Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage Research Cluster
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.
Hot Link to Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage webpage http://www.canberra.edu.au/centres/donald-horne
Members
Academic staff
Adjuncts
Associate Professor Brian Egloff
Adjunct Professor Sheridan Burke
2012 Research Theme - Culture and heritage - local, national, transnational, global.
Seminar Series - to be uploaded soon "watch this space"
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.