Culture and Heritage

Title: Culture and Heritage

Summary: Led by Barry Judd (Professor and Director, Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts), this theme will provide mechanisms to support and grow Indigenous knowledge, so it can be applied in contemporary Australia and beyond in the critical areas of culture, land, and heritage.

The theme will investigate how this knowledge can be adapted with the guidance of Indigenous knowledge holders to meet social, environmental, and economic challenges of global significance.

Investigators:

Professor Barry Judd (Theme leader)
Associate Professor Lisa Palmer (Deputy theme leader)
Professor Rachel Nordlinger (CI)
Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff (CI)
Ms Jennifer Ganske (PI)
Ms Lynette Ross (PI)
Joe Morrison (PI)
Stephanie Rogers (PI)
Dr Kirsty Sword Gusmão (PI)

Organisations:

The University of Melbourne
NBN Co (Indigenous Unit)
Voyages Indigenous Tourism
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
Boon Wurrung Foundation
Indigenous Business Australia
Alola for East Timor

Media

Associate Professor Lisa Palmer, Professor Barry Judd, Dr Kirsty Sword Gusmão, and Professor Rachel Nordlinger: "Prompting Indigenous Culture, Land & Heritage with Indigenous Knowledge"

This panel considers how Indigenous knowledge practices can be better supported and applied in contemporary contexts to strengthen and sustain Indigenous cultures and languages. The panel will investigate how Indigenous knowledge can be adapted with the guidance of senior Indigenous knowledge holders to meet social, environmental, and economic challenges of global significance. Culture and Heritage is a Research Theme program funded by the Indigenous Knowledge Institute at the University of Melbourne.

The presentation was part of the 2022 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples Symposium.