The New Zealand Historical Association is calling for submissions to be considered for the .

Named in memory of the Pacific historian Mary Beatrice Boyd (1921-2010), this award is for the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published in a refereed journal.

Articles need to have been published between 2nd April 2013 and 1st April 2015. To enter, authors should email a PDF copy of the article with the subject line ‘Mary Boyd Prize Entry’ to nzhawebmaster@gmail.com

Individuals can only enter one article. If an individual does not enter the competition themselves, they are welcome to nominate an article by another historian by following the same process.

Entries close at 5pm on 1 September 2015.

Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant, Massey University and Professor Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago, are the two judges. The winner will be announced at the 2015 NZHA Conference.

The Review of English Studies is inviting entries for its 2015 Essay Prize. The RES Essay Prize aims to encourage scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. The essay can be on any topic of English literature or the English language from the earliest period to the present.

For entry guidelines and full details of the competition rules, please visit: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/6220/6.

The closing date for submissions is 30 June, 2015.

The Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group is able to offer a limited number of bursaries to Honours students, postgraduate students and unwaged Early Career Researchers who will be presenting papers at the “Blood, Tears, Sweat: Corporeality in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds” Conference in September 2015.

The bursaries are intended partially to reimburse costs associated with attending the conference.

Bursaries of up to AUS$500 may be awarded, on the basis that the applicant is:

• an Honours student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR
• a postgraduate student currently enrolled at a recognised institution OR
• an unwaged Early Career Researcher;

AND

• is in particular need of funding assistance;

AND

• is submitting an abstract for the “Blood, Tears, Sweat: Corporeality in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds” conference with this application

See http://conference.pmrg.org.au for application details.

Applications close 1 July 2015.

The Jill Roe Prize will be awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work (5,000-8,000 words) of historical research in any area of historical enquiry, produced by a postgraduate student enrolled for a History degree at an Australian university.

The Award honours the career of Professor Emerita Jill Roe, an eminent Australian historian who has made a very significant contribution to the writing, teaching and public communication of history in Australia and abroad.

The Award will consist of a cash payment and a citation, presented annually at the AHA national conference. In addition to the prize the winning entry will be considered for publication in History Australia–the journal of the Australian Historical Association.

The Jill Roe Prize will be administered by a judging panel appointed by the AHA, consisting of a Chair selected by the AHA Executive, and two professional historians. The decision of the panel will be final.

Applications open in December each year and close on 31 March the following year.

• Applicants will be required to provide
• a digital copy of their work
• a completed entry form that contains a statement from the author confirming the originality of the work

Applications and enquiries to Karen Downing, Executive Officer: the.aha@anu.edu.au

The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) invites applications for the CHASS Australia Prize for a Book in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($3500).

Nominees in this category must have published a non-fiction book (e-books are acceptable) in any HASS area between the dates of 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2014. Self-nominations are acceptable. Books should be by a single author or, at most, two authors. ​The book may have been published overseas, but the nominee must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident. Self-published books and e-books will be considered if the author can provide evidence that the book has been peer-reviewed. All works must be in English; unpublished manuscripts are not eligible. Books are not required to deal solely with Australian topics. For example, biographies of non-Australians and books about events that took place outside of Australia are acceptable.

The ​CHASS prize will be awarded to the author whose book, in the opinion of the judges, contributes most to cultural and intellectual life in Australia. Five copies of the application form, nominated book or CD (for an e-book) are required for judging. A single author can submit up to four books. Application materials and books will not be returned to applicants. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

To access/download the nomination form and to read more head to: http://www.chass.org.au/2015-australia-prizes

Submissions (regular mail or electronic) will be accepted until 5PM (AEST) on the 1 June 2015.

For more information, please contact CHASS on: (03) 9925 3935 or events@chass.org.au.

You may also be interested in the additional three Australia Prizes, to be presented at the CHASS Annual National Forum:

CHASS Australia Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($3,500)
This prize is for a performance, exhibition, research project or a specific advance in policy development in any HASS field.

CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($2,000)
This prize will be awarded for a future leader in any aspect of the Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences.

CHASS Australia Prize for a Student in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($500 Co-Op Voucher)
This prize is for a student project, performance, exhibition or thesis that best exemplifies the contribution of HASS to our understanding of our nation and us.

The editors of Shakespeare, in association with the British Shakespeare Association, are offering an annual essay prize. The winning entry will be published in Shakespeare and the winner will receive a copy of the volume (with 4 issues) in which the essay appears.

Submission Guidelines

The competition is open to research students and to early career researchers (who have held a PhD for no more than 2 years up to the submission deadline). Essays will be considered on any aspect of Shakespeare and will not exceed 6,000 words. Essays should be anonymised and submitted to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rshk by 1 September 2015. The essays will be judged by a panel that will include the editors and members of the editorial board. The winner will be announced in December 2015.

In some cases, essays submitted by runners-up may also be published.

The Sussex-Samuel Prize for Postgraduate Students is offered by the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) to encourage postgraduate student participation in the broader scholarly community. The prize is awarded every two years for a paper presented at the AULLA Congress by a postgraduate student and judged by a panel within the Executive to be significant, innovative and accomplished. The applicant must be a currently enrolled postgraduate research student. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize of AUS$800, and the paper will be developed for publication in The Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. To be considered for the prize, the paper must be submitted as a 5000-7000 word essay on the Congress theme by midnight on 30 April 2015. If in the opinion of the selection committee no suitable essay has been submitted, the prize may not be awarded in that year.

In 2015 AULLA Congress is part of the inaugural Australian Literary Studies Convention to be held at the University of Wollongong in July. This is a landmark literary studies event that is being organised under the auspices of the Australasian Association for Literature, Association for the Study of Australian Literature and AULLA. The convention will bring together members of all the major Australian literary studies organisations to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of literary studies in this country. The convention will serve as the 2015 Congress of AULLA and the theme is Literary Networks.

Literature is a meeting point for intersecting lines of thought and feeling about the world. As the German critic Theodore Adorno observes in his Aesthetic Theory: “Art is autonomous and it is not…. The great epics, which have survived even their own oblivion, were in their age intermingled with historical and geographical reportage.” Like its object of study, the discipline of literary criticism survives by making connections to other disciplines and to other ways of thinking and feeling about the world. Literary thinking, in this sense, is networked thinking. It is intermingled with other modes of discourse such as the philosophical, the linguistic, the political, the social, the geographical, the theological and the sexual.

We invite papers that engage with literature and literary criticism as a network where a network is understood very broadly as a group or system of interconnected people or things. Given that this conference seeks to bring together scholars who work in and between a variety of national literatures, literary, media and cultural histories, we encourage submissions that engage with and exemplify the rich variety of critical and creative practices currently being undertaken under the aegis of ‘literary studies’ in a contemporary Australian context.

For enquiries about or entries to The Sussex-Samuel Prize for Postgraduate Students contact jan.shaw@sydney.edu.au.

For full conference details including registration and submission of abstracts see the Literary Studies Convention website.

SAIMS invites entries for its annual Essay Competition, submitted according to the following rules:

1. The competition is open to all medievalists who are graduate students or have completed a higher degree within the last three years. For PhD students the time period of three years begins from the date of the successful viva, but excludes any career break. Any candidate in doubt of their eligibility should contact the Director of SAIMS at saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk.

2. A candidate may make only one submission to the competition.

3. The submission must be the candidate’s own work, based on original research, and must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.

4. Submissions are welcomed on any topic that falls within the scope of medieval studies.

5. The submission should be in the English language.

6. The word limit is 8,000 words, including notes, bibliography, and any appendices.

7. The text should be double-spaced, and be accompanied by footnotes with short referencing and a full bibliography of works cited, following the guidelines on the TMJ webpage: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/tmj.htm. An abstract of 200 words should preface the main text.

8. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2015.

9. The essay must be submitted electronically to saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk, in both Word and pdf formats, to arrive by the deadline.

10. The submission must be accompanied by a completed cover sheet and signed declaration; the template for this is available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/tmj.htm. The candidate’s name should not appear on the submission itself, nor be indicated in any form in the notes.

11. Decisions concerning the Competition lie with the Editors and Editorial Board of The Mediaeval Journal, who can, if they consider there to have been appropriate submissions, award an Essay Prize and in addition declare a proxime accessit. In the unlikely event that, in the judges’ opinion, the material submitted is not of a suitable standard, no prize will be awarded.

12. The value of the Prize is £500.

13. A candidate whose entry is declared proxime accessit will be awarded £100.

14. In addition to the Prize, the winning submission will be published within twelve months in The Mediaeval Journal, subject to the usual editorial procedures of the journal.

Any queries concerning these rules may be directed to the Director of SAIMS who can be contacted at:

Department of Mediaeval History, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims
saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk

The Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize may be of interest to Honours, Masters and PhD students as well as Early Career Academics.

Due date for essays and/or creative works with exegesis: 1 March, 2015.

Prizes include:

• $1000 for the winning essay; $250 for two highly-commended essays
• Winning entry will be offered publication in the prestigious journal: Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
• Winning and two highly-commended entrants will be invited to present their submissions at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) biennial conference, The University of Sydney, 1-4 July, 2015.

Further information and Guidelines on the competition can be found of the ACIS homepage: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggan-essay-prize.

Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011) was a great artist and a great friend of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS). Her artistic practice left what is arguably the richest and most compelling recent collection of photographs by an Australian artist to engage with Italian culture, history and art. Her work demonstrates not only artistic rigour and depth but also remarkable breadth, spanning from public spaces/places of Italian diaspora in Australia to enquiries into the re-contextualisation and museification of Renaissance art, from Australian archives of Italian migration to complex case studies on the legacy of the Gonzagas. In her research-led and interdisciplinary endeavour, Jo-Anne asked crucial questions and opened up original paths with regard to the construction of space/place, our relationship with the past and its reception, and the role of photographic art in mobilising and questioning the viewer’s gaze, starting from what she called her ‘postcolonial eye’.

Jo-Anne Duggan’s photographic work can be found at: http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/artists-in-our-stockroom/jo-anne-duggan.

Jo-Anne Duggan’s publications (selection) can be found at: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggans-writings.