AHA/CAL Travel and Writing Bursaries Funding opportunity for Postgraduate Students and Independent Historians Applications due: 15 March 2013 The Australian Historical Association (AHA) in association with the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) is pleased to announce the availability of twelve Travel and Writing Bursaries linked to this year’s AHA conference at the University of Wollongong, 8–12 July, 2013. The bursaries are…
FROM THE PHA NSW PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER, 20 JANUARY 2013 The following is from the President of the Professional Historians Association in New South Wales. The reading of this report will give Queensland members a better idea of how advanced some of our interstate colleagues are in adapting online tools for the work professional history and for better networking. Full PHA…
The Brisbane History Centre (BHC) is the place of the marvellous library collected for over three decades by Rod Fisher for use by him, his colleagues, friends and students. This splendid collection is now an asset of Brisbane History Group Incorporated (BHG). It is housed securely in National Trust House, 95 William Street, Level B2. This treasure trove is seriously…
By W.Ross Johnston, Ph.D., MPHA. Foolishly, three years ago I offered to do some research into the origins of the Queensland Historians Institute, the predecessor of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). I was prompted to do so when the Governor of Queensland Ms Penelope Wensley, in opening the national conference of the professional historians associations of Australia in Brisbane, claimed…
The New Year has started, and already the PHAQ Management Committee has met over the recess to accomplish major pieces of work. On Saturday January 19 most Committee members were in attendance at an annual workshop (pictured) to plan the year before us. It was held at the hideaway of patron Ross Johnston, and we are in debt for the wealth of support that both of our patrons have provided to the Association.
How Professional Historians in Queensland Can Maximize Work Opportunities By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA. Historians are good at looking backwards, but not so good at looking forward. Quite by accident, last year, I found a revolutionary approach to boost my local history work. It was a realisation that the 30th anniversary was happening for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in about…
“Hope, Fear, Promise”, these are human responses that we ponder upon in our history writing. They are also emotions that each of us have experienced at some time in our career as a professional historian, and surely they are questions that we have for the future of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland).
Already in my street the neighbours have put up Christmas lights. Of course, the supermarkets had Christmas displays in the aisles months ago.
There is a caricature about the Festive Season. It is a family time. It is a time we’re winding-down at work. In particular historical contexts that makes sense, but for many of us the caricature is plain nonsense. Some may indeed have family around for Christmas Day but for the rest of the season it is the usual solitary existence. For a few, there is simply no family. As for winding-down, that’s much less likely for the professional classes, especially in today’s economic climate. For academics, and for many non-academic professional historians, the Christmas-New Year period is the time to get on with the book-writing or that research project. Yes, the Festive Season is a change of pace, but usually it involves speeding-up, not slowing down.
Here we are reading the October 2012 edition of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) e-Bulletin, three weeks after the Annual General Meeting. Time is moving on. It is hard to imagine the whirlwind of activity that led up to our reformation for this very start of the 2012-2013 business period. We needed to catch our breath, and digest the immense issues that were discussed at the AGM.
Management Committee Annual Report 2011-2012
Welcome everyone to the 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Professional
Historians Association of Queensland and thank you for your attendance here this
evening. It has been a busy year and it is my pleasure now to present the 21st
Annual Report of the Management Committee of the Professional Historians
Association of Queensland.