Please note: this event is split into two sessions 6:00 - 7:00 pm BIPOC-only panel session (for BIPOC attendees to learn from and network with their peers) and 7:10 - 8:00 pm Listening session (general admission).
Back for a second year, this panel discussion aims to bring some nuance to discussions about ‘decolonising the museum’. It is targeted at museum and heritage practitioners and scholars who are interested in or engaging in decolonisation practices—especially those who would like to take their advocacy to the next level. We would also like the event to serve as a way to foster solidarity between emerging and current BIPOC museum and heritage practitioners.
This panel discussion follows from last year’s panel, which was held to bring some nuance to discussions about ‘decolonising the museum’ through bringing to light some of the less visible barriers facing heritage practitioners of colour in the ‘decolonial turn’. Building from last year’s discussion, it aims to keep up momentum and move the decolonial discourse forwards, rather than simply retreading old ground.
As part of this event, we will have an opportunity to hear Jacinta Koolmatrie and Jade Turner discuss the results of the exploratory workshop on whiteness, racism and privilege in GLAM that they conducted with GLAM sector members at last year’s AMaGA Conference in Ballarat.
You do not need to have participated in last year’s panel session or Jade and Jacinta’s workshop to make the most of this session, and will be provided with an executive summary following the close of the event to help you put its take-aways into practice in your own work.
Panelists
Jacinta Koolmatrie: Jacinta Koolmatrie is an Adnyamathanha and Ngarrindjeri woman, with a Bachelor and Masters in Archaeology. She has previously worked in museums and now engages with the sector independently. She is passionate about the amplification of Aboriginal knowledges and histories through publications and public engagements. While interested in educating the broader public, she is most focused on ensuring Aboriginal people are empowered by her work.
Jade Turner: Jade Turner is an Eastern Arrernte woman with maternal connections to Mparntwe (Alice Springs). She has worked in Museums and Galleries in various areas including collection management, exhibition administration, install and curation. Independent of her full-time work, Jade collaborates with Aboriginal women with connections to the GLAM sector in South Australia to explore ways of working and storytelling outside the limitations of institutions. Jade’s focus is on projects and collaborations that centre and reinforce First Nations People’s power and abilities to disrupt.
Charlotte van Braam: Charlotte van Braam (she/her) is a Dutch-Indonesian (Indo) multidisciplinary visual artist-researcher. Her work reflects on identity, history, and (de)coloniality, where she takes embodied knowledge as a starting point. Creative means are her tool to express her activism, and research where she always looks for new ways to work towards collective liberation. She holds a masters degree in Race, Migration, and Decolonial Studies, and in addition to her work as artist-researcher and activist she runs an online educational platform ‘’ that aims to bust the myths that made decolonisation into a buzzword.
Moderator
Kavita Peterson
Kavita is a translator and emerging decolonial consultant with a special interest in decolonial and queering approaches to museum interpretation and heritage. They are also highly interested in colonial mythmaking and fantasy, and how these can be productively incorporated into our national histories in service of decolonising Western minds. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, they have until recently been residing in Berlin conducting research on the representation and interpretation of German colonialism in German national history museums. They are currently participating in the ARC-funded museum research project “The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects” while establishing their decolonial consultancy business at www.decolonialheritage.com.
Safety Measures
This event aims to be a ‘safer space’ for panelists and those in attendance. To this end, we will be putting a number of measures in place. This will include the following:
This event will not be recorded. Instead, a one-page executive summary of the event will be sent out to attendees after the session to help participants remember the main points shared.
We request that what is shared in the panel by our panelists is not to be shared outside of the event with any identifying information.
The event will be held in two sessions: the first session will be for BIPOC attendees only, and the second session will be for all attendees. This will allow panelists to share their experiences according to their own levels of comfort when speaking to other BIPOC people and a general audience
The event for a general audience will be in the form of a 'listening session'. The aim of this session is to listen and learn from the lived experiences of our panelists. What this means is that audience questions will not be taken and chat will be disabled in Zoom during the event.
Thank you for your understanding.
TICKETS
AMaGA members | $25.00
Non-members | $35.00
Students | $15.00
BIPOC attendees | Free