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History, Culture & Collections 2016 lecture series

Details and recordings from the Humanities Department's History, Culture and Collections 2016 lecture series.

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Detail of spears on grey background

12 October 2016

Contemporary reimagining of a museum collection

An analysis of change in a collection of spears from Milingimbi, Arnhem Land

Rusty iron shed bearing a sign reading 'Gurindji Mining Lease and Cattle Station'. A Ford Zephyr is parked out the front.

14 September 2016

Gurindji Blues Post Script

Unknown and unlikely facets of the Wave Hill Walk-off and the Gurindji people’s quest for independence, 50 years on

Bark cloth painted with an angular design

10 August 2016

The Pacific Collections at Museums Victoria

A brief introduction and aspirations for the future

Old wire strainer

13 July 2016

From Polyzosteria limbata to wire strainers

A life wandering in and out of museums (and why they matter)

Black and white image of a woman milking a cow

08 June 2016

The Invisible Farmer

Securing the history of Australian farming women

11 May 2016

The genealogy of the genealogical method

Discoveries, disseminations and the historiography of British anthropology

Portrait of a woman

06 April 2016

Being present

Indigenous Contemporary Art and Cultural Practices in the Museum

Coffin of Tamenkhamun

02 March 2016

Accessing the ancient past

Ancient Egyptian antiquities in the Victorian State collections

Scottish pipe band

17 February 2016

Beyond kilts and bagpipes

Scottish associational culture and its wider impact on Australian society, circa 1840 to 1920

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