Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
‘Hidden Histories: Why Representation Matters’ was a panel discussion held at the Eureka Centre on Friday 26 May 2023 at 6pm, as a part of Ballarat Heritage Festival. This conversation features people actively working to give voice to marginalised communities and to provide historical interpretation that is complex, dynamic, inclusive and, where necessary, provocative.
Chair: Jade Hadfield, Exhibitions Curator at the State Library Victoria; a Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Whatua woman from New Zealand
Panellists:
Kait James, visual artist and proud Wadawurrung women
Craig Middleton, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia; co-author of ‘Queering the Museum’ (Routledge 2019)
Dr Mariko Smith, Manager, First Nations Collections & Engagement, Australian Museum; a Yuin woman with Japanese heritage
‘Hidden Histories: Why Representation Matters’ was a panel discussion held at the Eureka Centre on Friday 26 May 2023 at 6pm, as a part of Ballarat Heritage Festival. This conversation features people actively working to give voice to marginalised communities and to provide historical interpretation that is complex, dynamic, inclusive and, where necessary, provocative.
Chair: Jade Hadfield, Exhibitions Curator at the State Library Victoria; a Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Whatua woman from New Zealand
Panellists:
Kait James, visual artist and proud Wadawurrung women
Craig Middleton, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia; co-author of ‘Queering the Museum’ (Routledge 2019)
Dr Mariko Smith, Manager, First Nations Collections & Engagement, Australian Museum; a Yuin woman with Japanese heritage
