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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.
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.
Award for the Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Congratulations to Dr Andy Brown-May for winning the 2007 Victorian & Community Local History Award for Best Collaborative/Community Work for the Encyclopedia of Melbourne.
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria says of the Encylopedia, "This volume has become essential in everybody's book collection. Melbourne is fortunate in its historians; their contributions to this book make it a compelling guide to this city's living history and an affirmation of its civic ethos."
The awards are sponsored by the Victorian Government and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
Book awards for Dr Barbara Keys
Congratulations to Ara Keys for being awarded the North American Society for Sport History 2006 Book Award for her book, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, published in 2006 by Harvard University Press.
The NASSH annual award is "given for a distinguished book written in English on any aspect of sport history, without chronological or geographic restriction."
At the NASSH annual conference Texas Tech University, the book was described as "A rich study of the political and cultural ramifications of international athletic competitions in the 1930s, examining the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to expensive, celebrity-packed, politically resonant, globally popular extravaganzas. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, Keys details how countries of widely varying ideologies were drawn to participate in an emerging global culture.
"Globalizing Sport is thoroughly researched and a delight to read. Acknowledging that the book covers some well-trod ground, the committee was nonetheless impressed that Keys has a great deal to say that's new and by her ability to bring disparate subjects together in a cogent way that stresses 'the consolidation of the international sport world'. Yet despite going global, the book's tight temporal focus also allows for in-depth analysis. Lucidly argued and deftly contextualized, Globalizing Sport enriches our understanding of myriad subjects."
Globalizing Sport has also won two other awards:
- The best book award of the Australian Society for Sport History, recognising outstanding scholarship in sports history;
- The International Society of Olympic Historians award for the best book on the Olympic Movement and Olympic history published in the previous year