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Archaeology excavations at the Royal Exhibition BuildingFaculty Dean, Professor Murray's Archaeology excavations at the Royal Exhibition Building began last week. Funded by an ARC grant together with Museum Victoria the dig is the first stage in a $5.3 million project to restore the 19th century German Garden on the site of a car park in the western forecourt of the Royal Exhibition Building. Read the article about the Royal Exhibition Building in The Age. LecturesHistory Program Guest Lecture‘The Challenges Facing Barack Obama:
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Drawing the Global Colour Line wins the Prime Minister's prize for non-fictionHaving already won a number of prizes, Drawing the Global Colour Line, by Marylin Lake and Henry Reynolds, has won the Prime Minister's prize for non-fiction. Marilyn and Henry share the Prime Minister's prize for non-fiction - the nation's top literary prize - with Evelyn Juers for her book 'House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nellie Kroeger-Man' Drawing the Global Colour Line Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize 2009Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds have won the Ernest Scott Prize for History for their book Drawing the Global Colour Line. The Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the History of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonization published in the previous year. Drawing the Global Colour Line wins the Queensland Premier's History Book AwardThe judges comment: Drawing the Global Colour Line shows that Australian attempts to define and defend ‘whiteness’ through the infamous white Australia policy were in the vanguard of a global movement towards racial exclusion. |
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Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World wins the 2008 Mander Jones AwardCaroline Jordan has won the 2008 Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists for Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World, a collection of essays she co-edited (with Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie and Elizabeth Willis). Seize the Day is the winner in Category 2B: Best publication that uses, features or interprets Australian archives, written or edited by a person in their own right. |
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Voices from the Ships, Australian seafearers and their union shortlisted for the 2009 Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize.Voices from the Ships, Australian seafarers and their union, launched at national council in April has been shortlisted for the 2009 Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize. The book, by Diane Kirkby, focuses on the last two decades of the union before its amalgamation with the Waterside Workers' Federation to become the Maritime Union of today. |
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The Lamb Enters the Dreaming Joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian HistoryThe Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World has already won numerous prizes and now shares the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. The joint winner is Tom Griffiths for his book 'Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica'. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming wins the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the category 'First Book of History'Robert Kenny's book The Lamb Enters the Dreaming has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the category of 'First Book of History'. |
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the scars of war shortlisted for the NSW Premiers awards for Australian HistoryMarina Larsson's book Shattered Anzacs: Living with the scars of war has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's awards for Australian History. Marina shares this distinction with only two other authors: Jill Roe for her biography of Miles Franklin, and Robin Gerster for his book on Australia's occupation of Japan. |
Student NewsLa Trobe French Student wins Lilian Gray Alliance PrizeFirst year French student Meli De Groot, pictured above with Alliance Director Patrice Pauc was recently awarded the Lilian Gray Alliance Prize. Honours Students offered place in ANU's honours workshopHistory honours students Leonie Stevens, Bill Brown, Jesse Webb and Ben Ewart have been offered a place in ANU's honours workshops in May. Applications were open to honours students in Australia and New Zealand. We congratulate them on this siginificant honour. History Postgrauate student wins the Ken Inglis prize History postgraduate, Janine Rizzetti, has won the Ken Inglis prize for her article "Justice John Walpole Willis and the Boundaries of Local Politics and Imperial Justice". The paper is scheduled to appear in Australian Historical Studies in Oct 2009. |
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Dr Barry Carr, Honorary in History, has been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences. This is a considerable honour and we congratulate Barry on this recognition of his work and his contribution to the discipline.
Dr Ana Maria Ducasse, from the Spanish Program in the School of Historical and European Studies, was recently awarded a citation for developing innovative assessment and curriculum practices which develop effective communication skills and engage learners with content in a bilingual subject. Congratulations Ana Maria.
Dr Patrick Wolfe has accepted an offer from Harvard University of a research fellowship in US history, to be held in Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, for the northern-hemisphere academic year 2009-2010. Patrick's Charles Warren Fellowship project is to be a history of settler colonialism in the nineteenth-century American West, for which he has a monograph contract with Princeton University Press. He shall also participate in a year-long seminar, convened by Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson, on the theme of 'Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below'. Patrick shall be returning to the History Program at the end of the fellowship, in July 2010, and we will look forward to that!
Dr Adrian Jones has been awarded an OAM for 'his services to history education as a lecturer and author, and through executive roles with a range of historical and teaching associations.' It is wonderful recognition to Adrian for all his work outside the university as well as within it, and recognition too, of the importance of such work. Our warmest congratulations.
Peter Gerrand
PhD candidate, Spanish
Minority Languages on the Internet: Promoting the Regional Languages of Spain is the fist book to record and compare initiatives taken by Catalan, Basque and Galician languages in the Internet.
Anthony Disney
Honorary Research Associate, History
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire is an impressive 2 volume in-depth history of Portugal and its empire before the 19th century.
Marina Larsson
Lecturer, History
Shattered Anzacs:Living with the Scars of War, tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home disabled soldiers after the First World War.
Claudia Haake
Lecturer, History
Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World, co-edited with Richard Bessel treats the theme of of forced removal within the frame of world history and international comparison.
Elizabeth Dimock
Honorary Research Associate, History
Women and Empire, 1750-1939: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism (Vol III) highlights the common aspects of the functions of empire in their impact on women. Elizabeth edited Vol III which focuses on Africa.
Mal Harrop
Honorary Research Associate, History
Good Things Came from Glass is a compelling account of the rise and demise of a great Australian industrial icon and is the result of a lifetime interest and 10 years research and writing.
Diane Kirkby
Professor, History
Voices From the Ships is a story told by the seafarers themselves, about how unionism changed and how this affected their working and family lives and the SUA’s ability to stay current and relevant in changing political, industrial and social environments.
Lucy Chesser
Honorary Research Associate, History
Parting with my sex: cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian Cultural life explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life.
Caroline Jordan
Lecturer in Art History
Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis, Seize the Day:exhibitions, Australia and the World is a multi-disciplinary collection of research on a fascinating variety of exhibitions from nineteenth-century World fairs to late twentieth-century expos.
