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Critical Approaches to Museums & Heritage

Locality: Brisbane City

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Address: School of Social Science UQ 4000 Brisbane City, QLD, Australia

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24.01.2022 Many thanks to Stephen Nichols for his engaging presentation about public archaeology practice and mass media. We found his exploration of the communication of archaeological research through our everyday mass media: press, tv and film: to be very thought provoking. His foregrounded notion, as introduced, of a rapidly expanding user base for an online digital archive and the growing facilitation of access to this worldwide depository, is quite breathtaking to comprehend. ...It was useful for us all to explore the publics very real perception of what other, perhaps more rational thinkers, might consider to be very bizarre contemporary beliefs such as the Gympie Pyramid and the Stradbroke Island Galleon: which can only reasonably be explained via a sort of imagined history or myth creation. His message about public archaeology practice for archaeologists was, more generally, about de-colonising the angle of delivery in public archaeology and about entering into a genuine dialogue with community interests in developing that approach and allowing that to inform our understanding. Its rewarding to observe that inclusion, involvement and embodiment were all key factors in the success of the Mill Point Archaeological Project, a signal achievement for UQ. See more

24.01.2022 Announcing the talks for second semester: Thursday 4 August: Shawn Rowlands, Bard Graduate Center/AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology Glass Frontiers: Curating Culture Contact in Oceania of the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries... Thursday 8 September: Stephen Nichols, Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Queensland Government Let Them Eat Static: Public Archaeology and Mass Media in the Twenty-first Century Thursday 22 September: Lachlan Dudley, Australian National University Empathy and Museum Visitor (Dis)engagement with Mental Illness Thursday 6 October: Tracy Cooper-Lavery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery Director Welcome to the New Age: Visual arts, the Gold Coast and a New Gallery The venue is the Anthropology Museum at UQ St Lucia - ground floor, Michie Building All welcome and please spread the word!

22.01.2022 This will be an interesting talk. Feel free to join us afterwards at the UQ pizza cafe for discussion and social interaction.

22.01.2022 Our seminar coming up on Thursday 19th May is by Brian Fagan, who is one of the few archaeologists who has devoted his career to communicating archaeology to wider audiences. In this talk, Brian will still his long experience into an assessment of how public outreach in archaeology is changing in the twenty-first century.

20.01.2022 Reminder - our final talk for this semester: Lachlan Dudley, "Empathy and Museum Visitors (dis)engagement with Mental Illness 4pm - 5.30 pm, followed by drinks at the Pizza Cafe... Anthropology Museum, ground floor, Michie Building, UQ, St Lucia ALL WELCOME Check out the beautiful Solomon Islands exhibition at the same time, well worth the trip out to St Lucia if you are not based on campus

18.01.2022 Here is the full list of seminars in this semester, the last date is Thursday 11th May 2017 and the seminar topic covers human rights in Mexico-US border museums.

16.01.2022 Dont forget Brian Fagans talk tomorrow at 4pm, Room 262 Steele Building UQ - spread the word

09.01.2022 Reminder - tomorrow at 4pm, our next talk, presented by Stephen Nichols: "Let them eat static" at the Anthropology Museum at UQ. Please spread the word.

08.01.2022 The Remotely Fashionable Book and its Authors

08.01.2022 Reparative Aesthetics Panel Discussion: Ambivalence and The Archival Turn 2pm Saturday 7 May 2016... Griffith University Art Gallery (Southbank) Join exhibiting artist Fiona Pardington, photographer, anthropologist and curator Michael Aird and artist Vernon Ah Kee, chaired by exhibition curator Professor Sue Best, as they explore the use of historical archives as sources in contemporary art that can highlight oppressive or unjust historical events, and consider how ambivalence overcomes the need to privilege aesthetics over politics or politics over aesthetics.

06.01.2022 Next week on Friday Brian Fagan is giving the UQ School of Social Science annual Hall Lecture, "Droughts & Attacking Oceans - an archaeologist looks at climate change", his lecture will be looking at how past societies have responded and adapted to drought, flood and extreme weather events. If you are interested, the event is on at 4.30-6.00pm, lecture theatre 101 in the Abel Smith Building, UQ St Lucia campus. The School would like people to RSVP cob tomorrow, so if you want to come along, please follow this link: https://social-science.uq.edu.au/hall-annual-lecture

06.01.2022 A very topical paper about how US/Mexico Border Museums deal with issues about human rights and migration. Please join us for this the last seminar in this semester at the UQ Anthropology Museum venue and afterwards for a social get-together and discussion at the UQ Pizza Cafe.