History Beyond the Classroom - USYD

Chau Chak Wing Museum Biennale of Sydney

Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History A 12‑month fixed‑term opportunity at 0.8 FTE, starting 2027 with scope for variation Applications are invited for the 2027 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History for early‑career historians Base Salary Level A $113,400 - $121,054 + 17% superannuation pro rata About the opport...

I’m a bit uncomfortable about self-promotion, particularly in these dark days, but I also have to do my collaborators justice….so, a couple of items coming up, starting with this article in The Public Historian, co-authored with a fabulous former student, Darcy Campbell who has been an inspiration ever since she started her History degree, quite a few years ago now. The article points out what we see as the value of our course, History Beyond the Classroom, a community-engaged public history class that Darcy took - and helped shape. The Department introduced it in 2015, and it has evolved with the input of so many great students and colleagues, way too numerous to mention, but folks like Hannah Forsyth, The Old Parramattan aka Micaela Cameron, Peter Hobbins, Sophie Loy-Wilson, Tanya Evans, Marama Whyte, and James Findlay among many others you all know who you are…..including all our amazing partner organisations over the years! It is so nice to see this out, even if it is long overdue. Thanks everyone, but especially Darcy - without whose conversations, comradeship, research, enthusiasm, and nudges, this article would still not be out!

Free access and link to download for a month, apparently….

Article (Free access):

https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article/doi/10.1525/tph.2026.48.1.51/217083/Taking-History-Beyond-the-ClassroomEmbedding?guestAccessKey=7d8045f4-6d32-47e6-badc-9036bf2e4c12

Article:

https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-abstract/48/1/51/217083/Taking-History-Beyond-the-ClassroomEmbedding

Taking History Beyond the Classroom: Embedding Public History and Shared Authority into the University Degree Shared authority has become a key tenet in the practice of public history, but how do we teach the idea of shared authority in the university classroom? In this co-authored essay by student and teacher, we unpackage how we have attempted to tackle this issue in a capstone undergraduate history unit....

We are delighted to announce Episode 4 of our History Now podcast series is now available!

In this Wood Memorial Lecture/History Now event, Dr. Sophie Loy-Wilson from the discipline of History at the University of Sydney will sit down with three extraordinary scholars who have drawn on lived experiences and different methodologies to produce creative histories that have made an impact on how we think about and do history.

Shauna Bostock, André Dao, and Katerina Teaiwa will discuss their past and future projects, and challenge us to imagine new ways of approaching, practicing and presenting history in Australia today.

Listen now via https://buff.ly/j0XlO4V

This event is part of the 2025 History Now series. History Now is presented by the History Council of NSW in conjunction with the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney and the Vere Gordon Childe Centre at University of Sydney

This series has been supported in 2025 by the NSW Government through a grant from Create NSW

Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109,263 - $121,054 + 17% superannuation pro rata About the opportunity Applications are invited for the...

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at the next History Now event at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

Tickets are still available to hear Dr James Findlay speak about the research from his new book ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict history in film and television’

If you are unable to join us in-person, this event will also be live-streamed

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This presentation is part of the History Council of New South Wales’s 2025 History Now series presented with support of Create NSW

The History Council of New South Wales, the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, the Vere Gordon Childe Centre at the University of Sydney are pleased to present the 2025 History Now series

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