Newsletter 28th February 2007
Annual Meeting 2007
CRN Travelling Fellowship Scheme
ECR Membership Scheme
Node Convenors’ Meeting
Notices
Forthcoming Events
Annual Meeting 2007
We are happy to announce that the 2007 CRN Annual Meeting will be held at Rydges Hotel, Carlton, Melbourne, on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th October 2007. It’s a long way off, but please put this in your dairies now. As in previous years, the CRN will cover the costs of accommodation, including breakfast; the conference package, including lunch and morning and afternoon teas; and airfares to Melbourne. The program on the Monday will start with lunch and be followed by a symposium (topic to be advised), while Tuesday will include the business meeting and a general discussion about the progress of the Network.
We will need to get preliminary numbers to the hotel within the next couple of months, so expect that Angela will be contacting you, probably in April, to ask if you intend to come.
CRN Travelling Fellowship Scheme
Originally mooted at the Annual Meeting last year, the Management Committee has approved the Travelling Fellowship Scheme for CRN participants.This scheme is designed to allow CRN participants to travel to a different university in order to work with a person of their choice on a specific project for a period of not more than two weeks. The scheme is open to all participants, but in the selection process more weighting will be given to applications from ECRs. The focus of the Fellowship is on fostering new collaborations, rather than on maintaining existing ones, and this will be taken into account in the selection process.
We will offer four fellowships each year: two in the March round and two in the July round. The Fellowships can be taken at any time during that calendar year.
Management Committee have approved the guidelines, and I will prepare an application form and put it on the website. I will send out a formal notification of the scheme later this week, so start thinking about who you might like to work with for two weeks later in the year. Applications will close at the end of March.
ECR Membership Scheme
Don’t forget that the 2007 round of the ECR Membership Scheme is underway. You can download the Nomination Form and Selection Criteria from the website (“Forms” page). Nominations close on the 23 March.
Node Convenors’ Meeting
As mentioned previously, the convenors will be meeting in Brisbane on 14 March to discuss their plans for the next 12 – 18 months. All proposals for research projects or events should go through one (or more) of the nodes, so if you are developing a proposal, you will need to get the details to the appropriate convenor as soon as possible. Formal node proposals will be due about mid-April for consideration by Management Committee.
Notices
From Jo Tacchi: This program has proven beneficial over the years, and might be of interest to CRN people.
Due to popular demand the Oxford Internet Instituteis happy to announce that the deadline forapplications for the 5th OII Summer Doctoral Programme has now been extendeduntil 5th MARCH 2007. Applications are welcomed from students in anydiscipline who are currently undertaking doctoral research on social,political, legal and economic issues relating to the Internet.
Further details about the programme, which will be hosted by our partners atThe Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School from 16-27July, 2007 are available at
The deadline for applications is now 5pm GMT on 5th MARCH 2007. Pleaseforward this notice to anyone who you think might be interested.
Call for Proposals
Established in 1880, the Bulletin has maintained a significant position in Australian culture for more than one hundred years. The space it has provided for professional writers, serious artists and amateurs has made it one of the most wide-ranging expressions of Australian writing culture that we have. For almost a century, the literary ‘Red Page’ remained the most significant and long-lived forum for discussion on local and international writers, making it a focal point for the development of Australian literature and literary understandings.
As a weekly newspaper, the Bulletin has also reflected the political attitudes of its time—infamously in its declaration ‘Australia for the White Man’ from 1908 until 1961. But the Bulletin also hosted departments devoted to women’s issues, society, finance, politics, journalism, theatre and sport, creating a host of miscellaneous discursive networks that have received little attention.
Despite its long-lasting significance, only the 19th Century Bulletin has been studied in any detail. Apart from Sylvia Lawson’s commanding study of J. F. Archibald’s Bulletin in The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Kind of Authorship, and Patricia Rolfe’s 1979 pictorial reflection, The Journalistic Javelin, there has been no full-length study of the weekly newspaper that attempts to capture the complexity of its position in Australian culture.
To address this deficit, we are planning a publication (book or journal special issue). We are seeking proposals for article-length studies of specific themes or periods for the entire range of the periodical’s existence, with a particular emphasis on the twentieth-century Bulletin. Literary, journalistic, political, cultural and art history studies are encouraged, and we are also seeking articles on lesser-known contributions in fields such as finance, society and advertising.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Roger Osborne or David Carter at the University of Queensland: or by 30 May 2007.
Forthcoming Events
For those of you in Brisbane, Graeme is presenting a seminar at UQ on Tuesday 6 March at 2:00pm: “The cosmopolitan city and its Other: The ethnicising of the Australian suburb”. Details:
Don’t forget the “Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation Research Symposium”, Brisbane, 29 - 30 March. Details:
ARC Cultural Research Network