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The Tom Brock Bequest Committee , an Australian Society for Sports History sub-group established to promote the scholarly study of rugby league, is convening a conference to recognise the cultural, historical and social significance of rugby league in Australia from 1908 to 2008. Click here to see more information (pdf file).ASSH
will be hosting a stream of sports history papers at the
Australian Historical Association Conference, which will be held at
Melbourne University on 7-10 July 2008. The deadline for abstracts has been
extended until the end of January 2008, and so we would encourage ASSH
members and other historians interested in sport to submit an abstract as a
Word document to the ASSH Stream Convenor, Peter Burke, by 31 January. If
you have already submitted an abstract to the conference organisers, but
want to be included in the sports history stream, re-send the abstract and
advise me of the status of your abstract. The abstract must include the
title of your paper, a brief bio, and an abstract of maximum 200 words. HISTORY OF BASKETBALL IN AUSTRALIA ASSH Member Nicholas Way has just been appointed to the position of Official Historian of Basketball Australia and has two projects for which he is seeking volunteers to assist. The first is an exhibition space at the National Sports Museum to open in March 2008. The subjects for our space will be:
2008: Australian Basketball at the Olympic Games (Boomers, Opals, Rollers and Gliders) 2009: The role of Local Associations in the History of Australian Basketball (eg Bankstown Bruins, Ballarat Miners, Hobart Chargers etc) 2010: Australian Basketball at World Championships (to coincide with the Senior Women's and Men's World Championships held that year.)
The second project is compiling as complete and accurate a history of basketball in Australia as has ever been achieved. This will include photographs, oral histories and the completion of an cataloguing of the archive of Basketball Australia. There are tentative plans for this work to be published at some stage in the future. They are already organising groups of volunteers for each State and Territory but are looking for expressions of interest in joining our projects. They have a number of tasks that need to be completed, including newspaper research, oral histories, cataloguing and others yet to be determined. All efforts would be strictly on a volunteer basis, and reports would need to be tendered at certain intervals.
This project might offer some good opportunities for Honours or even PhD students looking for a basketball related topic. They could gain some research experience whilst using the materials for their own theses.
Nicholas' contact details are:
Nicholas Way
Historian, Basketball Australia
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CENTENARY OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE - 7-8 NOVEMBER 2008
