Heritage and Museums Seminar Series
The Centre holds a series of regular seminars on current issues in the field.
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Past Events
11
Sep
2019
Canadian Inuit Art: A Creative Miracle of the Twentieth Century
Nelson Graburn
Prof Nelson Graburn, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA The commercialization of Inuit art involved…
07
Aug
2019
Subversive Archaism: When Local Communities Exceed State Traditionalism – and Suffer the Consequences
Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand and Greece, and on comparative examples from other parts of the world, the speaker will address what happens when…
14
May
2019
Catherine Grant, ‘Intangible cultural heritage and music sustainability’
Catherine Grant
Partly in response to UNESCO’s pronouncements about the rapid and extensive loss of intangible cultural heritage, research into ‘music sustainability…