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…
Ancestral futures in practice - museums as platforms for continuities
Lecture/seminar
Recognising and embedding First Nations concepts within museum work has characterised museum practice for the past two decades. Today, First Nations leaders within museums have the opportunity to extend on this – translating concepts into practice in ways that feel natural and empowering.Hear from…
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…