Making Public Histories - 2008 Seminar Series

Thursday 24 July 2008

The Tail Wagging the Dog? Oral history, digital story-telling and old Media

Michelle Rayner, Executive Producer of social history programs at ABC Radio National, will discuss the implications of the brave, new and seemingly limitless world of digital online storytelling for her own practise of producing oral history radio programs.

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Thursday 4 September 2008

Unlocking the Medieval Imagination: Living history and public culture

Shane Carmody, Director of Collections and Access at the State Library of Victoria, will consider the Library's recent exhibition, 'The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand', which drew capacity audiences, linked with medieval re-enactment groups, music groups, art and craft societies and the Universities, and challenged notions of public value being measured only in monetary terms.

Constant Mews, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University's School of Historical Studies, will reflect on the public nature of the history both celebrated and performed through the exhibition and associated events.

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Thursday 16 October 2008

Creating Victoria's Framework of Historical Themes

Amanda Bacon (manager of the strategic projects unit in Heritage Victoria) will outline the origins and aims of a project which is developing a framework of historical themes for assessment, management, promotion and interpretation of Victoria’s heritage places and objects.

Sandy Blair from Melbourne-based consultancy firm Context will outline the challenges of creating a set of themes that are at once engaging, inclusive of a wide range of experiences, and also applicable across the natural, indigenous, and historic environments.

As Heritage Council representative on the project, Renate Howe will explore the different ways that historians, heritage professionals and local government administrators perceive historical themes.

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Thursday 20 November 2008

'Exhibiting Melbourne: The city in the museum'

Visitors to Melbourne can now approach the city's history through an impressive range of galleries and exhibitions, including The City Museum, The Australian Gallery of Sport, The State Library's 'Faces of Victoria', the Immigration Museum and Museum Victoria’s recently opened 'Melbourne Story'.

Speakers include Linda Young (Deakin University Museologist), Graeme Davison (Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor), Deborah Tout-Smith (Museum Victoria) and Richard Ferguson (MCC Exhibitions).

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