Working History: Professional Historians Association Conference – Registration Now Open

Working History: Professional Historians Association Conference
Graduate House, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
19-20 August, 2016

The conference will explore the following:

History: Now

What’s happening in history practice now? What are some of the tensions, challenges, dilemmas and wisdoms that come with working in history today?

History: How?

How do we communicate history? How does digital history compare to traditional methods? Is there still a role for books, radio and television? How important is technology in history?

History: Whose?

Who are we doing history for? What role does history play in benefiting communities, organisations, individuals? Should historians weigh in on discussions on policy, planning and heritage? What are our responsibilities?

History: Where to?

Our job is discussing the past, but what about the future? What challenges and new practices will we face? Who might we be working for? And what will working in history be like in 20 or 50 years time?

Guest Speakers:

Lisa Murray
Dr Lisa Murray is the City Historian and heads up the history team at the City of Sydney Council. She oversees a diverse History Program at the City that encompasses local and community history, civic and municipal history, and urban history. Lisa is passionate about making history accessible to the public. She is a Councillor with the History Council of NSW and a board member of the Dictionary of Sydney Inc. Lisa is the award-winning author of planning histories and a regular contributor to debates around public history, including being a speaker at TEDxSydney 2013. In her spare time, Lisa is writing a history and field guide to Sydney’s cemeteries, to be published by NewSouth Publishing in late 2016.

Tim Sherratt
Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. Tim has worked across the cultural heritage sector, and has been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. He’s currently Associate Professor of Digital Heritage at the University of Canberra. You can find him at discontents.com.au and as @wragge on Twitter.

Registration:

  • Members $80 per day
  • Non-members $110 per day
  • Students $65 per day

Registrations are now open! Click here for details.

Contact: workinghistory@phavic.org.au with any enquiries.