Digital Art History at the Getty Research Institute
Lecture
The Digital Art History department at the Getty Research Institute sponsors and advises collaborative art-historical research and publication projects that facilitate access to and analysis of digitized objects, particularly those in the Institute's collections. The team collaborates on these…
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,…
Prosecuting South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Crimes – Will it Help or Hurt Reconciliation?
Seminar
For more than 20 years after the transition to democracy in South Africa, only a handful of perpetrators of human rights violations during the Apartheid era were prosecuted. In June 2019, in a case that flowed from the re-opening of the inquest into the murder of anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Timol…
Digging Where We Stand: Social Movement Activists and The ‘‘Inevitably Political Craft” of Archiving and History-Making
Lecture
This talk will draw on the speaker’s experience of working with and research into the establishment and use by social movement activists of independent archives, libraries and museums for history-making practices which directly inform and impact their struggles. Activists in the UK (and elsewhere)…
National Graduate Student Workshop: Public Humanities and Activism
Workshop
ANU Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and Interdisciplinary Cross Cultural Research (ICCR) Program National Graduate Student Workshop PUBLIC HUMANITIES AND ACTIVISM 4th – 6th September 2019 The Australian National University, Canberra Public humanities invites…
Memory Mapping and the Historic Greek Communities of Istanbul
Seminar
In this talk, I present ongoing work with communities whose cultural memory fall outside of official heritage practice. The historic ‘Rum’ (Greek-speaking) population of Istanbul lives with a hostile history. The current government mobilises the Conquest of Constantinople of 1453 as a proud motif…
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…