[Upcoming Seminar] Made to Measure: Understanding Crafting Revival in a Melanesian Society

Title: Made to Measure: Understanding Crafting Revival in a Melanesian Society

Speaker: Prof. Graeme Were (Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies, University of Queensland)

Date and time: 12:00pm, 14 October 2016

Venue: NAH 401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

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Graeme Were is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies and convenes the Museum Studies postgraduate programme in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. He has held positions at University College London, Goldsmiths College London, and the British Museum and joined UQ in 2011. His research interests include museum anthropology, digital heritage and material culture studies and he has a regional specialism in Papua New Guinea. His recent work includes Lines that connect: rethinking pattern and mind in the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) and (co-edited with J.C.H. King) Extreme collecting (Berghahn, 2012). He presented the prestigious 2011 Curl Lecture at the British Museum awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in 2012, he received a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award for his work on digital heritage and knowledge networks in Melanesia. He serves on the Australian government's National Cultural Heritage Committee.

ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME!