AISNSW History Extension Symposium 2023

History Makers: Producing Historiography in a Changing World

The 2023 History Extension Symposium enables History teachers to engage with the critical disciplinary challenges facing practicing historians today in reading, researching, and writing history at the professional level.

The day will also enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of some of the diverse historiographical approaches used in the construction of history and consider the implications of the positioning of deep time within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and the broader school of Australian historiography. A range of workshops featuring a variety of case studies will draw on the latest research on current historical debates and innovative approaches to teaching the History Extension course.

This professional learning experience meets the criteria for NESA Accredited PD in the Priority Area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum.

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Date: Friday, 27 October 2023

Location: AISNSW, Level 12, 99 York Street SYDNEY NSW 2000

Standard Descriptors: 2.1.2, 3.1.2, 3.3.2, 3.4.2

Keynote Presenter:

Professor Ann McGrath AM - School of History at the Australian National University

Professor McGrath is the Director of the Research Centre for Deep History and is the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow and W.K. Hancock Professor of History. Her current interests are deep history in a global context, spatial history and scale.

Ann has a longstanding interest in the history of gender and colonialism, the history of Indigenous relations and intermarriage in Australia and North America. She was a winner of the inaugural Hancock Prize and was accepted as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Humanities.

Keynote Presenter: Dr Alana Piper

Dr Alana Piper is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work draws together the social and cultural history of crime in Australia with criminological, legal and digital humanities approaches. Dr Piper is a Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at University of Technology, Sydney. She is also founder and managing co-editor of the Australian Women's History Network blog VIDA.

Dr Piper's keynote will explore the significance of Digital Histories as a dynamic and creative methodology to reshape the way we analyse the past and the implications of new technologies for history-making.

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