AusHeritage Symposium - How Concepts of Identity Shape Heritage Practice

HOW CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY SHAPE HERITAGE PRACTICE

Exploring how different concepts of identity – at a personal, group or national level – may affect what heritage we recognise and how we value, protect, promote, challenge or ignore it.

8 OCTOBER 2026, 3pm – 5pm AEDT, online symposium

Presented by AusHeritage in partnership with Artlab Australia

Moderated by Alex Marsden, AusHeritage Deputy Chair

Formal Opening                        Vinod Daniel OAM, AusHeritage Chair

3.00pm - 3.10pm AEDT

Session one:                              Keynote speakers

CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY        Dr Jilda Andrews, Director, First Nations, National Museum of Australia

3.10pm - 4.15pm AEDT  Dr Yujie Zhu, Associate Professor, Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies, ANU

Dr Susan Marsden AM, Historian, Director, Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation

General Discussion and Q&A

Session two:                              Panel of 3 speakers

CHANGING HERITAGE

PRACTICE                                 Dr Jonathan Kemp, Robert Cripps Institute for

4.15pm - 4.55pm AEDT          Cultural Conservation, University of Melbourne; AusHeritage member

                                                  Professor Keir Reeves OAM, Federation University; AusHeritage Director

                                                  Tharron Bloomfield, Māori Heritage Advisor, Heritage New Zealand

Pouhere Taonga

General Discussion and Q&A

Concluding remarks               Vinod Daniel OAM, AusHeritage Chair

4.55pm – 5.00pm AEDT