Dear All,
Please find below the latest news, opportunities, and publications in Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 🙂
News:
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada or Orange Shirt Day as it is more popularly known. The day honours and remembers Indigenous children affected by the residential school system in that country. ACNZSN pays its deepest respects to the children who were harmed in so many ways by the residential school system and their descendants, which represents the inter-generational trauma of the system and its legacy which still remains to this day. Recent events in Canada have highlighted the importance of challenging residential school system denialism in that country, which desecrates the memory and legacy of the trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples. And ACNZSN thanks those individuals and groups for their bravery in combatting such ugliness.
On a happier note ACNZSN is excited to announce the publication of the seventh issue of its Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS)! JACANZS is an open access, not-for-profit, online, inter- and multidisciplinary journal. The latest issue includes some cutting-edge research articles, reflective and showcasing pieces, as well as a plethora of insightful book reviews 🙂 You can access the issue here.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ book series, which is published under the auspices of ACNZSN, please contact the Executive Director of the series, Dr. Jatinder Mann for further information on the process via email at j.mann@reading.ac.uk.
A reminder also about ACNZSN’s Donna Coates Book Prize (named in honour of the late Associate Professor Emeritus Donna Coates). The deadline is 31 December 2026.
The Book Reviews Editor of JACANZS, Dr. Jatinder Mann is also looking for reviewers of the following books for JACANZS. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books please contact Dr. Mann at the email address provided on the list.
‘Indigenous Studies: Bringing Knowledge Forward’ Conference, 28-29 October 2026, University Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Opportunities:
Fellowships
The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Deadline: 15 October 2026
Jobs
Director, Academic Initiatives (Associate or Full Professor) in the First Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Deadline: 11 October 2026
Assistant Professor in Law and Society/Sociology of Law at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario (ON), Canada
Deadline: 19 October 2026
Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies (Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research & Applied Studies) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Deadline: 19 October 2026
Assistant Professor in Political Science (Canadian Politics) at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Deadline: 28 October 2026
Faculty Position in International Studies (Arctic Defence and Security) at Université Laval, Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada
Deadline: 30 October 2026
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance at York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline: 31 October 2026
Assistant Professor in Political Science and Global Development Studies (Public Policy and Governance) at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Deadline: 1 November 2026
Assistant Professor in Indigenous Politics at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus), Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline: 5 November 2026
Assistant Professor (tenure track) Indigenous Faculty Open Search at St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Deadline: 16 November 2026
Publications:
Sean Carlton and Niigaan Sinclair (Editors), Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism (University of Manitoba Press, 2026)
Laura Tozer et al., Justice in Canada’s Energy Transition (UBC Press, 2026)
Carwyn Jones, Matangi Rau: The enduring potential of te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tākupu, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, 2026)
Joshua Black, Performance Politics: Australian politicians and the stories they tell (NewSouth Books, 2026)
Claire Charters, Sovereignty: The case for constitutional transformation (Bridget Williams Books, 2026)
Tainui Stephens, Kua Tau: A Life in Stories (Bridget Williams Books, 2026)
James Watson, Asbestos Nation: The Story of the Most Dangerous Dust in Australia (Monash University Publishing, 2026)
Ned Fletcher, Introducing the English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi (Bridget Williams Books, 2026)
Liana MacDonald, Land, Race and the Settler Imagination (Bridget Williams Books, 2026)
The Wilpsters of Gittsimgedimgyat and Gitluuhlumhetxwit, The Gyamkian Revolution (University of Manitoba Press, 2026)
Glenna Beaucage, Katrina Srigley, with Elders and Knowledge Holders of Nbiising Nishnaabeg, Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbiising Nishnaabeg: Stories of the Original People of Lake Nipissing (University of Manitoba Press, 2026)
Nora Cummings with Cheryl Troupe, Nora Cummings, Enn Pchit Fee Michif: A Life and Legacy (University of Regina Press, 2026)
Julia Bradshaw, Digging Deep: Women on New Zealand’s gold fields (University of Canterbury Press, 2026)
Catherine Gay, Australian Girls: Growing Up in the Nineteenth Century (Monash University Publishing, 2026)
Madi Williams, Ngāti Kuia: He Pūtake, Hei Pakiaka Ora | A History (Auckland University Press, 2026)
Shirleene Robinson, The Memory Tapes: Voices from the Oral History Collection of the National Library of Australia (NLA Publishing, 2026)
Jennifer Caligari, Australia’s Queen of Temperance: The Untold Story of Bessie Harrison Lee (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2026)
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,
Creator and Manager of ACNZSN
Editor-in-chief, JACANZS
