Australian and New Zealand History / Studies

Call for Papers:

‘The Antipodes and beyond: foregrounding Irish women’. The 24th ISAANZ Conference, December 10-12, Adelaide, South Australia. 

The Antipodes: the opposite, figuratively, geographically, metaphorically. We are interested in accounts of women and men who lived opposite lives often off the main stage, but who played their part in Irish history, literature and the Sciences, especially in Australia and New Zealand.

‘Local Communities, Global Networks’: Australian Historical Association 2019 Conference (8-12 July 2019)

An international workshop to be held at the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington DC, 24 and 25 May, 2019

Co-conveners: Jenna M. Gibbs (Florida International University) and Sünne Juterczenka (Göttingen University), Binational Tandem Fellows in Global and Transregional History at the GHI, 2018-2019

2nd Biennial International Conference on Redefining Australia and New Zealand:  Changes, Innovations, Reversals: Warsaw, 16-17 September 2019    

Beyond the Metropolis: Jews and Settler Cities

In a 1930 study sociologist Arthur Ruppin coined the term “Jewish metropolization” to describe the high rates of urbanization by Jews after 1800. He noted that Jews appeared to have a special preference for very large cities: Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Odessa, London, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Buenos Aires, and after the lifting of Jewish settlement restrictions, Moscow and Petrograd/Leningrad.

EBSCO Publishing, an award-winning U.S. academic publisher (www.ebsco.com), is producing articles on a broad range of topics for its “Explora for Australia and New Zealand” online database available to students and educators in Australia and New Zealand via academic, school, and public libraries. 

ANZASA Online 

We are delighted to announce that ANZASA Online, the official blog of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, is now live! 

Each week we will have new and original content written by the vibrant community of Americanists studying and working in the southern hemisphere.

The program for the Royal Military College’s history symposium, Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in Two World Wars (8-9 November 2018) is set and we have a great schedule lined up this year! See below for details.

Applications for 2019 Summer Scholarships are now OPEN, and will CLOSE 30 September 2018.

Our annual summer scholarships support younger scholars and a scholar from rural or regional Australia undertaking postgraduate research, who require special access to the Library’s collections. 

Scholars spend six weeks at the Library, commencing in the second week of January each year. They have privileged access to the Library’s materials and facilities, as well as sustained interaction with Library staff.