A Quest for Justice: Restitution of Africa’s heritage as a process rather than an event
Lecture
This presentation will provide both an overview and well as specific cases of heritage appropriation (including human remains) from Africa starting from the colonial times and the quest for their return. The demand for restitution has been ongoing since before independence of the various African…
Post/colonial Heritage in East Asia and Beyond - Conflict, Remembering and Peacebuilding Workshop
Workshop
Colonial heritage plays a fundamental role in how modern nation-states design and decolonise their national narrative regarding their imperial or colonial past within the state. These colonial heritage sites and narratives serve to remember, forget, construct, and reinterpret the colonial past and…
Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Development – Water
Workshop
As the frequency of natural disasters increases, it is crucial to recognise that indigenous communities worldwide have developed specialised knowledge and practices for adapting to environmental changes and disasters such as floods, fires, drought and other issues resulting from climate change.…
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism
Seminar
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism The perspectives of ethnic-minority and migrant-background women are pivotal to understanding the history of multiculturalism as an access and equity issue. This paper draws on oral histories conducted…
A Song With No Boss
Seminar
In this presentation we discuss the process of making A Song with No Boss, a podcast and website from archival audio recordings released in November 2022. Part detective story, part oral history, it is a story of a traditional travelling ceremony that was popular in the first half of the 20…
Integrating Biocultural Functional Traits as Indicators of Heritage in Wetlands of International Importance in Southern Chile
Seminar
Habits and habitats of species can constitute distinctive biocultural traits, which transcend their purely ecological function and represent sociocultural constructions linked to local knowledge and practices. In wetlands especially, many of these bird species are migratory, making them key species…
Temporalities of Andean Heritage Landscapes
Seminar
In the Peruvian Andes, the recent conversion of Pre-Hispanic ruins into archaeological heritage sites in the name of scientific research and tourism exploitation has brought about a number of issues for the Quechua-speaking communities living with or near the ruins. The imposition of a new spatial…