Deakin Cultural Heritage Asia–Pacific Network presents teh following seminar.
Please join us for the last seminar of the year “Beit Haim: the new permanent Holocaust Exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum” organised by the Deakin Cultural Heritage Asia–Pacific Network, to mark the end of our 2016 season of seminars.
Dr Avril Alba (biography below) from The University of Sydney will speak about the new permanent Holocaust Exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum. This special event is organised in partnership with the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne.
Before the seminar, there will be drinks and nibbles to come together and celebrate another busy year.
Dr Avril Alba is Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney and is also Acting Director of the University’s Masters in Museums and Heritage program. She teaches and researches in the broad areas of Holocaust and modern Jewish history with a focus on Jewish and Holocaust museums. Her monograph The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Secular Sacred Space exploring the largely unexamined topic of museums as sacred spaces was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015. From 2002-2011 Avril was the Education Director at the Sydney Jewish Museum where she also served as the Project Director/Curator for the permanent exhibition Culture and Continuity in 2008-09. She continues to serve as the consulting lead curator for the museum’s permanent Holocaust exhibition, scheduled to open in November 2016. Avril’s other research interests include Australian Holocaust memory, the ‘activist’ museum, and pre-war Jewish museums and exhibitions.
This is a free event but please RSVP is essential for catering purposes - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/creating-a-beit-haim-the-new-permanent-holocaust-exhibition-at-the-sydney-jewish-museum-tickets-28385899991