Travelling Heritage Narratives – China’s Adoption of the ‘Heritage under Threat’ Narrative
Seminar
Narratives around heritage are continuously developed and disseminated across the globe. The narrative of ‘heritage under threat’ tells the story of how and why intangible cultural heritage (ICH) practices are valuable, why are they disappearing, and how they can be protected from destruction.…
Cultural Resilience, Resurgence and Rimix in the Kimberley and Vanuatu
Seminar
This seminar will bring together a panel of cultural practitioners from the Kimberley and Vanuatu in conversation about their perspectives on, and practices of, cultural resilience, resurgence, inter-cultural collaboration and links to Indigenous sovereignty. Representatives from the Kimberley…
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…
Jordy Silverstein, ‘“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…