Unfortunately, the AANZEHN’s newsletter has been bouncing from many of your inboxes for several months now! We have been doing some troubleshooting and hope that all of our subscribers have received this latest round of news with no issues. But in case you have missed some of our news, we wanted to catch you up.
The AANZEHN paid homage to John Dargavel in our last newsletter following the sad news that he had passed away, aged 91. We re-posted the ANU Fenner School’s tribute to John and have provided links to numerous pieces with, by, and honouring John.
Congratulations Margaret Cook & Heather Goodall
We congratulated AANZEHN members Margaret Cook and Heather Goodall for their respective accolades. Margaret received Griffith University’s 2024 Pro Vice Chancellor (Science) Excellence in Research Impact Award for her book A River with a City Problem. And Heather was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King’s Birthday Honours in June for ‘significant service to tertiary education, particularly social science, and to the Indigenous community’.
AANZEHN Public Environmental History Prize Winner Announced
At the AANZEHN’s annual gathering at the Australian Historical Association Conference in July, the Network’s Steering Committee was delighted to announce the winner of our 2024 Public Environmental History Prize: Jared Davidson for his book Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand.
Opportunities still open…
While many of the fantastic opportunities we have advertised over the last few months are now closed, there are several things still open!
For example, Macquarie University is delighted to host the biennial conference of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) in 2025. Scheduled for Wednesday 5 – Friday 7 February 2025, this InASA conference will revolve around the theme ‘Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds’. There’s still time to submit a paper. Find out more here!
And Associate Professor Melina Buns at the Greenhouse – Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger in Norway, is offering a PhD fellowship to a motivated student looking to work at the intersection of environmental and energy histories. Applications due 15 September. More can be found here…
