Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Thursday 3 May
Revealing the Hidden City: Heritage Interpretation, Tourism and development
in Viengxai, Laos
Dr Colin Long and Jonathan Sweet, Deakin University, Cultural
Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Thursday 17 May
The evolution of Taiwan's aboriginal art heritage in the post-1987 era
Huang
Hui-Chi, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Faculty of Arts
Thursday 7 June: Joint Seminar
Addressing the Issue of Sustainable Tourism at Six World Heritage Sites
Chris Landorf, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment,
University of Newcastle
'Singular Scenes': Encounters, representations and the generation of knowledge
about Aboriginal Australians
Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific & Asian History,
Australian National University
Thursday 21 June
Memory and Heritage: The Shimoni Slave Caves in Southern Kenya
Herman Ogoti Kiriama, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Faculty of Arts
Tuesday 24 July
Culture and Heritage in times of Globalisation
Prof Marie-Theres Albert, World Heritage Studies Program Director, Brandenburg
University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Thursday 9 August
Conserving Malta's Built Heritage through Adaptive Re-Use
Samantha Fabry and Dr Malcolm Borg, Directors, Heritage Enterprise
Thursday 23 August
Not the Holocaust Memorial: The Or-Sarua Synagogue in Vienna
Pam Maclean, Senior Lecturer, School of History, Heritage
& Society, Deakin University
Thursday 6 September
The Construction and Conception of pre-Angkorean Temple Architecture
Dr David Beynon, School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University
Thursday 20 September
Reconstruction over ruins: Arguments for and against the rebuilding of Dresden's
Frauenkirche
Tony Joel, Associate Lecturer in History, Deakin University
Thursday 4 October
Some experiences of a novice curator
Crispin Howarth, Assistant Curator Pacific Arts, National Gallery of
Australia
Tuesday 16 October
Managing the landscape of New Caledonia's convict heritage
Dr Anita Smith, Project Manager, Heritage Victoria
Kristal Buckley, International Vice-President, ICOMOS
1:30-5:00pm Wed, 12 July Stonington mansion
Context and convergence: Embracing issues and
ideas concerning intangible heritage
Setting the scene
Professor William Logan, CHCAP, Deakin University
UNESCO conventions on intangible cultural heritage: history, hurry and hiccups
Professor Ken Taylor, ANU
Debate and directions – from Nara to Yamoto: charters, challenges and choices
Intangible heritage case studies - practice in Australia
Frances O’Neill, Heritage Victoria
Bells Beach
Stephen O’Hare, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Melbourne Football Club
Panel session
Panel included:
Kristal Buckley, Vice President, ICOMOS
Ian Cook, AusHeritage
Dr Anita Smith, Heritage Victoria
Does the Heritage Industry have a consensus position on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention and related charters? Should Australia ratify the Intangible Convention?
Concluding session
5.00 – 5.15: Concepts for an industry approach to intangible heritage issues in conventional heritage conservation practice in Australia
Dr Vinod Daniel, Chair, AusHeritage
The Role of International Non-Governmental
Organisations in Constructing Global Social Contracts: Global Social Justice
at the WTO?
Wed, 19 July 4:00-6:00 The Blue
Room Baogang He
Herbert Spencer in Kath and Kim land: class
politics and the petty-bourgeoisie in Australia during the Howard years
Fri,
28 July 4:00-6:00 The Blue Room Geoff Robinson
Pain, Shame and Nation: Should we remember the
the Japanese (and Indonesian)civilian internment camps in the Netherlands
East Indies 1942 - 1946?
Wed, 2 August 4:00-6:00 Moot Court
Joost Cote
Cultural Landscapes
Wed,
23 August 4:00-6:00 The Blue Room Ray Tonkin
Katsura Imperial Villa -- Its Buildings and
Gardens
Wed, 30 August 4:00-6:00 The Blue
Room Hidetoshi Saito
Places of Pain and Shame
Wed,
6 September 9:15-4:45 Stonington Mansion
Prof Bill Logan Dealing with ‘Difficult’ Heritage: Background and FrameworkProf Joan Beaumont Changi
Ms Katie Young Auschwitz: The challenges of heritage management following the Cold War
Dr Anita Smith Landscapes of contest: colonialism, war and heritage in a former Australian territory
Dr David Nichols & Dr Keir Reeves Kew Asylum, Melbourne: A Nineteenth-century Case of a Benevolent Place of Pain and ShameDr Bart Ziino Cowra Japanese War Cemetery
Dr Qian Fengqi ‘Let the Dead Be Remembered’: the Memorial Hall for Victims of the Nanjing Massacre
Dr Colin Long & Dr Keir Reeves “Dig a hole and bury the past in it”: reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia
Concluding Remarks
Villages that never were: Perspectives and Challenges
in Museum Villages in Australia
Wed,13 September 4:00-6:00
Arts Meeting Room Linda Young
Cultural Capitals - revaluing the city
Wed,
11October 4:00-6:00 Arts Meeting Room Louise Johnson
Values-based Management in a Culturally Conflicted
World
Mon 6th November 1:30-5:00, Moot Court, C3.
This year CHCAP is linking up with two other Deakin research Centres with which we work closely: The Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ICG) and the Corporate Citizenship Research Unit (CCRU). These centres will deliver seminars on issues of cultural negotiation and human rights.
Unlesss otherwise advised, all seminars are held on a Wednesday at 4.30pm-6pm
in the room listed in seminar details.
Deakin University Burwood campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood.
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Wednesday March 2
CHCAP
Resurrecting the lost promise of Revolutionary Havana
Dr Colin Long
Post doctoral research fellow, Deakin University
I originally began by asking, 'what is to be done with the heritage of communism in Cuba?'
In seeking to answer this question I decided to focus my attention on Havana, about which more has been written than other places in Cuba, and which is the focus of a large amount of Cuban heritage efforts. In the process of reading about and visiting Havana it slowly became apparent that the answers to my question had much less to do with how the past is being interpreted, than with how the future might be envisaged. The greatest legacy of communism in Havana, and Cuba more generally, I realised, was in providing possibilities for the future, or, perhaps more accurately, in not closing off options.
I travelled to Havana to find out if Cubans were also asking the question 'what is to be done with the heritage of communism?'. I quickly discovered that while revolutionary 'heritage' is everywhere, chiefly in the form of images and statues of Che and Jose Marti, it is at the same time nowhere to be found, in the sense that one expects 'heritage structures' to be consciously preserved and interpreted. My question rapidly metamorphosed into a different one: what is the greatest legacy of the revolution for Havana's built environment? It is this question that this paper is devoted to answering.
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Wednesday March 16
CHCAP
The Australian Army during WWII: a cradle of multiculturalism and radicalism?
Dr June Factor
University of Melbourne
The four thousand or so 'alien' soldiers in the Australian army's Employment/Labour Companies during WWII have largely disappeared from public memory, in part perhaps because they do not comfortably fit the popular 'dinkum Aussie soldier' image. Yet their work was essential to the war effort, and - in their cultural, national and political variety - they foreshadowed profound demographic and social changes in post-war Australia. They in turn found Australian traditions and habits incomprehensible, disturbing, liberating, sometimes life-changing. To illustrate my thesis, I shall reflect on aspects of the army and civilian experiences of two 'aliens' in the 6th Employment Company.
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Wednesday, April 6 2005
4:30-6pm
Tracing the Links between Nâgara Tradition and Early Southeast Asian Temples
David Beynon and Sambit Datta
School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University
From its early beginnings in the fifth century, the Nâgara tradition created a rich body of temples which spread across Northern India and influenced temple building traditions across Southeast Asia. While the architectural forms of Southeast Asian temples have obvious Indian antecedents, tracing the links between the two traditions antecedents remains difficult. The lack of textual accounts and fragmented or heavily eroded architectural remains from the earliest Southeast Asian civilisations, compound the difficulties associated with tracing the influence of Indian antecedents.
This presentation will describe a research project that addresses the above difficulties by drawing upon computational modelling of diagrams, canonical descriptions and photogrammetry of temples in India and Southeast Asia. The aim of the project is to establish the degree to which Southeast Asian (Khmer, Javanese and Cham) temples are attributable to Nâgara lineage and influence. This project forms the basis of a current ARC Discovery submission as well an ongoing Linkage proposal under development.
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Wednesday May 18
Exploring ‘local values’ of cultural heritage in Hue, Vietnam
Quynh Du Ton That
PhD candidate, Deakin University
What impact do 'local values' or local understandings of cultural heritage have on the protection of the cultural heritage of the city of Hue? Questions of national policy and objectives, of regional history and identity, family connection and personal identification will be explored to provide a detailed account of what comprise 'local values' in the context of cultural protection.
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Wednesday June 1
CHCAP
The appropriation of sacred space in classical Cambodia and Java – A Comparison
Dr Alexandra Haendel
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
The temples of ancient and classical Southeast Asia have received considerable
attention since the colonial period, and a substantial amount of data has
been accumulated. The historiography of the sites has hitherto been characterised
by a focus on cosmological representation, taking into account mainly the
central shrines, while the question of how this information illuminates the
question of the functionality of the sites has received relatively little
attention. By turning the attention to subsidiary buildings, information
given in contemporary epigraphy and chronicles, and the geography of the
sites, however, a move is made away from place as configurations of positions
and indications of stability towards space as practised place, i.e. as composed
of intersecting mobile elements: the temples can be interpreted as socially
lived sites. The present seminar will examine sites of classical Cambodia
and Java, and compare their usage through the close examination of architectural,
sculptural and textual evidence.
Bio: Alexandra studied Southeast Asian studies at Passau University/Germany,
and then went on to do an additional MA in History of Art and Archaeology,
followed by a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies/London. The
focus of the thesis was on two 10th century temples at Angkor: East Mebon and
Pre Rup. For a detailed analysis of the temples Alexandra developed and applied
a multi-disciplinary methodology, studying their architecture, sculpture, epigraphy,
and geographic location. Moreover, the Indian sastras were utilised for the
examination of how the sites were being used on a daily basis. This methodology
is now being applied to the temples of Java for two main reasons. Firstly,
as the temples in Cambodia, the theorisation of sacred space in ancient Indonesia
in terms of spatial conception, and temporality has yet to be undertaken. And
secondly, the sites of these civilisations bear striking similarities, as well
as differences, which have not yet been the focus of a detailed study.
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Wednesday, July 27 2005
4:30-6pm
Management of World Heritage Sites in India
Richa Swarup
The origin of Indian civilisation dates back to 8 Century BC. It’s rich and varied heritage is reflected in its cultural traditions and art and architecture. Some of the finest examples of architectural heritage of India date back to 2nd Century BC to 7th Century AD. Sacred man made caves, sculpting of rocks and stones with religious motifs were important features of Buddhist as well as ancient Hindu architecture of the time.
The country is dotted with thousands of exemplary pieces of architecture of different periods. Archaeological Survey of India is the main custodian of nationally listed monuments. Every State also has its listed monuments that are protected by the respective State Archaeology Departments. Together they manage more than 10000 sites in the country. Besides these, there are many more thousands of unlisted monuments in various towns and cities, many of those are uncared for and are under threat of demolition.
Currently, there are 26 UNESCO listed World Heritage Sites in India. 21 of these are cultural heritage sites and 5 are natural heritage sites.
The seminar presentation is restricted to case studies of two World Heritage Sites Bodhagaya, a, the place from where the Buddhist religion originates, and Mahabalipuram a shore town with temples and rock cut architecture. The case studies would present various issues in managing the two places as World Heritage Sites.
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Wednesday August 3
CHCAP
Tidalwave of Tourism - Breaching Barriers in Byron Bay
Dr Donald Ellsmore
Senior Lecturer, Cultural Heritage, Deakin University
Paradise Lost?
The title of this presentation is a question relating to a place which has changed too quickly. A tidal wave of tourism is breaching barriers at Byron Bay, which now faces a crisis far greater than any other coastal town. It will result in either inundation – by tawdry, speculative, profit-driven development, or it might be consolidated as that special place with special values.
For two decades the Byron brand has evoked images of beautiful beaches, bohemian culture and a very easy lifestyle. However Byron Shire has failed to define a vision of what it wants to be – whether it wants to be a peaceful, beautiful, alternative place or free for all for 3.00am party people. In this presentation some key questions will be posed.
What is Byron? How did it evolve? Where is it going? How will it fare?
Dr Donald Ellsmore has been working with the Byron Shire Council as a heritage adviser for the past five years. He has been able to observer the pressures building in the Byron Shire and to chart the recent past against other coastal districts including the one who grew up in. As an outsider he has been able to observe how a very democratic society is attempting to reconcile and balance competing interests in a very colourful and beautiful place.
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Wednesday August 17
CHCAP
Navigating Cultural Heritage Resources in Asia and the Pacific:
Global links for local heritage objects, places and individuals
Gavan McCarthy
Director Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
The University of Melbourne
This seminar concerns the transition from catalogues of 'stuff' to networks of interlinked information about the people, organisations, places, events etc (context entities) which then provide access to the 'stuff' and help provide the knowledge required to appreciate its significance. Gavan McCarthy will reflect on how this works at all levels within the community from the smallest players (ie the individual) to linking things together at a global level. He will be able to show how it is actually being implemented here in Australia.
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Wednesday August 24
CHCAP
UNESCO and cultural heritage practice in Australia in the 1950s
Jonathan Sweet
Lecturer, Museum Studies, Deakin University
In the 1940s, UNESCO signatory states established national advisory committees in specialist areas to develop relevant programs in a local context. The Australian UNESCO Museum Committee was one of these. It quickly identified the development of an international touring exhibition as a way of contributing to UNESCO's agenda, and in the event the resulting exhibition Australian Aboriginal Culture was the very first exhibition in the world to tour internationally under the auspices of the Organisation. This case study looks at the international and local museological contexts in which this exhibition was shaped, and raises some questions about the relationship between the universal ideals of UNESCO and local heritage practice.
UNESCO in the 21st Century: Expertise or Politics
Lyndel Prott
Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University
The political context of UNESCO has changed since its foundation in 1946. In the wake of the Second World War, the peoples of all countries were anxious to set up a system of international governance using the best professionals and the best skills available. However, as that generation has passed on, the enthusiasm for international institutions has weakened and nationalism has re-emerged as a potent competitor for international governance. This can be seen through the gradual lessening of quality of nominations and appointments to international organizations, the substitution of political pressure for technical excellence and the failure of national States to fully support the Organizations, while at the same time requiring them to undertake more and more, and more difficult, tasks. This will be illustrated by some examples from the work of the Culture Sector of UNESCO.
Whither goeth UNESCO? Finding New Ways or Losing the Way
Patrick O’Keefe
Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University
In recent years UNESCO has begun adopting legal instruments on cultural matters at a greatly accelerated pace e.g. a Declaration on Cultural Diversity in 2001, a Declaration on Destruction of heritage and a Convention on the intangible heritage in 2003 and a further draft Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions will be presented for adoption by the General Conference of UNESCO in October 2005. The long period of preparation required by the existing procedures of UNESCO and employed for the drafting of other such instruments appears to be being telescoped. The question remains whether such instruments are well served by cutting short the gestation period needed for the resolution of disparate interests and the maturing of understanding of the complex questions that need to be dealt with.
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Wednesday, August 31 2005
4:30-6pm
Living Threads
Joan Domicelj AM
Architect-Planner and Heritage Advisor
Two World Heritage projects - one international and one Australian - are currently exploring people’s relationship with nature over time, through exchanges between different, living knowledge systems. At last!
1. The first concerns the spine of the Andes, running north-south through South America, linking the republics of Colombia and Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, Chile and Argentina and crossing jungles, deserts, fertile valleys and ice-fields. A complex 6,000 km long road system follows that path. It is called the Qhapaq Nan, Camino Principal Andino or Inca Trail, and was built by people who travelled on foot, without wheel or beast of burden other than the light-footed llama. The six neighbouring republics have adopted an innovative process of regional cooperation, including close cooperation with local indigenous communities – to nominate the entire system for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
2. In 2000, over a million hectares of wild country in the Greater Blue Mountains Area of NSW was inscribed on the World Heritage List, in recognition of its eucalypt dominated bio-diversity and sheltering habitats for rare and ancient plant communities. At that time, ICOMOS rejected the nomination’s claim of outstandingly rich cultural associations with the land. Now a survey, in the more inaccessible sections of the parks system, is discovering previously undocumented rock art, and an innovative Mapping Country program is underway, in cooperation with several indigenous communities. The project will eventually collate documentary and oral evidence of traditional knowledge, across six relevant language groups. Access to the assembled data is strictly controlled and will be shared only to the extent determined by contributors. The intention is to enable communities to prescribe appropriate land management actions for the area, while preserving intellectual property rights.
The implications of these two projects will be discussed.
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Wednesday September 7
CHCAP
Ms Margaret Birtley
CEO, Collections Council of Australia
The new Collections Council of Australia
Margaret Birtley
CEO of the Collections Council of Australia
Deakin University Honorary Fellow
The Collections Council of Australia Ltd is a new participant in the cultural heritage field. Its focus is on the movable cultural collections of Australia, which are typically preserved by institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums. Supported by the Cultural Ministers Council, the Collections Council aims to provide effective leadership for the collections sector, and to identify innovative ways in which collecting institutions might develop sustainable, significant and more accessible collections. This presentation will position the Collections Council in its Australian and international contexts, and describe some of its proposed activities.
Margaret Birtley is the inaugural CEO of the Collections Council of Australia, and an Honorary Fellow of Deakin University. She is committed to the preservation of documentary and material culture, and to making accessible to new audiences the information that cultural heritage holds. Her career includes twenty-six years’ professional employment in the cultural sector as an educator, researcher, administrator and museum practitioner.
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Wednesday, September 28th 2005
4:30-6pm
Women who Write on Walls
Dr Gwenda Davey, Honorary Fellow Deakin University
Gwenda Davey writes: In January 2005 I attended the 9th International Seminar on Social Communication in Cuba's second city, Santiago de Cuba, and presented a paper on tradition and innovation in children's verbal folklore. Other papers in the folklore section of the conference covered a wide range of topics, but none discussed graffiti.
I have long been interested in graffiti as a form of social communication. I am only interested in wall writing which has something to say, which already involves me in one of the controversies about graffiti: is it vandalism or is it art?
Only a little work has been done internationally on women's graffiti, by researchers such as Emma Otto in Brazil, Jill Posener in England and Jane Gadsby in North America. During the 1990s I made a modest collection in Australia of the wit of women who write on walls. In this present decade, is electronic media beginning to replace the writing on the wall?
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26th October, 2005
The Unity of all Being: Thomas Karsten’s Colonial Utopia and his Vision of Indonesia
Dr Joost Coté
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Thomas Karsten, (1885 – 1945), as well as contributing to the evolution of a ‘tropical architecture’, wrote the town planning manual for colonial Indonesia and was a key figure in the urban planning of Indonesia1’s colonial cities between 1914 and 1941. He can be described as a ‘colonial intellectual’.
This paper forms part of a larger study of the role and impact of ‘colonial progressivism’ in late colonial Indonesia and focuses on the philosophy of the architect as ‘colonial reformer’. It argues that his town planning and architectural ideas (which will be briefly examined) derived from and gave rise to an integrated social philosophy – an amalgam of radical European political ideas, Jungian and Freudian psychology and Oriental philosophies - which held out the possibility of a ‘brotherhood of man’ which could be the basis of a post-colonial Indonesia. While unquestionably a colonial architect whose utopian ideals were rejected by radical Indonesian nationalists, the paper suggests his intellectual concepts were echoed by them.
Joost Coté is senior lecturer in History and Asian Studies in the School of History, Heritage and Society. He has published a number of articles on Indonesian colonial history focussing on the impact of colonial urban development, education policy and missionary activity in the transformation of Indonesian society and culture, and has translated, edited, and prepared historical introductions to the writing of two early twentieth century Javanese writers. He has co-edited and contributed to the forthcoming volume Recalling the Indies: Colonial memories, postcolonial identities (Aksant, Amsterdam, 2005) which records the history of Dutch and Eurasian migration from Indonesia to Australia, an Indonesian translation of which was published in 2004 (Recalling the Indies: Budaya colonial; identitas postcolonial, Sarikat, Yogyakarta).
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Kate Shaw
PhD Candidate University of Melbourne
Lefebvre and the Situationist International and the politics of protecting the place of alternative culture
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Wednesday December 8
Sharon Sullivan
Sullivan Blazejowski and Associates
Modern Heritage Practice-- from Jane Austen to Social Value
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Wednesday December 8
Dr Richard Engelhardt
Regional Advisor for Culture
UNESCO Bangkok
UNESCO's draft Hoi An Protocols for best conservation practice in Asia
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Wednesday December 1
Professor Stephen Alomes
Tradition and Change - Halloween in France and Australia
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Wednesday November 3
Ms Margaret Birtley, Course Director Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Museums and Intangible Heritage
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Wednesday October 20
Dr Tseen Khoo, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
Community Representations of Chinese-Australian History: Assuming Authority?
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Wednesday October 6
Chris Gallagher, Chair Heritage Council Victoria
The Role of the Victorian Heritage Council in Heritage Protection and
Conservation in Victoria
A discusson of the various roles played by the Heritage Council, from its
statutory responsibilities(eg Registering places of State heritage significance)
to its broader roles of promoting heritage, advising govt, funding local govt
initiatives,etc and providing some insights into how the Council conducts its business.
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Wednesday September 22
Peter Stone, Director, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Changes in Heritage Management... What is Happening in the UK?
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Wednesday September 8
Dr Gwenda Beed Davey AM
Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Captain Cook, Mabo and...hopscotch?
The UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register for 2004
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Wednesday September 15
Tjebbe van Tijen
…unbombing the world and the mapping of human violence
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Wednesday September 1
Prof Joan Beaumont, Alfred Deakin Professor
Dean, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Collective Memory and the Australian American Alliance of 1941-45
Read a copy of Professor Beaumont's paper 'Australian Memory and the US War-time
alliance: the Australian American Memorial and teh battle of the Coral Sea.'
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Wednesday August 25
Ms Au Hoping, Masters of Cultural Heritage Scholarship student 2004
Historical Memory and Relocation Around the New Hong Kong International Airport
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Wednesday August 18
Prof. Renate Howe and Dr David Nichols
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University
Save Collins Street' - 'Save our Suburbs' ; Urban Activism and Heritage in Melbourne
Saving inner city Melbourne from the large scale urban redevelopment plans of state authorities was a major focus for the inner city Resident Action Groups of the 1960s and 70s. This paper will explore the considerable impact of the RAGs on heritage planning and legislation in this crucial period of change and the ongoing significance of the relationship between heritage and gentrification in Melbourne's suburbs.
More information on the Urban Activision project.
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Wednesday August 11
Joe Hajdu
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University
The Cold War What of its Heritage is Worthy of Conservation?
The Cold War shaped the world for the second half of the 20th Century and
many aspects of the present would be inexplicable without some knowledge of
that era. There is no more potent symbol of the Cold War than the Wall in Berlin.
A conference held on 26-29 May this year in Potsdam had as its theme, ‘Preserving
Monuments and Sites of the Cold War Era’. The topics discussed there
raised issues of cultural heritage content and policy questions that are in
many ways new to heritage professionals. These range from the nature and the
heritage value of diverse military installations and the political context
in which they were created, to the way that their existence coloured the values
and lives of people affected by them. What do they mean? What should be done
with them in a post-Cold War period? Again, the Berlin Wall, its construction,
stark urban impact, and questions of its present heritage role, is the example
that raises these questions in the most pertinent manner. It formed the centre
reference point of the Potsdam Conference. Joe Hajdu and Colin Long attended
the Conference and this seminar will highlight the issues it raised.
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Wednesday August 4
Keith Jeffery, Professor of Modern History-University of Ulster
Crown, Communication and the Colonial Post: Stamps and the Cultural Heritage of the British Empire
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Wednesday June 16 2004
Mr Tom Harley, Chair, Australian Heritage Council
'Distinctively Australian': Australia's New National Heritage Program
Australia has new heritage laws to improve the protection of natural, Indigenous
and historic places of outstanding value to the nation and Commonwealth owned
heritage places. Tom Harley will present an overview of the new legislation
and its key features including:
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a new National Heritage List;
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a new Commonwealth Heritage List;
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the establishment and role of the new Australian Heritage Council;
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retention of the Register of the National Estate;
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a four-year Distinctively Australian implementation programme which, among
other things, will work to engage the community in conversation about our national
heritage
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Tuesday June 8 2004
Dr Alan Potkin
Founder of the Digital Conservation Facility, Vientiane (Laos) and Berkeley
(USA)
Digital Archiving and Mapping of Cultural History
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Wednesday June 2
Professor Hae Un Rii, Department of Geography-Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
World Heritage in Korea
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Tuesday May 25
Sanib Said
Director, Sarawak Museum, Kuching , Malaysia
Modernising the Colonial Museum: Continuity and Change at the Sarawak Museum
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Wednesday May 12 2004
Ilka Schacht, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Cultural Heritage Centre, Deakin University
Making Room for the Past Determining Significance in Archaeological Collections from Historic Sites
Building N room 1.05 at 4pm-6pm. Deakin University Burwood campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood
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Wednesday May 5
Maria Tumarkin, Deakin University
Heritage of Atrocity or the Cultural Work of Traumascapes
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Wednesday April 21
Hugh O’Neill, University of Melbourne
Adjunct Professor, Cultural Heritage Centre, Deakin University
Heritage and Globalised Culture: Indian and Indonesian Patronage fo Foreign Architects
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Wednesday April 7 2004
Kendra Clegg, PhD Candidate, Cultural Heritage Centre, Deakin University
Changing Perspectives on Cultural Heritage: Heritage and Politics in an Indonesian City
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Wednesday March 31 2004
Dr Qian Fengqi, Research Assistant ,Cultural Heritage Centre, Deakin University
The China Principles and Chinese Perceptions of Cultural Heritage
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Wednesday March 24 2004
Dr Janette Griffin
How Do Visitors Learn in Museums?
Abstract
Sociocultural understandings of learning processes have provided insights into
the ways in which people learn in museums, galleries, historic sites, gardens
and many other informal learning settings.
This theoretical base will be discussed and then applied through several studies investigating families and school students in museums.
Methodologies for uncovering visitors’ learning and applications of these findings to afford appropriate learning opportunities will be explored.
View a powerpoint presentation of the semar given by Jeanette Griffin.
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Speakers in 2003 :
Professor Ken Taylor, Australian National University
Borobadur, Cosmic Mountain of the Perfect Buddhas: World Heritage and Dilemmas of Conservation and Interpretation
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Pam Maclean and Michele Langfield
Analysing Testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
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Dr Alice Gorman
The Heritage of Woomera
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Amelia Klein
Conducting Research using Oral and Video Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
This Seminar will present a general introduction of the trajectory of my research projects from writing my Honours thesis on Sydney child survivors of the Holocaust to my current PhD Linkage-grant where I am researching video testimonies of Melbourne Holocaust survivors from Germany and Austria. I will focus on the initial stages of my PhD research and outline the history of the video testimonies project at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and Research Centre. I will present the direction of my thesis and discuss the differences in using oral and video testimony. This seminar will raise awareness about two very important groups of Australian Holocaust survivors and also illuminate the methodological issues surrounding using testimony as primary sources in research projects.
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Sharyn Burns, Deakin University
Evaluating Visitor Satisfaction at Brambuk - the National Park and Cultural Centre
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Bambang Soemardiono, Department of Achitecture , ITS Surabaya, Indonesia
The Changing Facades and Functions of Colonial Buildings along Corridor Darmo Boulevard in Surabaya, Indonesia
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Kristal Buckley, President, Australia ICOMOS, Heritage Consultant
A Landscape Conservation Plan for Port Arthur
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Prof. Ien Ang, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Museums in multicultural societies: the predicament of diversity.
Abstract:
Based on Prof. Ang’s current ARC SPIRT grant project, this seminar will
consider museums, cultural diversity and audience development. It considers
the practical dilemmas of cultural citizenship taking as a case study an exhibition
of Buddhist art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Dr. Vinod Daniel, Chairman, AusHeritage
Australia and the ASEAN-COCI project
Vinod Daniel will outline Australia's functional cooperation with the ASEAN-Committee
on Culture and Information (COCI) through AusHeritage. He will specifically
highlight how AusHeritage and ASEAN-COCI work, projects pursued, and cross
cultural experiences learned from working broadly in ASEAN and South Asia.
Vinod is the Head, Research Centre for Materials Conservation, Australian Museum.
He is also the Chairman of AusHeritage, Council Member AICCM, Executive Member
ICOM-ANC, Advisory Committee Member International Council for Biodeterioration
of Cultural Property and Editor AICCM Journal. He has travelled extensively
on various international missions and projects. He has published and presented
over 40 papers.
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Mr. David Walker & Dr. Bruce Wellington, Environment Australia
Assisting World Heritage in our region - the role of the Asia-Pacific Focal Point for World Heritage (pdf-72kb)
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Dr Michael Leach, Deakin University
Debates over Portuguese Language and Cultural Heritage in East Timor
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Dr Colin Long, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Feudalism in the service of the Revolution: Reclaiming heritage in Hue, Vietnam
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Leilani Bin Juda, Arts Development Officer Torres Strait Regional Authority
The Multi-dimensional Role of a Cultural Centre, The Torres Strait Experience
