Hopwood, Bronwyn

Koehn, Clemens

Bourke, Graeme

2019-02-04

Output included: Conference Website, Conference Book: 102 pages including 115 research paper abstracts, 4 Public Lectures, Public unveiling of UNEMA Commemorative Artefact (Australia's oldest shoe - Ancient Egyptian Sandal), 3 Exhibitions: "Classics in the Library" with 17 books; "O.N.E: Our New England" with 23 photographs, 1 tactile map, 2 page text; Exhibition: "40,000 Years of Footwear" with brief pictorial outline and 5 display artefacts; 4-7 February 2019

<p>In 2019 the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) and Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) collaborated with the UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA) to create a regional festival event including public exhibitions and lectures, combined with a Classics research conference, to explore how Classics can engage researchers, school teachers, and the general public in a regional centre of learning, and work to ensure that Classics is neither the preserve of wealthy white elites nor a metropolitan privilege (Hall & Stead 2013; Lawrence 2018). Festival events included diverse public lectures on social revolution in the Roman Republic, Pagan and Christian architectural thought, Sudanese archaeology, and the dialogue between Classics and LEGO. The public exhibitions included a photographic exhibition on the New England region, the unveiling of an Ancient Egyptian sandal (the oldest shoe in Australia) accompanied by an exhibition on footwear, and an exhibition displaying together for the first time classical and archaeological books in the collections of the UNE Department of Classics, the UNE Heritage Centre, and Dixson Library Rare Books Collection. The public events were held concurrently with the ASCS Annual Conference, which brought over two hundred researchers in Classics, Ancient History, Museum and Reception Studies, and Archaeology to Armidale, and which for the first time was registered with NESA to provide an accredited professional development opportunity for NSW school teachers.</p>

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/52221

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Collaborative Festival Event for the 40th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, 50th Anniversary of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and 60th Anniversary of the UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA)

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