Dear All,

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

News:

A final reminder that the deadline for ACNZSN’s Donna Coates Book Prize is 31 December 2024.

Also ACNZSN’s Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS) is open to manuscript submissions for the next issue of the journal which should be published in Summer (Northern Hemisphere) 2025. Just a reminder that JACANZS is an open-access, not-for-profit, online, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary journal. So, any research published in it will not be behind any expensive paywalls and international conglomerates will not be profiting from your research.

ACNZSN was shocked and dismayed at the recent announcement from the Aotearoa New Zealand Government that it intends to disband the Arts and Humanities Panel of the country’s Marsden Fund – the main source of state funding for academic research in the country. This is an incredibly short-sighted and damaging move by the government and ACNZSN truly hopes that it will reconsider this very ill-advised policy decision.

You can watch the Australian National University’s Australian Studies Institute’ ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture by Dr. Nick Bryant here.

David Sobel recently launched a new website – The Moving Past: A Collection of Archival Films. The Moving Past is a new website featuring fifteen archival Canadian films made by the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau and the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau between 1918 and 1929.

Opportunities:

Fellowships

Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Deadline: 31 January 2025

Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in History (Britain and the British World) at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: 7 March 2025

Jobs

Assistant/Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies at Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta (AB), Canada

Deadline: 7 January 2025

Assistant Professor in Policy Studies (Canadian Politics) at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada

Deadline: 10 January 2025

Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Indigenous Language Revitalization at Vancouver Island University, Nainamo, British Columbia, Canada

Deadline: 15 January 2025

Assistant Professor in Law and Society at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Deadline: 24 January 2025

Scholarships

Sir Roland Wilson Pat Turner Scholarship, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Deadline: 31 December 2024

Publications:

Atholl Anderson, The Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Māori (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

Rebecca Beausaert, Pursuing Play: Women’s Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870–1914 (University of Manitoba Press, 2024)

Anne Coote, Knowledge for a Nation: Origins of the Royal Society of New South Wales (Royal Historical Society of New South Wales, 2024)

Crystal Gail Fraser, By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories (University of Manitoba Press, 2024)

Gerald Friesen, The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman (University of Manitoba Press, 2024)

Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams (Editors), Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Māori History: Essays from Te Pouhere Kōrero (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

Amanda Laugesen, Australia in 100 Words (NewSouth Books, 2024)

Brittany Luby, Margaret Lehman, Andrea Bradford, Samantha Mehltretter, and Jane Mariotti with Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation (Editors), Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other (University of Manitoba Press, 2024)

Richard Shaw, The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation (Massey 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 Bluesky and Facebook.

As this is the last ACNZSN Newsletter of the year all that is left for me to do is to wish you all a Happy Holidays! ACNZSN truly hopes that 2025 will bring more global stability and an end to the flagrant violations of international law that have taken place this year and the loss of innocent lives as a result.

Best Wishes,

Dr. Jatinder Mann

Creator and Manager of ACNZSN

Editor-in-chief, JACANZS