Return of the Native: Contestation, Collaboration and Co-authorship in Museum Spaces

9.30-9.45

Welcome to Country

Paul House

9.45-10.30

Alec Coles, CEO, Western Australian Museum

Key note address: Aboriginal Agency and the New Museum Project

10.30-11.00

Margo Neale

Executive Indigenous Advisor &

Senior Indigenous Curator

National Museum of Australia

Blak to the future: Songlining Museum Spaces

11.00-11.15

Morning Tea

NOTE: The following session will be held upstairs in Seminar Room (3.02)

11.15-11.45

John Carty

Research Fellow

Research School of Humanities & the Arts

Australian National University

Curating the Curators: some reflections on the politics and poetics of ‘consultations’

11.45-12.15

Cressida Fforde, Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Lyndon Ormond-Parker and Major Sumner,

National Centre for Indigenous Studies

Australian National University

Understanding Indigenous Agency in the Context of Repatriation

12.15-12.45

Catherine Massola

PhD Candidate

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Australian National University

The Warmun Community Collection: Dissonance and Silence

12.45-1.45

Lunch

1.45-2.15

Una Rey

Independent Curator & Lecturer,

The School of Creative Arts,

University of Newcastle

The Brindle Baby: intercultural collaboration and influence in visual arts practice

2.15-2.45

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Artist, Research Fellow, University of Oxford &

Julie Gough, Artist, Writer, Curator

The Importance of Being Anachronistic

2.45-3.15

Kim Mahood

Artist, Writer

Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Minefield or Fertile Ground?

3.15-3.30

Afternoon Tea

3.30-4.00

Djon Mundine OAM

Art Activist, Independent Curator, Scholar

Looking Black in Anger - 30 years on the front line of Aboriginal Art 

4.00-4.30

Terry Smith

Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory

Henry Clay Frick Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Exhibiting Indigeneity

4.30-5.00

Special Event: Launch of Artlink’s annual Indigenous issue – guest edited by Daniel Browning and Djon Mundine

Artlink: Indigenous Global

5.00-6.00

Drinks

9.30-10.15

Dawn Casey, Former Director of the National Museum of Australia, Western Australian Museum and Powerhouse Museum

Key note: A personal reflection - 30 years in the service of Indigenous agency and ideas

10.15-10.45

David Garneau

Head, Visual Arts

University of Regina, Canada

Indigenous Aesthetic Sovereignty and Compromise in Non-Indigenous Display Spaces

10.45-11.00

Morning Tea

11.00-11.30

Chanel Clarke

Curator, Māori

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, New Zealand

Indigenous Agency at Auckland Museum- Within and Outside the Walls

11.30-12.00

Hikitia Harawira

Collection Manager, Taonga Maori

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, New Zealand

 Giving them back their Mana

12.00-1.00

Lunch @National Museum of Australia (NMA) cafe

1.00-2.00

National Museum of Australia Tour of Gallery of First Australians  and Open Collections

2.00-2.30

Crispin Howarth

Curator Pacific Arts

National Gallery of Australia

Indigenous Protocols in Practice: a curator’s perspective

2.30-3.00

Anna Edmundson

Research Fellow

Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies

Sir Roland Wilson Building

Australian National University

What if museums weren’t western? A case study from PNG

3.00-3.15

Afternoon Tea

3.15-3.45

Diana James

Senior Research Associate & Coordinator; Songlines of the Western Desert ARC

College of Arts and Social Sciences

Australian National University

Songlines Dust Storm - community controversy engulfs museum

3.45-4.15

Ian McLean

Research Professor of Contemporary Art

University of Wollongong

Inter-relational agency: a new theory of Aboriginal art

4.15-5.00

Laurajane Smith

Head, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

Australian National University

Return of the Native: Key points and future issues

5.00 – 6.00

Drinks