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Andrea Witcomb is a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and a Deputy Director (Research) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Her research interests range across the museum and heritage fields and are informed by theoretical, historical, and professional practice concerns. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. Her work is driven by a desire to understand the ways in which a range of heritage practices can be used to foster cross?cultural understandings and dialogue as well as the history of collecting as part of colonialism. Her work explores the uses of immersive interpretation strategies in museums and heritage sites, the role of memory and affect in people’s encounters with objects and displays, and, more recently, the place of collecting practices as an embodiment of colonial relations. Andrea is the author of Re-imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Routledge, 2003) and, with Chris Healy, the co-editor of South Pacific Museums: An Experiment in Culture (Monash University ePress, 2006). Her latest book, co?written with Kate Gregory, is From the Barracks to the Burrup: The National Trust in Western Australia (UNSW Press, 2010).

Professor Andrea Witcomb

Deputy Director (Research)

Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Deakin University

Victoria, Australia

Kylie Message is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organisations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements. She has written extensively about the ways that museums across the world have been involved in and identified as sites of activism and controversy, and her research has made a significant contribution to the way various participants and stakeholders understand the political history and impact of culture. She is the author of Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest (Routledge, 2013); New Museums and the Making of Culture (Bloomsbury, 2006); and most recently, The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge (Routledge, 2018); Museums and Racism (Routledge, 2018); and Archiving Activism: The Occupy Wall Street Collection (Routledge, 2019). She is the Founding Editor of Routledge’s ‘Museums in Focus’ book series.

Professor Kylie Message

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT, Australia