Museum, Collecting, Agency Symposium
Australian Museum, Sydney
April 1-2, 2014
The symposium is jointly hosted by ICS, Australian Museum and the Museum and Heritage Program at the University of Sydney and will seek to explore questions of agency as they relate to museum and museum-like practices of collecting, particularly in connection with histories of colonialism and their legacies. The symposium focuses on the question of agency and its implications for understanding ethnographic museum collections and collecting practices.
Keynote speakers are Ann Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and Phil Gordon, Head of Aboriginal Collections at the Australian Museum, Sydney. Please refer to the symposium website for a comprehensive overview of the symposium and list of paper presenters, and to RSVP
Enquiries can be directed to Fiona Cameron (f.cameron@uws.edu.au) or Ben Dibley (b.dibley@uws.edu.au).