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 journal. If you are interested in reviewing any of the titles please contact him via the email address given on the list.

ACNZSN is excited to announce that the Visiting Professors of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo Centre for Pacific and American Studies are Associate Professor Catherine Bond, University of New South Wales Sydney (2025-26) and Professor Paula Gerber, Monash University (2026-27).

Allan Martin Annual Lecture – ‘Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society’ by Professor Victoria Haskins, Tuesday 22 July, 6.30-8pm (AEST), Hedley Bill Theatre, School of History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Opportunities:

Awards

The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Deadline: 28 July 2025

Call for Papers

Western Sydney University Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and University of Melbourne Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative (ARHRI) cross-disciplinary one-day conference on Friday 7 November 2025 at Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Deadline: 1 August 2025

Funding

2026 Judith Binney Fellowships and Writing Awards

Deadline: 4 July 2025

State Library of New South Wales Fellowships

Deadline: 11 July 2025

Jobs

SSHRC Canada Research Chair, Tier I, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (Community-Engaged Arts and Humanities) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Deadline: 15 July 2025

Fellowships

Whitlam Institute Palace Letters Fellowship

Deadline: 28 July 2025

Publications:

Matthew Allen, Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025)

Liam Byrne, No Power Greater: The History of Union Action in Australia (Melbourne University Press – MUP, 2025)

L. Sasha Gora, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Emily Grafton, Divided Power: How Federalism Undermines Reconciliation (Fernwood Publishing, 2025)

Rohan Howitt, Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World 1815-1947 (MUP, 2025)

Jacqueline Leckie, Wellington’s Indian Story: Beyond a Century (Wellington Indian Association, 2025)

Ian McShane, The Museum Movement: Carnegie Cultural Philanthropy and Museum Development in the Anglosphere, 1920-1940 (Routledge, 2025)

Erik Olssen, The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769-1860 (Auckland University Press, 2025)

Madeleine Regan, ‘I buy this piece of ground here’: An Italian market-gardener community in Adelaide, 1920s-1970s (ANU Press, 2025)

Sarah E. K. Smith, Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America (UBC Press, 2025)

Graeme Turner, Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good (Monash University Publishing, 2025)

Cheryl Ware, Untold Intimacies: A History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008 (Auckland University 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