Maurice Kelly Lecture

Each year the UNE Museum of Antiquities (UNEMA) invites a distinguished speaker to deliver the Annual Maurice Kelly Lecture. Established in 1997, this lecture has as its aim the dissemination of research undertaken on museum objects. The series addresses the conservation, exhibition, ethical, and educational roles of museums and collecting institutions, and their engagement with the wider community. Previous presenters of the Maurice Kelly Lecture:

YearPresentersPresentation
2020Estelle LazerThe Pompeii Cast Project: Revealing Lost Lives and More...
2019 Julie Anderson Excavating Dangeil: a voyage of discovery through intersecting cultures
2018 Barbara Helwing 2018 Barbara Helwing Building a Blockbuster: Behind the Scenes of the ‘Iran: Ancient Cultures Between Water and Desert’ Exhibition
2017 Craig Barker The Curator and the Cats:  A tale of two Cypriot exhibitions at the Nicholson Museum
2016 Adam Brumm

"In the Spirit of Morwood: The Search for the origin of Homo floresiensis"

2015 James Donaldson Reimagining Antiquity:  Lessons from the RD Milns Antiquities Museum

2014

Stephen Bourke

J Basil Hennessy: the re-birth of Middle Eastern archaeology in Australia in the 1979s

2013

Michael Turner

A very curious cabinet of curiosities: an exploration of some of the best, most bizarre and downright curious tales to be found in the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere:

2012

June Ross

Australian rock art: a unique window to the past

2011

Elizabeth Minchin

Breathing new life into Antiquities:
Reinterpreting the ANU Classics Collection

2010 Trevor Bryce A Tale of Two Cities: Troy and the Hittite Capital Hattusa
2009 Sharon Sullivan The Conservation and Management of Heritage Places
2008 David Frankel 1001 Tombs: Survey, Sampling and Ceramics in Bronze Age Cyprus
2007 Sophie Jensen Fear and Loathing in Public Spaces: Museums and Emotion
2006 Iain Davidson Getting Power from Old Bones: Some Mediterranean Museums and Their Importance
2005 Amareshwar Galla Museums as Civic Spaces
2004 Christiana Köhler The Cairo Museum Collection of Artefacts from Zaki Saad's Excavations at Helwan
2003 Janis Wilton Museums and Memory
2002 Jim Specht When the cause of science is not enough: New Guinea
2001 Jenny Webb Exploring The Bronze Age in Cyprus. Australian Perspectives
2000 Graham Connah Africa Revisited
1999 Greg Horsley The Rider God Steles at Burdur Museum in Turkey
1998 Mike Morwood Stone tools and fossil elephants: the archaeology of eastern Indonesia and its implications for Australia
1997 Boyo Ockinga The Armidale shabtis of Mery-Re: witnesses to ancient funerary beliefs