ASSLH Conference 2023

The Canberra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) will this year host the Society’s 18th Biennial Conference. The Conference will be held at the Research School of Social Sciences Building (Building #146, Ellery Crescent), ANU, Canberra, on 23-25 November 2023.

The theme of the conference is (Re)Sources: Historical Inquiry and Labour History Archives provides for reflection on the significance of archives and libraries to the study of history. Archives and collections provide individuals and communities, authors and historians, and unions and universities the opportunity to reflect on their pasts, recover lost voices, contextualise established ones, and check the facts.

Find out more:

• The Call for Papers and welcome papers on a range of subjects are available at: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/cfp-resources-historical-inquiry-and-labour-history-archives/. Abstracts are due by 31 May 2023.
• Go to the conference website at: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/asslh-2023-conference/.