Events – heritage.city by james lesh

Event: ‘A New History of the Australian Heritage Movement: In Conversation’

25 July 2022 admin Events

Chaired by Professor Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), join Sharon Veale (GML Heritage), Maddi Miller (University of Melbourne) and Dr James Lesh (Deakin University) for a discussion panel on urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century Australia. How might heritage pasts shape heritage futures? Our heritage approaches and protections were developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. The panel will unpack assumptions embedded within heritage – to chart progressive futures for cities and places. On the evening, Philip Goad will also launch James Lesh’s new book, Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia (Routledge, 2022). The book synthesis

Urban History summer seminar series – ‘Questioning the Consensus? Urban Conservation in 1990s Sydney and Melbourne’

13 July 2020 admin Events

James Lesh will be speaking at a virtual seminar this Friday on his research.

Brisbane and Gold Coast urban heritage in the early 1970s (and today)

4 October 2016 admin Events, Publications

In late January, a hundred or so urbanists descended on the Gold Coast for the 13th Australian Urban History Planning History (UHPH) Conference. Attendees included academics, historians, planners and practitioners, who delivered a range of papers on the Australian city, from pre-colonial times to the present-day. Hosted every two years—the next in 2018 is in Melbourne—this is the largest Australasian conference of its kind.

From Ballarat to Helsinki: further urban history conference reflections

5 September 2016 admin Events

A couple of weeks ago I was in Helsinki for the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) 13th international conference on the theme ‘Reinterpreting Cities’.

Australian urban history in 2016: reflections from the AHA Ballarat conference

29 August 2016 admin Events

In July, a few hundred historians working in and on Australia assembled in Ballarat for the annual Australian Historical Association conference on the theme ‘From Boom to Bust’. This blog reflects on this conference from an urban perspective; the first in a series of posts on conferences that I have attended in mid-2016.

Australian urban history at AHA 2015

6 July 2015 admin Events

Urban history is one of the oldest forms of history practiced in Australia. Early local historians like A.W. Greig were interested in cities and its spaces. Similarly, since World War II, the Australian city has been subject to much local and academic historical analysis, and remains a perennially popular topic.