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Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography Project – seeking nominations

We are embarking on a project to produce approximately 190 new biographies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.  We are now seeking nominations of Indigenous Australian individuals to be included. We are especially interested in nominations of people who lived up until the 1940s. Please send this nomination form to shino.konishi@uwa.edu.au if you […]

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Reimagining Australia, Part 1 & 2

Reimagining Australia, Part 1 & 2. Guest Editors:  Baden Offord, Thor Kerr, Rob Garbutt, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Elfie Shiosaki, Misty Farquhar and Dean Chan http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/index This special double issue of Coolabah, numbers 24 & 25, was developed from selected presentations at Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility, the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference 2016, hosted by the Centre for Human […]

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Australian Lives – an online oral history resource for Australian history teaching

Australian Lives – an online oral history resource for Australian history teaching In this video, Alistair Thomson (Professor of History, Monash University) introduces an extraordinary new resource for school and university teaching in Australian history and Australian studies. The Australian Lives ebook curates access into one of Australia’s largest online oral history collections, so that students can […]

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Editor(s), AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Call for Expressions of Interest   The Board of Australian Historical Studies is seeking expressions of interest to edit the journal for a 3-year term, 2015-17. An individual, or editorial team, can apply for the editorship. The current editors, Professor Catharine Coleborne and Professor Christina Twomey, complete their terms at the end of 2014. The […]

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Visiting Scholars to Tokyo announced

PRESS RELEASE: Award-winning Australian Academics Appointed Visiting Professor in Australian Studies, University of Tokyo   29 April 2014   Leading Australian scholars Associate Professor Anna Johnston and Dr Maria Nugent have been appointed to the annual Visiting Professor in Australian Studies position at the Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS), University of Tokyo, for […]