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…
“Karajarri Cultural Database: reclaiming information and knowledge to inform land management and influence policy development”
Seminar
By Sam Bayley, Anna Dwyer, Mervyn Mulardy, Wynston Sesar-Shovellor & Sylvia Shovellor Karajarri Traditional Lands Association – Indigenous Protected Area Program The Karajarri Traditional Land Association (KTLA) with support from the Kimberley Land Council now have one of the biggest…
Shedding Light on Ancient Inscriptions using 3D Models – a report on collaboration between the ANU and the British Museum
Seminar
This talk reports on a project which saw the production of 3D digital replicas of a sample set of cuneiform tablets housed at the British Museum. The talk will highlight the ways in which digital technologies can enable research questions that would not be possible without them: 3D digital models…