News from around the School
Conference Call for Papers: 150 Years of Australian Football
15th July 2008
Victoria University
Conference Centre
300 Flinders Street
Melbourne
Those interested in presenting a paper or small display are invited to submit abstracts or descriptions in Word of up to 300 words along with a 50 word biography.
Please email submissions to:
footy150conference@gmail.com
Deadline for Submissions:
31st May 2008
For futher information on the conference, see the 150 Years of Australian Football webpage.
Lloyd Robson Memorial Awards 2008
The School of Historical Studies is pleased to invite applications for the Lloyd Robson Memorial Awards for 2008 for research-related travel to be undertaken between May 2008 and the end of October 2008.
The Lloyd Robson Memorial Award is open to postgraduate students of Australian history in the School of Historical Studies to assist them to undertake research interstate (within Australia).
A formal application is required and should include the following:
- Student number, full name, address and telephone number
- Research topic
- Details of the proposed interstate research
- Draft itinerary
- Budget setting out estimated travel and living expenses (supported by quotations)
- Details of funding from other sources
- Letter of support from your supervisor.
Applicants are welcome to include any other information that may assist the selection committee in making a decision.
The legislation governing the Award states: In recommending applicants for the award the head of the department must take into account the academic attainments and potential of the candidate, as well as the candidate's financial need. Information about financial need should thus be included as relevant.
Previous recipients of the award are eligible to apply, however preference may be given to applicants who have not previously held the award.
The amount of the award will be determined upon consideration of the applications.
Please forward your application to Coralie Crocker no later than Friday 16th May 2008.
Coralie Crocker
Research Higher Degrees Officer
School of Historical Studies
Room 306 John Medley West
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Victoria 3010
Tel: (+61 3) 8344 3745
Fax: (+61 3) 8344 7894
Email: ccrocker@unimelb.edu.au
Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
Travel/Research Scholarships
14 April 2008
The Classical Association of Victoria, La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne are each offering a scholarship, in association with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA), to enable three Honours or Postgraduate students to travel to Greece in 2008/2009 to undertake academic research.
The La Trobe University and Melbourne University scholarships will be awarded to Honours or Postgraduate students currently enrolled in these institutions. The Classical Association of Victoria will award a scholarship to an Honours or Postgraduate student enrolled at any tertiary institution in Victoria. Although the scholarships are primarily intended for archaeological research, students in related fields such as Ancient History, Art History, Classical Literature, Material Culture Studies and Heritage Management are also encouraged to apply.
The value of the scholarships will be $3000 in each instance. It is expected that this will cover the airfare and contribute toward the cost of accommodation in Greece.
Successful applicants will be expected to undertake a research program while in Greece and to write a short report for the Bulletin of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens upon their return. The AAIA will provide support in Athens, in the form of access to the Institute’s library facilities and to those of other academic institutions in Athens. If rooms are available, successful applicants are expected to stay at the AAIA while in Athens.
There is no specific limit to the duration of time spent in Greece but candidates should provide an approximate indication of the date and length of their proposed stay. It is expected that travel to Greece will be undertaken before the end of June 2009.
Applications are due by Friday June 20th 2008 and should include the following:
- a. A brief Curriculum Vitae
- b. An outline of the proposed research (no more than one page), with an approximate indication of the date and length of time to be spent in Greece and an indication of why a visit to Greece is appropriate
- c. The names of two academic referees
Applications should be submitted in hard copy to: Dr Jenny Webb, Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086
For further information please contact Roger Scott (r.scott@unimelb.edu.au) or Jenny Webb (jenny.webb@latrobe.edu.au).
Patricia Grimshaw receives dual recognition for distinguished service
19 March 2008
In recogniton of Professor Pat Grimshaw’s contribution to the University of Melbourne, a new award has been introduced in her name. The ‘Patricia Grimshaw Awards for Mentor Excellence’ honour Pat as a distinguished Professor of History and pioneer of women's and gender history, who has mentored generations of PhD students and younger colleagues across the University.
Pat’s magnificent achievements have also been recognised with her induction to the 2008 Honour Roll of Women in recognition of her substantial contribution to her field of research as an academic, pioneer of the study of women’s history, a writer and researcher, lecturer, supervisor, administrator and activist.
We extend our warmest congratulations to Pat for these richly deserved honours.
New Archaeology Fieldwork Opportunity in Israel:
In the wake of the Sea Peoples/In the footsteps of Goliath
04 March 2008
Over the last several years, Classics & Archaeology Senior Lecturer, Louise Hitchcock has been exploring a range of fieldwork projects that will provide on-site archaeological training for School of Historical Studies students - not only students who are involved in Aegean archaeology, but also those with interests in history, Classics, Jewish Studies, and Biblical Studies and would like to learn more about material culture and archaeology of the Philistines. Students at all levels of undergraduate and post-graduate research as well as staff are welcome to join the project as volunteers and receive training in archaeological field work, artifact processing, and attend lectures and go on fieldtrips in Israel.
In 2007, the Centre for Classics & Archaeology became involved in a 3rd collaborative project with Bar Ilan University: The Philistine site of Tell es-Safi, ancient Gath, the largest city of the Philistine Pentapolis is believed to have been founded by Cypriot and Mycenaean refugees, disenfranchised groups among the Sea Peoples contingent causing destruction in the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.
Volunteers can choose to work ffor 2, 3 or 4 weeks and are housed at the Kibbutz Revadim. If you would like to participate in the forthcoming season from July 6 - Aug 1 and work with a large ethnically and culturally diverse international team, please contact Louise Hitchcock lahi@unimelb.edu.au.
School welcomes Professor Ana Labrador, social anthropologist and curator, as a Visiting Scholar
13 February 2008
Historical Studies welcomes the Professor Ana Maria Theresa Labrador, 2008 Visiting Scholar Award at the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.
Dr Ana Maria Theresa Labrador is a social anthropologist and lecturer on Non-Western Aesthetics and Museum Studies and a lecturer in Anthropology and Cultural Heritage Management at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. She was previously the head of University of the Philippines’ Vargas Museum, and is a member of a team of experts’ for CollAsia 2010 program in Southeast Asia. She completed her DPhil at the University of Cambridge in 1998.
Professor Labrador is researching the inclusion of traditional approaches in preventive conservation training. One of the fundamental concerns is the concept of tradition in the European-North American sense that is different from the generally accepted notions in Southeast Asia. In the region, constructions of past and present are not separate but part of continuous cycles that have significant implications in terms of teaching preventive conservation and its scientific methods.
She will undertake two main research programs at the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) examining indigenous conservation practice and the materials and techniques of Twentieth Century Art in the Asia Pacific.
Dr Labrador will be a resident from 15 February to 24 May 2008.
School welcomes acclaimed curator as 2008 Macgeorge Fellow
16 January 2008
The School of Historical Studies welcomes the 2008 Macgeorge fellow, Dr Catherine Moriarty.
Moriarty is Curator of the University of Brighton Design Archives and Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts & Architecture. She completed her DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1995.
Her work engages with theoretical issues that lie at the heart of current research in the humanities – commemoration, cultural memory, inter-textuality, and principally visual and material culture, particularly sculpture. Her areas of expertise include war and commemoration, sculpture and architecture, photography and graphic design - as well as the cultural manifestation of memory in both private and public spheres.
Publications include:
The Monument and the Miniature: The commemorative art of Paul Montford & Marian Dibdin (Macmillan, 2008) [forthcoming].
The Sculpture of Gilbert Ledward (Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, 2003). A monograph in the series British Sculptors and Sculpture, research publications funded by the Henry Moore Foundation.
Dr Moriarty will be resident from 21 January to 1 March 2008
Maltese honour for Classics & Archaeology Fellow
08 January 2008
The State of Malta has bestowed its honours through appointment to the National Order of Merit to Dr Claudia Sagona, Senior Fellow in the the Centre for Classics & Archaeology. Granting these honours is a symbolic and lasting way for the country to recognise the excellence, merit and effort of those persons whom it is desired to honour.
The President of Malta, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has appointed Dr Sagona a member of The National Order of Merit in the grade of Member. Dr Sagona was advised last week of this news via a telephone call from the office of the Prime Minister of Malta.
The award is in recognition of Dr Sagona’s sustained scholarship on Malta's ancient past, which she has disseminated extensively to both academic and general audiences.
The award is rarely conferred on foreign nationals, and only to those who "…have distinguished themselves by their service in the promotion and fostering of international relations, or who have earned the respect and gratitude of the people of the Maltese Islands."
Dr Sagona was not able to attend the Investiture Ceremony in Malta which was held on their Republic Day (13 December), but will meet with staff in the Office of the Prime Minister early in the New Year.