What Counts as Museum Research? Insights from ASSEMBLY's National Conversations
Seminar
ASSEMBLY is a national collaborative initiative exploring how museums and galleries can better value, enable and practise collaborative research in changing public contexts. Over the past two years, the project has convened national and local conversations, workshops and collaborative inquiry…
CHMS HDR Conference 2026: Research, Professional Development and Career Pathways
Conference
The CHMS HDR Conference brings together Confirmation of Candidature (CoC) and Final Presentation candidates with museum professionals, alumni and researchers. The conference supports candidature milestones while strengthening professional development, interdisciplinary exchange and career…
Collaborative Practices Salon (#11)
Activity
This Collaborative Practices Salon is an experiment in building community, bringing together interested people for open conversation, tailored activities and shared reflections on the practices of collaboration. Each Salon is convened around a theme that connects with…
CHMS HDR Publication Workshop: Publishing in Heritage Studies and Anthropology
Workshop
We are very fortunate to welcome:Laurajane Smith, Editor of the International Journal of Heritage StudiesCaroline Schuster and Catherine J. Frieman, Editors of Current AnthropologyDrawing on their extensive experience as scholars and journal editors, our guests will share practical insights into…
Indigenous Knowledge Educational Workshop 2026: Reciprocity and Exchange
Workshop
Learning with Country, community and each other The 2026 Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development Workshop explored reciprocity and exchange as practices of learning, relationship and responsibility.Reciprocity invites us to think differently about what it means to learn and share…
Museums, Truth, Governance: The Civic Agency of the Country/culture Couplet
Lecture/seminar
There will be three aspects to this presentation. First, I will briefly review the concerns that have informed my contributions to museum studies since the publication of The Birth of the Museum in 1995. These have been informed chiefly by two aspects of Michel Foucault’s work: his conception of…
Special Event: 'The corporeal archive of Cold War infrastructure: Affect, embodiment, and Beijing's civil defence shelters'
Seminar
Cold War heritage scholarship has long privileged material remains—bunkers, silos, ruined infrastructures—while overlooking the living bodies through which such landscapes were produced and remembered. This lecture examines Beijing's Mao-era civil defence shelters, built through mass urban…