The End of Deep History? Reflections on the Laureate Program and its Research Centre

This Symposium marks the end of the Research Centre for Deep History and the seven-year ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program ‘Rediscovering the Deep Human Past: Global Networks, Future Opportunities’, led by Professor Ann McGrath AM and a talented team based at the Australian National University. Defying our interest in critiquing periodisation and its approaches to temporality, this gathering will track where we are at this very specific ‘end-time’. Where have we journeyed, intellectually and physically? What new directions might be mapped out for the future? If indeed, deep history has a future…

The program is composed of two-panel sessions: Expanding Historical Thinking? Digital Ends and Deep Histories and Deep History, Sovereignty & the History of Truth Telling. The event will be capped with a special School of History Seminar Session in the form of a roundtable discussion “The End of Deep History? Where have we been and where to now?”, where RCDH members and alumni will reflect on the centre's impact and its outputs.

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Program

9.30am - 10.30am Morning tea, welcome to country and opening reflections (Aunty Matilda House, Prof Bronwyn Parry, Dean of CASS and Prof Jackie Huggins)

10.30am - 12.30pm Expanding Historical Thinking? Digital Ends and Deep Histories (Ann McGrath, Alison Bashford, Amy Way, Mike Jones, Ben Silverstein)

12.30pm - 1.20pm Lunch

1.20 pm - 3.30 pm Deep History, Sovereignty & the History of Truth Telling (Jackie Huggins, Jaky Troy, Ben Silverstein, Beth Marsden, Laura Rademaker)

3pm - 4pm Afternoon tea

4pm - 5pm History Seminar Session: RCDH Panel Discussion: The End of Deep History? Where have we been and where to now? (Panel discussion featuring Jackie Huggins, Mike Jones, Amy Way, Laura Rademaker, Ben Silverstein, Beth Marsden, discussion led by Lynette Russell & Ann McGrath)