Creative Practices in Heritage and Museums Network (CHAMNET): 2025 Annual Conference and Inaugural Launch
Conference
The Creative Practices in Heritage and Museums Network (CHAMNET) presents their 2025 Annual Conference and Inaugural Launch. This year's theme: Reimagining Futures: Emerging Scholars in Heritage, Museums, and Creative PracticeAbout the NetworkThe Creative Practices in Heritage and Museums…
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Exhibition
An exhibition of archival photographs from Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) from the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan). Curated by the ANU Japan Zenadth Kes Project (JZK), GOTAT | GUTHATH | 時代の潮目 | Tides, will showcase never-before-exhibited photographs in a…
Art That Looks Like Art, Art That Looks Like Life
Lecture/seminar
Perspectives on Activism in Brazil Through the Practice of Christus NóbregaThe relationship between art and life has been a central issue in the artistic field, challenging the boundaries between creation and everyday experience. When art is inserted into reality, it strains discourses, shifts…
Public Lecture: Return of the ancestors to Atacameño Lickanantay territory, Atacama Desert, northern Chile
Lecture
Public lecture on research project: Return of the ancestors to Atacameño Lickanantay territory, Atacama Desert, northern Chile The lecture will present research on the history of collecting and scientific study of indigenous bodies in the Atacameño Lickanantay territory,…
Subversive Heritage: Local Challenges to State Authority in Greece and Thailand
Seminar
This seminar will focus on the author’s recently coined term “subversive archaism.” Proceeding from ethnographic research in two countries, he will seek to show how one tactic of resistance to official interference in community life and values consists in adopting the state’s own rhetoric about “…
Book Launch: Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building
Book launch
Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building (2024, edited by Lucas Lixinski and Yujie Zhu) Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transforming heritage from a casualty of conflict into an opportunity for peacebuilding. The…
The involvement of Ezidi families in children’s “Family hour” program in rural Australia: Opportunities and challenges
Seminar
Refugee children, similar to other children, are exposed to diverse ecological systems in which their families and communities play a significant role in shaping their learning experiences. Drawing from Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (1979), the study explores the effectiveness of the “…