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call for Submissions or expertise
Call for Papers: Women and Agency, Transnational Perspectives, c.1450-1790, University of Oxford. This two-day interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars to examine early modern women’s agency from a transnational perspective. Conversations about women’s agency continue to ripple across the world, from new, passionate campaigns in Mexico and Poland that have fought to address feminicide and sexual violence, to the Women’s Marches, which have annually inspired global response. Now, we turn with fresh urgency to early modern women’s participation in intellectual and literary cultures that bridged regional, national, and transnational divides. Abstracts due: 28 February 2021; Virtual Symposium, 24-25 June 2021.
Oral History Australia and Oral History Tasmania have released a Call for Presentations for the upcoming OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 14-16 October 2021. The conference theme is ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Challenges and Opportunities’. Organisers advise that while the plan is to meet in solidarity and optimism for the biennial conference in Tasmania in 2021, if that proves to be impossible due to COVID-19 restrictions the conference will run online.
Please visit Oral History Australia’s website for more information and details about submitting a proposal. The deadline for presentation proposals is 1 March 2021.
4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism. The ICCAUA 2021 conference will be held online at Alanya HEP University, Alanya, Turkey, on 20-21 May 2021.
The general conference topics are listed below, with more information at the conference website.
– Architecture and Technology
– Sustainability and Urban Design
– Heritage and Cultural Landscapes
– Habitat Studies and Infra Habitation
– Civil engineering
Further Details: The publication opportunities can be explored here. Early Bird Registration Deadline is 20 March 2021. Abstracts due 2 March 2021 {EXTENDED].
Call for papers: Melbourne Historical Journal. Published since 1961, Melbourne Historical Journal (MHJ) is a refereed journal for the publication of Australian, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Pacific graduate and early career researcher work in history. It is open to new approaches and aims to present original graduate work to a wide and responsive readership. Based in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, the MHJ is published by a volunteer collective of graduate and early career scholars. For more information visit their website: https://www.mhj.net.au/. Submissions due 5 March 2020.
State of the Social Sciences 2021 - Discussion Paper. The Academy of Social Sciences invites submissions for a new report on the state and future of social science disciplines. This report was initiated by the Academy in 2020, and is intended to provide a comprehensive picture of:
our workforce and capabilities in social science education, research and professional settings;
our relative strengths, weaknesses and opportunities; domestically and abroad;
the impacts of COVID-19 now and in the future; and
challenges and opportunities that may shape the social sciences over the coming decades.
Responses due 5 March 2021.
Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition. The long and the short of it: A new competition for emerging writers.
Calling all emerging writers: Griffith Review is approaching its seventy-fifth edition, and we want your words to help us celebrate.
Submissions are now open for our Emerging Voices competition: find out more here and submit via Submittable by 15 March 2021.
Editorial Board of Essays in History (EiH), University of Virginia. The journal is currently soliciting submissions for its upcoming fifty-fourth volume. We welcome submissions from scholars of the history of empire. Essays in History (EiH) is an open access journal for emerging historians. EiH publishes peer-reviewed articles and historiographical essays in all areas of historical inquiry, as well as reviews of the most recent scholarship. The journal has been staffed by graduate students at the University of Virginia since 1954. EiH aims to provide a supportive experience for our editors, authors, and referees. The editorial team is committed to ensuring that equity, anti-racism, and accessibility are at the heart of who we are, how we operate, and the work we publish. Essays in History welcomes submissions from graduate students, scholars who have received their PhD within the last five years, and accomplished undergraduates. The deadline for submissions is 2 April 2021.
Public History Summer School Presentations, The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland (IH UWr), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, and the International Federation for Public History. The Institute of History of the University of Wrocław, Poland (IH UWr), Zajezdnia (Depot) History Centre, and the International Federation for Public History invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to share their research in the framework of the fourth Public History Summer School to be held online, 31 May-4 June 2021.
We strongly encourage graduate and postgraduate students, professionals, as well as those without institutional affiliation but conducting interesting public history projects to submit their proposals in English. The proposals may include (but need not be limited to):
- Ethical aspects of doing history
- Historical narratives
- History & politics
- History & memory
- E-history
- Digital humanities
- Oral history
- Visual history
- Museums, exhibitions, archives
- Festivals and reenactments
- History of education
- Historical journalism
- Popularisation of history
- History & media
- History-related games
- Project management
Submit you proposal here: https://forms.gle/iQoY7dvygqZVpwHh9
The deadline for sending research project proposals is 11 April 2021.
Call for Papers: Lilith Journal’s 2021 Symposium “Gender in Catastrophic Times”. The symposium will investigate instances of difficulty through history in an attempt to better understand how societies have responded to and survived catastrophes. As a special measure for this year’s symposium, the AWHN will be awarding a pair of prestigious prizes: the first for the best paper by a student currently enrolled in a higher research degree programme (inside or outside of Australia); and the second for the best paper by an early-career academic, who has received their PhD in the past five years. Abstracts due 30 April 2021. Symposium: 23 and 24 September 2021.
Call for Papers: Australian Historical Association Annual Conference, “Unfinished Business”. The Uluru Statement, Black Lives Matter protests, toppled statues and the Whitlam Dismissal are just a few examples of history’s unfinished business in the contemporary world. On the eve of its 40th anniversary, the Australian Historical Association Conference returns to the University of New South Wales where it held its first conference in 1982 and invites papers exploring the unfinished business of history. Abstracts due 31 May 2021. 29 November-3 December 2021, Sydney.
Call for Papers: Studies in Oral History journal. Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia, has a special themed issue in 2021 focusing on oral history, place and environment. The Editors are seeking project reports of 1000-1500 words and exhibition or website reviews of 800 words that relate to the themes of the special issue. Please contact Carla Pascoe Leahy carla.pascoeleahy@unimelb.edu.au and Skye Krichauff skye.krichauff@adelaide.edu.au with your ideas.
Call for Papers: The ANU Historical Journal (ANUHJ II). The ANU Historical Journal (open access, peer-reviewed) is calling for submissions from undergraduates, postgrads as well as university alumni. The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is a peer-reviewed academic history journal of The Australian National University and is edited by undergraduate and postgraduate history students. As a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987, it maintains a special interest in publishing the research of students and recent graduates across Australia. It publishes articles that engage with historical topics from a range of perspectives and geographies.
The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is a peer-reviewed academic history journal of The Australian National University and is edited by undergraduate and postgraduate history students. As a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987, it maintains a special interest in publishing the research of students and recent graduates across Australia. It publishes articles that engage with historical topics from a range of perspectives and geographies. To date, it has published articles that contribute to women’s history, Australian history, Indigenous histories, contemporary history, and more.
The ANUHJ II’s editorial board consists of individuals of a variety of backgrounds, including postgraduate students, honours students and former students of ANU.
The journal’s goal is to create a space for students and academics to publish in conversation with one another. It aims to provide publishing opportunities to a variety of individuals, fostering collaboration and enthusiasm in historical studies. The journal also hopes to create intellectual conversations across disciplines by encouraging the publication of works of an inter- or transdisciplinary nature, focused upon historical material.
The Great Circle is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the Australian Association for Maritime History. The Great Circle publishes research articles (8,000 words), shorter articles (3,000 words), and book reviews (1,000 words). It is seeking papers on any aspect of maritime history, archaeology, and heritage which will be of interest to broad audiences. Other relevant research areas include historical aspects of oceanic migration, travel and transport; trade and shipping; exploration and discovery; navies and sea power; fishing and resource extraction; oceans governance and maritime law. Please contact Erika Techera (erika.techera@uwa.edu.au) if you are interested in submitting your paper or if you have any questions.
Australian Academy of the Humanities Call for humanities expertise to inform policy directions. A database of humanities expertise is being compiled to inform the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ policy advice in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
mentoring opportunities
Women's Early Career Mentoring Program is a residential program for 5-10 Indigenous women early career researchers per year. It will be based at Monash and will focus on creating a support network to help shape their research careers. Submit your expression of interest in the Mentoring Fellowship or workshop by contacting Jacinta Walsh: jacinta.walsh@monash.edu
Writing and EDITORIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Australian Migration History Network (AMHN) would like to invite interested scholars to contribute to the AMHN Blog Series. Should you like to share your research via a short blog (1000-2000 words) we’d love to hear from you. Please send an EOI to amigrationhn@gmail.com
The Australian Women Writers Challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge encourages avid readers and book bloggers, male and female, living in or outside Australia, to read and review books by Australian women throughout the year. You don’t have to be a writer to sign up. You can choose to read and review, or read only. (Our guidelines for what makes a good review can be found here.) The challenge will run from Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2021. You can sign up anytime throughout the year up until the 30th November 2021. Sign up now!
MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Australia ICOMOS Strategic Advocacy Reference Group (SARG). The current membership of the Australia ICOMOS Strategic Advocacy Reference Group (SARG) has been in place for a number of years, and it is time to refresh the membership, in accordance with the Australia ICOMOS policy for all groups. The purpose of the SARG is to develop strategic level advice for Australia ICOMOS in relation to political and government level advocacy for cultural heritage, in particular for good heritage practice and heritage outcomes, primarily in the Australian context. It is also to review the strategic advice from time to time, to provide ongoing advice in relation to strategic level advocacy to Australia ICOMOS, and to consider advocacy training needs for Australia ICOMOS. The SARG is not primarily intended to undertake specific advocacy tasks, but rather to provide broader strategic guidance. Members of Australia ICOMOS are invited to express an interest in becoming a member of this Reference Group by sending a completed SARG_EOI form_February 2021 to the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by email by COB 12 March 2021.
Crowdsourcing opportunities
A Journal of The Plague Year: An archive of COVID-19 Historians are invited to share their stories (in a variety of formats) that ‘speaks to paradoxes of the moment’.
Memory Bank State Library Victoria’s Collective Isolation Project is seeking to archive what everyday life in Victoria is actually like now, during this time of collective isolation.
National Museum of Australia is inviting Australians to share their experiences, stories, reflections and images of the COVID-19 pandemic in the project: Bridging the Distance.
Australian War Memorial seeks to bring locations and photographs of every publicly accessible memorial across Australia together in a national online register.
National Library of Australia is collecting printed COVID-19 ephemera that has appeared in letterboxes and local neighbourhoods.. Content from regional Australia is of particular interest, along with content in languages other than English.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT DATABASE & Consultants directory
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Consultant & Contractor Directory: Expression of Interest. The ‘consultants directory’ hosted on Heritage Victoria’s website is a useful register of people and companies who provide specialist advice or technical assistance for heritage properties, objects or collections. In late February, Heritage Victoria will be launching their new website. At that time custodianship of the consultants directory will transfer to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). The new directory will be launched on the National Trust website in May 2021. A link will be included from Heritage Victoria’s website to the new directory. If you would like to express interest in being included in the consultants directory, please register your details online, and someone from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) will contact you.
Research Assistant Database, Australian Centre for Public History. To assist the history community, the Centre maintains a register of professionals (typically ECRs and HDRs) available to assist on history research projects. This register is publicised in our weekly newsletter as well as by our friends in the history community such as the Australian Historical Association.
Please note that while we regularly update the register, the Australian Centre for Public History and the University of Technology Sydney are not party to any employment arrangement between researcher and assistant. It is our aim merely to bring you together. Also note, that in providing your email address you are giving consent for your details to be published on a google sheet that will be linked to the Australian Centre for Public History website, and publicly accessible.
