National Library of Australia 2026 Fellowships

Applications are now open for the 2026 Fellowships offered by the National Library of Australia. Researchers and creative writers are encouraged to apply for nine philanthropically funded Fellowships offered by the National Library of Australia in 2026.

This year, the amount of financial assistance has increased, with a total of $315,000 of funding available.  Successful applicants will each receive $35,000 to support a sustained residency at the National Library in Canberra, as well as supported access to the Library’s collections, increased borrowing privileges, a dedicated desk in the Library’s Petherick Reading Room, and an allowance for high resolution digital copies of collection materials.

National Library of Australia Fellowships are open to experienced researchers needing to undertake sustained work with the Library’s collections to advance their research towards publication or other public outcomes. Research may be in any field that can be supported by the National Library’s collections, with specific Fellowships also available for those working in the areas of Asian studies, Australian literature, and Australian rural, regional or environmental history.

The Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian Writing is open to creative writers, working in any literary genre, to develop creative works inspired by the Library’s collections.  This may include writing for performance, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, personal essays or graphic novels.

Learn more about the National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowship, including information on eligibility, information on previous projects and online application forms.

Applications for National Library of Australia Fellowships and the Creative Arts Fellowship will close on Monday 5 May 2025.

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ANZAMEMS Reading Group

A reminder that the next session of the 2025 ANZAMEMS reading group is on Tuesday 25 March at 1-2pm Melbourne time (UTC+11). This will be on Extinction and Fish Hunting. See schedule below.

The Zoom links, readings, and full schedule can be found on the Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF.

We are asking those interested to register again on TryBooking at https://www.trybooking.com/CZJNA, although drop-ins are always welcome.

Please contact the convenor with any queries: Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.

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Arc Humanities Press – Publishing Opportunities 2025

Arc Humanities Press publishes scholarly research across premodern interdisciplinary studies. We cover the late antique, medieval, and early modern periods from a global perspective; area studies (within and beyond Europe); digital humanities; and research that fosters better public engagement in, and understanding, of the past and the links the premodern world has with the contemporary world. We aim to publish “edgy” research.

Arc invites authors with manuscripts for monographs or thematic collections which align with Arc’s list, and which are complete and ready for internal and external peer review, to contact us to discuss possible publication before the end of 2025. 

Arc is a growing publisher with a reputation for swift publication timelines. Please contact Dr. Anna Henderson by close of business Monday, 31 March 2025 if you’re interested in publishing your book this year.

Contact: Dr Anna Henderson, Director of Acquisitions, Anna.Henderson@arc-humanities.org

Postdoctoral Fellowship – Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame has announced the creation of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, a university-wide initiative to support highly motivated scholars seeking to make a difference in the world.

The College of Arts and Letters will appoint and host a cohort of six postdoctoral fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. See below flyer for further details.

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ANZAMEMS Reading Group

The first session of the 2025 ANZAMEMS reading group is on Tuesday 25 March at 1-2pm Melbourne time (UTC+11). This will be on Extinction and Fish Hunting. See schedule below.

The Zoom links, readings, and full schedule can be found on the Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF.

We are asking those interested to register again on TryBooking at https://www.trybooking.com/CZJNA, although drop-ins are always welcome.

Please contact the convenor with any queries: Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700
National Library of Australia, August 7-8 2025

Early modern women marked their books in myriad ways, and their marginalia provide evidence of their book ownership, their reading, writing and drawing practices, their acquisition of literacy, and the interrelation of body, book, and material world. This symposium invites papers and panels interpreting this exciting new textual corpus and discussing the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in locating, attributing and analysing marginalia by early modern women, elite and non-elite, known and unknown. What can marginalia tell us about women’s textual agency, education and literacy, their use of books, their lived experience of household economics, organization and technologies, and their interpersonal, affective and social relationships? What evidence does marginalia provide for women’s engagement with orality, performance, print, and scribal cultures? How can marginalia help us position women as humanist, political and religious agents and understand their worlds of work and leisure? And how can such new analyses of early modern women’s marginalia reshape early modern marginalia studies more broadly?

20 minute papers and panels are invited on any aspect of early modern women’s marginalia, but might consider the following topics:

  • Marginalia, book ownership, book collecting, and provenance
  • Marginalia as evidence of early modern women’s reading
  • Marginalia as evidence of early modern women’s writing
  • Visual and material cultures in early modern women’s marginalia
  • Authorship, attribution and agency
  • Form and genre
  • Marginalia and sociability
  • Marginalia, politics and power
  • Marginalia and race
  • Non-elite women’s marginalia
  • Marginalia, education and literacy
  • Marginalia, emotion and affect
  • Marginalia and haptics
  • Marginalia and heuristics

Invited speakers include Professor Micheline White (Carleton University), Professor Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo), Professor Paul Salzman (La Trobe University), Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), and Dr Hannah August (Massey University)

The symposium will also launch the database Early Modern Women’s Marginalia: The Library of Libraries, with over 3000 examples of early modern women’s marginalia from 100 archives worldwide, hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. Please send a 200 word abstract (or panel proposal) plus a short biography to admin.cems@anu.edu.au by 31 March 2025.

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Peer Support Group

The next cycle of the ANZAMEMS Peer Support Group will begin on Friday 21 February. 

The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS. The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance. See our website for further information.

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au.

Australian Academy of the Humanities Awards and Grants

Nominations for the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2025 Grants and Awards Program are now open and will close on Friday 28 March 2025. Our prestigious awards and grants promote international engagement, embrace emerging fields of humanities research and scholarship and support early and mid-career researchers.

This year, the Academy will accept nominations for the:

Max Crawford Medal
Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the Humanities, the Max Crawford Medal recognises an early-career scholar in the humanities whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline.

John Mulvaney Fellowship
Awarded to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander early-career researcher or PhD student working in any area of the humanities, the John Mulvaney Fellowship provides $4,000 to support research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas. This award accepts self-nominations.

McCredie Musicological Award
Recognising outstanding contributions in musicology by an Australian early career scholar. It is one of Australia’s most prestigious awards for the study of musicology — from performance practice, music in the cultural context, through to the theory, analysis and composition.

Publication Subsidy Scheme
The Publication Subsidy Scheme supports early-career researchers with costs of up to $3,000 associated with the publication of scholarly works that advance knowledge of the humanities.

Humanities Travelling Fellowships
Awarded annually, the Humanities Travelling Fellowships supports early-career researchers with costs of up to $4,000 to undertake research overseas.

For further information, including application processes, see the AAH website:
https://humanities.org.au/grants-and-awards/