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 (JACANZS), Dr. Jatinder Mann is looking for reviewers of the following books for the journal. If you are interested in reviewing any of the titles please contact him via the email address given on the list.

‘Rethinking Migration Histories: Australian Perspectives, and Global Directions’, Sophie Loy-Wilson and Yves Rees in conversation with Peter Hobbins, History Council of New South Wales, History House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Thursday 22 May 2025, 3.30—5pm (AEST)

‘Past and Future of Indigenous Recognition: Reflecting on the past and building towards the future’, Thomas Mayo in conversation with Claire Wright, Sydney Writers Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 22 May 2025, 4pm (AEST)

Opportunities:

Call for Papers

‘He Rau Ringa e Oti ai: Many hands make history’, New Zealand Historical Association Biennial Conference, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, 25-28 November 2025

Deadline: 29 August 2025

Funding

National Library of Australia 2026 Fellowships

Deadline: 5 May 2025

Jobs

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Interdisciplinary Studies (Indigenous Cultural Expression) at Laurentian University/Université Laurentienne, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Deadline: 25 May 2025

Ariel F. Sallows Chair of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Deadline: 1 June 2025

Publications:

Michael Belgrave, Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand (Massey University Press, 2024)

Tania Mace, The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere (Massey University Press, 2024)

Isabel Campbell, Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State (McGill-Queen’s University Press – MQUP, 2025)

Erik Eklund, Politics, Pride and Perversion: The Rise and Fall of Frank Arkell (ANU Press, 2025)

Karen M. Pack, Queer Omissions: Unmarried Women and Social Justice Activism in the Church (Routledge, 2025)

Richard J. Tomczak, Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783 (MQUP, 2025)

Matthew Paul Trudgen, Securing the Continental Skies: The Development of North American Air Defence Co-operation, 1945–1958 (MQUP, 2025)

Peter Woodley, We are a farming class: Dubbo’s hinterland, 1870–1950 (ANU Press, 2025)

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.

Best Wishes,

Dr. Jatinder Mann

Creator and Manager of ACNZSN

Editor-in-chief, JACANZS