The call for papers for Dragon Tails 2025 - an Australasian conference on Chinese diaspora history and heritage (27-30 November 2025) is now open.

Proposals are due by Friday 5 September 2025

Conference Theme: Relationships
Location: Woodcraft Room at George Williams Hotel, 317-325 George St, Brisbane
Convenors: Natalie Fong, Paul Macgregor and Karen Schamberger
Conference Dates: Thurs 27 – Sun 30 November 2025
Thursday 27 - pre-conference tours and events
Friday 28 to Sunday 30 - conference proceedings

Following on from the success of the Dragon Tails conferences at Ballarat (2009), Melbourne (2011), Wollongong (2013), Cairns (2015), Bendigo (2017), Wellington (2019) and Launceston (2022) we will be holding, in Brisbane, the eighth Dragon Tails, an Australasian conference on Chinese diaspora history and heritage.

This year’s conference theme highlights the role of relationships in shaping the lives of Chinese Australasians as well as the world around them. Papers might explore relations between Chinese people within the same family, clan or district as well as relations with those outside the Chinese community, including agents who contracted them, employers, officials, and governments as well as with neighbours, First Nations people, customers and other business-people.

The Dragon Tails conferences promote research into the histories and heritage of Chinese people, their descendants and their associates, in Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). The conferences also encourage awareness of the connections of Chinese in Australasia with the histories of Chinese people, their descendants and their associates in other countries.

We encourage participation from academics and students, community, local, family, professional, independent and amateur historians, archaeologists, heritage workers, as well as other professionals, from related disciplines/sectors, with an express interest in this field of research.

Dragon Tails conferences are auspiced by the Dragon Tails Association Inc.

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