The National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) programme opened stage two of its Request for Proposals on 4 May. Applications for Virtual Laboratories and Research Cloud nodes are due by 4.00pm AEST on Friday 29 June 2012. A number of humanities projects were successful in the first funding round, and we would encourage interested researchers to attend an upcoming briefing session in Melbourne on 16 May, which will also be streamed online. More information is available on the NeCTAR website.

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Applications for National Library of Australia Fellowships close on 30 April 2012. Fellowships at the NLA offer researchers, scholars and writers unparalleled opportunities to delve into the Library’s rich collections and are awarded for 3-6 months. Application information is available on the NLA's website.

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities warmly congratulates poet Les Murray AO FAHA on winning the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival for his book Taller When Prone (2010), published by Black Inc.

Taller When Prone was also shortlisted for the 2010 Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize and the 2010 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry. It was included in the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books List for 2011.

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Information sessions for the Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) programme are being held in capital cities between 13 and 24 February. This 15th funding round targets social innovation, sustainable regional communities, and clean manufacturing. Further details about the CRC programme and the information sessions can be found on the CRC website.

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The Academy congratulates Emeritus Professor J.V.S. Megaw AM FAHA who has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (founded in 1780). The Society allows a maximum of twenty-five Honorary Fellows who are recognised for their eminence in any branch of antiquarian study.

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The Academy is delighted to announce that it has awarded 12 travel bursaries for early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to attend the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities (aaDH), Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting.

A draft conference programme is now available.

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The Australian Academy of Science, in association with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Australian Research Council, invites applications from Australian researchers to undertake Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japan. Applications are welcome from researchers in the humanities. The closing date is Friday 16 March 2012.

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The Academy congratulates four of its Fellows who have been awarded honours in the Australia Day 2012 Honours List: Professor Stuart Macintyre AO, Professor Peter McPhee AM, Emeritus Professor Roslyn Pesman AM, and Emeritus Professor Brian Fletcher OAM.

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A competitive grants round to support all aspects of the Government’s Inspiring Australia strategy was announced on 16 January. Humanities researchers are eligible to apply for funding (from $5000 to $500,000) under the scheme, the objective of which is to “promote public appreciation not only of the role of the ‘enabling sciences’ (physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics), but also of the role of engineering, and the social sciences and humanities”. The deadline for applications is 4.00pm AEDST, 29 February 2012. More information is available on the Unlocking Australia's Potential website.

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Humanities researchers should note the Government’s recently announced Industrial Transformation Programme worth $249 million. Up to 50 training centres will be established with approximately 20 of these to “include training in social impact, inclusion and industrial and community transformation”. Up to $1 million per year will be provided for each centre for up to three years. Details on the application process will be posted on the ARC’s website in early in 2012.

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The priorities for the Government’s 15th Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) funding round are social innovation, sustainable regional communities and clean manufacturing. Information sessions are being held in major cities throughout February. Applications close 14 June 2012. For more details visit the CRC website.

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The National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) programme has announced its preferred projects. The Academy warmly congratulates the recipients, including the following successful projects: ‘Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI): Unlocking and Uniting Australia’s Cultural Data’ (Deakin University); ‘The Aust-ESE Project - eResearch Tools to Support the Collaborative Authoring and Management of Electronic Scholarly Editions’ (University of Queensland); and the ‘Federated Archaeological information Management System’ (University of New South Wales). More information is available on the NeCTAR website.

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The Prime Minister and Minister for the Arts have announced that the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History will be administered alongside the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards from 2012. A new poetry category will also be included in the Awards. Entries are open from 3 December 2011 to 1 February 2012.

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A workshop designed for researchers to explore research and funding opportunities with Europe. Applicable to all disciplines. Friday 25 November 2011, 9:00am - 11:00am, at the Centre for European Studies, 1 Liversidge Street (Building 67C). Bookings can be made here. For more information, email europe@anu.edu.au

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The Academy offers its warm congratulations to Dr Rafe de Crespigny FAHA who has been awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for 2011 for his recent book, Imperial Warlord, a biography of Cao Cao 155-210.

The Académie, is the French counter-part of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The prize has previously been awarded to Pierre Ryckmans in 1971 and to Mark Elvin in 2005, both Fellows of the Australian Academy.

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The ARC has released the Australian Laureate Fellowships Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2012. Supporting documentation and a draft Funding Agreement will be available shortly. For more information, visit the Australian Laureate Fellowships page.

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To facilitate cultural cooperation beyond Europe, the European Commission provides funds for cooperation projects with Third Countries. For 2013, these funds can be used by Australian cultural organisations in collaboration with European partners. For application information see website.

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The Academy offers its warmest congratulations to John Tranter for winning the poetry category of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for 2011 for his book Starlight: 150 poems (University of Queensland Press).

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Australian Book Review is now calling for entries in the sixth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. Calibre is a peak award for the essay in Australia, and worth $10,000 in total. Applications close 1 December 2011.

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Australian Book Review has just announced the ABR Sidney Myer Fund Fellowship – a $5000 commission for a substantial article with an Indigenous focus. Applications close 15 October 2011.

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The Academy congratulates John Tranter FAHA for winning the 2011 The Age Poetry Book of the Year for Starlight: 150 Poems (UQP).

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Applications are now open for the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Programme for Japan. Up to 100 scholarships will be offered by this one-off programme, which is intended provide assistance for education exchange in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011.

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The Academy congratulates two of its Fellows, shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards: historian Tim Bonyhady for Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family, and poet John Tranter for Starlight: 150 poems.

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The National Library is now calling for applications for its Summer Scholarships to support younger scholars. The scheme is designed for PhD students undertaking research on topics that can be supported by the Library’s collections. and applications close on 30 September.

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The Academy has signed a new agreement with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei which paves the way for a research exchange programme between the two countries.

On 8 June 2011 a memorandum of understanding was signed by Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Vice Presidente of the Lincei. We are very grateful to the Italian Embassy in Canberra for brokering this collaboration.

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The Australian Book Review announces that entry to the 8th annual poetry prize, renamed the Peter Porter Prize, in memory of the late Australian poet, is now open. Entries close 21 November 2011.

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Nominations are currently open for the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University

The Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University was established through a grant by the Australian Government, in recognition of the American Bicentenary, to further American  understanding of Australia. Over the past 34 years, the Chair has been occupied by some of Australia’s most outstanding intellectuals. In 2010 the Chair was renamed in recognition of the two prime ministers who, from opposite sides of politics, negotiated and endowed this important initiative.

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The Australian Prime Ministers Centre at the Museum of Australian Democracy is seeking applications for fellowships to researchers interested in the history, origins, traditions and contemporary practice of Australian democracy, including proposals with a particular focus on Australian prime ministers.

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