Conferences Archives - Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT)

Turning up the heat – the summer Research Showcase

PHA Admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:54:08 +0000

Our first event for 2026 was our Summer Research Showcase, which was held on Saturday the 28th of February. The showcase was envisioned as a way for those of us who couldn’t make it up to Darwin for the Hot Histories conference in October last year. We heard from three of our members who presented at the ... Read more

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2025 PHA National Conference Reports

PHA Admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:10:11 +0000

We hope you all enjoyed the PHA National Conference that was held in Darwin between 25–26 October. If you were not able to make it, don’t worry, the two recipients of the travel bursary have provided two comprehensive reports. Thank you to Jacqui Newling and Allison O’Sullivan for taking the time to prepare these reports. ... Read more

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Challenging histories

phanswblogeditor — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 01:51:09 +0000

…by Francesca Beddie Whatever comes the way of the professional historian it’s important to stick to your principles. This was a recurring message during a forum, Challenging Histories, organised by PHA Victoria and Tasmania and held on 27 July at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. The event was made particularly special by ... Read more

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Local Communities, Global Networks, AHA 2019 Conference, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

phanswblogeditor — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 11:08:24 +0000

by Patricia Curthoys… Your experience of large, multi-stream conferences can only ever be partial and peculiar to you. What follows was my experience of the 2019 AHA Conference, which began with the Green Stream (Australian and New Zealand Environment History Network) Keynote, #CoalMustFall: Revisiting Newcastle’s Coal Monument in the Anthropocene, given by Nancy Cushing, of ... Read more

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The end of the war

phanswblogeditor — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 06:14:37 +0000

by Francesca Beddie… As we approach the finale of the centenary of WWI, an organisation set up in 2013 to promote a balanced consideration of Australian history celebrated its fifth anniversary. The Honest History symposium attracted some big names: Paul Daley, journalist and writer; Clare Wright, historian Michael Cooney CEO of the Australia Republic ... Read more

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Creating a wartime record

phanswblogeditor — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:58:41 +0000

… Ian Willis reports on the First World War Studies 2018 Conference Deakin University in Melbourne was the venue for a conference that examined the ‘Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War’ for the International Society for First World War Studies. This was the first time this interdisciplinary conference has been held outside the northern ... Read more

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PHA NSW/ACT at the Australian Historical Association Conference

contentmanager — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:49:29 +0000

Professional Historians are presenting at the Australian Historical Conference in Canberra this week. in this blog post you can find out more about the conference and the papers that members of PHA NSW & ACT have prepared and learn how to follow the conference online..

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