ANZHES Conference 2024: Truth Telling in Histories of Education
In a tribute to the late, esteemed Yolŋu elder, Dr Yunupiŋu, anthropologist and geographer Marcia Langton recalled his observation that ‘Like a fire, the truth burns ... That’s how we know it is the truth.’ (Langton, ‘Energy, Power, Strength: Dr Yunupingu’, The Monthly, May 2023).
Taking Dr Yunupiŋu’s observation as a prompt, join the 2024 ANZHES Conference as historians of education, place, heritage and collections explores the friction sparked by truth telling reinterpretation of the past. What methods are needed to write this new history? What voices must be heard and how are they to be interpreted? How do we do justice to the legacies of those from the past? How are we to grapple with the reaction that reinterpretation provokes? What more are historians of education obliged to do with new stories?