The See Yup Temple: Chinese Australian collections, recovery, conservation: 2 graduate research opportunities
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The graduate research role for Project 1 will be of relevance to members of this group.
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The University of Melbourne has been awarded ARC DP funding to explore Asian Australian heritage, material culture, cultural conservation, and disaster recovery in living cultural contexts.
This project centres around the See Yup Temple. Constructed in 1850s the temple was devasted by fire in February 2024, severely impacting the building and its cultural and ritual items, and the Asian Australian community. As an active site of continuing worship, this project interrogates disaster recovery, conservation, memory making and ritual practices in the heritage sector.
This project provides an opportunity to develop new insights on global connections of migratory heritage, material knowledge of understudied collections, risk reduction and ritual care taking, and old and new technologies. It has significant benefits for enhancing Australia’s disaster risk reduction strategies and adaptive capacity to preserve migratory and Chinese heritage collections, and knowledge of their care and materiality.
Our team is seeking two graduate researchers who are interested in undertaking PhD projects in the areas below. These graduate researchers will work closely with the chief investigators* and researchers in the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation (Cripps Institute), and School of Culture and Communications, both in the Faculty of Arts.
This project centres around the See Yup Temple. Constructed in 1850s the temple was devasted by fire in February 2024, severely impacting the building and its cultural and ritual items, and the Asian Australian community. As an active site of continuing worship, this project interrogates disaster recovery, conservation, memory making and ritual practices in the heritage sector.
This project provides an opportunity to develop new insights on global connections of migratory heritage, material knowledge of understudied collections, risk reduction and ritual care taking, and old and new technologies. It has significant benefits for enhancing Australia’s disaster risk reduction strategies and adaptive capacity to preserve migratory and Chinese heritage collections, and knowledge of their care and materiality.
Our team is seeking two graduate researchers who are interested in undertaking PhD projects in the areas below. These graduate researchers will work closely with the chief investigators* and researchers in the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation (Cripps Institute), and School of Culture and Communications, both in the Faculty of Arts.
The graduate research role for Project 1 will be of relevance to members of this group.
Project 1: Migrant Heritage, Living Processes and Folk Art
The project will be based at the Cripps Institute and will work in close collaboration with School of Culture and Communication, in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The successful PhD candidate will work with the team on oral history interviews and archival research, undertake field research and comparative analysis of Chinese Temples in Australia and worldwide to examine the diaspora links, material culture and ritual care taking. As such, the successful candidate will have a strong art history and cultural studies background, and it is also highly desirable that they have experience in community heritage contexts and are able to work efficiently in an interdisciplinary team environment.
This project will explore:
The role of material culture within Chinese folk religion in diaspora communities;
Religious and cultural practices grounding heritage decisions.
The project will be based at the Cripps Institute and will work in close collaboration with School of Culture and Communication, in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. The successful PhD candidate will work with the team on oral history interviews and archival research, undertake field research and comparative analysis of Chinese Temples in Australia and worldwide to examine the diaspora links, material culture and ritual care taking. As such, the successful candidate will have a strong art history and cultural studies background, and it is also highly desirable that they have experience in community heritage contexts and are able to work efficiently in an interdisciplinary team environment.
This project will explore:
The role of material culture within Chinese folk religion in diaspora communities;
Religious and cultural practices grounding heritage decisions.
FoR Codes: 430205 – Heritage and cultural conservation, 430209 – Materials Conservation, 430202 – Critical heritage, museum and archive studies.
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