Annual Showcases

2019: “Deviant Expertise and Malicious Thievery: Markers, Makers, and Illicit Artefacts on the Move”

Creative imposition is a fundamental part of the process of interpreting the past. And yet, folk understanding of the historian’s task admit no room for this rich dynamic between known and unknown. The idea that the past is made and made through our engagement with it seems to threaten the integrity of our sense of where we come from and who we are.

The “Deviant Expertise and Malicious Thievery” showcased research from Macquarie staff and students, and our overseas partners into the vanity of our confidence in scientific technique and expertise, and the true value of looted or forged artefacts packaged up with false declarations of authenticity.

2018: “The Spectacle of Science: Humanities at the Crossroads of Innovation”

With a focus on the intersection between Arts and Science, the “Spectacle of Science” showcase highlighted the way humanities methods have been used to propel and communicate scientific discovery. Each project represented the integration of scientific and humanities methodologies for the transformation of our understanding of the world and our place within it.

2017: “Authenticity of Experience: History and Gaming”

Gaming is a gateway into another world, allowing us to travel in back time, access interactive history and effectively participate in these events. Gaming provides the wider public with the opportunity for authentic experiences of past environments and situations. The “History and Gaming” showcase analysed how this dialogue between the present and the past impacts our view of history, and what truly happens when we gamify history.

Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops

Manuscripts from the Margins

20th–22nd September 2018

• Includes specialised workshop (20th–21st), a day of public lectures, and an exhibition at the Museum of Ancient Cultures
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Christopher Rollston, George Washington University.
• Convened by Associate Professor Malcolm Choat and Dr. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

Different Pasts, Foreign Countries

7th September 2018

• Keynote Speaker: Jerome De Groot, University of Manchester.
• Convened by Associate Professor Hsu-Ming Teo and Dr. Stephanie Russo

Environmental Change and the Historical Imaginary: Ancient, Medieval, Modern

11th December 2017

• Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University.
• Co-sponsored with the Environmental Humanities research stream
• Convened by Professor Louise D’Arcens

Imagining the Real: Alternative (Arte)Facts from Antiquity to the Present Day

13th–14th October 2017

• Keynote Speakers: John Melville Jones (UWA) & Årstein Justnes (University of Agder, Norway).
• Co-Sponsored with the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies.
• Convened by Associate Professor Malcolm Choat, Dr. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge, and Associate Professor Ken Sheedy

Scripture, Reception, and Authenticity

9th September 2016

• Keynote Speaker: Faculty of Arts Visiting Research Fellow 2016 Peter Arzt-Grabner, Salzburg University, Austria.
• Convened by: Associate Professor Malcolm Choat

Seminar Series

2019 Seminar Series

The Authenticity of Memory

April 12th 2019

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Tanya Evans (Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations, Macquarie University; Director, Centre for Applied History)
• A/Prof. Penny Van Bergen, (Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University; Director, Centre for Children’s Learning in a Social World)

Co-Sponsored with the Centre for Applied History

The Authenticity of Risk

May 24th 2019

Contributors:

• Dr Nicholas Baker (Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations, Macquarie University)
• Dr John Selby (Department of Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance)

Showcase Event: “Deviant Expertise and Malicious Thievery”

September 19th 2019

• (see Annual Showcases)

2018 Seminar Series

The Authenticity of the Body

March 22nd 2018

Contributors:

• Dr Karin Sellberg (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland)
• Professor Wendy Rogers (Department of Clinical Medicine & Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University)

The Authenticity of Identity

August 2nd 2018

Contributors:

• Associate Professor Jay Johnston (Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney)
• Dr Ian Stephen (Department of Psychology, Macquarie University)

The Authenticity of Faith

August 30th 2018

Contributors:

• Associate Professor Clare Monagle (Department of Modern History, Macquarie University)
• Dr Aydogan Kars (Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University).

Conference: Manuscripts from the Margins

September 20th–22nd

• (see Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops)

The Authenticity of Landscape

October 11th 2018

Contributors:

• Dr Alicia Marchant (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia)
• Dr Emily O’Gorman (Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University)

Showcase Event: ‘The Spectacle of Science: Humanities at the Crossroads of Innovation

November 8th 2018

• (see Annual Showcases)

2017 Seminar Series

On Authenticity and Race

May 26th 2017

Contributors:

• Dr. Adam Hochman (Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University)
• A/Prof. Andrew Gillett (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)

Forging Antiquity: An introduction to the project and insights from the first six month’s work

June 2nd 2017

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Malcolm Choat (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)
• Dr Rachel-Yuen Collingridge (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)
• Vanessa Mawby (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)

The Internet Antiquities Trade: Insight into an Invisible Market?

June 9th 2017

Contributors:

• Lauren Dundler (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)
• Iain Shearer (Freelance archaeologist, Honorary Fellow University College London)

Faking the News

August 14th 2017

Contributors:

• Dr Colin Klein (Department of Philosophy)
• Dr Margie Borschke (Department of MMCCS, Macquarie University)

The Authentic Terrorist? Mobilising the Past, Battling for the Future

September 5th 2017

Contributors:

• Dr Julian Droogan (Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University)

Conference: Imagining the Real: Alternative (Arte)Facts from Antiquity to the Present Day

October 13th–14th 2017

• (see Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops)

Creative Authenticity: Originality and the Real

October 26th 2017

Contributors:

• Dr. Mio Bryce (Department of International Studies, Macquarie University)
• Dr Ilona Hongisto (Department of MMCCS, Macquarie University)

Co-Sponsored with the ‘World Literatures and Cultures’ Research Stream

Showcase event: ‘The Authenticity of Experience: History and Gaming’, see above 3(a)

November 2nd 2017

• (see Annual Showcases)

Authenticity of Desire

November 9th 2017

Contributors:

• Dr Thomas Baudinette (Department of International Studies, Macquarie University),
• Dr Chelsea Barnett (Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations, Macquarie University)

Symposium: Environmental Change and the Historical Imaginary: Ancient, Medieval, Modern

December 11th 2017

• (see Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops)

2016 Seminar Series

Zukunftsgeschichte and the future of history

March 11th 2016

Contributors:

• Dr. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)

What is a forgery? Constantine Simonides, the Joseph Mayer papyri, and Hermippus of Beirut.

April 1st 2016

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Malcolm Choat (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)

A Tale of Two Heritages: Claims of Ownership over Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Myth of “Authenticity”

April 29th 2016

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Lucas Lixinski (Faculty of Law, UNSW).

Handwriting, drafting and authenticating voice ‘as’ writing process in a framework of Extended Mind theory

May 20th 2016

Contributors:

• A/Prof.Marcelle Freiman (Department of English, Macquarie University)

Looting and Forgeries of the Ancient Near East: The Antiquities Market

June 10th 2016

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Javier Alverez-Mon (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)

Panel: ‘The Authenticity of the Museum Experience’

August 5th 2016

Panelists:

• Dr. Craig Barker (Nicholson Museum, Sydney)
• Arul Baskaran (Digital Studio Manager Curator, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences)
• Dr. Andrew Simpson (Macquarie University)

Manufacturing French Heritage in Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory

August 26th 2016

Contributors:

• Prof. Louise D’Arcens (Department of English, Macquarie University)

Symposium: Scripture, Reception, and Authenticity

September 9th 2016

• (see Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops)

Scenes of the Authentic: Diverse Encounters with ‘Real People’ in X-Apartments (Berlin, 2004)

October 5th 2016

Contributors:

• Dr. Meg Mumford (School of the Arts and Media, UNSW)
• A/Prof. Ulrike Garde (Dept. of International Studies, Macquarie University)

Co-Sponsored with the Research Seminar Series of the Department of International Studies

Authentic Copies and Network Culture

October 7th 2016

Contributors:

• Dr. Margie Borschke (Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University)

Roundtable: Markers of Authenticity across the disciplines

November 4th 2016

Contributors:

• A/Prof. Javier Alverez-Mon (Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University)
• Dr Margie Borschke (Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University)
• Prof. Louise D’Arcens (Department of English, Macquarie University)
• Dr Marcelle Freiman (Department of English, Macquarie University)
• A/Prof. Ulrike Garde (Department of International Studies, Macquarie University)
• Dr Meg Mumford (School of the Arts and Media, UNSW)
• Dr Natalie Seiz (Curator, Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales)
• Dr Andrew Simpson (Macquarie University)