Police Collecting of Ancestral Remains and Cultural Property, 1825-1930
Lecture/seminar
Police Collecting investigates the history, legality and contemporary implications of police collecting Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property between 1825 and 1930, including the role of museums and governments in directing this activity. Focusing on collections held in Australia and…
Connecting arts, culture and heritage sectors through National Cultural Policy
Lecture/seminar
The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU is delighted to invite you to a seminar with Professor Mathew Trinca AM FAHA to relaunch its monthly seminar series. Prof. Trinca will discuss the opportunity of connecting Australia’s visual, literary and performing arts with the GLAM…
The Case of the Coal Basin in Southern Chile
Seminar
Introducing rephotography as a participatory tool to involve communities and to analyze the changing dynamics of industrial landscapesThis seminar will highlight the results of research focusing on industrial activity in the Biobío Region of Chile. In this project, I served as the principal…
REMIX'D
Exhibition
REMIX'D - Exploring collaboration, creative practice and cultural continuity in VanuatuAn exhibition by the students of MUSC8018: Exhibition Design and Delivery.Opens Friday 24 October 4pm - 6pm Exhibition is open weekdays, 9am - 5pm, until 10 November 2025
Online Launch: Memory Politics of Colonial Heritage in Asia and the Pacific
Other
We are delighted to announce the online launch of our new special issue, Memory Politics of Colonial Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conflict, Remembrance, and Peacebuilding, co-edited by Yujie Zhu and Lia Kent (ANU), published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.This…
Indigenous Knowledge Educational Workshop September 2025: Learning from Crisis
Activity
In September 2025, the annual Indigenous Knowledge Educational Workshop centred on the theme of crisis, responding to the growing challenges facing the humanities—from climate change and environmental disasters to war and social anxiety. This year’s program explored how Indigenous communities…
Doing Indigenous Archaeology and Repatriation in Rapa Nui: How, where and when?
Seminar
Join us for a lunchtime seminar presented by archaeologist Enerike Ngaara Te Manu Carrasco Hotu.Presented in-person and online. Zoom details below.Few places in the world have been as influenced by archaeology as Rapa Nui (Easter Island). So much so that just as the tree does not…