Historians from all over Australia and beyond are in Canberra this week for the annual Australian Historical Association conference. Hosted by the Australian National University, the theme of this yearâs conference is âthe scale of historyâ.
This year organisers had to close conference registrations nearly two weeks before the start of the conference. With over 350 presenters and up to 15 concurrent sessions, this conference is an intense festival of history. You can download the conference program and abstracts from the conference website.
This will be the 7th year that the conference will be tweeted. This is an enjoyable way to get involved in the conference from wherever you may be in the world. Just follow the conference hashtag, #OzHA2018 on Twitter. Look out for the blog posts of conference participants too.
Professional Historians contribute to the conference each year. We have found nine members of PHA NSW in the program who are presenting papers:
Tuesday 11:00 â 12:30
- Carol Liston is a co-presenter of a paper titled, âColonial surgeon Patrick Hill (1794-1852): Unsung pioneer of Australian mental health careâ. Arndt Tutorial Room 4
Tuesday 3:30 â 5:00
- Adele Nye, âTeaching history in Australian universities: Multiple dimensions of a rich disciplineâ. Arndt Tutorial Room 1
- Ian Willis, âA local cultural icon challenges the forces of neo-liberalism on Sydneyâs fringeâ. CBE Tutorial Room 6
- Terry Kass, âFalse testimony: R H Mathews, surveyor and ethnographerâ. CBE Tutorial Room 3
Wednesday 11:00 â 12:30
- Joy McCann, âWriting the life story of the Southern Oceanâ. CBE Tutorial Room 6
- Laila Ellmoos, âInteresting, humorous, thrillingâ: The Great Strike of 1917 on filmâ. CBE Tutorial Room 3
Wednesday 1:30 â 3:00
- Catherine Bishop, âLocal business, global phenomenon: Putting Sydneyâs businesswomen in an international contextâ. CBE Lecture Theatre 2
Thursday 3:30 â 5:00
- Robin McLachlan, âAustralasian miners response to Klondike Goldfield regulations, bureaucracy and corruption, 1897-99â. Arndt Tutorial Room 2
Friday 11 â 12:30
- Kate Bagnall, âChinese Australian families and the legacies of colonial naturalisationâ. CBE Lecture Theatre 2
It is difficult in such a big conference to hear all the papers you want, but if you have a chance, drop in and hear what your fellow professional historians are doing, or follow the conference on Twitter at #OzHA2018.