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

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