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KEYNOTE SESSION: Shutting Up and Listening!
Professor Clare Wright OAM, La Trobe University

The Uluru Statement from the Heart encourages us to engage as a nation in acts of truth-telling. Politically and historically, it’s time. But how do we learn to shut up and listen to the truths that are being told, and what are the barriers that have prevented Australians from hearing these truths before? Historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator Professor Clare Wright has been grappling with this question: on country, in archives, in classrooms, in museums and in her latest book, Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions, the third instalment of her acclaimed Democracy Trilogy, which is based on a decade of research and community consultation in North-East Arnhem Land.

In this ‘in-conversation’ style presentation with HTAV’s Executive Officer Dr Deb Hull, Clare will also respond to questions from the HTAV community.

Following the presentation, Clare will be available for book signing. Clare’s books will also be available for purchase throughout the conference at the HTAV Publishing exhibition table.

Professor Clare Wright OAM is an
award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator who has worked in politics, academia and the media. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. She has written five works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (winner of the 2014 Stella Prize) and You Daughters of Freedom. Her latest book, and the final instalment in her Democracy Trilogy, is the highly acclaimed Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions.
Clare has written and presented history documentaries for the ABC and is Associate Producer of the feature film One Mind, One Heart, written and directed by Larissa Behrendt. She also hosts the ABC Radio National history podcast, Shooting the Past, co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever (with Yves Rees), and is Executive Producer of Hey History! the first Australian history podcast designed for use in the classroom. In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list for ‘services to literature and to historical research’. Clare is Chair of the National Museum of Australia Council and was Board Director of the Wheeler Centre.

SOCIAL HOUR
NETWORKING DRINKS FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Join colleagues, catch up with old friends, meet new people, harvest good ideas, and enjoy a complimentary drink and a selection of canapés at the HTAV Social Hour.

Social Hour will take place at the Hawthorn Arts Centre conference venue.

Sponsored by The Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize.

KEYNOTE SESSION: ‘The Most Beautiful Lies’? Australian History for Australia
A special presentation facilitated by Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee AM, The University of Melbourne.

HTAV will share more information on this unique and special presentation with attendees on the day of the conference.

Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee AM
was appointed to a Personal Chair in History at the University of Melbourne in 1993. He was the university’s first Provost in 2007–2009 and is now an Emeritus Professor. Peter has published widely on the history of France since 1770, most recently Liberty or Death: The French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2016) and An Environmental History of France: Making the Landscape 1770 – 2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is currently the Chair of the History Council of Victoria, the state’s peak body for History, and Patron of the HTAV.

Peter has been a supporter of History teachers and their students since travelling on one of the first History Safaris through regional Victoria as a PhD student in the 1970s. Since then, he has often spoken at HTAV conferences and at HTAV student lectures. His view is that we cannot overestimate the civic and workplace importance of an education in History, which emphasises careful use of evidence, cultural understanding, flexibility of outlook, and respect for difference. He argues that our History teachers deserve the place in the school curriculum that the HTAV advocates.

SOCIAL HOUR
NETWORKING DRINKS FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Join colleagues, catch up with old friends, meet new people, harvest good ideas, and enjoy a complimentary drink and a selection of canapés at the HTAV Social Hour.

Social Hour will take place at the Hawthorn Arts Centre conference venue.

Sponsored by Jacaranda.