{"id":3342,"date":"2012-07-10T23:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stumblingpast.wordpress.com\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2022-08-04T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T00:24:16","slug":"connections-australian-historical-association-annual-conference-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/2012\/07\/10\/connections-australian-historical-association-annual-conference-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections: Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And the crowds came to the 2012 Australian Historical Association Conference. Photo by Dave Earl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week I\u2019m in Adelaide for the feast of history that is the annual Australian Historical Association Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 Each day I\u2019ll share with you my experience of the conference on this blog.<\/p>\n

My first experience of a historical conference was earlier this year at the American Historical Association annual conference in Chicago.\u00a0 Well\u2026\u00a0 I didn\u2019t travel outside Sydney.\u00a0 My experience of this conference was entirely online.\u00a0 The attendees at this conference generated a prolific twitter stream and many blog posts.\u00a0 I was very grateful to the participants for sharing the news of the conference in this way.<\/p>\n

In my blog post written at the conclusion of the American conference<\/a> I enthused about the reporting of the tweeps and bloggers, but recognised it just wasn\u2019t quite the same as being there.\u00a0 It was then that I decided I\u2019d try to attend the Australian Historical Association conference in order to gain the full experience and be one of those who report it online.<\/p>\n

With so many concurrent sessions, each person\u2019s experience of the conference will be very different.\u00a0 If you can, follow the conference twitter stream under the #OzHA2012<\/a> tag to read the comments of other conference attendees.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t want to follow it live, you can refer to the conference twitter archive<\/a> that Sharon Howard<\/a> has established.\u00a0\u00a0 The beauty of this internetworked era is that you don\u2019t have to be in Australia or an Australian to enjoy this conference.\u00a0 Sharon Howard is following it from soggy England, wishing she was experiencing this conference in an Australian winter (but she can console herself that the English are winning the cricket)!<\/p>\n

The conference is really four conferences rolled into one:<\/p>\n