Tracy Ireland
@tracyireland.bsky.social
Professor of cultural heritage/archaeologist/everyday heritage/ University of Canberra, Australia
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Tracy Ireland
@tracyireland.bsky.social
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Alternative Economies of Heritage: Sustainable, Anti-Colonial and Creative Approaches to Cultural Inheritance
Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the...
www.routledge.com
Our collection 'Alternative Economies of Heritage' is now published! Easily available for those who have library subscriptions to Routledge! Proud of this collaboration with my University of Canberra colleagues Denise and Bethaney
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
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Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.
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'Early indications of how cultural heritage might be mobilised to assert space power on the Moon can be seen in the US’ steps
to protect its own heritage and the ongoing focus on the US flags'.
- Quote from my forthcoming paper
🧪 🏺 🔭
to protect its own heritage and the ongoing focus on the US flags'.
- Quote from my forthcoming paper
🧪 🏺 🔭
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the main concepts that shape and inform heritage ethics, whilst also giving consideration to the ways they are...
www.routledge.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
'Early indications of how cultural heritage might be mobilised to assert space power on the Moon can be seen in the US’ steps
to protect its own heritage and the ongoing focus on the US flags'.
- Quote from my forthcoming paper
🧪 🏺 🔭
to protect its own heritage and the ongoing focus on the US flags'.
- Quote from my forthcoming paper
🧪 🏺 🔭
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I'm excited to have my first publication of 2026 coming soon! Look out for The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics Chapter 34: Ethical Considerations in Managing the Heritage Values of Lunar Sites. 🏺 #PlanetSci 🔭
www.routledge.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I'm excited to have my first publication of 2026 coming soon! Look out for The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics Chapter 34: Ethical Considerations in Managing the Heritage Values of Lunar Sites. 🏺 #PlanetSci 🔭
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Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...
How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...
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Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm
Please register here to attend in person or online
docs.google.com/forms/d/1xjV...
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm
Please register here to attend in person or online
docs.google.com/forms/d/1xjV...
Everyday aesthetics in place and memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
This Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory seminar is held jointly with the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy. Emeritus Professor Tracy Ireland will examine the ...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm
Please register here to attend in person or online
docs.google.com/forms/d/1xjV...
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm
Please register here to attend in person or online
docs.google.com/forms/d/1xjV...
Can't wait to be back in Scotland in a few short weeks and to take the @everydayheritage.bsky.social roadshow to Stirling's exciting new @memoryplace.bsky.social
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Can't wait to be back in Scotland in a few short weeks and to take the @everydayheritage.bsky.social roadshow to Stirling's exciting new @memoryplace.bsky.social
Check out this fascinating post by Sharpay Wu, thinking about techonationalism and the recent film Ne Zha 2!
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National Treasures on the Big Screen: What Ne Zha 2 Can Tell Us about Techno-Nationalism - Asian Studies Association of Australia
Early this year, a BBC article reported that a Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 (2025) has become ‘a source of national pride.’ During my field trip to China in March this year, I was fortunate enough t...
asaa.asn.au
June 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Check out this fascinating post by Sharpay Wu, thinking about techonationalism and the recent film Ne Zha 2!
asaa.asn.au/national-tre...
asaa.asn.au/national-tre...
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PhD researcher Ieuan Rees presented his ongoing PhD project on local place plans, heritage, placemaking, and the everyday to a public audience at an Australia ICOMOS ACT talk on 21 May 2025. This event was supported by the Everyday Heritage ARC Linkage Project, GML Heritage and Australia ICOMOS.
June 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
PhD researcher Ieuan Rees presented his ongoing PhD project on local place plans, heritage, placemaking, and the everyday to a public audience at an Australia ICOMOS ACT talk on 21 May 2025. This event was supported by the Everyday Heritage ARC Linkage Project, GML Heritage and Australia ICOMOS.
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Pleased to share that Prof Tracy Ireland has been invited as the keynote speaker at the conference, Heritage & Conservation, in Beijing from 9-11 May 2025. It was a fascinating opportunity to share some of the work we have done for Everyday Heritage with audiences outside Australia #everydayheritage
May 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Pleased to share that Prof Tracy Ireland has been invited as the keynote speaker at the conference, Heritage & Conservation, in Beijing from 9-11 May 2025. It was a fascinating opportunity to share some of the work we have done for Everyday Heritage with audiences outside Australia #everydayheritage
Very excited to be heading to Beijing and the Centre for Ethical Studies at Renmin University to talk about the ethics and aesthetics of everyday heritage!
May 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Very excited to be heading to Beijing and the Centre for Ethical Studies at Renmin University to talk about the ethics and aesthetics of everyday heritage!
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whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers
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Sad to see Dan Tehan retain his seat: he was the architect of Job Ready Graduates, one of the most destructive, punitive higher education policies we’ve ever seen. Labor needs to get rid of it as soon as possible
May 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Sad to see Dan Tehan retain his seat: he was the architect of Job Ready Graduates, one of the most destructive, punitive higher education policies we’ve ever seen. Labor needs to get rid of it as soon as possible
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If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
And people say history is boring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
And people say history is boring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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New book on our Environment & Society Portal: Deborah Bird Rose's 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (ANU Press, 2024), edited by Darrell Lewis and Margaret Jolly. #EnvHum #CCBY
Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia
Full volume of Deborah Bird Rose's posthumous book Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia.
www.environmentandsociety.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
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🕊️ Call for Nominations: Peter Ucko Memorial Award
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!
🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!
🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🕊️ Call for Nominations: Peter Ucko Memorial Award
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!
🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!
🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn
Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.
By @donnadlu.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to be a member of the academic committee for WAC-10 in June in Darwin. Please follow @worldarch.bsky.social to see exciting developments and hope to see you in Darwin in June!
March 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I'm very pleased to be a member of the academic committee for WAC-10 in June in Darwin. Please follow @worldarch.bsky.social to see exciting developments and hope to see you in Darwin in June!
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👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University:
Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory.
'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y
Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory.
'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y
Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory
This project explores the concept of ‘presentism’ in cultural representations of the past.
tinyurl.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University:
Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory.
'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y
Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory.
'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y
Our collection 'Alternative Economies of Heritage' is now published! Easily available for those who have library subscriptions to Routledge! Proud of this collaboration with my University of Canberra colleagues Denise and Bethaney
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
Alternative Economies of Heritage: Sustainable, Anti-Colonial and Creative Approaches to Cultural Inheritance
Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the...
www.routledge.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Our collection 'Alternative Economies of Heritage' is now published! Easily available for those who have library subscriptions to Routledge! Proud of this collaboration with my University of Canberra colleagues Denise and Bethaney
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
www.routledge.com/Alternative-...
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This is appalling. Tim is about as open and public in his work as it's possible to be—the fact that the NLA shut off access, informed him by email, and then said 'get in touch if you want to have a conversation' feels more like Meta or X than a national library. Why not *start* with a conversation?
Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
February 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is appalling. Tim is about as open and public in his work as it's possible to be—the fact that the NLA shut off access, informed him by email, and then said 'get in touch if you want to have a conversation' feels more like Meta or X than a national library. Why not *start* with a conversation?
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Many thanks to all the people supporting me on Bluesky! I can see your comments, but can't respond to them from here in the Fediverse unless your account is bridged via https://fed.brid.gy/
Bridgy Fed
<a href='https://fed.brid.gy/'>Bridgy Fed</a> is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the <a href='https://indieweb.org/'>IndieWeb</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse'>fediverse</a>, <a href='https://bsky.social/'>Bluesky</a>, and others. <a href='https://fed.brid.gy/docs'>More info here.</a>
fed.brid.gy
February 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Many thanks to all the people supporting me on Bluesky! I can see your comments, but can't respond to them from here in the Fediverse unless your account is bridged via https://fed.brid.gy/
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Thinking of a PgT qualification? Come chat to me about MSc Heritage at UoS Open Day. Innovative course, leading experts, key theoretical & practical issues (eg identity, community, museums/collections, intangible cultural heritage, nature/culture, & more!) www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
Postgraduate Open Day | Study | University of Stirling
By attending our Postgraduate Open Day, you’ll be able to explore our stunning campus, learn more about our diverse range of Masters courses and PhD opportunities
www.stir.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thinking of a PgT qualification? Come chat to me about MSc Heritage at UoS Open Day. Innovative course, leading experts, key theoretical & practical issues (eg identity, community, museums/collections, intangible cultural heritage, nature/culture, & more!) www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
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The #everydayheritage team organised and led six days of events (25-30 November 2024) in Western Australia. We are thrilled to share that the symposium recordings are available here everydayheritage.au/news/everyda...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Photo: Ursula Frederick, Steve Brown and Sharpay Wu
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Photo: Ursula Frederick, Steve Brown and Sharpay Wu
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The #everydayheritage team organised and led six days of events (25-30 November 2024) in Western Australia. We are thrilled to share that the symposium recordings are available here everydayheritage.au/news/everyda...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Photo: Ursula Frederick, Steve Brown and Sharpay Wu
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Photo: Ursula Frederick, Steve Brown and Sharpay Wu