according to the International Court of Justice plausibly genocide. The use of starvation as a tool of war has been particularly heinous, and Palestinians in Gaza are either experiencing or facing famine. ACNZSN calls for an immediate end to the war, the unimpeded flow of food, water, and medicines into the territory, and for those who have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and plausibly genocide to be held accountable. ACNZSN is also saddened to see millions of Sudanese either experiencing or facing famine in the civil war in that country. ACNZSN also calls for an end to the civil war there, and for much needed unimpeded aid to enter that country as well. With other conflicts in the world also taking place, where civilians also seem to be paying the heaviest price, it is very easy to become depressed at the state of our species. But if enough good people can stand up and say no to injustice wherever it is taking place, and call for change I do believe we still have hope.

Inspired by BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ Peter Lang Publishing interviewed the Creator and Manager of ACNZSN, Dr. Jatinder Mann, as a part of a new series where they interview Series Editors about their favourite books, music, and food they would take up with them to the mountains in their headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ that Dr. Mann edits operates under the auspices of ACNZSN.

Emeritus Professor Paul Pickering, former (and inaugural) Director of the Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) at the Australian National University has retired but has taken up the Chairmanship of a newly revamped Advisory Board of AuSI. Paul will also be standing down as a public supporter of ACNZSN and a member of the Editorial Board of ACNZSN’s Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS). Professor Mark Kenny (the new Director of AuSI) has kindly agreed to replace Paul in both capacities. ACNZSN wants to publicly thank Paul for his warm support of ACNZSN and JACANZS from their inception and is optimistic that this support will continue with Mark, and ACNZSN looks forward to continued future collaboration with AuSI 🙂

The Book Reviews Editor of JACANZS, Dr. Jatinder Mann is looking for reviewers for the following books for the journal. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books please contact him via the details provided on the list.

ACNZSN is very excited to announce that the winner and runner-up of the 2023 Donna Coates Book Prize is Alexandra Roginski’s Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (CUP, 2023) and Pavithra Jayawardena‘s Immigrants’ Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankan Migrants in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (Peter Lang Publishing, 2023) respectively. Warmest congratulations to both Alexandra and Pavithra 🙂

ACNZSN was very saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Lyndall Ryan, one of Australia’s foremost historians. Lyndall’s impact on the broader field of Australian Studies was also immeasurable. Her friend, Professor Ann Curthoys wrote a lovely testimonial to Lyndall’s career and the amazing person that she was.

ACNZSN was also saddened to hear of the passing of Nobel Prize-winning Canadian short story author Alice Munro. You can read a testimonial to her career by Richard Lea and Sian Cain.

ACNZSN is also saddened to hear of the passing of Aotearoa New Zealand Urban Historian, Ben Schrader. You can read more about Ben, his career, and his advocacy here.

The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) shared that the recent federal Canadian budget saw increased funding for investigator-initiated research and graduate funding will be dramatically increased: a Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master’s) will be valued at C$27,000 (from C$17,500); a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship will be valued at C$40,000 (from C$20,000); and a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship will be valued at C$70,000 (from C$40,000). At the same time, approximately 1,720 more scholarships and fellowships will be created across five years starting in 2024-25. These changes came about after considerable advocacy by a wealth of organisations, including the CHA. ACNZSN is extremely pleased to see these developments.

The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington will be holding a seminar series on 24 July-28 August 2024 on ‘Poverty, by Design: The systems that hold families in poverty, and what needs to change’. Further details can be found here.

Opportunities:

Awards

Kay Schaffer Award, International Australian Studies Association (InASA)

Deadline: 30 June 2024

Call for Papers

2024 Australian Queer Histories Conference, Victorian Pride Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20-21 September 2024

Deadline: 1 July 2024

InASA 2025 Biennial Conference ‘Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds’, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5-7 February 2025

Deadline: 30 September 2024

Fellowships

2025 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards

Deadline: 5 July 2024

Funding

2024 Cultural Grants Program, Royal Australian Historical Society

Deadline: 2 July 2024

Jobs

Historian at the Sea Power Centre Australia, Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Deadline: 30 June 2024

CERC Migration and Integration – Research Fellow, 2-year term at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario (ON), Canada

Deadline: 5 July 2024

(2) Assistant Professors in Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Deadline: 8 July 2024

Faculty Position in History (Indigenous Histories of the Americas and Surrounding Waters) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada

Deadline: 15 August 2024

Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Reclamation & Maintenance at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Deadline: 31 August 2024

Canada Research Chair, Tier 1 in Public Policy in a Polarized Era at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: September 2024

Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Deadline: 16 September 2024

Publications:

Damien Ward, Kevin Hille, and Carwyn Jones, Treaty Law: Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in Law and Practice (Thompson Reuters, 2023)

Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno, A Little History of the Labor Party, 2nd Revised Edition (UNSW Press, 2024)

Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

Tracey Raney and Cheryl N. Collier (Editors), Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era (University of Toronto Press, 2024)

Catharine Coleborne, Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, Artic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Cheryl N. Collier and Jonathan Malloy, The Politics of Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 2024)

Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson, Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953-61 (UBC Press, 2024)

Jacqueline Leckie, Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand (Massey University Press, 2024)

Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia (Monash University Publishing, 2024)

Iain McCalman, John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest (NewSouth, 2024)

Ross L Jones, James Waghorne, and Marcia Langton (Editors), Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth (Melbourne University Press, 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