Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2019

Local Communities, Global Networks

When

08 - 12 JUL 2019

Where

Empire Theatre, Masonic Temple (Southern Cross Lodge), Toowoomba City Library

The 38th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference, hosted by USQ's School of Humanities and Communication, invites submissions on the theme of Local Communities, Global Networks.

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?

Inspired by a photographic fragment of two children displaying their cultural heritage, the conference theme speaks to the centrality of History for engaging with community and family networks. Constructing livelihoods within an empire and a nation that have had a global reach, local communities have responded in diverse ways. The varieties of historical enquiry into this past enrich our understanding of Australian and world history. Local Communities, Global Networks draws together the latest research on the re-shaping of communities and the re-fashioning of imperial relationships and transnational in turn.

Organising committee

Further information

For further information, please email AHA2019Conference@usq.edu.au

Professor Angela McCarthy

Professor Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has published widely in studies of migration, including most recently (with T.M. Devine), Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon (2017), Migration, Ethnicity and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910 (2015), Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: ‘For Spirit and Adventure’ (2007), and Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: ‘The Desired Haven’ (2005). Her work has drawn on connections with family historians and migrant communities including, most recently, interviews with Cambodian, Syrian and Palestinian former refugees in Dunedin, New Zealand.

View Professor Angela McCarthy's CV.

Professor John Maynard

Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He is currently Chair of Aboriginal History at the University of Newcastle and Director of the Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies centre. He has held several major positions and served on numerous prominent organizations and committees including, Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association, New South Wales History Council, Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC), Australian Research Council College of Experts – Deputy Chair Humanities, National Indigenous Research and Knowledge Network (NIRAKN) and a Fulbright Ambassador. He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (Australian National University) Stanner Fellowship 1996, the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellow 2003, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 2004, University of Newcastle Researcher of the Year 2008 and 2012 and Australian National University Allan Martin History Lecturer 2010. In 2014 he was elected a member of the prestigious Australian Social Sciences Academy. He gained his PhD in 2003, examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism. He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities, urban, rural and remote. Professor Maynard’s publications have concentrated on the intersections of Aboriginal political and social history, and the history of Australian race relations. He is the author of several books, including Aboriginal Stars of the Turf (2003), Fight for Liberty and Freedom (2007), The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe (2011), Aborigines and the Sport of Kings (2013), True Light and Shade: An Aboriginal Perspective of Joseph Lycett's Art (2014) and Living with the Locals – Early Indigenous Experience of Indigenous Life (2016) with V. K. Haskins. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including documentaries The Track, The Colony, Vote Yes for Aborigines, Captain Cook Obsession and Discovery, Outback United, Lachlan Macquarie - The Father of Australia, The Years That Made Us, Australia – The Story of Us and Fred Maynard Aboriginal Patriot.

View Professor John Maynard's CV.

Professor Jordanna Bailkin

Professor Jordanna Bailkin is the Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches British, European, and imperial history in the Department of History. She is the prizewinning author of The Culture of Property (Chicago, 2004), The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley, 2012), and Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain (Oxford, 2018). She has published widely on the histories of colonialism and decolonization, race and migration. She is at work on two new projects: one on the history of private security and detention in Britain, and another on emotions and the welfare state.

View Professor Jordanna Bailkin’s CV.

Professor Sylvester A. Johnson

Professor Sylvester A. Johnson is an internationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of race, religion, and technology. He is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. Johnson is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Africana Religions. He has authored two books: African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and a winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award, and The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God, a 2004 Palgrave MacMillan publication that garnered the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book Award. Johnson also co-edited, with Steven Weitzman, The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11, which the University of California Press published in 2017.

The Virginia Tech Centre for Humanities

View Professor Johnson's CV

Associate Professor Nancy Cushing

Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor in History, Assistant Dean Research Training at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and an executive member of the Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network and the History Council of NSW. An environmental historian most interested in relations between humans and other animals, she is co-author, with Kevin Markwell, of Snake-bitten, Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park (UNSW Press 2010), co-editor of Radical Newcastle (New South 2015) and co-editor of Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations (Routledge 2018). Her current projects include a revisionist history of coal in Australia.

View Associate Professor Cushing's CV

Mr Thomas Mayor

Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man who lives on Larrakia land in Darwin. He is a National Indigenous Officer for the Construction Forestry Maritime and Mining Union. He is also the Deputy Secretary of the Northern Territory Branch of the Maritime Union of Australia, and Assistant Secretary of the NT Trades & Labour Council. Thomas was elected from the Referendum Council Darwin Dialogue on Constitutional Recognition to participate in the Uluru National Constitutional Convention. He was a part of the unprecedented consensus at Uluru on 26 May 2017, articulated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He has since advocated for the proposals in the Statement – a call for Voice, Treaty, Truth.

View Mr Mayor’s 2018 blog on @IndigenousX and recent activities for the Uluru Statement.

Mr Eddie Synot

Eddie Synot is an Indigenous academic lawyer and researcher at Griffith University. Eddie is currently completing his PhD with the Griffith Law School focusing on a critique of Indigenous recognition and the liberal rights discourse of Indigenous recognition. Eddie has also taught Indigenous Studies at Griffith University, teaching Reconstructing the Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal Political Histories and Contemporary Aboriginal Issues. He has appeared on ABC’s The Drum is a contributor to The Conversation.

View Mr Synot’s CV and website.

Ms Teela Reid

Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman born and raised in Gilgandra western NSW. She is a solicitor with experience practicing in criminal, civil and administrative law. Teela was involved as a working group leader on s 51(xxvi), the Race Power, in the Constitutional dialogue process that culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Teela commenced her professional career as a high school PE teacher. She then completed her postgraduate Juris Doctor from UNSW Law Sydney and was named on the UNSW Law Deans Women of Excellence List. Upon graduation, Teela was appointed tipstaff to her Honour Justice Lucy McCallum of the NSW Supreme Court. Teela was the first Aboriginal person to be elected on the UNSW Law Society as Vice-President (Social Justice), where she was the founding director of the UNSW Law First Peoples Moot. She was also the Inaugural recipient of the NSW Indigenous Barristers Trust award. Previously, Teela was Australia’s Female Indigenous Youth Delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum in New York that inspired her journey to become a lawyer. In 2017, Teela was selected to attend Harvard University as a global Emerging Leader. On her return to Australia, Teela fearlessly took Prime Minister Turnbull to task on Q&A after his dismissal of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

View Ms Reid’s profile and further information

Professor Katharine Gelber

University of Queensland

Katharine Gelber is Head of the School of Political Science and International Studies, and Professor of Politics and Public Policy. Her research is in the field of freedom of speech, and the regulation of public discourse. She has been awarded several ARC, and other, competitive research grants. In November-December 2017, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Global Freedom of Expression Project, Columbia University, New York. In Dec 2017, she jointly hosted, with Prof Susan Brison, a workshop at the Princeton University Center for Human Values on, 'Free Speech and its Discontents'. In 2014, with Prof Luke McNamara, she was awarded the Mayer journal article prize for the best article in the Australian Journal of Political Science in 2013. In 2011 she was invited by the United Nations to be the Australian Expert Witness at a regional meeting examining States' compliance with the free speech and racial hatred provisions of international law. In 2009 she presented the Mitchell Oration in Adelaide on the topic 'Freedom of Speech and its Limits'. She is the author of three monographs (Free Speech After 9/11, OUP 2016; Speech Matters, UQP, 2011, Speaking Back, John Benjamins, 2002), and three edited books (incl. Free Speech in the Digital Age, OUP 2019).

View Professor Katharine Gelber’s CV

Dr Nicky Jones

University of Southern Queensland

Nicky Jones is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland. In a previous career, Dr Jones was a French lecturer and translator before completing her LLB (Hons) and a PhD in French and Law from the University of Queensland for research into legal and cultural issues arising from the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in secular public schools in France. After graduating, Dr Jones worked as a judge’s associate to the Hon Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, who was then President of the Court of Appeal in Queensland, before being employed as a lawyer in private and government practice. She is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the Federal and High Courts of Australia. Dr Jones currently lectures in public international law, human rights law and anti-discrimination law. Her research interests include international law, secularism and religious freedom, politics and consumer law.

View Dr Nicky Jones’ CV

Professor Richard Nile

James Cook University

Richard Nile is Professor of History and Head of Humanities and Creative Arts at James Cook University. Previous appointments have included Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Institute Murdoch University, Professor and Director the Australia Research Institute Curtin University, Director the Australian Studies Centre University of Queensland, and Deputy and Interim Head the Menzies Centre University of London. Richard began his career as a Lecturer at the Universities of New South Wales and Western Australia. At various other times, he has been University Fellow and Senior Honorary Research Fellow University of Western Australia, Distinguished Visiting Professor Copenhagen University, Australia-India Council Visiting Professor Himachal Pradesh University, Visiting Fellow Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, and Visiting Fellow University of Debrecen. The author and co-author of books across more than thirty international editions and translations, Richard has published a further 98 edited scholarly volumes, and around a hundred peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and occasional pieces across a range of media.

View Professor Richard Nile’s CV

Professor Lynette Russell

Monash University

Lynette Russell is a historian who combines anthropology and archaeology in her research. She is Director of the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, which is a research and teaching unit specializing in History, Archaeology and Anthropology. She is extensively published and is the author or editor of twelve books, specializing in Aboriginal and encounter history. Professor Russell is committed to community and public outreach and seeks to disseminate her work widely. As an interdisciplinary scholar she works with archaeologists and museum studies specialists as well as transnational historians. She is committed to ethical research with community members as equal partners in the research process. She has held fellowships at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and she is a member of the Academy Social Sciences Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

View Professor Lynette Russell’s CV

We welcome paper and panel proposals on any geographical area, time period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of ‘Local communities, global networks’.

If you missed the CFP deadline, there is still an opportunity to submit by: Wednesday 20 March 2019.

View instructions on how to submit an abstract (PDF 172KB).

Download the call for papers poster (PDF 570KB).

Download the abstract template (DOCX 17KB).

Submit your abstract.

AHA affiliated society streams

Other society streams

Thursday, 1 November 2018 - Call for papers
Thursday, 28 February 2019 - Abstract submissions close
Sunday, 31 March 2019 - Notifications of acceptance/rejection
Monday, 1 April 2019 - Registrations open
Friday, 12 April 2019 - Draft Program available
Tuesday, 7 May 2019 - Early Bird registrations close
Thursday, 30 May 2019 - Presenter registrations close
Saturday, 1 June 2019 - Registration deadline for all presenters
Friday, 8 June 2019 - Final Program available
Sunday, 7 July 2019 - Registrations close

AHA 2019 Conference registrations now open

The AHA 2019 conference organising committee extends warmest thanks to everyone who submitted an abstract or a proposal for a panel or roundtable! Acceptances have gone out and we invite registrations.

To register for the event, please click here: https://arinex.eventsair.com/aha-2019/form1/Site/Register

Early bird rates close on Tuesday, 7 May inclusive. A draft of the program will be available by early next week.

Conference registration fees

Registration	Type	Regular	Earlybird
AHA member	Full registration	$550	$455
AHA member	Day registration	$290	$235
AHA member – student/concession	Full registration	$285	$235
AHA member – student/concession	Day registration	$155	$125
Non-member	Full registration	$625	$530
Non-member	Day registration	$320	$265
Non-member – student/concession	Full registration	$325	$275
Non-member – student/concession	Day registration	$170	$140

See the AHA 2019 registration terms and conditions.

The final Program is available here. Contact the AHA 2019 Conference Organising Committee for any enquiries: AHA2019Conference@usq.edu.au

Presenters must register by Thursday, 30 May, to be included in the final program, which will be made available in early June. (Registrations include the option for invoice payments.)

Download information about free and paid parking in Toowoomba (PDF 46KB).

Download the map of venues, accommodation and parking (PDF 200KB).

Flights

Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport (Toowoomba) provides daily flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville and Darwin.

By road

Toowoomba is approximately a 90-minute drive west of Brisbane. Options include:

Burke & Wills Hotel

Special rate: $169.00 p/n Corporate Queen Room | $179.00 p/n Superior Queen Room
Room details: Corporate Queen Room (20 rooms available) | Superior Queen Room (20 rooms available)
Booking code: USQ, 8-12 July.
Terms & Conditions: rooms released in 30 days prior to the event (9 June) if not booked
Tel: +61 7 4632 2433

Central Plaza Apartment Hotel

Discount: Book directly with the hotel to receive a 15% discount.
Terms & conditions: All rooms are open to the general public and not on hold for conference delegates. Please ensure you get in early to secure bookings.
Tel: +61 7 4688 3333
Book: via the phone or via the website to receive this discount

Federal Motel

Special rate: $129 p/n
Room details: various rooms (20 available)
Booking code: USQ 8-12 July
Terms & Conditions: 1 or 2 people per room p/n; $10 per extra person p/n. No cancellations from 7 days out.
Tel: +61 7 4632 3262
Book: via phone or the website and mention AHA Conference to receive the special rate

Park Motor Inn

Special rate: $119 p/n Single Room | $129 p/n Standard Queen Room | $129 Twin Share Room | $139 p/n Queen and Single Rooms (3 people)
Room details: 47 rooms currently available, including a variety of room configurations
Booking code: AHA2019
Tel: +61 7 4632 1011
Email: enquiries@parktoowoomba.com.au
Book: phone direct or email and mention the code as above

Potters Boutique Hotel

Special rate: $159.00 p/n Deluxe King Room
Room details: Deluxe King Room (40 rooms available)
Booking code: USQ Conference 8-12 July 2019.
Tel: +61 4670 9688
Email: stay@potterstoowoomba.com.au
Book: Online via website, via phone or email using the code above

Laguna Apartments

Special rate: $170 p/n for One Bedroom Apartment (includes 2 people) | $210 p/n for Two Bedroom Apartment (includes 4 people)
Room details: One Bedroom Apartments (4 available) | Two Bedroom Apartments (27 available)
Booking code: AHA2019
Terms and Conditions: Credit cards are required to secure bookings. Cancellations are required two days before arrival.
Tel: +61 7 4659 9188
Email: info@lagunaapartments.com.au
Book: Online via website, or email using the codes above

Best Western Plus Ambassador on Ruthven Motor Inn

Special rate: $149.00 p/n Executive Queen Room | $155.00 p/n Deluxe Queen & Singles Room
Room details: Executive Queen Rooms (10 available) | Deluxe Queen & Singles Rooms (10 available)
Booking code: AHA2019
Tel: +61 7 4637 6800

Quest Apartment Hotel

Special rate: Percentage of the best available rate
Room details: Studios, One Bedroom Apartments, Two Bedroom Apartments, Three Bedroom Apartments (limited numbers)
Booking code: AHAC
Tel: +61 7 4690 2222
Email: questtoowoomba@questapartments.com.au
Book: via phone or email using the code above

Highlander Motor Inn and Apartments

Special rate: $129 p/n Standard Queen Motel rooms (Queen Bed) | $139 p/n Exec King Spa rooms (King Bed) | $139 p/n Exec Queen Spa rooms (Queen Bed) | $144 p/n Twin Motel rooms (Queen and Single Bed) | $159 p/n Family Motel rooms (Queen and 2 Single Beds) | $169 p/n Room Motel rooms (Queen and 2 Single Beds) | $165 p/n 1 bedroom apartments (King Bed) | $189 p/n 2 bedroom apartments (Queen and 2 Single Beds) | $210 p/n 3 bedroom apartment (2 Queen and 2 Single Beds) | $210 p/n 3 bedroom apartment (3 Queens).
Room details: There are 23 motel rooms and 10 self-contained apartments, all of various sizes: 5 x Standard Queen Motel rooms; 2 x Exec King Spa rooms; 8 x Exec Queen Spa rooms; 3 x Twin Motel rooms; 3 x Family Motel rooms; 2 x 2 Room Motel rooms; 3 x 1 bedroom apartments; 5 x 2 bedroom apartments; 1 x 3 bedroom apartment; 1 x 3 bedroom apartment.
Booking code: AHA2019
Terms and Conditions: All rooms are open to the general public and not on hold for conference delegates. Please ensure you get in early to secure bookings by contacting the Highlander Motor Inn and quoting the booking code for the special rate.
Tel: +61 7 4638 4955

USQ Residential Colleges (McGregor, Steel Rudd, Concannon)

Costs: $92 p/n (Single occupancy private rooms, including breakfast, dinner, internet and all linen)
Room details: Private ensuite rooms (limited) | Shared ensuite rooms (unlimited). Rooms include a king single bed, desk and built in cupboards.
Bookings: via online portal
Booking code: AHA Conference 8-12 July 2019
Tel: +61 7 4631 2650

Accessibility

See the wheelchair access for each venue.

Tours and sites

Join us for a historical tour and sightseeing opportunity.

Documentaries and film

Documentary: Undermined
Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. What will be left of over 200 remote Aboriginal communities?
Website: http://underminedfilm.com/
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCF4TmCTZ8

Movie: Black ‘47
Black ’47 is a 2018 movie starring Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Jim Broadbent and Stephen Rea. Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows Feeney who has been fighting for the British Army abroad but abandons his post to reunite with his family. Based on the Irish-language short film A Ranger, the movie takes its name from the worst year of the Irish famine.
Internet Movie Database site: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3208026/
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6znv9iBGX6w

Restaurants, cafés and bars

There are a great number of restaurants and cafés in Toowoomba’s CBD. The most popular areas are in the surrounds of the venues on Margaret Street and Ruthven Street. Access Trip Advisor’s website
or Map View

Bursaries and prizes

Apply for a bursary to support you in joining/presenting at the 2019 AHA Conference.

Code of conduct

The AHA Executive approved a revised AHA code of ethics in December 2018, including a code of conduct for conferences, which can be found on the AHA website. Acceptance of the AHA code of conduct is part of the registration process and supported by the University of Southern Queensland, the Empire Theatres and the Toowoomba City Library.

Toowoomba weather

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What to do in Toowoomba

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