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Author: Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest (eds) Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Burke writing on war and industrial trauma, Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy, Pat Jalland on death in the London Blitz and Phillipa Mein Smith on the idea of Australasia. Body and Mind is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith. Melbourne University Press |
Ann Curthoys , Ann McGrath , This practical book, drawn from decades of experience, is an indispensable guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history – academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels – the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles. It advises writers on how much research is necessary, how to manage notes and files, when you should start writing, whether to use the first person and whether to structure your work chronologically or thematically. It offers tips on how to write a compelling narrative, discusses dialogue and how much to include, and gives guidance on referencing. Full of examples, including many from the authors' own experiences, this book is an indispensable guide to writing history University of New South Wales Press |
Author: Tiffany Shellam In 1826 the British set up a garrison on the edges of an Aboriginal world at King George's Sound - the site of the present day Albany, Western Australia - with the aim of deterring the French from occupying the area. The British newcomers and the area's Indigenous inhabitants, the King Ya-nup, came to share a small space, forcing both cultures to improvise in order to communicate and interact with one another. Within this sphere associations and friendships were formed that were as surprising as they were unique. This enthographic history narrates episodes of the developing relationships between British and Aboriginal individuals at King George's Sound. These stories transcend the common 'friendly' or 'violent' encounters, unearthing instead how and why particular King Ya-nup engaged with the British world, utilising the new presence to seeming advantage. University of Western Australia Press |
The National Museum of Australia Student Prize for Australian Environmental History was awarded at a function at the Academy on 2 June by Craddock Morton, Director of the National Museumn of Australia and Sue Meek, Chief Executive of the Australian Academy of Science. Kylie Carmen-Brown and Lawrence Niewojt from the History program received a highly commended.
Lawrence received his award for his entry, Gadubanud society in the Otway Range, Victoria: an environmental history and Kylie for her entry, Muck, mud and morasses: Draining wetlands in 19th century Gippsland.
Photo 1 - Kylie and Sue Meek
Photo 2 - Lawrence and Sue Meek
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The Allan Martin Lecture for 2009 by Tony Ballantyne entitled 'Talking, Listening, Writing, Reading: Communication and Colonisation' is now available in hard-copy or on podcast. For a hard copy please email Karen.Smith@anu.edu.au. The opening address was presented by Chancellor Kim Beazley.
Professor Melan Nolan (organiser) with Professor Tony Ballantyne and Vice Chancellor Kim Beazley
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Baz Luhrmann's Australia reviewed: an interdisciplinary conference on history, film, and popular culture.
A conference based on Baz Luhrmann's Australia will be held at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 7 and 8 December. The keynote address will be presented by Professor Meaghan Morris, and confirmed speakers include John Docker, Ann McGrath, and Peter Stanley.
For further information and people wishing to present a paper please see the attached and contact shino.konishi@anu.edu.au.
Jamaican Place Names by B.W. Higman and B.J. Hudson, University of the West Indies Press, www.uwipress.com. Dustcover
Adam Henry has published the following articles this year:
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An article by Abby Cooper entitled, ‘Aboriginal Games', has now been published and is available for purchase. See link below.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book232868
Dr Tony Ballantyne The 2009 Allan Martin Lecture will be held on Tuesday, 19 May 2009, Coombs Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm. The speaker is Dr Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Ballantyne's talk will be on Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading: Communications & Colonisation. A reception will follow the lecture. Flyer
Colloquium will be held on Thursday, 21 May 2009 at 3.30-5.00pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library. The Colloquium will discuss various aspects of Dr Ballantyne's works. Panel members are: Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, Professor Marilyn Lake, LaTrobe University and Dr Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney. Flyer
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Colloquium - Dr Tony Ballantyne (see above) Congratulations to Ms Abby Cooper on being selected this years Minoru Hokari Scholarship Winner. Ms Cooper is currently working on sporting history of the Wimmera and southwestern Victoria and the development of Indigenous identities.
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Congratulations to these students on submitting their PhD thesis for examination in 2009:
Ms Wendy Way, Ms Doris Kordes, Mr Ani Fox, Ms Helen Pfeil.
We are happy to report that both Ms Wendy Way and Ms Doris Kordes have been awarded their doctorate and are waiting for reports on the others.
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• Writing an honours thesis in the field of History?
• Want to meet honours students from other universities and discuss how to research and write your thesis?
The History School of the Australian National University invites you to an intensive History Honours Workshop in Canberra on the weekend of 29-31 May 2009 . Historians at ANU will lead discussions on various aspects of research and thesis writing, and will also provide you with the opportunity to join smaller groups focusing on historical issues of direct relevance to your own inquiry. Students will be expected to participate by speaking and writing about their own research-in-progress. Special tuition will be offered in the fields of Biography, Environmental History, Indigenous History and Asian History.
The Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship has been established in honour of the pathbreaking scholar and inspiring colleague, Minoru Hokari (1971-2004) who made outstanding contributions towards ‘cross-culturalising' historical practice and towards developing a respectful collaborative research strategy with Indigenous Australians.
The scholarship is awarded annually (approx $5,000) to assist a postgraduate student to conduct fieldwork or related research in Australian indigenous history.
For Selection criteria and more information please go to Hokari button on leftside panel.
CLOSING DATE 1 APRIL 2009
Peter Read, 26 March 2009, 3.30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library
Straight Thinking Men? Recruitment & Manufacturing Diplomats 1950-62Adam Henry, 19 March 2009, 3.30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library
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Professor Griffiths on Inside Story on the bushfires:
http://inside.org.au/we-have-still-not-lived-long-enough
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Australian History Association Awards - currently open for entries please see AHA website for information http://www.theaha.org.au
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Edited by Desley Deacon, Penny Russell & Angela Woollacott
Published by ANU E-Press
Symposium - 3 March, 2-5pm McDonald Room
Book Launch - 3 March, ANU Co-op, 5 for 5.30pm
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Making Sense of the 2009 Victorian bushfires: a historical perspective 12 March 2009, 3.30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library
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Congratulations - Wendy Way and Doris Kordes for having submitted your thesis for examination.
Wendy's thesis is on 'The Ideas of F.L. McDougall: A Biographical Approach'. The thesis explores the development of the ideas of F.L. McDougall, from 1919 when he hoped to improve marketing prospects of Australian dried fruits by persuading the British Government to introduce a significant imperial tariff preference, to 1942, when he persuaded senior officials of the Roosevelt Administration in Washington that postwar planning should begin with problems of agriculture, marketing, and deficiencies in nutrition.
Doris' thesis is on 'The arts of care in an asylum and a community 1925-2004: Kenmore Hospital, New South Wales and Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory.
On Tuesday, 16 December, the history program celebrated the graduation of Susan Mary Withycombe with an afternoon tea. Susan Mary's thesis was on 'Building Communities: Women in the Making of Canberra, 1911-1958'.
Congratulations to two our students on the arrival of their first-borns. Attached are photos of baby Xander (born 29.11.08) to Serene Fernando and baby Martin Henry (born 12.1.09) to Adam Henry
The recent announcement of Professor Mick Dodson as Australian of the Year has bought up the question of whether the current date of celebration should be changed. Professor Ann McGrath comments in the newspaper article below:
>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j481wckyjpVrRFRnEioMPWzXrJtAD95UVRL8
In September 2008 Professor Melanie Nolan gave the keynote address, 'Before its Time? Social Democratic Parties and the Third Way Strategy: the case study of the postwar New Zealand Labour Party', at the International Conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
PhD student Karen Fox attended the 18th biennial conference of the Pacific History Assciation (PHA), held in Suva, Fiji. She presented a paper in a panel convened by Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, 'Writing Race and Encounters in Oceania'.
Dr Shino Konishi has recently co-edited a special issue of Borderlands e-journal on 'Indigenous Bodies' with Leah Lui-chivizhe and Lisa Slater. The issue is available at http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no2.htlm
Professor Desley Deacon has recently presented a paper on Judith Anderson's voice in a panel on 'Reading 1922's Other Sciences: Gender, Celebrity and Mass Culture' with Rosanne Kennedy and Melinda Harvey at the Modernist Studies Association Meeting in Nashville.
Professor Tom Griffiths has been invited to give the Inaugural Greg Denning Lecture at the University of Melbourne on 11 December 2008. Greg Dening (1931-2008) was an eminent historian, anthropologist and teacher who spent his final years as an Adjunct Professor at the ANU teaching his famous 'Challenges to Perform' doctoral workshops with his wife and fellow-historian Dr Donna Merwick.
PhD student Spencer Leineweber will present a paper on 'Rituals of Place and Race: Sacred Chiefs and American Missionaries in Hawaii, 1815-1836' at the Pacific History Association Biennial meeting in Fiji in December 2008.
Spencer Leineweber has been selected to be part of the Early Modern Studies Institute Conference on the idea of permanence and impermanence in the built environment from 1700-1820 at the Huntington Library in April 2009.
The inaugural volume in a new series launched by the National Centre for Biography will shortly be published. Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World is a collection of essays edited by Desley Deacon, Penny Russell, and Angela Woolacott.
Desley Deacon's 'Cosmopolitan at Home: Judith Anderson and the American Aspirations of JC Williamson Stock Company Members, 1897-1918' will soon be published in Veronica Kelly and Robert Dixon's Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s, published by Sydney University Press.
Discussion on Dr T. Rowse's work, Seminar Room A, Thursday, 20 November, 3.30-5.00pm.
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PhD student Adam Henry presented the paper 'Manufacturing Foreign Policy' at the 2008 Annual History Colloquium in Darwin on the 8 November 2008.
Tom Wills Documentary
In August 2008, Abby Cooper was interviewed for a television documentary to be screened on SBS in early 2009 celebrating the life of Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Rules football. Wills, who grew up in western Victoria amongst the local Djab Wurrung people, had a remarkable life which reflects a plethora of elements and arguments central to Australian History. Some of the topics covered in the documentary include: the reality of life for Tom's childhood Djab Wurrung playmates before and after white settlement; an investigation of Djab Wurrung culture, games, and society; black/white relations on the frontier; and an investigation of the Indigenous Football game commonly referred to as Marn Grook. In the interview, Abby was invited to enter into the ongoing debate about the possible influence of Marn Grook on Australian Rules football. Abby drew on her research of the Indigenous people of Western Victoria and many oral interviews discussing Wills' relationships with the Djab Wurrung and the belief that he was highly influenced by the Aboriginal game.
Dr Shino Konishi has joined our staff as a Research Fellow. For more information on Dr Konishi please refer to the academic webpage (update forthcoming).
29-30 August 2008
A two day conference at the National Library of Australia. Convened by Bain Attwood (Monash University) and Tom Griffiths (History)
For more information contact
Leena Messina on 6125 4357
Email: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/index.php
Writing Indigenous History PhD Workshop, 21-24 October 2008. Three day writing workshop for PhD students working in the field of Indigenous history. The workshop will address the questions that arise when we study and attempt to write in the field of Indigenous history - in relation to ethics, theory, method, purpose, and practicalities. For more information contact Karen.Smith@anu.edu.a, 6125 2354. Applications close 22 September 2008.
Preparing for a Discovery Postdoc seminar, Friday 22 August 2008, 10.30-11.30, Sr A, Coombs, RSVP to grants.cass@anu.edu.au by Wednesday 20th August. 2008-09 Research and Scholarship program offered by Australian Prime Ministers Center (APMC). Closing date 26 September 2008. Application Forms and details available on website:.http://www.apmc/oph.gov.au/ research_scholarship.htmlPam McGrath from the Centre for Cross-Cultural Scholarship has been awarded the Minoru Hokari Scholarship. Pam will be working on redocumenting a number of Australian documentaries shot in the 1950s.
Mr Frank Moorhouse, HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow has commenced his fellowship with our Program. For more information on what Mr Moorhouse is working on go to http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=404.
History-Law Symposium
A joint History-Law symposium was held on Thursday 12 June to discuss Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (MUP, 2008) by Professor Marilyn Lake, ARC Professorial Professor and Professor of History at LaTrobe University, and Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania. Professor Desley Deacon of the the History Program, RSSS and Professor Kim Rubenstein, Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, ANU College of Law hosted the afternoon's event.
Audio Part 1
http://law.anu.edu.au/Audio/cipl/Redone.mp3
Audio Part 2
http://law.anu.edu.au/Audio/cipl/Meeting.mp3
Podcast of the talk by Professor Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo on Around 1919 and in Mexico City is now available http://anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts
Professor Melanie Nolan Takes up position as Inaugural Director of the National Centre for Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Professor Melanie Nolan, formerly Head of the Department of History at Victoria University, Wellington, takes up her position as Inaugural Director of the National Centre for Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences today. She replaces as General Editor Dr Di Langmore, who retired on 23 May. Previous General Editors of the ADB were Professor D.H. Pike, Mr N.B. Nairn, Dr A.G. Serle and Professor John Ritchie.
Following the recommendations of the 2007 Gregory Report, the new Centre will build on the long-established, nationally-recognised intellectual core of the Australian Dictionary of Biography to bring together other outstanding work in biography across the College and in other parts of the University, to provide a centre of excellence for biography for scholars and postgraduate students throughout Australia, and to continue to work closely with the nation's cultural institutions. The Centre will continue, as its core enterprise, to research and publish the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, which have been described as ‘arguably the nation's most substantial and significant publishing venture, and among the greatest of its kind in the world'. Professor Nolan has a 1990 PhD from the ANU with a thesis on 'Uniformity and Diversity: A Case Study of Female Shop and Office Workers in Victoria, 1880 to 1939'. A specialist in labour history and gender history, her current research examines generations, gender and professional work in twentieth-century Australasia. She is on the editorial boards of Australia's Labour History and Britain's Labour History Review . She was on the working party on labour history for the New Zealand Dictionary of Biography and has written a number of entries for that Dictionary. She has been a regular visitor to the History Program, RSSS, and has been a Visiting Associate in History at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Nolan has a particular interest in collective biography: her Kin: A collective biography of a New Zealand working class family won the Ian Wards prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Ernest Scott prize in 2007. The judges for the Ernest Scott prize described Kin as ‘ an engaging study of a single immigrant family,' in which Nolan ‘questions wider assumptions about New Zealand labour history. The expansive engagement with many strands of New Zealand history, most particularly the historiographies of labour, gender and religion, takes the narrative out of the workplace into the arenas of the home, the church and voluntary association. Nolan uses the diverse pathways of members of a large Northern Irish migrant family to challenge labour and social historians in New Zealand and Australia to take seriously the reality of the multiple identities and diverse consciousness of “working class” people, and their significance for the national history. Especially noteworthy are insights into the role of women in the home and community, and the formation of the careers of small businessmen and local politicians. The depth and variety of documentary research is supplemented by a wide range of illustrations capturing both the intimate and the public lives of Nolan's subjects.'
“The Future of the Past: a Symposium on Environmental and Forest History” by Lawrence Niewojt On 9 May 2008 three members of the History Program (RSSS) took part in a symposium celebrating 20 years of teaching and research in environmental history at the Australian National University. Hosted by the Fenner School of Environment and Society, the event drew a wide range of participants from Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and the A.C.T. Kylie Carmen-Brown presented aspects of her research into the hydrology and history of the Gippsland Lakes catchment. Lawrence Niewójt's presentation highlighted the utility of environmental history research in establishing the necessary context for planning and policy initiatives in the Otway region of Victoria. Both PhD students also participated in a panel discussion regarding the biennial National Environmental History PhD Workshop, the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship, and the directions of future research in the field. Later in the day, Dr Nicholas Brown gave an impassioned speech regarding past successes in collaboration across disciplinary boundaries at the ANU and the opportunities for continued high-quality research and teaching in environmental history.
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The Centre for International and Public Law, ANU College of Law , and the History Program, RSSS , College of Arts and Social Sciences invite all students (undergraduate and postgraduate) , academics, scholars and members of the public with an interest in law, history, citizenship, equality and human rights to a seminar around Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynold's Drawing the Colour line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (MUP, 2008)
Program:
All welcome. The book Drawing the Colour line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (MUP, 2008) will be available for purchase at the symposium.
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L-R Ann McGrath, Lowitja O'Donaghue, Kate George
Options for Indigenous Futures Theme
I went along to the Summit wondering how I could ever convince a group focussed on the year 2020 to think about the past. Although all about History, Prime Minister Rudd had pitched the Apology to the stolen generations as an 'historic' coming to terms with history, that would now permit his government and the nation to simply move forward and forget using the reverse gear. The Indigenous stream, in which I participated, also had to tackle grave and urgent issues like early mortality, wrecked childhoods, poor employment and education profiles, alcohol and drug problems.
For complete story go to http://rsss.anu.edu.au.
Opening Exhibition of works by Emily Kngwarreye in Tokyo.
L-R Adjunct Professor Margo Neale, Fred Torres DACOU Aboriginal Gallery, Adelaide, Craddock Morton, Director National Museum of Australia, in front of painting loaned by Sir Elton John, `My Country'.
Margo Neale, an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University, curated the acclaimed exhibition that opened at the National Museum of Art, Osaka on the 25 th February. It is the largest exhibition of a single Australian artist ever staged overseas. Entitled Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye , it is a collaboration between the National Museum of Australia and the National Museum of Art, Osaka with Yomiuri Shimbun. It was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan and the Australian Embassy Tokyo, attracting sponsorship from a range of Australian and Japanese companies and major organisations. The Exhibition, which features an amazing diversity and scale of Kngwarreye's work, travels to Tokyo May 28-July 2008, then to the National Museum of Australia. This project provides a focus study for a major ARC grant being run out of ACIH, Unsettling Histories: Indigenous Modes of Historical Practice . (Ann McGrath, Margo Neale and Frances Peters-Little)
Ann McGrath, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the History Program, RSSS, attended the official opening in Osaka. Arts afficianados including Janet Holmes a Court, John McDonald, Judy Behan and Christopher Hodge showered praise on the conceptual framework and visual excitement of the show and its hang. The Australian Ambassador, Murray McLean and Craddock Morton were extremely enthusiastic. A catalogue in English and Japanese was also published. ACIH Collaborator Ronin Films is making a documentary of the story behind the Exhibition.
ALLAN MARTIN WEEK
LECTURE, 20 May 2008 Mexico furnished the era of social and cultural change that started ‘right around 1910' with its first popular revolution. By 1919 Mexico City had become a refuge for the world's radicals. To a despairing world, it offered a unique site to safely experiment with all sorts of enchantments. In this culturally promiscuous capital not only the meaning of Mexico was at stake, but also the meanings of major modernist concepts –revolution, the popular, avant-garde, authenticity, race and desire. In an Arabian Nights of 1919 Mexico City Professor Tenorio tells a series of interconnected tales of an urban world that included Mexican poets and artists; radical foreigners plotting revolution; love and betrayal; experimentation in art, poetry, sexuality and politics; well-known luminaries such as Frida Kahlo and Ramón del Valle Inclán; less well-known Anita Brenner and José Vasconcelos; a Bengal Braham who founded the Mexican Communist Party and a Colombian bohemian who broke all literary and moral canons |
COLLOQUIUM 22 May 2008
Professor Tenorio-Trillo is Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Profesor Asociado, División de Historia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica , Mexico City. A graduate of Stanford University, his wide ranging work on Mexican and US transnational history and modernity includes Mexico at World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (1996), Stereophonic Scientific Modernism in The Nation and Beyond, Journal of American History , 1999, and The Cosmopolitan Mexican Summer, 1920-1949, Latin American Research Review , 1997. He has recently completed City upon a Lake: A History of Mexico City , 1880-1930 and Mexico Demexicanized: Echoes and Voices in Making of a National Image (1870-1940). He writes (and speaks) with wit and provocation |
AHA PRIZES 2008 - All prizes due 28 February 2008 MAGAREY MEDAL FOR BIOGRAPHY ALLAN MARTIN AWARD KAY DANIELS AWARD W.K. HANCOCK PRIZE THE SERLE AWARD For further information and application forms email: theaha@humn.mq.edu.au or go the AHA website at www.theaha.org.au |
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Elite PhD Scholarship to History Postgraduate Student Ms Donegan will be working with Professor Desley Deacon in the History Program, RSSS. Her thesis topic is "Kangaroo: From Antipodean Oddity to National Icon". She has First Class Honours in Communication & History from The University of Queensland, for which she won the University Medal and the History Research Prize in 2001. She was History Intern and Public Affairs Officer at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC from 2000 to 2001. Ms Donegan has twenty years' experience in the communication industry throughout Australia, both print and electronic media and media relations. In 2003 she was Communication Consultant for the Southern Gulf Catchments, National Heritage Trust, Mount Isa and most recently was Regional Program Manager, ABC North West Queensland, Mount Isa . She will undertake her doctoral studies part-time while living in Townsville.
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New Book: Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the history of sound
Professor Desley Deacon is happy to announce her new book published online on Friday, 23 November 2007 by ANU E-Press. The direct url address for the online version is http://epress.anu.edu.au/tal_citation.html.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Launches Volume 17 in Melbourne.
Professor Tom Griffiths, chair of the Editorial Board, and Professor David de Kretser AC, Governor of Victoria, at Queen's Hall, State Library of Victoria
Old friends of ADB: Kerry Reagan (author), Edna Kauffman (former program administrator), Di Langmore (General Editor), Roger Kauffman, Jill Roe (former chair of the Editorial Board), Chris Cunneen (former Deputy General Editor).
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Congratulations to two of our students
Congratulations to Tiffany Shellam and Barbara Dawson who have submitted their PhD thesis. Tiffany's topic is First encounters: Three Australian histories of cross-cultural engagement and Barbara's topic is The Myth of Aboriginal Barbarity: Perceptions of Nineteenth-century Australian Women Writers.
Well Done Ladies.
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History Symposium at Tuggeranong Homestead, 11 October 2007
The symposium provides a unique opportunity for students, professors and program visitors to meet, share experiences and introduce aspects of their research in an informal, off-Campus setting. This year we had more than twenty presenters and several esteemed guests – including Emeritus Professors Ken Inglis and Barry Smith, as well as Meanjin editor Dr. Ian Britain – attending the event. Held at the Tuggeranong Homestead for the second year in a row, this historic property located along the winding course of Tuggeranong Creek in the suburbs of southern Canberra has proven to be a favoured venue for the main event in the History Program's social calendar.
The proceedings were officially kicked off with a welcome from Professor Pat Jalland, the chief organizer behind this iteration of the Symposium. Professor Jalland noted that the theme of ‘A Turning Point in Your Research or Writing' was a supremely flexible avenue into the work that History Program members have been undertaking for the past year. As many of the presentations proved, this theme also provided a creative means of sharing memorable events from varied and long-lived research careers.
The morning presentations testified to the fact that each of us had encountered major turning points in our current or past projects. Professor Barry Higman described an episode from his doctoral work where he found the ‘Rosetta Stone' that helped him link landowners to their properties in colonial Jamaica, while Karen Fox explored the value of comparative work and the interesting parallels between the experiences of famous Maori and Aboriginal women.
After morning tea, Professor Ann McGrath introduced Program Visitor Dr. Peter Stanley to the audience and directed a highly informative, yet informal, interview. Dr. Stanley discussed his distinguished 27-year career as public historian with the Australian War Memorial and his recent experiences as director of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia . He mentioned some of the difficulties arising from the integration of material culture into current historical projects and registered his appreciation for the empirically-minded, archive-based approach that is broadly practised in the History Program (RSSS).
After a delicious lunch and a sublime cappuccino, the historians were reluctantly removed from the sun-bathed patio. Nevertheless, the afternoon session began promptly at 1.30pm with a dramatisation titled ‘History in the Courtroom'. Carefully crafted and presented with gusto by Tiffany Shellam, Emily O'Gorman, Christian O'Brien, Christine Hansen, Travis Cutler, Jo Weinman and Ingereth Macfarlane, this session tackled the contentious nature of sovereignty and highlighted the role of the historian as ‘expert witness' before the court.
The final set of ‘turning point' presentations included Ingereth's fascinating look at the Lambert Centre landmark in Australia 's central desert and wild tales from Professor Ann McGrath's days as a doctoral researcher in the Kununarra district of Western Australia. The History Symposium concluded with words of praise and widespread applause thanking Professor Jalland and Georgina Fitzpatrick for the superb organisation of the days' activities. In following with History Program tradition, a large group photo was taken by Christine Hansen to mark the end of yet another enjoyable History Symposium at Tuggeranong Homestead.
— Lawrence Niewójt
New Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Congratulations to Dr Tim Rowse who has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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New Publication Roping in the History of Broncoing Darrell Lewis For most of its white settlement history Australia has been, and remains, one of the great cattle lands of the world. More than a third of the continent - a million square miles - is devoted to cattle raising, and over twenty-four million head now roam its pastures. For decades the settler frontier was a cattle frontier, with great herds being pushed ever on until the last corners of the continent were reached, and today the mythology of the outback is filled with images of the cattle trade - black and white stockmen, the drover and his 'boy', cattle duffers, Aboriginal cattle-spearers and giant cattle stations. Years of meticulous research has gone into the writing of this timely volume and for anyone interested in authentic outback history, and bronco branding in particular, this book is in the 'must read' category. The reader will continually find amazing and absorbing information, from the origins of the bronco method of branding cattle up to the present bronco branding competitions. Central Queensland University Press Email:cqupress@cqu.edu.au
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ANU 25-Year Service Medallion On Thursday 8 November at University House, Ms Karen Smith, History Administrator, was awarded the 25-year Service Medallion.
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The Murranji Track Darrell Lewis The Murranji - a waterhole, a region, a track - a legend. Although only 240 kilometres long, of all the hard stockroutes in Australia the Murranji Track gained one of the fiercest reputations. The story of the Murranji Track is a story of determiantion in the face of neglect and indifference. For years requests were made for the Government to improve water supplies, to clear a corridor through the scrub, to wipe out poisonous plants, to establish stock reserves, and for years little was done. This book provides the definitive account of the track, from the time of the Aborigines and early explorers, to its opening by the legendary 'Bluey' Buchanan, the beginning of the great droving era in 1904 and it's demise in the 1960s. It deals with attempts to establish stations in the area, the deaths along the track, the exploits of cattle duffers, the record dry stage set by the Farquharson brothers, legends of lost goldmines, and the famous 'Bagman's Gazette' -the messages, drawings and notices written on the stock route water tanks by the drovers and other travellers. Central Queensland University Press Email: cqupress@cqu.edu.au
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ERIC FRY, 1921 - 2007 Members of the Faculty may have read in the Canberra Times on Saturday of the death of Eric Fry, a former Dean of Arts at ANU and long time member of its History Department. Eric will be sadly missed by all who knew him. He was one of the best-loved of academics, who combined strength of purpose with a gentle manner. He was one of ANU's earliest PhD students, starting his candidature in 1952, after time in the public service, five years of military service during World War II, and school teaching. He completed in 1956 a never-published but much consulted and influential PhD, The condition of the urban wage earning class in Australia in the 1880s . He taught history at UWA and UNE before his appointment to the History Department at ANU in 1959, being promoted to Reader in 1967. From 1973 to 1975 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, a turbulent era of student radicalism, and retired in 1986. Eric is probably best remembered for his work as a pioneer of labour history. With Robin Gollan he founded the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in 1961, becoming its first Secretary. He edited Tom Barker and the IWW (1965), Rebels and Radicals (1983) and Common Cause: Essays in Australian and New Zealand Labour History (1986). After his retirement he continued to write on labour history, but also his work took something of a new turn with the publication of An Airman Far Away (1993), an account of the life of his wife's brother, Charles Williams, who served with Bomber Command and was killed in a ‘Dambusters' raid in 1943. Eric has been honoured with a scholarship in his name for honours students working in the field of labour history. A service to celebrate Eric's life will be held in the Chapel of Norwood Park Crematorium on Wednesday 10 October 2007 at 1.30 pm. |
ROBIN GOLLAN , 8 December 1917 - 15 October 2007 On his return to Australia he was hired by Keith Hancock as a Research Fellow in the History Department at RSSS, an appointment which was questioned in parliament on the grounds of his political (then Communist) affiliations. Gollan was a very effective member of the RSSS History Department, publishing while there four major and much-discussed works - Radical and working class politics: a study of Eastern Australia 1850-1910; The Coalminers of New South Wales: a history of the union 1860-1960; The Commonwealth Bank of Australia: origins and early history; and Revolutionaries and reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement. He was also an active supporter of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. In his retirement, he wrote another book, The myth of the level playing field. In 1976, Gollan moved to the Arts Faculty, to become the Manning Clark Professor of Australian History, until his retirement in 1982.
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| Congratulations to Nicholas Brown, who won an ARC Discovery Grant for his project Ten years is enough: the life and afterlife of Rick Farley
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Professor Desley Deacon, ASSA, presiding at the annual meetings of the Australian Historical Association in Armidale 23-26 September 2007. Among the staff and postgraduate students presenting papers were Tom Griffiths, Ann McGrath, Nicholas Brown, Travis Cutler, Tiffany Shellam, and Emily O'Gorman.
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| The Medal of the Order of Australia was awarded to Professor Ann McGrath, History Program, RSSS in a ceremony at government house on September 14. During the ceremony, Governor General Michael Jeffrey praised the work of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History. The citation read: For service to education, particularly in the field of Indigenous history, as a teacher, researcher and author, and through leadership roles with a range of history-related organisations. |
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| National Film and Sound Archive Research Fellowship The National Film and Sound Archive's Centre for Scholarly and Archival Research is seeking fellowship applications from established researchers and audiovisual practitioners with a record of significant achievement. Senior academics, scholars, writers, filmmakers, artists and archival professionals from Australia and overseas are encouraged to apply. The fellowships include a residency at the NFSA in Canberra as required. Fellows use the NFSA's collections to stimulate or otherwise inform original research resulting in an academic publication, a new sound or moving image work, or a live event. Further information including application forms and sumamries of research projects can be found at www. nfsa.gov.au/csar. |
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Mystery Disappearance of Leichhardt 'HINDSIGHT', ABC Radio National On Hindsight there was a program about the mystery of the disappearance of the Leichhardt exploring expedition in 1848. It featured interviews with the National Museum of Australia Technician David Hallam, National Museum Curator Mat higgins, Central Australian history expert Dick Kimber, ANU Historian Dr Darrell Lewis, historian Professor Rod Home and Latrobe University's Dr Susan Martin. The hour-long program deals with a number of inter-related topics. One contrasts Darrell Lewis' theory that Leichhardt ended up in the country between the Trt, with (part of) Dick Kimber's theory that he ended up somewhere in Central Australia. Another highlights David Hallam's scientific analysis of a brass plate stamped 'Ludwig Leichhardt 1848', recently acquired by the national Museum, and shows how knowledge gleaned from his study has informed and supported one of these theories. Professor Home outlines Leichhardt's education and ability as a scientist, and the vision he had for future scientific studies in Australia. The program offers the listener a renewed insight into and appreciation of Leichhardt as an explorer, a scientist, and the impact his disappearance has had on Australian national identity and literature. Throughout there are excerpts from leichhardt's writings, and the program ends with an archival recording of the late manning Clark. The program is available as a podcast from the ABC Radio National Website.
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SLICING THE SILENCE Winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. The award was presented by the Premier of Queensland, Mr Peter Beattie, during the Brisbane Writers' Festival 11.9.07.
Tom Griffith's book, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South and Harvard, 2007) was short-listed for two national book awards: The Age Book of the Year Award (Non-Fiction) and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award (Non-Award). For more on Slicing the Silence see article in ANU Reporter, Winter 2007 called History on Ice, p.16-19. Tom will be giving the Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 4 October and will deliver the Address at the NSW Premier's History Awards Dinner at Government House,Sydney on 9 October. |
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PROFESSOR DEACON LAUNCHES Professor Deacon launched Technology in Postwar America by Carroll Pursell on 24th August 2007, at Macquarie University.
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SEEKING TO FURTHER THE PUBLIC DEBATE ABOUT THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT'S MOST RECENT PHASE OF INDIGENOUS POLICY
Tim Rowse has recently reviewed critically Helen Hughes' Lands of Shame. This flawed book has recently been described by Robert Manne as a clue to the Howard government's diagnosis of and prescription of Indigenous affairs. The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: http://www.sisr.net/apo/rowse.pdf |
PARTICIPANT ON ABC RADIO Professor Peter Read was one of the respondents on Radio National's Australia Talks discussing the recent Stolen Generations case in favour of Bruce Trevorrow. |
LAUNCH OF JOHN MULVANEY'S BOOK 'THE AXE HAD NEVER SOUNDED, 29 August 2007, Coombs Tea Room Approximately 70 people attended the launch of Professor Mulvaney's latest book The Axe Had Never Sounded: place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania, Aboriginal History Monograph 14. The guest speaker for the evening was Senator Christine Milne.
See webpage for more details: http://acih.anu.edu.au/research/publications.php |
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Congratulations to Professor Tom Griffiths This position is sponsored by the Australian Government Department of Employment, Science and Training, and is located in the Centre for Australian Studies, which is part of the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University. The holder of the Chair is expected to teach a Masters level course in Australian Studies and to contribute to the activities of the Centre in promoting understanding and discussion of Australia in Denmark. ANU and the University of Copenhagen are both members of the International Alliance of Research Universities. |
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Indigenous Biography/ Humanities Research Centre, ANU For information go to: http://www.anu.edu.au/HRC/conferences |
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An Affair to Remember in Meanjin, vol.66, no.1, 2007, p.83 by Desley Deacon. This article is on the New York romance between writers Mary McCarthy and Philip Rahv URL: http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au |
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Allan Martin Presentation 2007 Ken Inglis paper on Speechmaking in Australian History is now available on podcast at http://info.anu.edu.au/Discover_ANU/News_and_Events/Public_lectures/Podcast.asp |
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Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Tom Griffiths In the summer of 2002-03, acclaimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. He was with the first Australian ship to 'slice the silence' of a year, arriving at Casey Station to deliver the new team of 'winterers' and take away the old. In Slicing the Silence Griffiths interweaves his own diary entries with essays that explore the human history of the mysterious continent of ice. www.unswpress.com.au |
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From waste land to Canada's tobacco production heartland: Landscape change in Norfolk County, Ontario in Landscape Research, by Lawrence Niewojt. The cultural landscape of Norfolk County displays the remnants of numerous cycles of transformation. In the mid-19th century, the region was the hub of the Lake Erie timber trade and a major supplier to America's growing urban markets. By the start of the 20th century, much of the forest was gone, many farms were abandoned and the region was plagued by severe soil erosion. Within a few decades the problems of a degraded environment and depressed local economy were long forgotten: the Ontario government targeted the sandy 'waste lands' with a reforestation programme, and the introduction of flue-cured tobacco in 1922 marked the beginning of an era of unprecedented prosperity. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426390701318312 |
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DOCUMENTARY: VOTE YES for Aborigines - Frances Peters-Little
GOES TO AIR ON SBS TV ON SUNDAY THE 27TH MAY, 8.30PM
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VOTE YES for Aborigines is a 52-minute documentary about the 1967 Referendum and the fight for citizenship rights for Aborigines. It marks the 40th anniversary of the occasion, celebrating its historical significance and contemporary relevance. While many people believe that the 1967 Referendum gave Aborigines the right to vote, in fact the Referendum removed two sections of the constitution that discriminated against Aborigines. With the highest YES vote in Australia 's history, 90.77% of voters agreed that Aborigines be counted in the census and that the Commonwealth Government take charge of Aboriginal affairs, effectively acknowledging Aboriginal people as citizens within their own country. Aborigines had fought for citizenship rights for over a century but it was the coming together of the many Aboriginal associations and leagues in 1958 to form a national body that finally gave impetus to the struggle. The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders or FCAATSI attracted both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal membership and support from across all sections of Australian society. For ten years they campaigned to convince the public and politicians of the need for Constitutional change. They capitalised on the global condemnation of Australia 's treatment of its indigenous people and the media's growing interest in Aboriginal issues. The "Freedom Rides" of 1965 and the Gurindji strike at Wave Hill in 1966 highlighted Aboriginal living and working conditions and helped advance the crusade to set things right for indigenous Australians. VOTE YES for Aborigines revisits those involved with the 1967 referendum and the social attitudes and influences that led to the event, featuring former Prime Ministers, politicians, historians and campaigners. More than just marking a time in history, VOTE YES for Aborigines interrogates the success of the Referendum and addresses current debates about what is meant by Australian citizenship and values and how they relate, if at all to Aboriginal history, identity, and culture.
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ALLAN MARTIN LECTURE
The annual Allan Martin Lecture will be held on 15 May 2007 in the Coombs Lecture Theatre. Our speaker this year is Professor Ken Inglis.
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New Publications
DIVIDED NATION?
For information see http://rsss.anu.edu.au/books/gootrowse.php |
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First Graduate Director of RSSS
Congratulations to Professor Tom Griffiths who has been appointed the First Graduate Director of RSSS For more details please see: http://rsss.anu.edu.au/graddirector.php |
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Introducing the Inaugural Winner of the Minoru
The ceremony was attended by Minoru's sister Yuki Hokari, her father Nobuo Hokari, the Japanese Ambassador and the Vice Chancellor of the ANU, Ian Chubb. Photograph by Neal McCracken, ANU Photography |
The Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship
Call for Applications - Closing date April 2007 |
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Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize The Editorial Board of Australian Historical Studies will this year again donate a prize of $250.00 plus a three year subscription to the journal for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student to the biennial Australian Historical Association Conference. In accordance with the journal's policy, papers will only be considered if they are 'concerned with Australian, New Zealand and Pacific history and with other histories in so far as they inform the understanding of history in Australia'. The winner will be judged on the written version of the paper, which will be considered for publication in the journal after undergoing the usual refereeing process. Holders of full-time academic appointments of level B and above are excluded. Papers should be of 5000-8000 words including references, should be double-spaces and in duplicate. to be eligible, entries must be sent to Australian Historical Studies, History Department, University of Melbourne 3010 by Friday 30 September 2006. For further information please call (03) 8344 5964 or email ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au |
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PAT JALLANDChanging Ways fo Death Death and bereavement come to us all. This is the first book to help us explain and understand their history across twentieth-century Australia. It draws aside the veil of silence that surrounded death for fifty years after 1918 – characterised by denial, minimal ritual and private sorrow – and explores the dramatic changes since the 1980s. Emotional and compelling, award-winning writer Pat Jalland’s important book looks at the World Wars and the impact of medicine, with many stories drawn from letters and diaries. She also discusses cancer, euthanasia, palliative care, the funeral business, cemeteries and cremation.
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Minoru Hokari, obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, then went on to complete a Ph.D. at the Australian National University. The subject of his research was the history of Indigenous Australians.
