NSW History Council Annual Lecture and Awards 2024
The Annual History Lecture & Awards is an event produced & presented by the History Council of New South Wales, which aims to engage and educate the community about the vitality, diversity and meaning of history and its practice through the eyes of historians and others prominent in public history.
In 2024, the Annual History Lecture will be presented by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History at the Australian National University.
The theme for History Week 2024, ‘Marking Time’, invites History Council members to consider how we commemorate. What people, events and histories do we – or don’t we – celebrate or remember?
The Chau Chak Wing Museum is proud to cohost this event with the History Council of New South Wales.
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In the Annual History Lecture, Professor Bongiorno explores some Australian patterns of political commemoration and collective memory. The presentation will draw attention to how historians are recovering the manifold ways that Indigenous people, non-European migrants and women have participated in a political system designed by and for white men, the contestation (and lack of it) over political commemoration, and the need for a fuller recognition of the deep history of First Nations political systems.
Frank Bongiorno AM FRHistS FASSA FAHA is Professor of History at the Australian National University and was Senior Lecturer, King’s College London and the University of New England. He is the author of Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022) and The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015), and co-author, with Nick Dyrenfurth, of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (2011, 2024) which was this year published in an expanded second edition. He was until recently President of the Australian Historical Association and is President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
The HCNSW Annual History Awards support and acknowledge contributions towards historical practice and theory and celebrate history in all its diverse forms. The HCNSW offer a number of prestigious annual awards and prizes across different fields of historical practice, totalling $5,500 in prize money.
Winners will be announced and prize presentations made during the joint Annual History Lecture & Awards event during History Week 2024.
