| Message from the CHASS President | Dear ~~first_name~~,
I’ve recently returned from the Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference at the lovely Bedford Park campus of Flinders University in Adelaide, held 1-4 July. The theme was ‘Home Truths’, and it was a joy to be among colleagues for a few days discussing our discipline. For the last few months, I’ve combined the CHASS Presidency with that of the AHA: I completed my two-year term for the latter at the AGM held during the conference. I also delivered a Presidential Address, ‘What is history for?, which will be published this year in the Association’s journal, History Australia.
It was an honour to serve as AHA President. Professional and discipline-based organisations, and their conferences and meetings, play a critical role in cultural life but are easily overlooked by universities and governments. They provide a sense of professional identity for scholars and practitioners that crosses institutional barriers. AHA conferences involve not only university-based historians but practitioners working in museums, libraries and archives, commissioned historians working on contracted projects or employed as consultants, and professional historians working within government. The AHA also includes history teachers and so provides opportunities to discuss pedagogical and professional issues affecting schools and universities. Discipline associations support postgraduate and early-career work, such as through bursaries, prizes and mentoring and training opportunities, and they provide the usual networking opportunities that are especially important to emerging scholars.
Finally, they conduct advocacy. CHASS sees its role as to speak on issues affecting the humanities, arts and social sciences as a whole, but it does not seek to replace discipline-based organisations or professional associations, each of which has its own specific concerns and its own particular expertise. The roles of CHASS and such bodies are necessarily complementary. But I invite any members of individual organisations to bring to our attention at CHASS issues that you think we might take up on your behalf.
Frank Bongiorno AM, CHASS President | | Congress of HASS: November 25th - November 29th, 2024 | This year's Congress of HASS will be held at the University of Western Australia. Many associations are involved in the planning (see list below). If you would like your association to be involved, please contact CHASS Vice-President (Congress) Dimitris Vardoulakis.
Confirmed participating associations:
- Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy
- Australasian Association of Philosophy
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
- Australian Anthropological Society
- Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
- Australian Historical Association
- Australian Political Studies Association
- Australian University Heads of English
- Australian Women’s & Gender Studies Association
- Deans of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- SHAPE Futures
- The Australian Sociological Association
- Murdoch University (annual Murdoch Colloquium - 20th anniversary edition focusing on "Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges")
| | CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This prize is for a performance, exhibition, research project or a specific advance in policy development in any HASS field. Performances or exhibitions must have been open to the public between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023. Policy work and research may have commenced earlier, but must have been completed during 2023.
Nomination deadline: September 25, 2024.
| | | | CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize
The CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2024 is 'open'.
Please email your submissions to helen@futureleaders.com.au by September 25th and cc CHASS Admin (membership@chass.org.au).
| | | In other Prize news:
The Academy of the Social Sciences Australia's Paul Bourke awards nominations close July 31. For more details, visit their site.
Oral History Australia (OHA) is inviting applications for its three awards – the Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History and the OHA book and media awards – with recipients to be announced during the Biennial Conference in Melbourne in November 2024.
Nomination and application deadline: 31 August
The Future Leaders Writing Prize 2024 is now open for applications from Australians forty years and under.
Prize: $10,000
Application deadline: 25 October
More information here. | NEW: Westpac is offering up to ten Social Change Fellowships per year, of up to $50,000 for personal development including study tours, short courses, conferences, coaching, overseas learning experiences and more.
The Fellowships are aimed at purpose driven individuals committed to driving positive change and are designed to give recipients the time and space to develop the skills, knowledge and networks to accelerate their growth as a social impact leader.
Application deadline: July 24.
| The Australian Linguistic Society is currently seeking application for the Susan Kaldor Scholarship, which funds international summer school or intensive programs for Australian linguistics students. The Susan Kaldor Scholarship provides funding of up to $2,500 to assist an ALS student member to attend an international institute, summer school or similar intensive course (for example the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute; the LOT Summer School (The Netherlands); etc).
The Queensland University of Technology is now open to applications for their Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship. Successful applicants will receive a scholarship of $10,000 as a one-off payment as a research allowance. This scholarship is for current research students pursuing research where the major piece of work is focussed on gender equity. This encompasses women and equality in all spheres of endeavour including (but not limited to) employment, education, health, communications, engineering and science.
Application deadline: 9 September
| Symposiums
Everyday Heritage and Difficult Legacies - Congress of HASS
Everyday Heritage & Australian Historical Association
Thursday November 28th, 10am - 5pm, UWA
The Everyday Heritage Symposium is a partnership event with the Australian Historical Association (AHA), the Congress of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS), University of Canberra, University of Western Australia, and Business Events Perth (BEPerth).
The ‘Save-the-Date’ flyer for the symposium can be accessed here.
The ideas & ideals of Australia: The Lucky Country turns sixty
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Canberra
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November 2024
Conferences
NEW: The State of Democracy and Politics: Local, Regional and Global
Australian Political Studies Association
University of Western Australia
Monday 25 - Thursday 28 November 2024
9th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
University of Sydney, Holme Building
Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 November 2024
Earlybird registration opens: Late August
Earlybird registration deadline: 11 October
Abstract submission deadline: 20 September
Short videos submission deadline: 13 November
Enhancing Safe Practice: A National Justice Forum on Sexual Assault
Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 August 2024
Early registration closes 60 days before the conference.
Kia Tōnui – Flourish: 2024
Drama New Zealand & Drama Australia
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, New Zealand
Friday 27 - Monday 30 September 2024
Public Lecture
Shape the Nation
Academy of Social Sciences Australia
Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley is confirmed for the Academy’s ‘Shape the Nation’ lecture as part of the CHASS Congress of HASS on Thursday 28 November from 5-7pm. More details to follow soon.
Webinar
NEW: Tasa Thursdays: Social Class and Emotions in Australia
The Australian Sociological Association
12:30PM Thursday 18 July 2024
| All of the below articles are available on open access:
Thorburn, K., Waks, S., Aadam, B., Fisher, K. R., Spooner, C., & Harris, M. F. (2024). Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design. CoDesign, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2024.2349578
Drysdale, K., Creagh, N. S., Nightingale, C., Whop, L. J., & Kelly-Hanku, A. (2024). Inclusive language in health policy – a timely case (study) of cervical screening in Australia. Health Sociology Review, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2356868
Weise, J., Tracy, J., Fisher, K. R., Ward, J., Hind, T., Adrian, S., … Trollor, J. N. (2024). The future of preventive health care for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia: an analysis of the Disability Royal Commission’s approach, findings and recommendations. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2024.2362646
Burns, E., Fogelgarn, R., & Billett, P. (2024). Men school teachers get bullied too: examples from an Australian study. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2365922 | Humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
DAASH recently released two reports highlighting the wide-ranging economic, social and cultural impacts of the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The reports are accompanied by two fact sheets which summarise the key findings from each report. These resources will help you dispel common myths about the humanities, arts and social sciences and can be shared with students and parents at orientation and open days.
The reports and their accompanying fact sheets can be found here. | Population, Religion and the Environment
This podcast is an episode of the "GOD FORBID" podcast series, this particular episode is hosted by Sami Shah and looks at the slowing of the growth of the global population and what this means for the world's religions.
The podcast can be found here.
The Face of the Nation
This podcast is an episode of the "Democracy Sausage" podcast series, hosted by Mark Kenny. On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Dr Elise Stephenson joins Professor Mark Kenny to discuss the remaining gender inequalities in our institutions.
The podcast can be found here. | A new book called 'Using Social Theory in Higher Education', edited by Remy Y.S. Low, Suzanne Egan and Amani Bell, offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called 'Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills', edited by Blanka Bogunović, Renee Timmers and Sanela Nikolić, aims to show that a comprehensive understanding of music appreciation and performance is possible only by integrating perspectives from different geographical regions and musical cultures. The discussion is wide ranging but broadly accessible, and should be of interest to readers from all corners of music psychology.
The full text can be accessed here. | Artistic Antidote: Improving health and wellbeing through art
Groundbreaking research has shown that art could help improve health and wellbeing in the bush.
The video can be seen here. | | HASS Employment Opportunities |
NEW: Indigineous Research Assistant
Part Time
The Australian Sociological Association
NEW: Professor of Archaeology
Full Time
University of Melbourne
NEW: Associate Lecturer or Lecturer (Burmese)
Full Time
Australian National University
NEW: Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis
Full Time
University of Sydney
NEW: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Inclusive AI
Full Time
Swinburne University of Technology
| NEW: Research Infrastructure for Social Data and Digital Platforms
The Australian Internet Observatory is a new, four-year national research infrastructure initiative that will create an interconnected ecosystem of people, data and tools to support innovative approaches to the collection and analysis of digital social data across a range of disciplines and sectors. It will enable researchers to explore topics such as the distribution of misinformation, the patterns of everyday engagement with business, culture and science, flows of communication in emergencies and humanitarian crises, and the dynamics of political conflict and consensus.
| | Call for Expression of Interest | SHAPE Futures EMCR Network Executive Committee Positions
Call for Expressions of Interest
The SHAPE Futures EMCR Network aims to support, connect and advocate for early and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) working in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and Environment (SHAPE) disciplines across Australia. The SHAPE Futures Executive Committee is recruiting EMCRs interested in these objectives to take on a role within the Network Executive. All members of the executive are expected to attend the monthly meetings (held via Zoom), with other tasks allocated that are aligned to the position description. The time commitment will vary each month, depending on the role held by an individual. On average, it is anticipated a time commitment of 1-2 hours per week would be necessary.
The three positions currently available are Deputy Chairperson, Website Officer and Social Media Officer.
For details, read on... | NEW: Finding Australia's Disabled Authors are calling for papers to include in their online symposium in September.
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