The Australian Women's History Network's 2023 AGM is forthcoming! Date: Tuesday 31 October 2023 Time: 12 noon AEDT Place: Zoom AWHN @auswhn.bsky.social members have been sent a calendar invite w/ a Zoom link. Please reach out if you have any questions! We look forward to seeing you there! 😊

‼️CFP FOR 2024 ISSUE‼️ The CFP for the 2024 issue of Lilith is now open! We welcome both research articles & polished versions of conference papers from the Lilith 2023 Symposium. Please send submissions or any queries to [email protected] Deadline: 30 December 2023

Join us on 21st November at 6.30pm Melbourne time for the next Melbourne Irish Studies seminar. Anna Johnston, UQ, on Songs of an Exile: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. isaanz.org/2023/10/20/son…

@lizlaughton_ and I are looking for members to join our Australian feminist history writing group for 2024! Check out details below 👇

We're #celebratingnewfellows & are thrilled to welcome the brilliant Professor Katie Barclay from Uni of Adelaide to our Academy. Prof Barclay is the Head of Historical and Classical Studies and Director of the Fay Gale Centre in Gender Studies. Her research focuses on the

An amazing account of a 19th c Irish Australian migrant family and rare early photos that have recently been found, including an extraordinary image of their children with an indigenous Australian nursemaid. Henry Kidd Harpur was born in Limerick in 1817 and emigrated in 1841.

Entries for 2024 AJIS/ISAANZ postgraduate essay competition are now open. Anyone enrolled in higher degree in any institution on any topic! Send us your essay for the competition. All details here isaanz.org/ajis/postgradu…

Review a book for us!!

Delighted to recieve my contributor copy of this important collection. Looking forward to reading it through!

Since 2016, I've had the pleasure of working with @alana_piper as the co-founder and managing editor of #VIDAblog. Since 2022, we've been joined by the ever-supportive Vera Mackie. As Alana explores new horizons, we are seeking EOIs to join the #VIDAblog editorial team! ⬇️

Look what arrived: congrats Malcolm Sen & Julie McCormick Weng on this important book! 👏 Pleased to have an essay here -in brilliant company -on Skein Press Okorie's This Hostel Life, Ryan's The Quiet Sea, & @JessicaTraynor6 & Rea's Correspondences. Can't wait to read the rest!

Emotions of the Future! Consider giving a paper at my event in November.

Thank you to Professor Dianne Hall and the West Cork Hist Fest for joining us at the Embassy for this special 'In Conversations' event on the Irish Diaspora in Australia.

The Australian Women's History Network stands in solidarity with all university academic and professional staff who are facing job cuts and redundancies. As we reshare our 2023 statement in support of ACU staff, please send us details to enable our work towards a 2024 statement.

Heard William Dalrymple talking in Melbourne last night about The Golden Road. Great night and wonderful talk. Really good to be out woth so many people interested in history and ideas.

#Twitterstorians CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS! I’m absolutely thrilled to announce ‘Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500-1850)’ is back! Please do check out and share our CfP we’re already looking forward to reading your abstracts! #CFP #Earlymodern #History

In this week's VIDA blog Shouyue Zhang reviews the recent Melbourne Feminist History Group Workshop in Melbourne in October 2024. Melbourne Feminist History Group Australian Catholic University Find it here: auswhn.com.au/blog/reflectio…

A #CFP for the southern hemisphere's premier #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference - what more could you want for Christmas?! Hosted in Melbourne from 3-5 Dec 2025, our website is now open for paper and panel proposal with a deadline of 14 Feb. conference.anzamems.org/cfp/

Today is the day… 😅

The battles of the Boyne & Aughrim, along with the siege of Derry, shaped Protestant identity in Ireland for centuries. See a King Billy wallet (from Ulster Museum) & one of the 4 enormous locks used to secure Derry (from St Columbs cathedral). Empire: World History