ISSUE 02 ISFAR Newsletter Nove mb e r 2020 This issue Message from the president p. 1 ISFAR life members p. 2 The Melbourne Salon p. 3 Alliance Française de Melbourne Berthe Mouchette competition p. 3 C o nta ct Us Translations of early French historical works on Australia p. 4 ISFAR: [email protected] ISFAR symposium 2021 p. 5 French Australian Review: Vale Meredith Sherlock p. 5 [email protected] FAR: new submissions guide p. 6 ISFAR Research Fund: Second-hand (French) book initiative p. 6 [email protected] or Translation project p. 6 [email protected] Image: courtesy of Juliana De Nooy, Melbourne Salon 14 M emb ers h ip September 2020 To join or renew: www.isfar.org.au/membership Membership includes subscription to Message from the president the French Australian Review journal. Dear ISFAR members and friends, F o llo w us Preparations are underway for the 35th Anniversary Symposium of ISFAR, Australia and Welcome to this second issue of the ISFAR Facebook: France in a Regional and Global Context: Past quarterly newsletter. Thank you to everyone who www.facebook.com/FrenchAustralianR Engagements and Future Research Directions, to elations sent in feedback on our inaugural issue and to be held at RMIT University in Melbourne 8–9 April Twitter: https://twitter.com/theISFAR those who made a donation to our research fund. 2021. We anticipate a hybrid event, with some We are very grateful for your support for our Useful links face-to-face events and an online component – projects. see below for an update from the conference Alliance Française de Melbourne www.afmelbourne.com.au In this issue we are proud to highlight our seven convenors. Keep your diary free and your eye on Association of French Teachers in life members, who have all made outstanding www.isfar.org.au/events. Victoria (AFTV) www.aftv.vic.edu.au contributions to ISFAR, either as founders of the We trust you will enjoy reading this issue of the Australian-French Association for institute or the journal itself, or as founding newsletter. As always, if you have any feedback or Research and Innovation (AFRAN) committee members. You can read abridged www.afran.org.au suggestions for future topics or items for inclusion, versions of their work below, with links to relevant Australian French Association for please contact us at [email protected]. Science and Technology articles they have written, and you can read their https://afas.org.au full profiles on our website Look out for the next issue of The French Australian Historical Association www.isfar.org.au/about. Australian Review in your mailboxes early next www.theaha.org.au year. In the meantime, we wish everyone the very Thank you to everyone who attended one or both Bastille Day French Festival Melbourne best for the forthcoming festive season, wherever www.bastilledaymelbourne.com of our online Melbourne Salons in September and and however you will be spending it. Bleu Blanc Rouge (Consular newsletter) November. The Melbourne Salon turned 10 this www.bbrvic.com/en year, and we were delighted to be able to Kerry Mullan French Assist Melbourne celebrate in some way. Nothing can replace the President www.frenchassistmelbourne.org.au beautiful Alliance Française de Melbourne in St. French Australian Chamber of Commerce www.facci.com.au Kilda, where we usually hold our Salons, but Thanks to Robyn Stern and Graham Neilson for the holding them virtually meant that many more coordination and layout of this newsletter and to ISFAR resources people could attend than are usually able to – all the contributors. ISFAR provides resources to researchers including the speakers! We would particularly like in the field of French-Australian studies, to acknowledge one loyal Melbourne Salon with the support of the authors or member who has attended every single one! You contributors who give their approval to publish this material. Access all ISFAR can read more about the Salons later in the 1 resources www.isfar.org.au/resources newsletter. ISFAR Life Members ISFAR recognises the following life members for their longstanding and invaluable contributions. Please see www.isfar.org.au/about for the full biographies. Emeritus Professor Colin Nettelbeck founded ISFAR in 1985. With Wallace Kirsop and Dennis Davison, he co-founded Explorations (now The French Australian Review). He served in various roles (including president) in ISFAR from 1985 to 2000, and returned as president from 2011 to 2018. During the latter period, his policies emphasised the research profile of the Institute, including upgrading the review, and creating a dedicated Research Committee and the French Australian Dictionary of Biography, to which he has contributed several entries. Prof. Nettelbeck recalls the circumstances of the establishment of the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations at Monash University in 1985 and the publication of the first issue in ISFAR: A Recollection www.isfar.org.au/category/explorations/no-40. Adjunct Professor Wallace Kirsop is one of Australia’s most eminent scholars in French Studies and in book-trade Colin Nettelbeck history. He was founding editor of the ISFAR journal Explorations, which, with occasional short breaks, he edited from its first number in 1985 until his retirement from the position in 2008. He made numerous personal contributions to Explorations, and continues to work in the field of French-Australian relations, including contributing to the French Australian Dictionary of Biography. In this article, Prof. Nettelbeck interviews Prof. Kirsop about his interest in French- Australian relations and his association with Explorations: A Conversation with Wallace Kirsop. Explorations No. 45, Dec 2008 www.isfar.org.au/explorations-no-45-dec-2008. Emeritus Professor Ivan Barko joined the editorial team of Explorations, later re-named The French Australian Review in 1990. He was co-editor of the journal from 2008 to 2016, and has also contributed several entries to the French Australian Dictionary of Biography. The annual ISFAR Ivan Barko Award www.isfar.org.au/news is awarded by the Committee on the recommendation of the editors of the French Australian Review to the author of the best article published during the preceding year. Named after Professor Barko to mark his long and distinguished service to ISFAR, this prize is intended to stimulate research in all areas of French Australian relations. Ivan Barko Dr Patricia Clancy taught for almost thirty years in the French Department of Melbourne University before taking early retirement to pursue her interest in French writing on colonial Australia while taking up a second career as a literary translator. Dr Clancy and her colleague Dr Colin Thornton-Smith were committee members of ISFAR from the beginning and collaborated to produce an Analytical Checklist of French Fiction and Pseudo-Memoirs Set in Colonial Australia in www.isfar.org.au/resources/analytical-checklists. At present she is working on several entries for the French Australian Dictionary of Biography. John Drury OAM was a founding member of ISFAR from the time it was established at Monash University in 1985. He was a committee member from 1985 to 2017 when he was made an Honorary Life Member. John was ISFAR Committee liaison with the French Consul to arrange for a grant from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre to restore the grave at the Melbourne General Cemetery of Nicolas Emile Mouchette, Chancelier and Acting Consul in Melbourne from 1881–84. Read more on Nicolas Emile Mouchette in the article by John Drury: www.isfar.org.au/category/explorations/no-20. Tom Rado was one of ISFAR’s founding members in 1985 representing the French-Australian sector being the then president of AFAS (Australian French Association for Science & Technology). He was an Executive Committee member from 1985 to 2012, Honorary Treasurer from 1998 to 2012, Membership Officer from 2000 to 2012, and also acting Secretary from time to time during this period. On his retirement from the Committee, Tom was elected as a Life Member. Dr Dianne Reilly AM FRHSV was a founding member of ISFAR from the time it was established at Monash University in 1985, and a committee member until 2017. President from 1991 to 1997, she was made an Honorary Life Member in 2017. From the mid-1980s, the ISFAR Committee, in liaison with the French Consuls, arranged for a grant from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre to restore the grave at the Melbourne General Cemetery in 1994 of Lionel Comte de Chabrillan, first French Consul in Melbourne (1852–58). Dr Reilly provides the history of the consul in her article: www.isfar.org.au/category/explorations/no-20. 2 Alliance Française de Melbourne Berthe Mouchette Competition The 2020 Melbourne Salons ISFAR was delighted to continue its This year ISFAR held two Melbourne Salons, both online, and both extremely well attended. As always, longstanding sponsorship of the 126th the topics were diverse and the virtual environment meant that we were able to welcome speakers annual Alliance Française de Melbourne based in Brisbane, Paris, and regional Victoria. Berthe Mouchette Competition this year. The theme for this year’s poem was very apt: Courage. The first Salon for 2020 was held on 14 September and entitled What's France got to do with it? Contemporary memoirs of Australians in France. Author Juliana De Nooy spoke about her new book This year 5,788 students from 76 schools across Victoria braved a new adventure to Barbara Hanna, and discussed why it is that memoirs recounting and, in the face of the pandemic and sojourns in France have gained such traction among Australian women enforced remote learning conditions, this and what is at stake in their fascination with France.