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Our Cultural Inheritance . . .. . . and Global Hope
Prof Richard Mackay, AMwww.mackaystrategic.com.au
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land on which we are meeting – the Darug and Guringai people and to our Darkinjung friends to the North. I pay respect to their Elders both past and present and extend this respect to any Indigenous people in attendance today.
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Temple of Bel, Palmyra
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
Temple of Bel, 2015
Image reproduced from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic‐state/11911399/Islamic‐State‐destroys‐2000‐year‐old‐Arch‐of‐Triumph‐in‐Palmyra.html
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Temple of Bel, 2016
Image reproduced from Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2016/07/23/is‐destruction‐too‐extensive‐to‐restore‐temple‐of‐bel‐in‐syrias‐palmyra/
Triumphal Arch, 2015
Image reproduced from BBC News: http://www.bbc.com/news/world‐middle‐east‐34440759
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Triumphal Arch, 2016
Image reproduced from social media blog 2016
Trafalgar Square, 2016
Image reproduced from International Business Times: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/palmyra‐arch‐london‐unethical‐reconstruction‐disneyland‐archaeology‐criticised‐1555659
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London Mayor, Boris Johnson
Image reproduced from International Business Times: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/palmyra‐arch‐london‐unethical‐reconstruction‐disneyland‐archaeology‐criticised‐1555659
Vale Khaled al-Asaad 1934-2015
Image reproduced from Aljazeera, America: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/5/isil‐destroys‐ancient‐arch‐in‐palmyra.html
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Temple of Bel, built 32 AD
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
Temple of Bel
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
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Adyton (South Shrine ‘cella’)
This ceiling had a major effect on English architecture in the 18th
century
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
27 – 31 August 2015
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
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Temple of Bel, 2016
Image courtesy of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Syria, c/‐ Ross Burns
Palmyra
Triumphal Arch
Temple of Bel
Valley of the Tombs
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
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Damage to Palmyra
Data fromASOR CHIMap bySusan PenachoDigital Globe 30 March2016
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
Museum Gallery Damage March 2016
Image reproduced from BBC News: http://www.bbc.com/news/world‐middle‐east‐35909456
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Deliberate defacing of cultural treasures
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
The Valley of the Tombs
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
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Tower Tombs of Umm al-Qais
Image courtesy of Ross Burns
Tomb of Yamliku Moqimu
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
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June 26, 2015
August 27, 2015
ASOR: DigitalGlobe Imagery
Images reproduced from ASOR CHI
September 2, 2015
March 30, 2016
ASOR: DigitalGlobe Imagery
Images reproduced from ASOR CHI
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The human impact
22 million Syrians in 2005
Possibly 400,000 have been killed
12 million have fled their homes
7.5 million Syrians are children; 3 million children have ‘left education’
Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries 6.5 million – plus c1.4 million in Europe
Aleppo today . . . and in 1683
Sketch by Dutch artist, Cornelis de Bruyn; images courtesy of Ross Burns
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Ottoman Monumental Corridor
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
Ottoman Monumental Corridor
Khosrofiye Madrasa 1536–7Adeliye Mosque 1556
Bahramiye Mosque 1583
Image courtesy of Ross Burns(from Sauvaget Alep 1941 pl. XL)
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Khosrofiye Madrasa c2011
Khosrofiye Madrasa
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
Monumental Corridor
August, 2014
December, 2014
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
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Great Mosque and Minaret
2009
2013
Images courtesy of Ross Burns
Great Mosque 2015
Image by Directorate General of Monuments and Museums, Syria, courtesy of Ross Burns
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Bamiyan Buddhas 1970s - 2001
Images courtesy of Dr Masanori Nagaoka, UNESCO, Kabul
Images courtesy of Dr Masanori Nagaoka, UNESCO, Kabul
Bamiyan Buddhas 1970s - 2001
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Bamiyan: culture & identity
Image courtesy of Dr Masanori Nagaoka, UNESCO, Kabul
Old City of Sana’a
Image by Editions Jean‐Jacques Gelbart, reproduced from UNESCO World Heritage List: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/385/gallery/
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Old City of Sana’a
Image by Aneta Ribarska, reproduced from UNESCO World Heritage List: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/385/gallery/
Sana’a: destruction
Image reproduced from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/middle‐east/yemen/articles/Yemen‐the‐Unesco‐heritage‐slowly‐being‐destroyed/
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Kathmandu: Durbar Square
Image courtesy of Catherine Forbes, GML Heritage Pty Ltd
Durbar Square, 2015
Image courtesy of Catherine Forbes, GML Heritage Pty Ltd
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Fifty-five window palace
Image courtesy of Catherine Forbes, GML Heritage Pty Ltd
Supply lines & technology
Image courtesy of Angus Mackay
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Bagan Earthquake 2016
Bagan Earthquake 2016
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Bagan Earthquake 2016
Reconstruction dilemma
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Gyeonbokgong Palace 1950s
Mostar Bridge 1993 - 2003
Images reproduced from GB Times: http://gbtimes.com/blogs/under‐ancient‐bridges‐mostar; and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFF1v0n6VU
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The importance of meaning:a concrete example . . .
The Berlin Wall?
Image reproduced from All My Faves: http://blog.allmyfaves.com/history/25‐photos‐for‐25‐years‐the‐fall‐of‐the‐berlin‐wall/
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. . . or a Barker wall?
Heritage and identity
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Ancient civilization, and . . .
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Contemporary community
Whose heritage?
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Image courtesy of Nicholas Hall, Stepwise Heritage and Toursim
Participation & involvement
Community tours
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Cultural tradition
Angkor is a truly amazing place; renown globally for its extraordinary art and architecture. It was the largest know city in the pre‐industrial world.
Angkor is also a sacred spiritual landscape for Khmer people and home to more than 100,000 people.
Australian heritage and identity
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Heritage, memory, meaning . . . and national psyche
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Image courtesy of Kristal Buckley, Deakin University
A painful place
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A peaceful place
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Port Arthur Memorial Area
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May we who come to this garden ‐Cherish life for the sake of those who diedCherish compassion for the sake of those who gave aidCherish peace for the sake of those in pain
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Port Arthur reflective pool
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Image courtesy of Kristal Buckley, Deakin University
Our Indigenous heritage
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• Oldest human culture on earth
• Did not stop in 1788
• How do you perceive Indigenous Australians?
Image courtesy of Prof Sharon Sullivan
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Contemporary Indigenous values:Trash or Treasure?
• Whose truck?
• Whose heritage?
• Whose place?
• A timeless and CONTINUING tradition
Aboriginal ‘Country’
As Aboriginal people our identity is inseparable from our Country. We are the people of that Country. It holds our stories, provides food and medicine to our bodies and spirit and it has been home to our people for all recorded history, as it has been home to our ancestors for tens of thousands of years.
Chris Tobin, Darug, 2013Image courtesy of Jacqueline Reid, Greater Blue Mountains
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What do you see?What do Aboriginal people perceive?
Jenolan Caves:Gurringatch and Mirrigan
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Mirrigan and Guringatch Images courtesy of Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust
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Ancient & continuing tradition
Reslient culture
Aboriginal Pathways brochure extract reproduced courtesy of NSW National parks and wildlife Service
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Moree Baths National Heritage Place
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• 1965 Freedom Ride
• 1967 Referendum
• Who knows the story?
• 100th place added to the National Heritage List: 2013
Images courtesy of Ann Curthoys and the Department of Environment and Energy
Darkinjung Barker
Placing Aboriginal culture and identity at the heart of educational experience
Image courtesy of Barker College
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Contemporary evolving culture
Images courtesy of Barker College
Darkinjung Barker:. . . think globally, act locally
• Culturally sensitive and respectful
• Self determination of heritage by Darkinjung
• Concurrent academic and social outcomes
• Closing the Gap while sharing and celebrating our cultural inheritance
Image courtesy of Barker College
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Shared cultural valuesand reconciliation
Uluru painted image courtesy of Prof Sharon Sullivan, AO
Our Cultural Inheritance . . .. . . and Global Hope
Prof Richard Mackay, AMwww.mackaystrategic.com.au