The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
As announced at the 2019 AGM, the 2020 annual AHA Conference will be held at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus in Geelong from the 29th June-3 July. The theme will be Urgent Histories. Put it in your calendar! The AHA is also pleased to announce that the 2021 conference will be held at UNSW.
Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2019, including AHA members: Australian History Prize: Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler-Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History Laura Rademaker, Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission General Read more …
10-12 December, Adelaide The Antipodes: the opposite, figuratively, geographically, metaphorically. We are interested in accounts of women and men who lived opposite lives often off the main stage, but who played their part in Irish history, literature and the Sciences, especially in Australia and New Zealand. The conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, Read more …
Loreto College, Adelaide 1-3 October 2019 The HTAA welcomes proposals on all aspects of the teaching of F-12 History, particularly new topic content, assessment, concepts & skills and approaches to programming. We also encourage presentations on a range of other topics, including but not limited to: teaching history in the digital age, Indigenous history, innovative Read more …
Congratulations to Donna Lee Brien and Quinn Eades for the shortlisting of their edited book Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice (UWA Publishing 2018) for the 2018 Australian University Heads of English Literary Scholarship Awards. Further information.
Congratulations to Kama Maclean, Fiona Paisley, Lyndall Ryan and past president Lynette Russell on their election last week as fellows to the Australian Academy of Humanities. Further information.
Congratulations to Professor Lyndall Ryan who has been awarded the 2018 Annual History Citation in recognition of her research and teaching in women’s and Indigenous History and service to the profession in the 2018 History Council New South Wales Awards: Further information.
Congratulations to Shaunnagh Dorsett (UTS) for her book Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts 1840-1852 (Auckland UP) and Jane McCabe (Otago) for her book Race, Tea and Colonial Settlement (Bloomsbury) who have been jointly awarded New Zealand’s prestigious Ian Wards Prize for 2018. This prize recognises an outstanding piece of published NZ historical writing that demonstrates either Read more …
Congratulations to Peter Prince who has won the Deen De Bortoli award in applied history, awarded by the History Council NSW, for a history article that contributes to current policy, for his article on the High Court and the expulsion of Australian Islanders published in law & history vol.5:1 2018 Further information.
AHA members may be interested in contributing to the fundraising drive being conducted to fund a series of scholarships in the name of the late Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua Mar. The Tracey Banivanua Mar Scholarship Endowment has been created by La Trobe University in consultation with Tracey’s husband, friends and family in order to best reflect Read more …