Public Memory Research Centre

The Public Memory Research Centre coordinates a multi and transdisciplinary group of researchers working across the humanities from:

• visual and performing arts
• anthropology
• history
• literature
• philosophy
• communications
• media studies
• cultural and gender studies
• sociology and international relations.

Main objective

The Public Memory Centre’s core research objective is to investigate the ways in which the past is archived, understood and utilised by contemporary societies. The Centre undertakes research which is internationally and nationally significant in quality; but it is also interested in local and regional opportunities, affirming the University’s service commitments to the cultural life of its region. 

Centre programs

European Perspectives; Indigenous Memories:  This program investigates the ways in which European perspectives recollect specific versions of the indigenous past.

Arts of Recollection: This program investigates the roles that the imagination, subjectivity and material artefacts play in recollection, memory and history.

Media, Memory and Mythology: This program investigates the links between history, memory, and myth, in public and private spheres and pursues a special interest in the role of different cultural forms and media institutions.

Diasporic Memories: This program looks at the links between memory and identity in migrant and multicultural communities.

Popular Culture and Identity: This program explores the role of popular culture (including new media) in various formations.

Director