Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies - Seminar on Resilience: ‘Children Drowning’: The Violence and Resilience of a Narrative
Seminar
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent children drowning at sea’ is one that has proved resilient in Australian political discourse over the course of the twenty first century. In this paper I…
Professional Ethics and the ‘Caring’ Museum Symposium
Symposium
Hosted by the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS), The Australian National University in collaboration with the Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC), Liverpool John Moores University and University of Liverpool in the UK, this research seminar will explore the ethical implications of…
Ien Ang, ‘Chinatowns and the rise of China’
Seminar
This paper discusses how Chinatowns today are increasingly contested sites where older diasporic understandings of Chineseness are unsettled by newer, neoliberal ones, dominated by the pull of China’s newly found economic might. In particular, the so-called ‘rise of China’ has spawned a…
“Negotiating the child record” & “Co-producing The Danish Welfare Museum”
Seminar
Negotiating the child record When adult care-leavers read their own child records, they often become frustrated, not able to recognize or identify with the child described. Some speak of their wish to negotiate the records’ wording and to challenge the narrative and concepts of “truth”. The…
Cultural Heritage Fever in China: Discourse and Practices
Seminar
Abstract: Since the UNESCO World Heritage Convention was ratified by China in 1985, the country has had fifty of its national sites inscribed as World Heritage. The ratification of the World Heritage Convention expresses the country’s efforts to embrace globalization, build up its national…
Encounters with cultural material in museum collections: an Indigenous perspective
Seminar
Abstract: Successfully navigating the collection repositories of museums is a challenging and nuanced task. Indigenous cultural objects in museum collections all over the world are widely understood as having been removed from an original context to be placed with new meanings, under new…
“Shared Management of Cultural and Natural Landscapes”
Seminar
“Shared Management of Cultural and Natural Landscapes” By Keven Francis Abstract: The seminar presents my PhD Thesis and associated visual practice Exegesis. It delivers a landscape management model that integrates Culture, Nature and Art (CNA) in a process focused on the intangible of…