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Welcome to the third of our new regular newsletter sharing events, jobs, scholarships and other news from across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
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| | CHASS Board - Incoming Members | | Professor Sandra Gattenhof is Director of Research Training in Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty at QUT situated on Turrbul and Yugara lands in Meanjin (Brisbane). Sandra is internationally recognised as expert in the field of arts and cultural evaluation and worked as a researcher with major arts organisations and arts funding bodies in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, United Kingdom and Norway. Read on... | | | Associate Professor Ilana Mushin is a linguist whose research interests include: interactions between discourse, cognition and grammar, pragmatics, perspective-taking in discourse, Conversation Analysis, typology, narrative structure, language shift and language maintenance, Australian First Nations Languages.
Ilana is currently a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'Conversational interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia' (CIARA - https://www.ciaraproject.com).
Ilana is currently President of the Australian Linguistic Society and Conference Chair of the International Society for Conversation Analysis conference (ICCA23). | | | Dr Lara McKenzie is a Research Fellow in Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia, and have been a fixed term and casual academic since I received my PhD in anthropology and sociology in 2013. My research has focused on Australia, particularly age, love, and kinship. I am currently completing a study on precarious academics’ experiences of looking for stable academic work, as well as working as part of a large project on Covid-19 and vaccination. Read on...
| | | Dr Matthew Champion is a Senior Research Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Australian Catholic University. Prior to his return to Australia in 2020, he was a tenured Lecturer in Medieval History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at the Warburg Institute, London, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Read on...
| | | | 2021 CHASS Annual General Meeting | Our online Annual General Meeting has been scheduled for Friday October 29, 12:30pm - 1:30pm. The Agenda and meeting access details will be provided ahead of the meeting. We hope you can make it along to join us in officially welcoming our new Board members shown above.
| 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.
| 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: A Night of Herakles and Athena Life Drawing
Tomorrow Saturday 16 October, 6pm - 9pm (AWST)
| New: Decentering and diversifying languages and cultures
Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)
Sixth Biennial Colloquium
November 24 - 26, online.
New: Journalism, Policy and Politics
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia Conferene
1st-3rd December
News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra
New: Australian Linguistic Society conference
La Trobe University, Melbourne
7 - 9 December 2021
New: Reception and Emotion
The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)
The Thirteenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference
The University of Western Australia, 27 June to 1 July 2022
Submission deadline: Friday 12 November. Read on...
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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.
| | New: ‘Communicating Truth and Beauty: A Dialogue with the Sciences’
The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres
Free online conference
Monday, 15 Nov, 10:00 AM – Tuesday, 16 Nov, 3:30 PM AEDT
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Submissions on any kind of social aspects regarding COVID-19 will be welcome. More details to follow. | | | | The State Library is hosting six public lectures presented as part of 'A Foreign Country: Travels through the Past' series:
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. | | | 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.
| New: Marvin Backes (2021) Epistemic Justification: Probability, Normalcy, and the Functional Theory, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2021.1988663. [OPEN ACCESS]
| New: Drama Australia's Communique
You can access past issues of Communique – a publication of news, events and links to resources, produced by Drama Australia for drama teachers, educators, and practitioners here.
New: Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA)
You can access past issues of the ASFLA newsletter via their website here.
New: Humanities 21 Newsletter
In case you are not aware, you can subscribe to the Humanities 21 newsletter here.
| New: Conversations in Anthropology
Conversations in Anthropology is a podcast about life, the universe and anthropology produced by David Boarder Giles, Timothy Neale, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher and Matt Barlow. You can access the podcast recordings here.
| New: Dungala Kaiela Oration 2021 with Josephine Sukkar AM
The Dungala Kaiela Oration is co-hosted annually by the Kaiela Institute and the University of Melbourne. This major event challenges and inspires the creation of a shared cultural identity and the building of an inclusive vision of nationhood and prosperity of the Yorta Yorta and other First Nations peoples. You can catch up with the Oration via the video recording here.
| 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.
| | HASS Employment Opportunities | New: Lecturer (Performing Arts)
Edith Cowan University
Applications close: 27 October at 5pm (AWST). 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 Scholarship Opportunities | New: Merna Mattsson Scholarship for Women in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
The Merna Mattsson Scholarship for Women in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities is made possible by a generous legacy donation from the Mattsson family. Merna was a long serving staff member in the Swinburne Library.
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