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Date: 9/16/2021
Subject: CHASS Newsletter September 17
From: Sally Daly



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CHASS Newsletter
Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
Welcome to the second of our new regular newsletter sharing events, jobs, scholarships and other news from across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Most importantly, there are only 3 days left to nominate for the CHASS Board, see below for details. 
 
As mentioned in our first newsletter, we ask that you share this publication within and beyond your organisation as appropriate. We would like it to be circulated as widely as possible and any organisation and individual can sign up to receive it. 

 
CHASS Board Elections
CHASS Board: October 2021 – October 2023

Nominations are called for members to be on the CHASS Board.

Those elected will hold office from the completion of the election process through to the 2023 Annual General Meeting (October). Candidates must submit the Nomination form. An election will be held where the number of nominations exceeds the positions available.

Signed Nomination of a candidate for election to the Board of CHASS forms must be submitted by midday (AEST) Monday September 20th, 2021. The form should have a 200 word biography/position statement attached.

Please email the signed form to: membership@chass.org.au by midday (AEST) this Monday September 20th, 2021.

If more than six nominations are received, an election will be held online from Midday AEST September 22nd, 2021 through to midday AEST October 18. If an online election is required, all members will be notified via email shortly after midday Monday September 20th, 2021.


CHASS Awards/Prizes
 
If you missed the Social Sciences Week event with 2020 CHASS Distinctive Prize winner, Robyn Gulliver, talking about the Campaign Explorer database and citizen science project, you can catch up with it here.
 
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2021 CHASS Flash Award: Creativity in Covid is an open prize for any creative work - visual, auditory, or performed - born/inspired from Covid related impacts. Nominees should provide enough evidence for judges to assess the innovation and connection to Covid. 
Prize: $2,000
Submission deadline: October 1. Submit online here. 
 
CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: 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 2021 and 31 December 2021. Policy work and research may have commenced earlier, but must have been completed during 2021.
Prize: $2,000
Submission deadline: October 1. Submit online here.
 
CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize: aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2021 is Fragility and Hope. The writing can be fiction or non-fiction and needs to be between 1500 and 2000 words. This writing prize, introduced in 2020 ($2000 cash prize) is being sponsored by Future Leaders.
Prize: $2,000
Submission deadline: October 1. Submit via email to helen@futureleaders.com.au
 
 
HASS Awards & Prizes

Open Prizes

New: Questions Writing Prize 2022
The 2022 Questions Writing Prize recognises and rewards young Australian writers (18 to 30 years). The writing can be fiction or non-fiction on any topic as long as the piece remains between 1,500 and 2,000 words.
The prize for the best writing submitted is $2,000.
The winner of the Questions Writing Prize will have their work published in a book and a forthcoming issue of Questions.
Submission deadline: May 1, 2022. Read on...
 

Prize Announcements

The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) celebrated SFL scholars behind the 2021 winners of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia for Primary Reference Resources:
 
WINNER: Teaching the Language of Climate Change Science (Julie Hayes & Bronwyn Parkin, Primary English Teaching Association Australia)
Highly commended: An EAL/D Handbook (Helen Harper & Susan Feez, Primary English Teaching Association Australia)
 
University of South Australia Awards and Prizes  
Emeritus Professor Kay Lawrence has been acknowledged as JamFactory’s 2021 Lifetime Honouree. One JamFactory Lifetime Honouree is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the JamFactory and the wider craft and design community. It recognises the important role that individuals play in creating a dynamic craft and design sector.

UniSA Creative Lecturer, Susannah Emery’s game ‘Hannah: A Friend in Need’, has been nominated for a GEE Learning Game Award. The Gee Learning Game Awards are an international award for games that promote learning in their players.
 
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Rachel Hurst has been awarded the prestigious Sir James Irwin President’s Medal 2021 by the SA chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Dr Hurst – who was a senior lecturer with UniSA Creative until March this year, and now an Adjunct member of staff – received the honour in recognition of her career as an architectural educator, having mentored thousands of students over many years.
 
The SA Media Awards were announced on 25 June 2021 and UniSA Creative students and alumni received the following awards:
  • Helen Karak, Bachelor of Journalism and Professional Writing student, Julie Duncan Memorial Award for Student Journalism, Silver Award
  • Brittany Evins, Bachelor of Journalism graduate, Best TV/News Report, Bronze Award
  • Royce Kurmelous, Bachelor of Journalism graduate, Best Freelance Contribution, Bronze Award
  • Lincoln Rothall, Bachelor of Journalism graduate, TV/Video Camerawork, Bronze Award
The Design Institute of Australia have announced the South Australian/Northern Territory Graduate of the Year Award 2021 winners. UniSA Creative Graduates received the following awards:
  • Brooke Bartolic, Bachelor of Interior Architecture – SA/NT Interior Design Graduate of the Year
  • Brian Bolado, Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) – SA/NT Communication Design Graduate of the Year
  • Shu Yun Lam, Graduate Diploma in Design – SA/NT Product Design Graduate of the Year
  
HASS Competitions for High School Students
Online Writing and Art Competition: Inclusion is!
You are invited to enter a written piece or a visual artwork that examines issues of disability injustice, exclusion and discrimination using a sociological lens.
Entry deadline: October 10. Read on... Also, see the video

HASS Events
The Congress of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
CHASS bringing together the annual discipline association conferences in the HASS sector under one banner. Proposed dates for the inaugural event are the final week of November and/or first week of December 2023 (Melbourne). 
More details to follow.
 
New: Hope
46th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion
9-10 December 2021
Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, will present the annual Freilich Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance.
Brooke Prentis, CEO of Common Grace, will present the annual Penny Magee Memorial Lecture.
Further keynote speakers, including the presenter of the Hans Mol Memorial Lecture, will soon be confirmed.
Submission deadline: 31 October. Read on... 
 
New: The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)
Sixth Biennial Colloquium
24-26 November 2021.
Theme: Decentring and diversifying languages and cultures
Keynote speakers:
Professor Felicity Meakins, ARC Future Fellow, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland;
Associate Professor Ursula Lanvers, Department of Education, University of York;
Dr Robyn Ober, IRC Fellow, Batchelor Institute.
Early Bird registration deadline: October 8. Read on...
 
New: The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) Conference
University of Queensland
Hybrid mode,  29 Sept to 1 Oct.
Registrations close September September 27 for non-presenters.  Read on...
 
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Submissions on any kind of social aspects regarding COVID-19 will be welcome. More details to follow. 

ANZAMEMS
The Thirteenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference will be held at The University of Western Australia. The topic is: Reception and Emotion. The conference will be held from 27 June to 1 July 2022 and will include an ANZAMEMS Seminar. The Call for Papers has now opened. The closing date for submissions is Friday 12 November 2021. For details, read on... 
 

SLNSW
The State Library is hosting six public lectures presented as part of 'A Foreign Country: Travels through the Past' series:
 

THREE - Legacies of Atlantic slavery and British colonialism, with Trevor Burnard
28 September at 5.30pm
Free. Bookings.

FOUR - Family histories and the memory of nations: Reflections on my great-grandmother’s fight against Aboriginal child removal in the 1930s, with Victoria Haskins
12 October at 5.30pm
Free. Bookings.

FIVE - Lucky but lame — Australia’s unhappy relationship with risk, with Mark Kenny
26 October at 5.30pm
Free. Bookings.

SIX - Thomas Jefferson’s gardens, with Jennifer Milam
9 November at 5.30pm
Free. Bookings.

ACHRC
The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres (ACHRC) presents a seminar series on Digital Humanities (DH) bringing together experts in the field and creating a space for the discussion of key aspects of DH research and its inclusion in teaching, research design, collaboration, networking, and funding applications.
  • 4.00-4.45pm TODAY Friday 17 September: Digital Humanities and the Researcher
  • 12noon-12.45pm on Friday 24 September: Digital Humanities and Research Design
For details, and to register, read on...

TASA November
The Australian Sociological Association is hosting several hybrid events in November as well as a Thematic Week involving multiple presentations, keynotes and a plenary. More details available soon. 
HASS Publications

Books

Yu, R, Gu, N & Ostwald, MJ 2021, Computational design: technology, cognition and environments, CRC Press, UK
 
Computational design: technology, cognition and environments,
New computational design tools have evolved rapidly and been increasingly applied in the field of design in recent years, complimenting and even replacing the traditional design media and approaches. Design as both the process and product are changing due to the emergence and adoption of these new technologies. Understanding and assessing the impact of these new computational design environments on design and designers is important for advancing design in the contemporary context. Do these new computational environments support or hinder design creativity? How do those tools facilitate designers’ thinking? Such knowledge is also important for the future development of design technologies. Research shows that design is never a mysterious non-understandable process, for example, one general view is that design process shares a common analysis-synthesis-evaluation model, during which designers interact between design problem and solution spaces. Understanding designers’ thinking in different environments is the key to design research, education and practice. Read on... 

Book Chapters

Bassiri Abyaneh, A, Allan, A, Pieters, J & Davison, G 2021, ‘Developing a GIS-based tourist walkability index based on the AURIN walkability toolkit-case study: Sydney CBD ’, in Urban Informatics and Future Cities, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 233–256.
 
Langley, J, Wallace, N, Davis, A, Gwilt, I, Knowles, S, Partridge, R, … Ankeny, U (2021), ‘COVID co-design does not *HAVE* to be digital! Why 'which platform should we use?' should not be your first question’, in COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice, Policy Press, UK, pp. 85–95. [FULL ACCESS].
 
Walton, S 2021, ‘Other sides: loving and grieving with Heart of a Dog and Merleau-Ponty's depth’, in Emotion, Ethics and Cinematic Experience: New Phenomenological and Cognitivst Perspectives, Berghahn Books, UK, pp. 38–57.
 

Journals

Lipson-Smith, R, Pflaumer, L, Elf, M, Blaschke, S, Davis, A, White, M, Zeeman, H & Bernhardt, J 2021, ‘Built environments for inpatient stroke rehabilitation services and care: a systematic literature review’, BMJ Open, vol. 11, no 8, pp. e050247- e050247.

Wallace, N, Davis, A, Gwilt, I 2021, ‘Wellbeing through participation: Creativity and co-design as processes of "welldoing"‘, NiTRO, vol. 35, pp. 1-6.

Franklin, A.S, Lee, B. & Rentschler, R 2021, ‘The Adelaide Festival and the Development of Arts in Adelaide, Journal of Urban Affairs, pp.1-26.

O’Connor, J 2021, ‘Blue Wedge: Art, Culture and ‘the Elite’. Griffith Review, vol 73 ‘Hey Utopia!’, pp.55-69.

Roberts, R. & Whiting, S. 2021, ‘The impact of COVID-19 on music venues in regional South Australia: A case study’, Special Issue: COVID-19, Music and the Asia-Pacific (Part 1) - Perfect Beat, vol 21, no. 1, pp. 25-32.

Stratton, J 2021, ‘Coronavirus, the great toilet roll panic and civilisation’ , Thesis Eleven, online., pp 1-24.

Viljoen, JM & Zolkos M, 2021, "Reimagining cultural memory of the arctic in the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq" in Memory Studies, vol.14, no 4, pp. 1-23.

White, J 2021, ‘"The proud & haughty Rocks": gender, botany and archipelagic travel writing in Scotland’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 309–327.

Whiting, S 2021, ‘The value of small live music venues: alternative forms of capital and niche spaces of cultural production’, Cultural Sociology, online., pp. 1–21.
 

Conference Proceedings

Di Niro, C, Gostin, A & 17th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities - The World 4.0: Convergences of Knowledges Machines University of Granada, Granada, Spain July 2019, ‘The virtual actor: enhancing the audience experience through virtual reality (video)’, in Final Program, Common Ground Research Networks, US, pp. 124–124.

Saha, L, Nicholls, R, Sivam, A, Sinclair, K, Karuppannan, S, & Atkinson, S 2021, ‘Reconciling Australian Aboriginal Architecture: A Built-Unbuilt Dilemma of the Anthropocene’ in K Hislop & H Lewi, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures, Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ): 37, Perth, Australia, pp. 445-454.
 

Podcasts

The Secret Life of Language is a podcast series from the studios of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne. In the podcasts they dive into the cultures, arts and histories that underpin and inform the world's diverse languages. Read on...
 
HASS Industry Connections
New: UniSA Creative’s educational partnership with Rising Sun Pictures in the Bachelor of Film and Television, Graduate Certificate in Composting and Tracking, and Graduate Certificate in Dynamic Effects and Lighting programs has been certified by The Rookies. This recognition is awarded to schools/institutions that provide the most up-to-date and relevant industry training and education for students aspiring to work in creative media industries.
 
New: Dr Jane Andrew and Mr Benjamin Altieri, together with Wellbeing SA and the Fay Fuller Foundation ran the inaugural Match Studio “Match Tournament”, an interdisciplinary collaboration of academic and student minds tackling a client posed meta challenge Activating Community Resilience to develop proposals for products, policies, systems, and services that address a client/sponsor’s challenge. Match Studio is the University of South Australia’s innovative learning space, geared to support design skills development through client-focused interdisciplinary project collaboration and professional practice.
 
HASS Funding
New: Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund
The RISE Fund is supporting the arts and entertainment sector to reactivate. The program is targeting funding towards the arts and entertainment sector organisations to assist in the presentation of cultural and creative projects, activities and events to rebuild confidence amongst investors, producers and consumers. Projects that target audiences in outer metropolitan, regional and remote areas will also be taken into account, as well as projects that in that involve tours and use local regional pre-production and production, services and support acts.
Application deadline: 31 December. Read on... 

HASS Employment Opportunities
New: Research Officer or Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
Project: Future-proofing the Frontline: Strategies to support frontline workers during times of crisis.
Applications close: 1 October. Read on...
 
Fellow/Associate Professor
Australian National University, College of Asia & the Pacific
Applications close: 26 September. Read on...
 
We welcome you to share any employment opportunities with us to include in this newsletter and to list on our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board
 
HASS PhD Scholarship Opportunities
The University of South Australia currently have several HASS PhD opportunities available including in the areas of Built environment and design, Education, Health Sciences, Human Societies, Cultural Studies, Public Law & Psychology. For details, read on...
 
 
 
We welcome you to share any PhD opportunities with us to include in this newsletter and to list on our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board
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