2024 RAHS-PHA NAIDOC Week Seminar – Tickets

This event is in partnership with the Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT)

For catering purposes, bookings close 10 July 2024

Event Date & Time: Friday, 12 July 2024 @ 10.00 am – 2.45 pm

Event Location: Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub, 106–108 Macquarie Rd, Springwood NSW 2777

Cost: $20 (includes morning tea and lunch)

Event Description:

The RAHS is proud to partner with the Professional Historians Association NSW-ACT for our first-ever NAIDOC Week seminar at Springwood. The seminar will celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ resilience and activism and appeal to anyone interested in bringing Aboriginal people to the forefront of local history and state archives collections.

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About the speakers:

Emeritus Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He has held several major positions and served on numerous prominent organisations and committees including, Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. 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. In 2014 he was elected a member of the prestigious Australian Social Sciences Academy and in 2020 made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 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 and Living with the Locals.

Dr Mark Dunn is a public historian who has worked for over twenty years in heritage and archaeology. He completed a PhD in History in 2015 at the University of New South Wales on the colonial Hunter Valley. He is the former chair of the Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT) and was the C.H. Currey Fellow at SLNSW in 2016. His book The Convict Valley covers the history of the Hunter Valley in NSW between 1790 and 1850, investigating the lives, interactions and interconnectedness of the convict, Aboriginal and settler communities during this frontier colonial period.

Jasmyn Irwin is Senior Advisor, First Nations Community Access to Archives, Museums of History NSW.

Emily Hanna is Lead Archivist, Collection Discovery at Museums of History NSW. For many years, Emily has helped people to access the NSW State Archives Collection across a range of channels, including the reading room, enquiry services and talks.