Heritage and Museums Seminar Series
The Centre holds a series of regular seminars on current issues in the field.
The Centre’s monthly seminar series will be held on the last Tuesday of each month, from 4 tp 5 m.
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Past Events
25
Aug
2026
Museums, Truth, Governance: The Civic Agency of the Country/culture Couplet
Emeritus Professor Tony Bennett
There will be three aspects to this presentation. First, I will briefly review the concerns that have informed my contributions to museum studies…
07
Aug
2026
Special Event: 'The corporeal archive of Cold War infrastructure: Affect, embodiment, and Beijing's civil defence shelters'
Dr Geng Li
Cold War heritage scholarship has long privileged material remains—bunkers, silos, ruined infrastructures—while overlooking the living bodies through…
28
Jul
2026
Ancestral futures in practice - museums as platforms for continuities
Dr Jilda Andrews, National Museum of Australia.
Recognising and embedding First Nations concepts within museum work has characterised museum practice for the past two decades. Today, First Nations…