ACT Heritage Symposium 2025

The theme for this year’s ACT Heritage Symposium will be:  A Future for the Past.

DATE: Saturday 2 August 2025, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

VENUE:  Forestry Building (Building 48) ANU, Linnaeus Way, ACTON ACT

COST: $50.00 Full Registration, $15.00 Students

BOOKINGS: Available through Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/DCSQB

For more information visit:- https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/act-region-heritage-symposium2025/

At last year’s Symposium delegates learnt how change in the cultural and natural environment is both inevitable and necessary. This year’s presentations will consider how to plan ahead for change to reduce or avoid adverse impacts through heritage practice and community participation.

The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Amy Mosig Way. Amy is an Australian archaeologist whose mission is to support community-driven archaeological projects. Amy completed her PhD research at Weereewaa (Lake George) where open-air excavations revealed multiple backed artefact production and tooling crafting events. This research focused on the development of a new method for disentangling buried assemblages of stone artefacts. Amy is currently building field-based research projects with First Nations groups in NSW.

Other speakers include Dr Michele Rainger, President of Family History ACT, Mark Butz and Nick Swain from the Canberra & District Historical Society and Dr Anna Wong, Director, ACT Galleries, Museums and Heritage.

This Symposium is being organised by the National Trust of Australia (ACT), in collaboration with the Canberra and District Historical Society, Canberra Archaeological Society, and Australia ICOMOS (ACT).