Decolonising Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Conference
Deakin University, Melbourne (Burwood), Wednesday November 13 – Thursday November 14 2019
https://adi.deakin.edu.au/events/decolonising-chms
Keynote Presentations
Steve Brown (GML
Heritage) and Denis Rose (Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation)
Julie Gough (Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery)
Philip Schorch (Ludwig-Maximilians-University
of Munich, Germany)
Full program available at the conference website
Conference Themes
It is now 40 years since Deakin University began its Museum Studies program in 1979. In celebrating this milestone, we are organising a conference that responds to the enormous changes over that
time, both in the fields of museum practice and the wider field of cultural heritage. Given our location in Australia, a settler society, our focus takes its bearing from the increasing pressure on museums, archives and heritage places to ‘decolonise’ their
practices and relations with Indigenous and First Nations People. The ‘Decolonising Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies’ conference thus seeks to broaden and deepen the cross-disciplinary and cross-sector conversation about new practices, interpretations
and lives for collected materials across the GLAM sector, as well as heritage places shaped by colonial contexts. Informed by histories of the production of colonial knowledge and responding to new and interdisciplinary directions in collection theory and
research, heritage management and interpretation, this conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, industry partners, and artists to discuss the critical elements of working with and through collections and heritage places within a Decolonising
impulse.
We are particularly interested in the ongoing debates and innovations that have arisen from confronting the colonial history of many collections and heritage places. Can collecting institutions,
such as museums and archives, be ‘decolonised’ or are more radical decentrings of institutional power required? Can heritage places that speak to the complexity of the colonial encounter be interpreted in ways that respect and advocate for Indigenous Perspectives
on those encounters? What does Indigenous sovereignty mean for scholars, practitioners and institutions engaging with or holding collections in Australia and elsewhere? What does it mean for those managing Indigenous heritage places as well as places of shared
heritage? How can we do a better job of embodying Indigenous knowledges? We are also concerned with new technologies and creative responses to collections. What is gained, lost or hidden through the digitization and/or online exhibition of materials? What
are the technological risks and opportunities facing collections today? How are artists and other creative responders engaging with collections to illuminate, challenge and inform? How do we work with the next generation of professionals to address these issues?
Registration and full Program available
at:
https://adi.deakin.edu.au/events/decolonising-chms
Location
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood, VIC 3125
Australia (map)
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Deakin Heritage Seminar: Decolonising the Museum
Deakin University, Melbourne (Deakin Downtown), Tuesday November 12 2019, 17:00 – 18:30
The final Deakin Heritage Seminar for 2019 explores the theme of decolonising the museum. Please join us as we hear from Indigenous curators who will share some of the issues they are facing in
their own curatorial practice, and on the factors they consider key to decolonising how Australian museums work today.
Participants
Kimberley Moulton (Melbourne
Museum)
Damien Webb (Mitchell
Library, Sydney)
Michael Aird (Museum
of Anthropology UQ)
Moderator
Genevieve Grieves (Freelance
Consultant)
This event is free, but limited tickets are available.
Registration available at:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/heritage-seminar-decolonising-the-museum-tickets-78913401107
Location
Deakin Downtown
Tower 2
Level 12 / 727 Collins Street
Melbourne, VIC 3008
Please email chms@deakin.edu.au if
you have any questions.
Anne Faithfull
PhD Student
Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation
School of Humanities and Social Science
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood, VIC 3125
Australia
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