Between Europe and Australia: Memory, Museum and Heritage
On 14th October 2016 the ANU Centre for European Studies, in collaboration with the Australian Memory Research Network, organized a Symposium “Between Europe and Australia: Memory, Museum and Heritage”. This was the fourth meeting of the Australian Memory Research Network and its focus was on the memory-museum-heritage nexus, the impact of European memory studies in Australia, and new methods of inquiry. A highlight of the symposium was a site visit to the Museum of Australian Democracy led by Prof Andrea Witcomb (Deakin University).
10.30am: Welcome
10.40am – 12.00pm: Session 1
• Laurajane Smith, “Affi rmation and remembering in museum contexts”
• Sulamith Graefenstein, “The Representation of Difficult Heritage in the Global Human Rights Museum”
• Jacqueline Lo, “Staging whiteness at the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum”
Discussion
1.00pm – 2.30pm: Session 2
• Felicity Collins, “Where Do You Think You Are? Travel Recognition, Place”
• Rosanne Kennedy, “Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance”
• Kasia Williams, “Europe’s subaltern memories in Australia: intergenerational responses”
Discussion
2.30pm – 3.00pm: Trip to the Museum of Australian Democracy
3.30pm – 5.00pm: Museum of Australian Democracy “Memories of the Struggle” exhibition visit led by Professor Andrea Witcomb
5.30pm: Australian Memory Research Network Meeting
Location
The Nye Hughes RoomANU Centre for European StudiesBuilding 67C, 1 Liversidge St, ANUCanberra ACT 260
Speakers
- Laurajane Smith
- Sulamith Graefenstein
- Professor Jacqueline Lo
- Felicity Collins
- Rosanne Kennedy
- Dr Kasia Williams
Contact
- Dr Kasia Williams02 6125 6603