“Teaching and Learning Australia: rethinking the archive in the Australian Humanities” This symposium will explore the role of ‘the archive’ for education in the arts and humanities in Australia. With the aim of enlivening debate and discourse around pedagogical approaches for teaching in the humanities, the symposium will introduce and open up a wide range of archival material to educators, students, and cultural workers alike. These will range from official archives with established education programmes through to the lesser known and unofficial bodies of archival knowledge, which currently furnish the imagination of artists, writers, performers and historians working in Australia today. The symposium will present an opportunity to reappraise and reimagine what the humanities might look like in contemporary Australia, giving us a broader, more dynamic – and more accessible sense of how to approach key areas of inquiry and knowledge. value and challenge which forms of material objects typically constitute an archive. For instance, a key question for contemporary Australia: which histories are forgotten or left out of the archive and how might this be redressed? Friday, 10 April 2015 9.15am - 5.00pm Speakers include award winning authors, archivists, educators and curators from organisations ranging from Australian Centre for the Moving Image, State Library of New South Wales, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum, Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, N.S.W Police Forensic Archive, AusStage, AustLit and more. Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited. This event will be of interest to educators from upper-level secondary schools and universities, as well as graduate students, researchers, curators and cultural workers. MacMahon Ball Theatre Room 107, Old Arts Building The University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010 To register visit: http:// alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/ For further information please contact Amanda Morris [email protected] or phone 9035 5280 Members of the original fingerprint section of the NSW Police, photographer unknown, 1907. Justice & Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums The symposium will offer the opportunity to interrogate issues of cultural knowledge and cultural AUSTRALIAN CENTRE SYMPOSIUM