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The significance of cultural materials – from ancient rock art to artefacts from Africa and objects in Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Museum – is the topic of an evening lecture and a day’s discussion soon.

The linked events are organised by UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies , the Western Australian Museum and Manning Clark house.

Head of Research at the British Museum, Dr Jeremy Hill, will give a public lecture on “Remembering and Reinventing the British Museum” at the WA Museum at 6pm on Thursday, 8 November. Dr Hill worked with BBC Radio 4’s internationally successful History of the World in 100 Objects . His research includes Iron Age and early Roman Britain.

The next day a symposium at the University Club from 9.30am includes speakers such as Winthrop Professor Susan Broomhall , Chief Investigator, ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions ; Alec Coles, CEO, WA Museum; and Paul Lane, Director of Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes at York University in the UK.

Register online .

Published in UWA News , 15 October 2012