2026 STATE CONFERENCE

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Conference keynote speakers are Annabel Crabb, Author and Journalist (Friday) and Professor Mark McKenna, University of Sydney (Saturday). 

This will be a 2-day live event held at the University of Sydney.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT BOOKINGS

CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS - please use our online facility at the outset. (Please do not use the hard-copy "EFT Payment Form" as credit card payment cannot subsequently be paid once registration has been processed for EFT payment).

CANCELLATIONS - there will be no refund for cancellations made after the closing date on 3 July 2026

HOW TO BOOK

ONLINE BOOKING (with credit card payment). Simply click on the "READ MORE" button of the appropriate registration option below. Please ensure you select the appropriate attendance registration option for your online booking between:

- 2-Day Online Booking (if you want to attend both Friday and Saturday)
- Day 1 Only (if you want to attend on Friday only)
- Day 2 Only (if you want to attend on Saturday only

  • You will have the option to register multiple teachers on the same online booking so long as they are attending the same day(s).
  • Please start a different online booking for teachers attending on different days or attending for a different number of days.
  • 2-day discount/booking cannot be shared between different teachers.
  • Drop down to the online booking section by clicking here (and then click the 'READ MORE" button of your preferred registration option)

PAYMENT BY ELECTRONIC FUNDS (official School bookings only) - please download our EFT Booking form and return to the HTANSW office

  • You will be issued with a Tax Invoice on receipt of your completed form
  • Note that after issue of Tax Invoice you will not be able to make payment by Credit Card without duplicating your registration

DOWNLOAD FORM FOR EFT PAYMENT (School bookings only)

Session Synopses & Presenter Bios now available at:

https://htansw.asn.au/Portals/0/PD/2026_CONFBios.pdf

 

PROGRAM DAY 1 - Friday 24 July

SESSION SYNOPSES & PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES - Click here

8.15 Registration
 8.55 Welcome to Country and Conference Opening
9.20 1.1 Keynote Presentation
Annabel Crabb, Author and Journalist
10.20 HTANSW Reneé Erdos Award Presentation
10.30 Morning Tea
11.05
-
12.00

1.2A: What is the Point of Ancient (Western) History in 2026?
Dr James Tan, University of Sydney

1.2B: Civil Rights in the USA: Perspectives from the Classroom
Dr Kathryn Schumaker, United States Studies Centre

 

12.05
-
1.00

1.3A: Exploring Ancient Rome through Latin Inscriptions
Suanne Knight, Radford College ACT

1.3B: Developing Content Knowledge Using Sources
Dr Robert Loeffel, Sydney Grammar

1.3C: To Discriminate or Populate? Dismantling White Australia
Dr Zachary Gorman,
Robert Menzies Institute

1.3D: People not Footnotes: Reframing Colonisation through Aboriginal Personalities
Martin Douglas, 
Corowa HS

1.3E: Content to Curiosity: Creating Critical Thinkers from the New Curriculum
Franco Chiu,
Baulkham Hills HS

1.3F: Unsafe History: Making Sense of the World Today
Dr Darryl Le Cornu, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

1.3G: The Power of Their Voices
Dr Ari Lander & Bahati Salima, 
Voices of Survival
1.00 Lunch
1.45
-
2.35

1.4A: The Odyssey in Imagery: A Two & Half Thousand Year Journey
Dr Craig Barker, Chau Chak Wing Museum

1.4B: Ideology & Apartheid in South Africa 
Michael Street, Oxford Falls Grammar

1.4C: Teaching Narrative Competence in an Age of Populism
Emma Bergin,
Queenwood 

1.4D: New Ways, Old Ways: Songs, Skins, Stories: Reimagining Histories Down Glenmore Road
Dr Sarah Jane Moore, Glenmore Rd PS

1.4E: Between History & Myth: Teaching AH through Film
Ricky Collins, 
Erskine Park HS

 1.4F: TỰ DO: exploring Migration Stories in the National Maritime Collection Tamsin Birch & Dr Roland Leikauf, Australian National Maritime Museum

1.4G: Spain and the Mexica – Current Historiography
Peter Hartman, Cherrybrook THS
2.40
-
3.25

1.5A: Issues in Understanding the Sources for Spartan Society 
Dr Denis Mootz, HTANSW

1.5B: Voices from the Spanish Civil War  
Francisca Castro, NSW DoE 

1.5C: Teaching the Holocaust in a Rapidly Changing World
Dr Greg Keith, University of Sydney 

 1.5D: A Local Memorial as a Stage 5 Site Study
Christian Bell, Reddam House North Shore 

1.5E From Federation to Fascination: Fostering - Student Engagement in Making a Nation
Michael Condie, Cranbrook, Ashley Chee Quee, Ascham

1.5F: Developing Historical and Critical Thinking Skills in High School
(Virtual Session)
Naira Yerkanyan, Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University 
3.30-
6.00		 CONFERENCE DRINKS: Come and mingle at the Courtyard Café – Bevery Room (Science Road, University of Sydney).
No separate tickets required, but guests will need to purchase their own drinks. Nibblies will be supplied so please RSVP your attendance.

PROGRAM DAY 2 - Saturday 25 July

SESSION SYNOPSES & PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES - Click here

8.15 Registration
8.55 Welcome
9.10 2.1 Writing the History of Australia in the 2020s
Professor Mark McKenna, University of Sydney
10.10 Morning Tea
10.50
-
11.45		 2.2A: Alexander the Great and How to Do (Ancient) History
(Virtual Session)
Dr Stephen Harrisson, Swansea University		 2.2B: Nazi 'Revolution' or 'Counter-Revolution'?
Professor Andrew Bonnell, University of Queensland
11.50
-
12.40

2.3A: Re-examining Julius Caesar and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
Sarah Coleman, MacKillop Catholic

2.3B: Cuba 1940 - 1991 as a New HSC National Study
David Van Tol, Kambala

2.3C: Teaching the New USA National Study, 1919-41
Elyse Read, Kincoppal-Rose Bay

2.3D: Responding to Intolerance When Teaching Contested Histories
Dr Rebecca Kummerfeld & Kate Xavier, Together for Humanity

2.3E: Understanding the Impact of Federation
Raina Evans, Wellington HS

2.3F: A Curriculum Dissection: Corpus Analysis of the 2027 NSW History Curriculum
Dr Alison Bedford, University of Southern Qld

2.3G: NEW HISTORY EXTENSION SYLLABUS: The Project
Ashley Chee Quee, Ascham
12.40 Lunch
1.30
-
2.20 		 2.4A: Unlearning Entrenched Ways of Seeing: New Ethical Approaches to Egyptian Mummified Human Remains
Professor Ronika Power, Macquarie University

2.4B: Democracy & Dictatorship: Challenges & Opportunities
Dr Sally Cove, Sydney Grammar & Jonathon Dallimore, HTANSW

2.4C: Crafting Neurodivergent- Affirming History Programs
Nadia Szimhart, St Mary’s Star of the Sea College

2.4D: The Shoah: A Term-Long Case Study
Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, Waverley College

2.4E: Embedding First Nations Perspectives in the New Curriculum
Baylah Betar & Tim Chuan, Australian Museum

2.4F: Teaching Historical Thinking in the Age of AI
Shirly Griffith, Jacaranda

2.4G: NEW HISTORY EXTENSION SYLLABUS: Key Questions
Michelle Kennedy, North Sydney GHS
2.25
-
3.15 

2.5A: Using Court Cases & Legislation as Historical Sources in Australia: 'Making a Nation' 
Jessica Speed, Rule of Law Education Centre

2.5B: Ho Chi Minh Trails – Strategy, Cambodia & Civilian
Mick Klipin,
Bishop Druitt College

2.5C: Rethinking the Impact of WWII on Australia's Foreign Relations
Dr Linda Wade,
All Hallows’ Brisbane

2.5D: Educational Potential & Ethical Challenges: AI-Mediated Holocaust Survivor Testimony 
Elsie Leask, 
University of Newcastle

2.5E: Teaching Australia in the 1st and 2nd World Wars 
Kris Katavic, 
Department of Veterans Affairs

2.5F: From Security to Stigma: Contesting Australia’s Post-9/11 National Narrative
Shannon Kelly, 
Leeton HS

2.5G: NEW HISTORY EXTENSION SYLLABUS: Case Studies
Nico Forell, Roseville College
    University of Sydney

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The 2026 State Conference is generously supported by the University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

 

 

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