Cultural Heritage seminar series 2013

23 April - The Joint Historical Archaeological Survey of the Anzac area, Gallipoli

21 March - Sovereignty, translation and the integration of nature and culture in Asia-Pacific World Heritage

30 May - Sally Watterson (Deakin University): Mongolian museums-negotiating post socialist identity

20 June - Professor William Logan (Deakin University): Commemorating Catastrophe: Victoria's Black Saturday Bushfires 2009

25 July - Annette Tapp Museums and social inclusion

29 August - Philipp Schorch (Deakin University): Travel, Museums, Meaning

31 October - Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna (RMIT/ National Trust of Australia (Victoria)): TBC Muse/ Museal - A Fashion Exhibition and a Grotto

9 December - Paulette Wallace (Deakin University): Entangled Heritage(s): Cultural landscapes in post-settler Aotearoa New Zealand

The Joint Historical Archaeological Survey of the Anzac area, Gallipoli
23 April, 2013

5:30pm
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne (entry via William Street).
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The Alfred Deakin Research Instute and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific have pleasure in inviting you to the second of Deakin's Cultural Heritage seminars for 2013, delivered by Cliff Ogleby from the University of Melbourne.

This presentation will give an overview and preliminary results from the three government historical archaeological survey being undertaken on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. There have been three seasons of work to date, involving people from the University of Melbourne, The Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, the Turkish Government and the 18th March University in Canakkale.

The expedition combines extensive ground investigation looking for the remains of trenches and tunnels, the collection and conservation of artefacts, and mapping the results in a Geographic Information System. The 2012 season also employed ground penetrating radar (GPR) to detect trench remains under the main monuments at Lone Pine and the surrounds, The Nek and the car park at the 57th Battalion memorial.

Cliff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has over 30 years experience in the recording and documentation of cultural monuments, ranging from archaeological sites to rock paintings to buildings and structures. He is a foundation member of Australia ICOMOS, and has served on the ICOMOS ISC CIPA Heritage Documentation executive including 3 years as President. Cliff applies modern measurement and mapping technologies including photogrammetry, GIS, GPS, 3d laser scanning and field survey in archaeology and heritage documentation. He is also a member of the JHAS Gallipoli team

Please RSVP to steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au

'Sovereignty, translation and the integration of nature and culture in Asia-Pacific World Heritage'
21 March, 2013

5:30pm
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne (entry via William Street).

The Alfred Deakin Research Instute and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific have pleasure in inviting you to the first of Deakin's Cultural Heritage seminars for 2013, delivered by Professor Ian Lilley (University of Queensland).

The World Heritage 'system' is having trouble accommodating Indigenous demands for recognition and involvement. The sticking points concern matters of sovereignty and translation. Sovereignty encompasses the perceived threat to the integrity of the nation-state from Indigenous claims on the one hand and what Indigenous people see as the affront to their autonomy represented by the universalizing processes of the World Heritage system on the other. Translation is central to this tension, because the parties involved seem largely unable to appreciate each other's presumptions and constraints. In terms of World Heritage policies, the problem has arisen largely because the we are not linking the priority '5 C's' together properly, especially when it comes to matching up 'communities' with 'communication'. This is probably most evident in the continuing separation of nature and culture in the World Heritage system, despite the fact that many of the communities we deal with have been communicating for some time that they don't approach their heritage this way. This seminar considers ways we all might do better in this connection, with a focus on our Asia-Pacific neighbourhood.

Ian Lilley is Professor in UQ's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. He oversees ATSISU's research activities and the University's Indigenous postgraduate support program, and facilitates other research on Indigenous matters. He has undertaken archaeological and cultural heritage studies throughout mainland Australia as well as in Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea and various parts of the Pacific. He did his PhD fieldwork in PNG, investigating ancient indigenous trading systems. His current projects focus on World Heritage and Indigenous people, local capacity-building in cultural heritage management, globally and in the Asia-Pacific, and on developments in Pacific archaeology in New Caledonia, where he does field research with French colleagues. Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and Convenor of the International Heritage Group NGO. He is a World Heritage Assessor for the UNESCO advisory body ICOMOS and Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management. His other professional interests are archaeology and identity, archaeology's role in contemporary society and archaeological ethics.

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Please RSVP to Steven Cooke: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au