Being Collected - When you become me: how collections can trigger collisions
Lecture
ANU Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies Research Fellow Dr Jilda Andrews will be giving the annual Macleay Collections Lecture for the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. Dr Jilda Andrews works within a framework of ontology, the study of being. As she writes, colliding…
ANU Virtual Book Launch: Goodna Girls
Book launch
Join ANU historian Professor Carolyn Strange who will launch Goodna Girls, published by ANU Press. This virtual event will be hosted by Professor Laurajane Smith, Head of the ANU Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies. Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park…
CANCELLED - Where Next for UK Ethnographic Museums? Multiculturalism, Decolonisation & Repatriation
Lecture
Please note all public events are now cancelled across ANU due to the COVID-19 precautionary measures. From its inception in the late 19th century, museum ethnography operated within a cultural evolutionary paradigm which interpreted non-European ethnographic objects and the cultures from…
The Concept(s) of Heritage The Thirteenth International Conference of Young Researchers in Heritage
Conference
How might public policies, in caring for witnesses of memory or collective experience, surpass the principle of exclusion? How can research contribute to the identification of what, in a given community or environment, constitutes heritage (whatever the name that it is given) and the implications…
Australian Migration History Network : Migration Histories Now
Workshop
The AMHN workshop brings together emerging and established scholars in the field of migration history and cultural studies, as well as museum and heritage practitioners, to discuss the ‘future of migration history’ and its current ‘challenges’. Professor Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia…
Monumentalizing refugee heritage: Vietnamese boat people memorials
Seminar
How does a refugee boat symbolize heritage? What heritage does a refugee boat symbolize? How is the symbolic image of a refugee boat used in heritage production by taking part in political debates and conflicts? What function does refugee heritage have in today’s public domain and what is the role…
Heritage Methods used in Designing Public Places
Workshop
Heritage Studies have over the past twenty years developed into a meeting point for many disciplines with varied scopes. Thus, it is under the scrutiny of cross-disciplinary approaches aiming at understanding how the past is acknowledged and used in today’s society. In this workshop we will…