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
27
Mar
2019
Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies - Seminar on Resilience: ‘Children Drowning’: The Violence and Resilience of a Narrative
Dr Jordy Silverstein - Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, The University of Melbourne
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent…
24
Mar
2019
Professional Ethics and the ‘Caring’ Museum Symposium
Kerry Wilson, Adele Chynoweth, Alex Marsden, Uncle Eric Law AM , Mark Newman, Joanna Besley
Hosted by the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS), The Australian National University in collaboration with the Institute of Cultural…
21
Mar
2019
Ien Ang, ‘Chinatowns and the rise of China’
Ien Ang
This paper discusses how Chinatowns today are increasingly contested sites where older diasporic understandings of Chineseness are unsettled by newer…