Family history is an important entrée into wider historical interests for many people in our society. But historian Anna Clark asks if connecting to the past through personal experience shuts out other personal experiences? Anna Clark from University of Technology, Sydney was one of five historians who spoke at the popular ‘Big Questions in History’ panel at the recent … [Read more...] about Big Questions in History: History’s Relevance in Contemporary Society
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Women and History at the #OzHA2015 History Conference
The history profession in Australia appears to be a healthy profession for women judging from the proceedings of the annual conference of the Australian Historical Association held in Sydney this week. The prominent keynote sessions were dominated by women and a majority of presenters in the parallel sessions were women. It is not hard to find highly qualified women historians … [Read more...] about Women and History at the #OzHA2015 History Conference
Historical Research on Show in Sydney All This Week
This week we can get a peek at the themes and topics will be in the histories we will be reading over the next few years.It is the week for the annual festival of history, more soberly known as the conference of the Australian Historical Association. I have done a preliminary scan of the conference programs and the abstracts of papers to be presented at parallel sessions and … [Read more...] about Historical Research on Show in Sydney All This Week
Big Questions in History: Historians and Public Policy
‘Big Questions in History’ has been the topic of the final plenary panel session at the last few conferences of the Australian Historical Association. These plenary panels have been my favourite session at every conference I have attended. The panels discuss some aspect of historians engaging with people who are not historians. Last year the plenary panel discussed ‘Who is our … [Read more...] about Big Questions in History: Historians and Public Policy
Violence and the Intimate Frontier
In my continuing series of posts about the Australian Historical Association today I write up some notes I made at two plenary panels. These notes are not a comprehensive overview of the panels; rather they are a handful of the thoughts presented which particularly resonated with me. Conflict in history is the theme of the Australian Historical Association conference which … [Read more...] about Violence and the Intimate Frontier