Speaker: Professor Frank Bongiorno
Making Their Political Mark: How have Australians remembered politics?
Held on 10 September 2024
The Auditorium, Chau Chak Wing Museum
University Place, University of Sydney, Camperdown
Co-hosted with the Chau Chak Wing Museum
The Annual History Lecture & Awards is an event produced & presented by the History Council of New South Wales every year, 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, as well as and celebrate contributions towards historical practice and theory through the presentation of History Awards.
Annual History Lecture
In 2024, the Annual History Lecture was presented by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History at the Australian National University.
Our theme for History Week 2024, ‘Marking Time’, invited History Council members to consider how we commemorate. What people, events and histories do we – or don’t we – celebrate or remember?
In the Annual History Lecture, following this theme, Professor Bongiorno explored some Australian patterns of political commemoration and collective memory. The presentation drew 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.
Links to audio and video recordings of this event can be found below.
HCNSW Annual History Awards
The HCNSW Annual History Awards support and acknowledge contributions towards historical practice and theory and celebrate history in all its diverse forms.
We offer a number of prestigious annual awards and prizes across different fields of historical practice, totalling $5,500 in prize money. Students, early career researchers, continuing historians, and those that produce digital histories are all catered for. Honorable Mention citations will also awarded, where appropriate.
Winners were announced and prize presentations made during the joint 2024 Annual History Lecture & Awards event.
General information about the HCNSW Annual History Awards can be found here.
Recordings
Making Their Political Mark: How have Australians remembered politics?
Professor Frank Bongiorno, recorded 10th September 2024, at Chau Chak Wing Museum.
The 2024 History Council of New South Wales Annual History Lecture was given by Professor Frank Bongiorno, professor of history at Australian National University. First held in 1996, the Annual History Lecture was inaugurated by the HCNSW to underline the importance of history to current issues and concerns. The lectures are original works that constitute a significant contribution to historical knowledge.
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Photo credit: Adam Spence, ANU
Image Credit: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
About Professor Frank Bongiorno
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.
Research Profile
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/frank-bongiorno
About the venue & co-host
The History Council of NSW is pleased to announce that for the first time, the Annual History Lecture & Awards will be co-hosted with the Chau Chak Wing Museum in the grounds of the University of Sydney. Further details are available via the registration link above.
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Create NSW Funding & Support
The HCNSW is supported by an annual grant from Create NSW through the Arts & Cultural Development Program which enables it to manage the Awards & Prizes program, among other History Professional Development programs.
Information about funding and support available about this program can be accessed here.
