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The AHA was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians – academic, professional and other – working in all fields of history. We have over 900 members represented by an Executive Committee that draws its members from all over the country. The Association holds an annual conference and administers a portfolio Read more ...
Monday 8 – Friday 12 July 2019, at University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba How have the local and the global intersected, inspired and transformed experiences within and from Australia’s history? How do the histories of Indigenous, imperial, migrant and the myriad of other communities and networks inform, contest and shape knowledge about Australia today? The Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
Monday 8 – Friday 12 July 2019, at University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba How have the local and the global intersected, inspired and transformed experiences within and from Australia’s history? How do the histories of Indigenous, imperial, migrant and the myriad of other communities and networks inform, contest and shape knowledge about Australia today? The Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
AHA members have exclusive access to notices about funding opportunities, positions vacant and calls for papers, as well as extra events and news items. Members also receive a weekly newsletter and subscription to the AHA journal History Australia which publishes refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or Read more ...
A reminder that abstracts for the 2019 AHA conference are due on the 28 February 2019. The call for papers for affiliated conference streams at the 2019 AHA Conference in Toowoomba are also due on the 28 February 2019. See below for the CFPs for the Religious History Association, Australian and New Zealand Environment History Network, Australian Migrant History Network, Institute Read more …
The AHA is thrilled to announce a new conference prize, the Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship. Funding for this scheme is made possible by a generous bequest from Professor Emerita Jill Roe (1940–2017), an eminent and much-loved Australian historian who made a very significant contribution to the writing, teaching and public communication of history Read more …
On behalf of the AHA executive and the entire AHA membership, AHA President Joy Damousi would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the outgoing History Australia team of Melanie Oppenheimer, Cath Kevin and Matt Fitzpatrick for their outstanding editorship of History Australia over the past 3 years. Under their stewardship the journal has thrived and flourished. We are especially grateful to them Read more …
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Congratulations to Dr Ian Willis who was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia, General Division (OAM) in the 2019 Australia Day Honours! This award recognised his service to community history.
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) in association with the Copyright Agency offers travel and writing bursaries linked to the AHA annual conference. The bursaries are intended to encourage and support emerging historians who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference. Applications close 11 March 2019. Further information.
8-12 July 2019, University ofSouthern Queensland, Toowoomba Human communities have long worked together to care for and conserve the living systems around them. In the midst of a flourishing planetary consciousness, the rise of the new environment movements in Australia and beyond in the 1970s saw an intensification of local activity with a global orientation, Read more …
8-12 July 2019, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand encourages those working in the field of economic, business, and social history to put forward papers for the AHA Economics stream of the 2019 AHA Conference. Economic history has become a vibrant interdisciplinary area of inquiry in recent Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorship. It was a very competitive field and the judges were most impressed with the high quality of the topics and the enthusiastic support of proposed mentors and institutions. We are delighted to announce the successful applicants and look forward to seeing their work published over the Read more …
The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a postgraduate student. The Award will consist of a cash payment of $150 and a citation, presented annually at the AHA national conference. Applications due 31 March 2019 Further information.