Australia ICOMOS - Speakers 2007

Program & Speakers

The following papers are the unrefereed presentations as presented at the 2007 AI conference entitled: eXtreme heritage: managing heritage in the face of climatic extremes, natural disasters and military conflicts in tropical, desert, polar and off-world landscapes.

A selection of these papers will be subject to editing and future publication by Australia ICOMOS. Use of the papers as presented for legitimate research purposes should acknowledge the author(s) and the fact that they were conference papers in the form :

<Author (s)> 2007 <Paper title> Conference paper presented at the AICOMOS 2007 Conference Extreme Heritage James Cook University 19-21st July.

Any enquiries may be directed to Dr Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy conference convenor at susan.mcintyretamwoy@jcu.edu.au

Symposium on Heritage and Climate Change

Waterworld: The Heritage Dimensions of Climate Change in the Pacific. Rosita Henry & William Jeffery

Public Forum on Climate Change
- Climate Change and its impact on Australias Cultural Heritage, Michael Pearson

Keynote
The Conservation Challenges of Hot, Low and Cold, High
Deserts. Central Asia and TransHimalaya, John Hurd

The Heritage of Desert Landscapes
- Heritage as a Motivation for Four Wheel Drive Tourism in Desert Australia, Bruce Prideaux
- Beyond the Pale: the Plight of Remote Area Heritage, Jane Lennon
- The Interpretation of Surface Stone Artefact Assemblage Composition from Eroded Contexts in Arid Western New South Wales, Australia, Justin Shiner

Extreme Experiences In Cultural Tourism And
Interpretation
- Authenticity versus Commodification: Atrocity Heritage Tourism at ‘Death Railway’ of the Bridge over the River Kwai and its Associations, Apinya Arrunapapom
- Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings’: from Tradition to Technology in Heritage Interpretation, Jane Harrington
- Transformative learning in the hidden city: writing an interpretation plan at the Viengxai Field School in northern Laos, Jo Wills

The Heritage of Off-World Landscapes

- Historic Preservation at the Edge: Archeology on the Moon, in Space and on other Celestial Bodies, Beth O'Leary

Archaeology, Heritage and Reconciliation in Asia
- “Dig a Hole and Bury the Past in It”: Reconciliation and the Heritage of Genocide in Cambodia, Colin Long
- Heritage and Identity: A Case of Local Community Connections with the Historic Relics of an Angkorean Past, Senthilpavai Kasiannan

Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: the role of archaeology in cultural heritage, Brooke Rogers

Heritage Disasters and Risk Preparedness
- Tarps and Tiles and the Fate of Slate: The Heritage Impact of the 1999 Sydney Hailstorm on the City of Sydney, Chery Kemp
- Restoring Cultural Heritage in South and Southeast Asia in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster: Integrating Systems Theory and Indigenous Philosophical and Cultural Traditions to Support Sustainable Conservation Approaches, Jamie MacKee

The Heritage of Polar and Alpine Places
- Conserving in the Deep Freeze: Saving and Interpreting the Heroic Era Huts of the Ross Dependency in Antarctica, Fiona Tennant and Julian Bickersteth
- Conservation Challenges in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Michael Pearson
- Beyond the Heroic Huts: Managing Australia’s Antarctic Heritage, Stephen Powell
- The Archaeology of Dangerous Places, Rob Paton
- ‘Heritage at Risk’: Cultural Heritage Management in the Antarctic, Sherrie-Lee Evans

Overexposed or Blown Away!... Architecture in the Extreme
- The Timber Phoenix: Bushfires and Vernacular Timber Buildings, Geoff Ashley
- Extreme beginnings: the Effects of Cyclones on the Development of Innisfail, Far north Queensland, Rob Dasting and Sandi Robb