Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018 — Australian Historical Association annual conference hosted by The Australian National University

Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018 — Australian Historical Association annual conference hosted by The Australian National University

Monday 2 July	Tuesday 3 July	Wednesday 4 July	Thursday 5 July	Friday 6 July
		08:00 - 08:45 RHA Breakfast at Temporada
	09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Panel: The Right Scale for Our Times	09:00 - 10:30 Interpreting and Making Collections Accessible Settlement and Environment Environmental Consciousness Biographies of Prominent and Ambitious Women Digital History and Collective Biography Frontier Massacres War and Post-war Crises Totalitarianism and Nationalism in China and Japan The Global and the Intimate: Humanitarianism, Peacekeeping and Genocide Prisoners of War and Post-war Justice Buildings, Sacred Space and Worship Knowledges of the Deep Human Past Podcasting and public scholarship	09:00 - 10:30 Keynote: Clare Anderson	09:00 - 10:30 Keynote: Mary D. Lewis
10:00 - 16:00 Digital History Drop-In with Tim Sherratt
	11:00 - 12:30 Pregnancy and Parenthood Public Health Biography and Memory Centring Dja Dja Wurrung Voices and Countering the Colonial Concepts of Scale in Historical Interpretation Russian Migration to Australia: Mid-Century Science and History, ANU and the World Domestic Labour and Valuing Women Local and Transnational Histories The Making of the Australian Commonwealth World War 1 War Culture Mythbusting: Australians on the Western Front 1968: Czechoslovakia and Australia Creating Spiritual Communities Writing a national history on a global scale: a preliminary evaluation of A.G. Hopkins American Empire (2018)	11:00 - 12:30 Abortion Provision and Family Planning Visual Arts Collections: Histories and Case Studies Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Saltwater Histories Diplomatic Histories: Australia, China, and Japan Histories of Protection Strikes and Lockouts Memorialisation and Affective Heritage Historiography and Scale: Big, Deep, and Micro-histories Economic Ideas and Policy Colonial Warfare in New Zealand and New South Wales World War II and Contemporary War Culture Materiality and Belief 2: Mediating Spiritual Change Discovering history at scale through Trove	11:00 - 12:30 Animals in History Home on the Land A Big History of an Intimate Subject: Historicising Domestic Violence The Scale of Biography for Indigenous History Epistolary Windows on the Past Exchange and Dispossession Nationalism and Decolonisation Legal Histories of Race and Whiteness Microhistory and Biography: Colonial Australia Oceanic Connections Politics, Gender and Emotions Sports History 1 Land and Colonisation Humanities and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory Object Lessons: Australian Journey - The Story of a Nation in Twelve Objects	11:00 - 12:30 Inquiring into Empire from Sentence to Globe The North in the National Imagination: Disparities of Scale Gender, Class and Domesticity Carceral Histories Community Networks and Institutions in Australia Life Writing and Textual Fragments Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea Tourism Advertising and Radio Specimens and Artefacts Animals Count 11:00 - 12:00 National Belonging and Individual Lives
	12:45 - 13:30 Aboriginal History book launch Discussion Group: Diversity and Inclusion AHA-Copyright Agency ECR Fellowship Workshop 12:45 - 13:00 History Australia editorial board meeting	12:45 - 13:30 Book launch: Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan Launch: Australian Migrant History Network Forum: Australian Studies Institute (ANU)	12:45 - 13:30 Book launch: Clare Anderson (ed) Open Forum: AHA Conference Book launch: Lyndon Megarrity
13:00 - 15:00 Heads of History meeting Copyright Agency Bursary Workshop
	13:30 - 15:00 Mental Health Disease and Solution Biographies of Scientists Grassroots Politics in Australia and the US Political and Diplomatic Networks Women's Autonomy and Legitimacy Local Identity and Imperial Hegemony Second World War Eastern Front The Region: South and South-East Asia Around the World in 1968 Shaping and Re-Shaping Religious Worlds Rescaling the Australian Dictionary of Biography Overworked and Underemployed: Casualisation in Academic History in Australia The Spectrum of Indigenous Mobility	13:30 - 15:00 Lacunas, Liminal Zones and Limitations: Historical Craft & Biographical Method Remembering and Representing Rights New Analyses of Pre-Modern Worlds Truth, Reconciliation and Anti-Slavery Capitalists and Workers Ideology, War and Terror Marrying History Knowledge Cultures: China, and the Malay Peninsula Revolutions, Treaties and Statecraft Enterprise and Efficiency The Interwar Period The Soldiers’ Experience Museums and the Anthropocene	13:30 - 15:00 Urban Water: Landscapes, Infrastructures, Bodies Colonial and Trans-imperial Environmental Histories Japan in the Cold War / The Cold War in Japan Convicts, Soldiers and Settlers Mining, Mining Technology and the Environment Frontiers and Frontlines: The Emotional Labour of Letters Indigenous Biographies Memorials, Commemoration and National Identity The Power of Popular Culture Sexuality and Military Service Sports History 2 Trade and Transnational Networks The Future of Migration History in Australia Practical Advice for the Non-Academic Job Search Sweet Country and history	13:30 - 15:30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Trail at ANU 13:30 - 16:30 Cultural Institutions Repositories Tour 13:30 - 16:00 Tour of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House Tour of the National Museum of Australia
15:00 - 17:00 Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine National Council Meeting AHA Executive Committee meeting
	15:30 - 17:00 Education, Discovery and Recruitment Faith and Healing Lessons of War Cultures of Eating and Drinking in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, c. 1880-1960 Linked Worlds: Colonial Histories and Indigenous Sovereignty in Global and Comparative Perspective Scales of Socialism: From Utopias to Universities by way of the Unearthly Education Policy and the Teaching of History Public Policy and Politics in Australia Women and the Professions in the 20th Century Local Histories: Cultural and Biographical Space History War and Memory Materiality and Belief 1: Textiles and Clothing 1968: Changing Times exhibition Understorey - the campaigns to protect the south-east forests	15:30 - 17:00 Keynote: Mark McKenna	15:30 - 17:00 Creating Exhibitions The Anthropocene and Planetary Health Conservation Sensibilities Mining, Miners and Mining Society Intimacy, Risk, and Reflection Biography and Race Modern Histories of Representation and Self-determination Colonial and Imperial Histories Decolonising Asia National Narratives and Settler Colonialism Remembering ANZAC Searching for Personal Connections in the Built Environment Sports History 3 Dunera Lives: A Visual History What Is International History Now?
	17:00 - 18:00 Religious History Association Keynote: Katherine Butler Schofield Understorey social event ANZSHM Annual General Meeting		17:00 - 18:00 AHA Annual General Meeting
17:15 - 17:30 Conference Welcome	17:15 - 18:15 Book launch: Thomas Rogers	17:15 - 18:15 Book launch: Joy Damousi and Patricia O’Brien (eds)
17:30 - 18:30 Presidential Address: Lynette Russell
		18:00 - 19:30 Book launch: Dunera Lives – A Visual History
18:30 - 19:30 Welcome Reception	18:30 - 19:30 ECR social event at Fellows Bar Postgraduate student social event at Hopscotch
		19:00 - 21:30 Film Screening: Sweet County	19:00 - 22:30 Conference Dinner