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Our Culture and Creativity Seminar Series is back with two special editions in collaboration with the Everyday Heritage Project’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars! Everyone is welcome. No need to register.

Culture and Creativity Seminar Series X Everyday Heritage: The Object of Conservation

Speaker: Professor Sian Jones (University of Stirling)

Date\Time: Wed 12 July 2023, 12:30-13:30pm 
Location (in-person and on zoom): Building 6, Room 06C12, University of Canberra (google map); or Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/97372365075) 

Abstract

How are heritage objects made and what kind of conservation work does this involve? In this lecture, Siân Jones will discuss some of the conclusions arising from her recent book (co-authored with Tom Yarrow). Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study of conservation practice in a national heritage organisation, The Object of Conservation (2022) examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. Conservation practice involves various kinds of intervention to keep heritage objects in some sense as they are, in the face of various challenges, changes and threats. In doing so, conservators play an active, and at times decisive, role in their biographies, (re)assembling them conceptually and materially whilst grappling with the paradox of how to keep something essentially the same whilst changing it.

Bio

Sian Jones is Professor of Heritage at the University of Stirling, UK. Sian is an internationally recognised leader in heritage studies who has written extensively on authenticity, social value and on the role of the past in the production of power and identity.  Sian has published extensively on the social values of heritage over the last two decades, amongst other things.  As a University of Canberra Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Sian Jones is supported by the ARC-funded Everyday Heritage Linkage Project. Sian is a member of the Everyday Heritage International Advisory Group.

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