[Anthropgrad] Memories of the World - Friday Forum - 26 September

[Sharon Komidar]

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The Research School of Humanities presents,

 

Friday Forum 

1-2.30 pm, 26th September, 2008, Theatrette, Old Canberra House

Memories of the World: Local and Global

Presenters: Mary Hutchison, Michelle Potter, Roslyn Russell

Facilitator: Ann Curthoys

 

Whose memory? Why is it collected? How is it captured? How is it kept
and used?

 

Three speakers discuss how these questions play out in projects aiming,
respectively, 

to preserve global, national and neighbourhood heritage through various
material forms.

 

Mary Hutchison's research and professional interests include history and
memory in the

context of public history interpretations and interpretive
collaborations with communities.

She will speak about the very local 'Tocumwal Archive' - memories and
images of living in

the Tocumwal houses neighbourhood in O'Connor, Canberra.

 

Michelle Potter's interests are in dance as an area of interdisciplinary
and cross-institutional

research. Her recent work has focused on archiving practices and oral
history. She will speak

about the beginnings of a project to record the recollections of older
Cambodian dancers

who survived the regime of the Khmer rouge.

 

Roslyn Russell is a historian and museum consultant. She has been
involved with UNESCO's 

Memory of the World Programme to safeguard documentary heritage since
the mid-1990s, and is 

currently Chair of its International Advisory Committee's Register
Sub-Committee. 

She will talk about the Programme and issues surrounding global memory.

 

Convenors

Carolyn Strange & Mary Hutchison

For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/ 


<http://rsh.anu.edu.au/> All Welcome