News & Events
Australia New Zealand American Studies Association Conference
History Council of South Australia Presents
Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) and Master of Arts
(Curatorial & Museum Studies)
Military Historian honoured for his work
New courses in 2009
New positions in the School of History & Politics
Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars
Reading the Past in Present Day Adelaide: Researchers and Resources
School attracts high profile personalities
Winter School Courses
Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars
The ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER) presents 2 Sponsored Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars (PATS)
Sponsored Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminars (PATS)‘Preparing for life after the PhD’Consisting of 2 PATS
1. ‘From postgraduate to professional: how to get a real job’
and
2. ‘From thesis (or other scholarly work) to book: the proposal’
Dates: Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 September 2009
Venue: The University of Adelaide
Organiser: Dr Lucy Potter (English, University of Adelaide)
lucy.potter@adelaide.edu.au
Rationale and Aims:
These two training seminars aim to take the fear out of life after the PhD by preparing participants for their careers in two, specific ways:
- By giving participants a head start in today’s competitive job market through the production of a job application package; and
- By encouraging participants to look beyond their PhD with the production of a book proposal based on their thesis for an academic press.
These seminars are designed to enable postgraduates to identify the skills they have learned during their candidature, and to apply, or ‘transfer’ those skills to real-life contexts both in and beyond the academy. They offer expert guidance directed at developing two specific documents with which students can meet the challenges they will face after completing their PhD.
Information for Applicants
Postgraduates and ECRs may register to attend one or both of the PATS. Please email Dr Lucy Potter (lucy.potter@adelaide.edu.au) to register your intention to attend by Friday 31 July 2009.
Descriptions and details of each PATS follow. Click here for program.
Reading the Past in Present Day Adelaide: Researchers and Resources
The ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER) and the Early Modern Reading Group at the University of Adelaide present a one day symposium for postgraduates and early career researchers
Date: Monday 28 September 2009
Venue: The University of Adelaide
Organisers: Dr Heather Kerr (English, University of Adelaide), Dr Lucy Potter (English, University of Adelaide), Dr Claire Walker (History, University of Adelaide)
The nature and aims of the symposium
“Reading the Past in Present Day Adelaide” is a one-day symposium to be held at the University of Adelaide in September 2009. It brings local and interstate postgraduates and early career researchers together with Adelaide scholars and professionals, and distinguished visiting scholars working in medieval and early modern studies.
The aims of the symposium are:
1. To present current research by Adelaide scholars working in medieval and early modern studies;
2. To showcase the textual and visual resources, collections, and other infrastructure of interest to postgraduates and early career researchers working in medieval and early modern studies;
3. To facilitate networking, and identify and develop scholarly communities among participants.
The program is a combination of formal and informal sessions designed to enhance fellowship as well as scholarship, and to foster the sharing of knowledges. Participants will learn about what Adelaide has to offer—researchers and resources—to postgraduates and early career researchers working in medieval and early modern studies.
Information for Applicants
Please email Dr Lucy Potter (lucy.potter@adelaide.edu.au) to register your intention to attend by Friday 31 July 2009.
Relevance to NEER’s aims:
The symposium’s aims correspond with those of NEER to enable Australian researchers to collaborate on projects (both panel sessions and the roundtable), and to provide an event from which a publication of collected essays is viewed as an outcome (panel session #1) EMRG has focused sessions on Gossip and the Public Sphere in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, and it plans to publish a collection of essays on this theme. The place of the Symposium panel is to provide a core of essays from which this larger publication project will emanate.
Program details
History Council of South Australia Presents
The History Council of South Australia Presents : The Case for History By The Hon. (Bob) Robert CARR
Venue: Lecture Theatre 102, 1st floor, Napier Building, University of Adelaide Located behind the Bonython Hall at the intersection of North Terrace and Pulteney Street, Adelaide
Date: Tuesday July 21st, 6.00 – 7.30 p.m.
Synopis: History seems to be constantly in the news these days and so it should be. From the ‘History Wars’ to the new National Curriculum, from debates on national character and citizenship to the bumper selection of programs available on the mass media, everyone is recognizing that History really does have something to say to our modern world. We ignore our past at our peril.
Cost (includes light refreshments) – $5; gold coin for students
Bookings essential: RSVP by 15 July using email to HCSA Secretary Robert Foster (secretary@historycouncilsa.org.au )
For further information
Australia New Zealand American Studies Association Conference
Tom Buchanan is chairing the Australia New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, July 1-4, 2010 University of Adelaide. For Registrations and paper submissions consult the organization's website http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/docs/index.htm
New positions in the School of History & Politics
Three new academic positions have been advertised in the School of History
& Politics. All three positions are continuing and job details can be found
at Academic Positions Available
on the University website.
- Associate Professor/Professor in International Politics
- Lecturer in International Politics/Australian Politics
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in International Politics/Australian Politics
High profile personalities join the School of History & Politics
Professor Alexander Downer
Professor Alexander Downer has joined the School as a Visiting Professor
after 23 years in the Federal Parliament and nearly 12 years as the Foreign Minister
of Australia. He also works as an Undersecretary General of the United Nations
with responsibility for the Cyprus peace talks. Alexander gives occasional lectures
on politics and international relations and is happy to assist students in areas
where he has real life experience. The School is giving Alexander substantial
assistance with his work on Cyprus having set up a Cyprus working group which
meets with him every three or four weeks.
New courses in 2009
The following courses are being offered for the first time in 2009. For a comprehensive
listing of all courses available through the School of History & Politics,
please see the Undergraduate
course schedule
Winter School Courses
Indigenous
Culture & History
This course will introduce students to Indigenous culture and history.
It will consider traditional Aboriginal Society practices and structures, including
Indigenous religion and beliefs (kinships, lore and the Dreaming), and relationships
to the land and environment. It will then introduce policies and events that have
affected Aboriginal society since colonisation, including policies that led to
the Stolen Generation, welfare and church practices, Protector practices, social
policies of segregation, and policies of self determination. Students will undertake
a number of local field trips which will provide a range of experiences of traditional
Aboriginal Dreaming Stories, Aboriginal Art/Artefacts, and Aboriginal Political
Activism.'
Is
America really in decline?
2008 is an election year in the United States and interest has reached a new high
domestically and internationally in the future of the American government and
the American republic. With the extraordinarily unpopular administration of George
W. Bush (30% in the polls, a very low number) it is timely and important to examine
the origins and future of the American state. This short subject is structured
to do exactly that: how did the American state emerge at the end of the 18th century?;
what have been the crucial values and themes which have governed its development?;
how did it expand within a century from a tenuous state on the eastern seaboard
of North America to become a continental power and eventually a world hegemon?;
and, finally is it now in decline and what are its prospects for the future under
a new administration coming into power in January, 2009? The subject would be
run in three hour seminars for three sessions per week over four weeks (36 hours)
and the mode of instruction would include lectures, discussion and some films
and visual materials. The subject is intended for Advanced students. The objective
would be to give the students a concentrated appreciation of the nature and complexities
of American history and culture and an insight into the very formidable domestic
and foreign policy issues facing America in both the short and long term.
Conflict
and Crisis in the Middle East
Since the creation of the modern Middle East in the early 20th Century the
region has been consumed with both conflict and crisis. Many of these problems
stem from the legacies of Ottoman and European colonialism. This course will examine
the impact of colonialism, the creation of new nation-states, the division of
ethnic and tribal groups, and the experimentation with new and foreign political
ideologies. The search for national political identity in a post-colonial world
has been influenced and shaped by key regional developments such as the establishment
of Israel, the Palestinian regugees, intra-country conflict, the Cold War, and
the influence (and at times occupation by) regional and Western powers. In the
post-Cold War period a political vacuum emerged which was quickly filled by political
Islamists and led to the era known as the 'war on terror'; resulting in the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Currently the region remains an area of stark contrasts
of under-development and modernity, poverty and wealth, and autocracy, theocracy
and democratic systems of governance. The majority of the region's population
is under 25 years of age and the political, social and economic implications this
is going to have on the region and internationally in the next couple of decades
is critical. This course will examine past conflicts and crises in the Middle
East ranging from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the 1956 Suez crisis, the 1967 war,
the Iranian revolution and rise of political Islam, to the post-September 11 environment.
The
Rise of China's Economic Power
This course will guide students through thte process of China's development
experience since the 1940s until the present. Its goal is to help them develop
an informed persepctive on the different historical stages, economic and political
rationale, and effectiveness of the economic policies and institutional changes
that have shaped China's economic development. The second goal of this course
is to study Chinese economic development in order to think critically about the
linkages between economy and politics, as well as the role of an individual in
the process of the articulation and implementation of economic policies, China's
experiment with socialism and its continuous efforts to find the Chinese path
to modernisation make it a fascinating case study for understanding how economic
change is taking place in a social development amid the tensions between institutions
and 'paramount leaders'.
While recognising the importance of an interdisciplinary perspective, this
course will emphasise the application of political economy to the study of Chinese
econominc development.
Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) and Master of Arts
(Curatorial & Museum Studies)
From 2009, a new double degree, Master of Arts (Studies in Art History)
and Master of Arts (Curatorial & Museum Studies) will be offered.
The combined degree program enables students to undertake a comprehensive and
complementary (historical, theoretical and practical) curriculum based on both
art historical and curatorial & museum studies coursework, a minor art history
thesis and two curatorial & museum studies research projects as well as a
20-day industry internship. For further information, please visit the Art
History website.
Military Historian honoured for his work
One of the world's leading military historians, Emeritus Professor Trevor
Wilson of the University of Adelaide, has been appointed an Honorary Member (AM)
in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Professor Wilson has received
his honour for service to education in the area of World War I military history
through teaching, writing and historical research. He has taught history at the
University of Adelaide since 1960. [full story]
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