 Past Imperfect exhibition and ancient ideas of materiality, authenticity and reality.
Dr Alina Kozlovski is the Senior Lecturer in Digital Innovation (Ancient History and Archaeology) at the University of New England. Prior to this role, she worked in museums in the US, UK, and Australia including on exhibitions such as Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri at the Getty Villa, The Invisible Revealed at the Powerhouse Museum, and Objective Subjective at the New England Regional Art Museum. Her research focuses on concepts and histories of curation, starting from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary world, and on the role of copies, both material and digital, in museum collections. |
 The notion of aura in Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Dr Aurelia Armstrong is Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. Her research interests include: history of philosophy; Spinoza; Nietzsche; Foucault; Modern European philosophy; Social and Political philosophy; Ethics; and Gender studies. Dr Armstrong holds a BA(Hons) from Australian National University, 1992 and PhD, from the University of Sydney, 1998. |
 Transnational memory and intentional forgetting in the South Vietnamese diaspora in Australia.
Isabella Tran is a PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at UQ. Her research explores the legacies of the Vietnam War through oral histories with South Vietnamese communities in Brisbane, examining experiences of war, migration, and resettlement as well as contemporary practices of religious observance, commemoration, and burial. Her broader interests include memory studies and ethnographic approaches to historical research. |
