# Event Details - **Event Name**: Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 22 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am – Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join our online course to explore repatriation, social justice, and museum work in today’s world. 5 Day intensive, online or in-personAbout this EventJoin Our Professional Development Course: Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (5 Day intensive course, online or in-person at ANU)This professional development course explores the relationship between social justice and museums with a focus on repatriation. It highlights the role that repatriation has and can play in advancing social justice, and the obstacles and responding strategies that have been presented.This course is of use to:First Nations organisations/Peak Bodies, engaged in repatriation and ongoing conversations with museums and collecting institutionsMuseum curators, collection managers and exhibition and access staffRepatriation unitsHeritage ProfessionalsInterested PublicParticipants will explore the role of repatriation as a social movement and investigate its influence in the development of new concepts in museum practice and policy, including decolonisation and new museology. The course critically reflects on the role of museums in the colonisation process and its impact, and the role they can play within 20th and 21st century social justice movements. It will consider repatriation as a site of resistance and a means to disturb dominant narratives about curated heritage and its management.The course explores methods of community engagement and the ways that museums have produced internal and external change as exemplified in key repatriation/museum case studies. It consider the link between repatriation, healing, reconciliation and nation-building. Course themes are explored through consideration of a wide range of collecting institutions including the work of local community museums and heritage centres. Repatriation as a social movement is explored broadly, including through understanding the return of knowledge, archives, audiovisual materials, cultural materials and ancestral remains.How legal and other regulatory instruments connect with/link museums and repatriation is investigated. From an Indigenous perspective, the course explores key terms such as 'justice' 'self-determination', 'heritage' and 'reconciliation' to problematise and understand the role and potential of repatriation, museums and community collections to contribute to advancing social justice for colonised peoples whose cultural and bodily remains became part of institutional collections in Australia and worldwide.Topics· Social justice in museums· Repatriation as a social movement· Museums, colonisation, and decolonisation· Community engagement and repatriation case studies· Repatriation, healing, reconciliation, and nation-building· Legal frameworks, Indigenous perspectives, and self-determination.Participants can attend via Zoom or Face-to-Face.Fees: Professional Development: A$3,250.00OrFee Support Type A: For Indigenous participants without organisational support. May apply for a fee reduction. Please contact Gareth.Knapman@anu.edu.au for information and how to apply.Fee Support Type B: Organisations bringing two or more participants can apply for a 50% cost reduction. For details on how to apply please contact Gareth.Knapman@anu.edu.au. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/canberra/repatriation-social-justice-and-museums-professional-development-course/100001989435025716 - **Event Categories**: workshops, exhibitions, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 7 hours 30 minutes - Location: 120 McCoy Cct - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 3442.58, currency: AUD ## Event venue details - **city**: Canberra - **state**: CT - **country**: Australia - **location**: 120 McCoy Cct - **lat**: -35.284387 - **long**: 149.1211892 - **full address**: 120 McCoy Cct, 120 McCoy Circuit, Canberra, Australia ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/35ce63e1d70616b67274c7013e793cefecd5397c5b36d7b1cb11b702af50fd98-rimg-w1200-h900-dc1c1b14-gmir.jpg?v=1778894128 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) being held? - **A:** Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) takes place on Mon, 22 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am to Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm at 120 McCoy Cct, 120 McCoy Circuit, Canberra, Australia. - **Q**: Who is organizing Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course)? - **A:** Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) is organized by RRR Centre, Australian National Universtiy. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Repatriation, Social Justice and Museums (Professional Development Course) is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Canberra, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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