Dear All,
Please find below the latest news, opportunities, and publications in Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 🙂
News:
It has sadly now been over a year since Israel began its genocide of the Palestinians. Tens of thousands of Palestinians primarily in the Gaza Strip, but also in the occupied West Bank have been slaughtered, over a hundred thousand have been injured (many with life-changing injuries), many more have been dispossessed, detained, tortured, and sexually assaulted. 70 per cent of those killed have been women and children. Unlike some previous genocides the world does not have the ‘excuse’ of not knowing what is going on in Palestine. It is televised for us all to see. All the pain, suffering, despair, and anguish of the Palestinian people is on clear display, but so is their endurance, courage, bravery, and defiance in the face of countless atrocities. But a people can only take so much and Palestinians have been pushed beyond their limit a long time ago. So, ACNZSN again calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the besieged territory, all humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza without any restrictions by Israel, the release of all detainees and hostages, the end of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel cease obstructing the establishment of a Palestinian state, and with its complete disregard for International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and International Human Rights Law – including judgments by the United Nations (UN)’s own International Court of Justice, and its very open contempt for the organisation, Israel be suspended from the UN. ACNZSN firmly believes that Palestine has just as much right to security as any other nation in the world. In terms of facilitating a ceasefire it has been made repeatedly clear by the Israeli government that they are not interested in having one, and instead want to continue with their genocide unimpeded. So, ACNZSN would call on those nations that are providing weapons to Israel to stop this immediately as this seems to be the only way of forcing it to stop carrying out its genocide of the Palestinians. Anything less is complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even the facilitation of genocide. Furthermore, ACNZSN finds certain countries sacrificing countless, innocent Palestinian lives for the sake of domestic political considerations morally abhorrent, repugnant, and even sickening. ACNZSN also calls for Israel to stop bombing Lebanon and withdraw all its forces from its territory. Moreover, ACNZSN is of the strong conviction that academic associations and networks have a moral responsibility to not remain silent in the face of the atrocities taking place in Palestine. Not condemning the genocide of a people is sadly condoning it in ACNZSN’s opinion. And those academic associations and networks based in or focused on countries with their own histories of genocide, like those that are the focus of this network, have a particular responsibility in this regard.
ACNZSN also marks the passing of KĪngi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII with great sadness. Moe mai raa, e te ariki. It welcomes the new monarch, Kuini Ngāwai hono i te Pō Te Wherowhero VIII, and wishes her the very best.
ACNZSN is excited to announce that it and its Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand (JACANZS) Studies now have Bluesky pages on social media as well. If you are on this platform then please do follow both ACZNSN and JACANZS at @acnzsn.bsky.social and @jacanzs.bsky.social respectively.
ACNZSN is also pleased to announce the recent publication of Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski’s Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) in the ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ book series, under the auspices of ACNZSN. If you are interested in purchasing the book you can receive a 30% discount until the end of November 2024 using the discount code BRIDGE.
ACNZSN would encourage people to consider publishing a book (a monograph, edited collection, or even a textbook) in its ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ book series. The series has published some great titles so far and several more are forthcoming or in progress 🙂
Just another reminder that the deadline for ACNZSN’s Donna Coates Book Prize is 31 December 2024.
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 them please contact him via the details provided on the list.
Bridget Williams Books invites you to a BWB Talk in Wellington to mark the arrival of
a new book edited by Metiria Stanton Turei, Nicola R. Wheen, and Janine Hayward, Te Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships: People, Politics and Law on Wednesday 30 October 2024, St Andrew’s on The Terrace, 30 The Terrace, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand (Doors open from 5.30pm, event starts 6pm)
The CanSearch project, based at York University, is inviting doctoral students interested in Canadian Studies, who are located both in Canada and abroad, to participate in the 2nd Critical Canadian Studies Summer School. The theme is ‘Studying Canada Responsibly’. The Summer School will be held in person at York University’s Glendon campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 23–27 June 2025. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
Seminar by Nikki Wright on ‘The Art of Pollinator Paths’ at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of London, Stout Research Centre Seminar Room,
12 Waiteata Road, Kelburn, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 4.10pm (NZST) and also available on Zoom.
Royal Australian Historical Society Day Lecture – ‘The Antipodean Laboratory: Re-reading the colonial archive’, Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 1-2pm (AEST), Online via Zoom
Registration for the ‘Pakukore: Poverty, by Design—Addressing the systemic causes of poverty and options for change’ conference at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 21-23 November 2024 is now open
History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture by Professor Katie Holmes on ‘Drought, flooding rains and futures: environmental history in the Murray Darling Basin’, State Library of Victoria (Entry 3, La Trobe Street), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Thursday 14 November 2024 at 6pm (AEST).
Congratulations to Professor Lynette Russell on her appointment as Mercator Professor at the University of Potsdam.
Opportunities:
Call for Papers
International Australian Studies Association 2025 Biennial Conference ‘Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds – Interactions, Perspectives, Futures’, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5-7 February 2025
Deadline: 4 November 2024
International Congress of History of Science and Technology 2025 Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, 29 June – 5 July 2025
Deadline: 1 December 2024
Crises, Characters, and Controversies in New Zealand’s Military History 2026 Conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Deadline: 1 April 2025
Fellowships
2025 History Innovation Fund Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America (USA)
Deadline: 5 November 2024
2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Deadline: 15 November 2024
History Council of South Australia Fellowship
Deadline: 15 November 2024
Expressions of Interest for the 2nd Indigenous Family Histories Residency Fellowship, 29 January – 7 February 2025 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Deadline: 22 November 2024
Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) New Media and Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (ON), Canada
Deadline: 28 November 2024
JHI-Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship (1-year) at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline: 28 November 2024
JHI Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline: 28 November 2024
2025-26 Killam Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
Deadline: 15 January 2024
Jobs
Faculty Positions in Law (Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Canada
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Assistant Professor in English (Indigenous Literatures and Cultures) at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Deadline: 1 November 2024
Indigenous Faculty Appointment in Law at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Deadline: 4 November 2024
Assistant Professor in Politics and Public Administration (Public Policy) at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline: 2 December 2024
Publications:
Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Editors), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024)
Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2024)
Simon Cleary, Everything is Water (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2024)
Royce Kurmelovs, Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2024)
Yves Rees, Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America (Sydney: NewSouth, 2024)
Clare Wright, Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy (Text Publishing, 2024)
Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris (Editors), Law Reports of the Australian War Crimes Trials 1945-1951: Volume 1 – Reports of the Trials: Morotai, Wewak, Labuan and Darwin (Brill, 2024)
Colin Milner, Stephen Henningham, and Matthew Jordan (Editors), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Nauru: Phosphate, Trusteeship and the Resettlement Issue, 1945–1962 (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2024)
Ameer Chasib Furaih, Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s (Anthem Press, 2024)
Matt Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath, An Indigenous South: German writers on colonial South Australia (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2024)
Weston Bate, Richard Broome, Nicole Davis, Andrew May, and Helen Stitt, The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes: Essential but Unplanned (Melbourne: Royal Historical Society of Victoria with the State Library of Victoria, 2024)
Christina R. Clark-Kazak (Editor), Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Settlement (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024)
Metiria Stanton Turei, Nicola R. Wheen, and Janine Hayward (Editors), Te Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships: People, Politics and Law (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2024)
Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2024)
Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie, Lachy Paterson, Ross Webb and Erica Newman, Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2024)
Nā Lachy Paterson rāua ko Angela Wanhalla i ētita. Nā Lachy Paterson i whakamāori, Raupanga: Ngā Pito Kōrero o te Pakanga Tuarua nō te Hau Kāinga (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2024)
Katie Cooper, Rēwena and Rabbit Stew: The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1840-1940 (Auckland: Auckland 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, Bluesky, and X (Twitter).
Best Wishes,
Creator and Manager of ACNZSN
Editor-in-chief, JACANZS
Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN) 