Past conferences
This list of past conferences and workshops related to Chinese Australian history and heritage was first compiled by Sophie Couchman, Paul Macgregor and Kate Bagnall in October 2010. Please be in touch if you know of things that we have missed.
List updated December 2012
2012
Rediscovered Past: Chinese Tropical Australia, Sheridan Plaza Hotel, Cairns (conference)
2011
Dragon Tails: Sources, Language, Approaches, Chinese Museum, Melbourne (conference)
2010
Rediscovered Past: Valuing Chinese Roles Across the North, Hides Hotel, Cairns (conference)
- Conference publication – Rediscovered Past: Valuing Chinese across the North/ edited by Kevin Wong Hoy and Kevin Rains
2009
Dragon Tails: Reinterpreting Chinese-Australian Heritage, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat (conference)
- Conference publication – Australian Historical Studies (special issue), vol.42, issue 1, March 2011, edited by Keir Reeves and Tseen Khoo
- Conference publication – Historic Environment (special issue), vol.23, no.3, 2011, edited by Keir Reeves and Damien Williams
- Conference publication – Historic Environment (special issue), forthcoming, 2012, edited by Keir Reeves and Damien Williams
2008
Rediscovered Past: China in Northern Australia, Cairns (conference)
- Conference publication – Rediscovered Past: China in Northern Australia / edited by Kevin Wong Hoy and Kevin Rains
2006
Tracking the Dragon: Chinese Australian Cultural Heritage National Workshop, University of Queensland, Brisbane (workshop)
Rediscovered Past: China in North Queensland, City Library, Cairns (conference)
- Conference publication – Rediscovered Past: China in North Queensland / edited by Kevin Wong Hoy
2005
Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo (conference)
2004
Quong Tart and His Times, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (conference)
2003
10th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria panel), Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne (conference panel)
- Conference publication – Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories / edited by Sophie Couchman
Hidden Histories, Active Voices, Old Castlemaine Gaol, Castlemaine (conference)
- Conference publication – Active Voices, Hidden Histories: The Chinese in Colonial Australia, Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004
2002
AHA Conference, Brisbane (conference stream)
Researching the Homelands of Trans-Pacific Chinese, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (workshop)
2001
Symposium on the Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (symposium)
- Conference publication – The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions: Proceedings / edited by Henry Chan, Ann Curthoys and Nora Chiang
2000
Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters from Federation to Reconciliation, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, Canberra (colloquium)
- Conference publication – Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901–2001 / edited by Penny Edwards and Shen Yuanfang
Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Conference, Chinese Museum, Melbourne (conference)
- Conference publication – After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia, 1860–1940 / edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor
Workshop on the Chinese in Australia and New Zealand History, University of NSW, Sydney (workshop)
1999
Reconceptualising the Chinese of the Southlands: From Community to Diaspora, Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, ANU, Canberra (colloquium)
Asians in Australian History, Centre for the Advanced Studies in Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane (workshop)
- Conference publication – Asians in Australian History, Queensland Review, vol. 6, no. 2, November 1999
1998
Chinese in Australasia and the Pacific: Old and New Migrations and Cultural Change, Association for the Study of Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands (ASCDAPI) & Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin (conference)
1997
The River AHA Regional Conference, Newcastle (conference stream)
The Chinese Southern Diaspora Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra (workshop)
1996
Chinese in Oceania, Chinese Museum, Melbourne (conference)
- Conference publication – Chinese in Oceania / edited by Kee Pookong ... [et al.]
1994
Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference, Perth (conference stream)
1993
Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Chinese Museum, Melbourne (conference)
- Conference publication – Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific: Proceedings of an International Public Conference held at the Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 8–10 October 1993 / edited by Paul Macgregor
1988
One-day symposium, Monash University, Melbourne (symposium)
- Conference publication – The Chinese in Australia: Papers from the Conference held on 19 March 1988 / edited by Peter Hanks and Andrew Perry
1986
Two-day symposium, Raya Gallery, Melbourne (symposium)
- Conference publication – Survival and celebration : an insight into the lives of Chinese immigrant women, European women married to Chinese and their female children in Australia from 1856 to 1986 / edited by Morag Loh and Christine Ramsay