Australian Centre for Public History

06/03/2026

GLAMSLAM 2026 returns on Thursday 23 April and registration is now live!

https://events.humanitix.com/glamslam-2026

This annual gathering brings together those working in and with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums for a day of ideas, lightning talks, discussion and sector-wide reflection.

Hosted by the Australian Centre for Public History (UTS) in partnership with the Australian Museum, this year’s event will be held at the Australian Museum, Sydney (9am–5pm AEDT).

Keynote speaker: Kim McCay AO, Director and CEO, Australian Museum.

GLAMSLAM is participant-led. If you have a burning question, new project, exhibition insight or sector issue to share, consider submitting a lightning talk proposal. Group presentations are welcome.

Call for Participation closes 1 April 2026.
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If you work in the GLAM sector, this is one to put in your calendar.

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GLAMSLAM is a day for all those working in or with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums to come together

06/03/2026

GLAMSLAM 2026 returns on Thursday 23 April — save the date.

This annual gathering brings together those working in and with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums for a day of ideas, lightning talks, discussion and sector-wide reflection.

Hosted by the Australian Centre for Public History (UTS) in partnership with the Australian Museum, this year’s event will be held at the Australian Museum, Sydney (9am–5pm AEDT).

Keynote speaker: Kim McCay AO, Director and CEO, Australian Museum.

GLAMSLAM is participant-led. If you have a burning question, new project, exhibition insight or sector issue to share, consider submitting a lightning talk proposal. Group presentations are welcome.

Call for Participation closes 1 April 2026.
https://buff.ly/4F0nhBp
Registrations to follow.

If you work in the GLAM sector, this is one to put in your calendar.

26/02/2026

GLAMSLAM 2026 - a day for those working in (and with) the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums sector - is returning this year on Thursday 23rd April!

Please save the date for our annual industry get together where we share ideas, projects, swap stories, catch up and discuss pressing issues in our sector.

This year, we at the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS will be hosting GLAMSLAM in partnership with the Australian Museum.
Event details
When: Thursday 23rd April 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm AEDT

Where: Australian Museum - 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010
Confirmed keynote speaker
Kim McCay AO - Director and CEO, Australian Museum
Respond to the CFP / flag a topic for discussion

As always, GLAMSLAM 2026 will be participant-led, by you!

If you have a burning question, issue for debate, new exhibition, project or something else you'd like to share with colleagues, please respond to the CFP to give a short 'lightning talk' presentation. You are also welcome to submit a proposal for a group lightning talk, with colleagues.

Whether you plan to give a lightning talk or not, please let us know what you think are the most pressing issues in the GLAM sector today, by clicking on the link below. We'll plan our day around this feedback.

CFPs will close 1st April 2026

Get in touch
If you have any questions or additional thoughts about GLAMSLAM, or if you'd like to volunteer on the day (and gain free entry), please email [email protected].

Please help make GLAMSLAM 2026 a brilliant event by telling us how you want to participate and what you want to discuss

09/09/2025

Check out this free, fab walk back in time, 'Walking with Tjerruing/Blackwattle Creek'. It's part of History Week, and co-organised by our very own Ilaria Vanni Accarigi:

The short walk traces stories of Tjerruing / Blackwattle Creek. Along the way, participants will be invited to slow down, take notice, and, if interested, to engage with the layered histories of this place with drawing, mapping and photography. Deets below!

Get ready to reimagine Blackwattle Lane in Sydney as Blackwattle Creek in an easy history walk.

24/03/2025

Come along to the launch of this terrific book, Dingo Bold, about human-dingo interactions on K'Gari, Qld, by ACPH member Rowena Lennox. In convo with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey at Gleebooks on Wed 16 April. It'll be FAB!

« All Events Rowena Lennox – Dingo Bold The Life and Death of K’Gari Dingoes Wednesday 16th April starting 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox’s encounter with a dingo on the beach on K...

02/12/2024

📣To celebrate the release of *Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner* by Alana Piper, we are giving away complimentary copies of this lavishly illustrated and deeply researched book, to 3 lucky readers!🤩
Giveaway ends this Friday 6 December. If you are one of the first 3 people to follow the four steps below, we will be in touch via Facebook Messenger this week.
To enter, simply:
* Like this post
* Follow (if you don't already) this page (ACPH) and NewSouth Publishing on Facebook
And in the comments:
* Tag a friend
* Answer this question: What is your favourite place in Darlinghurst?
Good luck! And to read about the book check out the ACPH blog (see comments for the link).

10/11/2024

Registrations are now open for a free, one day conference and lecture - 'Indigenous futures: truth-telling and story-telling now', hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Australian Centre for Public History and the Centre for Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges.

The day includes 3 sessions highlighting new work and new debates on changing face of Australian literature, inclusion and exclusion in education, and public histories and decolonality, from scholars across University of Technology Sydney.

It includes a marquee public lecture 'Indigenous story-telling in the post-Voice era' with the exceptional writer and musician Nardi Simpson, who will be joined Pauline Clague, Anna Clark and Robynne Quiggin.

Day will be catered - and is open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and students. Thursday 14 November at UTS.

The Centre for Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges (CAIK) invites you to our inaugural public lecture and conference

17/09/2024

Half price ticket offer! Link in comments.
We have a special discount on tickets for a special film screening at 6pm on Wednesday 18 September.
Walter Kaufmann: What a Life! is a feature documentary that follows Jewish German–Australian writer Walter Kaufmann, tracing his life through some of the most significant events of the last century.
This event is part of the public program connected with the Library’s new exhibition Dunera: Stories of Internment.

26/07/2024

What can be learned from histories of genocide? A stellar line-up of speakers consider this urgent question in a special online edition of History Now! next week. See comments for registration link.

17/07/2024

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: History Now (online). Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

10/07/2024

This is a wonderful series, produced by the very talented Catherine Freyne!

29/06/2024

Hey History! listed in New and Noteworthy on Apple podcasts! (And in the top 20 of 'Kids & Family' podcasts.) Thanks for listening, everyone!