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.
Contact
Upcoming Events
Stolen heritage: Why giving back colonial loot makes white people so angry
Dr Ollie Hellmann (University of Waikato)
Should museums return cultural heritage taken from colonised peoples? This question is usually fought on legal and technical grounds: Do the original…
Past Events
What Counts as Museum Research? Insights from ASSEMBLY's National Conversations
Vince Dziekan (Monash University), Maya Haviland (ANU), Sejul Malde (ANU)
ASSEMBLY is a national collaborative initiative exploring how museums and galleries can better value, enable and practise collaborative research in…
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…
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…