Call for Papers

This call closed on 31 May 2023.

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Ours is a time of challenges. The value of historical caretaking, research, and teaching is increasingly being measured and questioned. Jobs are scarce and too often fixed-term; never has it been more expensive to pay for accommodation and utilities, even to eat. It is surely time to tackle an urgent, complex question head-on: how, where, and why do humans ‘make’ history?

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Proposals might address, but are by no means limited to, histories of:

·  traditional and non-traditional research and learning spaces: libraries and archives; schools, universities, and homes; museums; minds; virtual realities;

· academic disciplines;

· history and History pedagogies;

· the historiographical canon, what and who it excludes;

· how history has been shared or made public;

· the role of history and historians within societies;

· industrial action in the academic, heritage, and publishing sectors;

· health and history-work;

· history making.

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We also welcome proposals relating to any historical research that fits one or more of the following criteria:

· applies atypical methods and/or technologies;

· results from collaboration between job sectors or countries;

· is interdisciplinary;

· has attracted new audiences.

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Conference bursaries are available to defray speakers’ travel and accommodation expenses.

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_{Image caption: Book Conservators at the State Library of New South Wales, 1943, photograph <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding#/media/File:Book_Conservators,_Mitchell_Building.jpg&gt;.}

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