Forthcoming publications and issues

New books

Orb and Sceptre: Studies on British Imperialism and its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington - edited by Peter Limb
       - Now published!

Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World
Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis

New journal issues

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
The Bible and Critical Theory
History Australia
Monash Business Review
Telecommunications Journal of Australia

Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World

Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis

Special pre-publication offer: 20% discount off the paperback
Order your print copy of Seize the Day now for only $43.95
(Postage and handling costs are additional).

Australians have always loved a good show, as this new collection of essays demonstrates. The significance of exhibitions goes beyond mere entertainment. From the 1850s to the present, exhibitions have been a marketing tool for Australia's advancement in global trade, migration and tourism. They have also been powerful vehicles for conspicuous consumption, civic progress, social status, and identity - be it local, national or international.

This multi-disciplinary collection presents new research on a fascinating variety of exhibitions from nineteenth-century World Fairs to late twentieth-century Expos. Contributors are leading museum professionals and academics from a range of disciplines including art history, the history of design, literary studies, indigenous history, cultural and social history and the history of science.

Seize the Day examines the complex role of exhibitions within Australia's cultural, commercial and artistic histories. Exhibitions are dynamic sites for the construction of national identities and international collaborations, the showcasing of collecting and exhibiting practices, and the expression and contestation of race and gender. Detailed case studies explore the many facets of exhibitions - from ethnographic display to artistic competition to intercolonial rivalry - to reveal their politics, personalities and astonishingly rich material culture.

As the first book to address the exhibition movement in Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Seize the Day will become the standard collection on this topic for years to come.

Seize the Day includes numerous images, including eight pages of colour plates in the print version. (In the online version of the book, all images are colour where colour images are available.)

Publication information

ISBN (paperback):   978-0-9804648-0-1
ISBN (web):   978-0-9804648-1-8

Publication date: late September 2008.
Available formats: print (paperback) and online (HTML and PDF).
Length: approximately 368 pages (exact page extent tbc).
Illustrations: Includes numerous black and white images plus a special eight-page colour insert for the print publication; the online publication has both black & white and colour images.
Prices:

• Paperback:   (RRP)   AUD $54.95   (not including postage and handling)
• Online, for individuals:   AUD $34.95
• Online, for institutions:   AUD $90.00

Contents

• '“Seize the Day”: Exhibiting Australia' - Kate Darian-Smith
• 'The productions of Aboriginal states: Australian Aboriginal and settler exhibits at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855' - Elizabeth Willis
• 'Race and Australian national identity at the 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition' - Emily Harris
• “We think that this subject of the native races should be thoroughly gone into at the forthcoming Exhibition”: The 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition' - Penelope Edmonds
• 'Hidden treasure: Exhibiting Western Australia, 1860-1890' - Lise Summers
• '“Within her own boundaries”: Queensland's first “at home” intercolonial exhibition' - Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie
• 'Scientific and public duties: Ferdinand Mueller's forest contributions to exhibitions and a museum' - Linden Gillbank
• 'International exhibition postcards: Tangible reflections of an ephemeral past' - Jonathan Sweet
• 'The exhibitionary complex personified: Melbourne's nineteenth century displays and the mercurial Dr LL Smith' - David Dunstan
• 'Fundraising through fancywork: Grand bazaars in Melbourne at the end of the nineteenth century' - Annette Shiell
• '“Curiosities and rare scientific instruments”: Colonial conversazioni in Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s' - Elizabeth Hartrick
• '“How like England we can be": The Australian international exhibitions in the nineteenth century' - Linda Young
• '“Surmounted by stuffed sheep”: Exhibitions and Empire in nineteenth-century Australian women's fiction' - Susan K Martin
• '“Common neutral ground”: Feminising the public sphere at two nineteenth-century Australian exhibitions of women's work' - Martha Sear
• 'Tom Roberts, Ellis Rowan, and the struggle for Australian art at the great exhibitions of 1880 and 1888' - Caroline Jordan
• 'Aestheticism and empire: The Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne, 1887' - Alison Inglis
• 'Adelaide's Federal Art Exhibitions 1898-1923' - Catherine Speck
• 'Power and modernity: A photo essay on the Centenary All-Electricity Exhibition, 1935' - Robin Grow
• 'A colonial legacy: Australian Painting at the Tate Gallery, London, 1963' - Sarah Scott
• '“A significant mirror of progress”: Modernist design and Australian participation at Expo '67 and Expo '70' - Carolyn Barnes and Simon Jackson
• 'New directions for scholarship about world expos' - Robert W Rydell
• 'Index of exhibitions'

About the editors

Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History at the University of Melbourne. Her recent books include (as contributing co-editor) Britishness Abroad (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and Stirring Australian Speeches (Melbourne University Publishing, 2004).

Richard Gillespie is head of History & Technology at Museum Victoria. He is a curator, historian of science and author of Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Caroline Jordan is an art historian, and has been Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition (Melbourne University Publishing, 2005).

Elizabeth Willis is a Curator Emeritus in History & Technology at Museum Victoria. She is the author of The Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (Museum Victoria, 2004) and is an Honorary Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Volume 31, Number 1
Editors: Roly Sussex and Rachel Varshney

In this issue:

• Neomy Storch and Kathryn Hill ask 'What happens to international students' English after one semester at university?' Their paper reports on a study which investigated the impact of one semester of study at a university on the English language proficiency of a sample of 40 international students. Findings indicate that studying in an English-medium university generally led to an improvement in English language proficiency. The paper identifies a number of factors which appear to support language development, as well as factors that may inhibit it.
• Zhengdong Gan examines the implications of 'Examining negotiation in peer group oral assessment'. This article reports on a case study of negotiation that occurred in peer group oral interactions under assessment conditions. Discourse analysis was used to illustrate how participants negotiated and co-constructed the assessment format itself as well as meaning exchange sequences. Analyses of the data point to the advantage of using peer group discussion task in generating the interaction patterns representative of natural conversational situations. The study also demonstrates the importance of peer learning opportunities that resulted from collaborative reasoning under assessment conditions.

The Bible and Critical Theory

Volume 4, Number 2
June 2008
Editor: Julie Kelso

The next issue of The Bible and Critical Theory will be published in June. Details will be announced here shortly.

History Australia

Volume 5, Number 1
April 2008
Editor: Marian Quartly

Now published.

Monash Business Review

Volume 4, Number 1
April 2008
Editor-in-chief: Professor Owen Hughes

Special Innovation Edition - now published.

Telecommunications Journal of Australia

Volume 58 Number 1
May 2008
Executive editor: Blair Feenaghty
Editor-in-Chief: Peter Gerrand

Theme: Structural Separation Revisited.  Now published.

TSA members will need to log in to the TSA website in order to access the articles: http://www.tsa.org.au/public/pubs.asp