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…
Canadian Inuit Art: A Creative Miracle of the Twentieth Century
Lecture
Prof Nelson Graburn, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA The commercialization of Inuit art involved commoditization, heritagization and touristification, while fostering a new authenticity. The period 1960 – 2000 was the most crucial in Inuit history,…
Oral History Collections and Museum Practice
Panel discussion
Oral histories form a dynamic part of social history exhibitions in museums. They’ve been a key part of sharing authority and devolving the curatorial voice. The creation of these resources—the oral history audio and transcript—pose questions about the preservation of and access to Australia’s…