Aims and objectives:

Members of this research cluster draw on their diverse discipline backgrounds to explore the creation of cultural values, historical understandings of culture, and the entwinement of past and present in design, institutions, objects, collections, places and cultural practices.  Our concerns centre on communicating culture and heritage, cultural landscapes and place making, communities and conservation, and on issues of memory, identity and a changing environment. We actively interrogate how local, national, transnational and global contexts shape cultural production, social memory and collective forgetting.

The Centenary of Canberra 2013 will be a focus for cluster activities over 2010—2012, building key research outputs on the cultural identity, history, archaeology and heritage of the region.

Members

Academic staff

Full members

Dr Tracy Ireland See biography

Dr Liz Bonshek (Chair) See biography

Associate members

Assoc Prof James Warden (6 pack seminar co-ordinater) See biography

Assoc Prof Jeff Brownrigg See biography

John Greenwood See biography

Fanny Lemaitre (website manager) See biography

Andrew Mackenzie See biography

Bob Miller See biography

Sally Webster See biography

Adjuncts/ emeritus

Associate Professor Brian Egloff See biography

Current Research Projects

Material Memories — The conservation of in situ historical archaeological remains in post colonial nations.
Dr Tracy Ireland

This project aims to explore the cultural heritage process of the conservation of in situ historical archaeological remains in Australia and other postcolonial countries. The research will interrogate the cultural role these ‘archaeological places’ play in these societies and what meanings, values and community benefits ensue from this heritage management process.