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.…
Remote Communities Ceramics Network Residency Open Studio
Event
Over the past two weeks, the Ceramics Workshop has hosted eight artists from remote communities around Australia as part of the Remote Communities Ceramics Network Residency.You are warmly invited to an Open Studio in the Ceramics Workshop to meet the artists to see the results from this…
Modern Britain in Crisis
Seminar
This paper provides an overview of my current research project- a book-length study of modern Britain in crisis. The paper begins with a brief definition of the term crisis. It then presents the argument that Britain has suffered from a chronic and interlinked set of crises – political, socio-…
Conversations Across the Creek | Indigenous Australian Genomics and Pharmacogenetics: Health, Privacy and Relevance
Panel discussion
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
How books travel across the pond and down under: case studies in transnational reception of contemporary family-centered fiction
Seminar
Despite the transnational turn in book history (Shep, 2008) it is impossible to disentangle the nation from the text. It has been argued that the invention of the printing press was crucial to the creation of the modern nation-state (Anderson, 1983; Eisenstein, 1979; McLuhan, 1962), and that books…
Digital + Place - an Art, Design and Heritage Symposium
Symposium
This day will bring together researchers and practitioners across art, design and heritage to consider how these disciplines address place in conjunction with digital technologies and practices. The symposium will seek to identify points of commonality and divergence, and opportunities for…
Democratic museum interventions: applied digital methods – you can do this too
Lecture
This lecture will look at replicable methods and projects that museums large and small, around the world could use to make digital interventions online, in house and off site. It will discuss multiple examples from around the world and encompass crowdsourcing, crowd funding, archaeological…