President’s Conversation: Climate Change and Heritage

Wednesday 15th September 2021

Climate change threatens many-valued parts of Australia’s heritage estate – both cultural and natural – from the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and alpine regions to thousands of historical places and cultural records housed around the country. At the same time, there are many other threats to heritage: mining activity, land-use change, trammelling of Indigenous rights, insufficient legislative protection. Heritage is often thought of as the bits of the past that we want to preserve. How might we need to rethink it in the volatile times of climate change? Do we need to reconceptualise heritage completely? What can we learn from the international context?

Speakers

• Professor Lesley Head
• Professor Jo McDonald – University of Western Australia
• Professor Tiffany Morrison – James Cook University
• Associate Professor Chris Ballard  – Australian National University

Further speakers to be added.

Event details

When: 1-2.30pm AEST, Wednesday 15^th September

Where: Online, Zoom

Register: Click to register

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