Local Communities, Global Networks
The 38th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference, hosted by USQ's School of Arts 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
- Catherine Dewhirst (Chair Convenor)
- Libby Connors (Convenor)
- Jayne Persian (Convenor)
- Amy Clarke (University of the Sunshine Coast)
- Martin Crotty (University of Queensland)
- Richard Nile (James Cook University)
- Fiona Paisley (Griffith University)
- David Roberts (University of New England)
- Celmara Pocock (University of Southern Queensland)
Further information
For further information, please email AHA2019Conference@usq.edu.au
Professor Angela McCarthy
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, Fight for Liberty and Freedom, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe, Aborigines and the Sport of Kings, True Light and Shade: An Aboriginal Perspective of Joseph Lycett's Art and Living with the Locals – Early Indigenous Experience of Indigenous Life. 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.
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’.
Deadline for all papers and proposals: Thursday 28 February 2019.
View instructions on how to submit an abstract (PDF 172KB).
Download the call for papers poster (PDF 570KB).
AHA affiliated society streams
- Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations
- Religious History Association
Other society streams
- Australian and New Zealand Environment History Network
- Australian Migration History Network
- Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
- 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
- Tuesday, 7 May 2019 - Early Bird registrations close
- Thursday, 30 May 2019 - Presenter registrations close
- Friday, 15 June 2019 - Draft Program advertised
- Thursday, 20 June 2019 - Final changes to draft Program
- Sunday, 7 July 2019 - Registrations close
- Monday, 8 - Friday, 12 July 2019 - Conference dates
Conference registrations will open in April 2019.
Cost details of the conference dinner and other social events will follow.
Conference registration fees
| Registration | Type | Regular | Earlybird |
| AHA member | Full registration | $550 | $455 |
| Day registration | $290 | $235 | |
| AHA member – student/concession | Full registration | $285 | $235 |
| Day registration | $155 | $125 | |
| Non-member | Full registration | $625 | $530 |
| Day registration | $320 | $265 | |
| Non-member – student/concession | Full registration | $325 | $275 |
| Day registration | $170 | $140 |
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 rates TBC
- Central Plaza Apartment Hotel - special rates TBC
- Federal Motel - special rates TBC
- Park Motor Inn - special rates TBC
- Potters Boutique Hotel - special rate of $159.00 p/n Deluxe King Room (40 rooms available); Booking code: USQ Conference 8-12 July 2019.
- USQ McGregor College (student-style rooms – 10 minutes drive to CBD)
Tours
- Historic Toowoomba, Pubs, and Laneways tour (Maurice French and Andrew Mason)
- Local Aboriginal Sites tour (Lara Lamb and Bryce Barker)
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