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…
Subversive Archaism: When Local Communities Exceed State Traditionalism – and Suffer the Consequences
Seminar
Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand and Greece, and on comparative examples from other parts of the world, the speaker will address what happens when local communities adopt the rhetoric of heritage promotion or traditional lifestyle and find themselves under attack by nation-state authorities as a…
Catherine Grant, ‘Intangible cultural heritage and music sustainability’
Seminar
Partly in response to UNESCO’s pronouncements about the rapid and extensive loss of intangible cultural heritage, research into ‘music sustainability’ has flourished in the last ten to fifteen years. Although the relationship of music sustainability to globalisation, urbanisation, and changing…
CFP: Museums and the Working Class
Activity
Adele Chynoweth, from the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, has been invited by Routledge to submit a proposal for an edited peer-reviewed collection provisionally entitled Museums and the Working Class. On 5 January 2019, a neo-Nazi rally took place in the Melbourne suburb of St…
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.…