National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Archaeology of Lake George
Date recorded: 15 November 2017.
Anthropologist Amy Way examines the human occupation and environmental prehistory of Lake George, a massive, resource-rich, upland freshwater lake that is unique in…
00:57:52 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
Failures, disasters, fractures and lithic technology
Date recorded: 18 October 2017.
The lessons learnt from shipwrecks, collapsed buildings and disasters such as the Avianca air crash are surprisingly useful for understanding how prehistoric artisan…
Wed 20 Dec 2017
Songlines audio journey
Date recorded: 15 September 2017.
Connect with the Seven Sisters as they travel across the land pursued by a mischievous shape-shifter in this audio tour originally developed for the Songlines exhi…
00:37:45 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Women's Defining Moments in Australian History
Date recorded: 26 August 2017.
What role have women played in defining Australian culture and identity? Are we progressing as a nation or are there still areas for improvement in closing the gender…
Sun 15 Oct 2017
The cultural riches of ancient south-east Australia
Date recorded: 15 March 2017.
Human occupation, artefacts, plants and animals including bogong moths in a history of archaeological excavations in the south-eastern highlands of the ACT and NSW, fr…
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Trading tales of the silk road
Date recorded: 18 November 2016.
The story of the Silk Roads from prehistory to the Han and Roman empires.
00:53:58 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
Defining Moments millennials panel discussion
Date recorded: 26 July 2017.
Are millennials history or history in the making? What does their future hold for these young people who have grown up in the final decades of the 20th century and what…
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Before the new world
Date recorded: 13 November 2016.
The great civilisations before the arrival of Columbus. Discover the stories of the Incas, Aztecs and the colonisation of Peru and New Spain (Mexico).
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Today's Ngunawal culture and country: archaeology from an Aboriginal perspective
Date recorded: 19 April 2017.
Wally Bell on keeping cultural and spiritual elements alive when dealing with a very scientific approach to archaeology on his country.
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Defining Moments 1967 referendum panel discussion
Date recorded: 24 May 2017.
Fifty years after this landmark event, has change truly come for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, or is it coming still?
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Rise of the empires
Date recorded: 16 October 2016.
From Alexander to Augustus: how Greece and Rome conquered the known world.
Thu 01 Jun 2017
Cradle of civilisation
Date recorded: 14 October 2016.
An insight into the early cities and civilisations of the first millenniums.
00:57:16 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
New Encounters Patsy Cameron presentation
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
Patsy Cameron grew up on Flinders Island and traces her Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage through her mother's line to four ancestral grandmothers. She examines JS Prout's…
00:09:18 |
Wed 05 Apr 2017
Wires, wi-fi and the future
Date recorded: 9 December 2016.
The co-founders of wi-fi on its creation and how it has changed the way we think, work, live and play.
00:59:09 |
Sun 02 Apr 2017
Defining Moments in postwar immigration panel discussion
Date recorded: 21 September 2016.
How have Australian attitudes toward immigration changed over the decades? In what ways has postwar immigration contributed to and changed Australia? Part of the D…
Mon 20 Mar 2017
In conversation with David Morrison, Australian of the Year 2016
Date recorded: 20 November 2016.
Tough-as-nails former Chief of Army David Morrison reflects on his time as Australian of the Year. He received the top national award for his commitment to gender e…
00:45:05 |
Thu 09 Feb 2017
New Encounters Sandy O'Sullivan presentation
Date recorded: 17 March 2016.
Wiradjuri academic Sandy O'Sullivan on her research into effective representation and engagement of First Peoples in national museums and the difficulties that some mu…
00:25:05 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
New Encounters Eleanor Bourke and Rodney Carter presentation
Date recorded: 18 March 2016.
Wergaia woman Eleanor Bourke and Dja Dja Wurrung man Rodney Carter on the rights and responsibilities of traditional owners in Victoria and the fight for the return o…
00:33:52 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
New Encounters Greg Lehman presentation
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
A descendant of the Trawulwuy people of Tasmania, Greg gives a history of the visual representation of Tasmanian Aboriginal people by colonial artists and examines JS …
00:13:13 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
New Encounters Shayne Williams presentation
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
Dharawal man Shayne Williams on Indigenous peoples and museums working together to advance cultural education for all and overcoming tensions around ownership of cultu…
00:16:08 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
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