Research Symposium
Program

Research Symposium

Ended 20 Mar 2026

9am–5pm

$10

$10Standard All-day Pass

The Gallery Room, G Floor, Mitchell Library

On Gadigal Land

The Gallery Room, G Floor, Mitchell Library

1 Shakespeare Pl, Sydney NSW 2000
Notes

Morning and afternoon tea will be provided, including vegan and gluten-free options.

Join us a for a day of illuminating talks by our 2025 Research Scholars about objects in the diverse Powerhouse Collection (opens in new tab) that inspired their investigations and creative projects. A light switch, a radio, an electric car, a wedding dress, a computer game, a spider robot, a craniometer, a recipe book for inks and a story of lost cattle have inspired examinations of history, identity and technological change that reveal the many narratives held within everyday things.

Program

8.45am Registration

9am Welcome and opening address by Nicola Teffer, Acting Research Manager, Powerhouse

  • PANEL ONE

    9.15am     Xavier Ho
    Investigating LGBTQIA+ Representation: Developing the Australian Queer Game Archive

    9.45am Clint Harvey and Dzintra Menesis
    Wimble’s Inks Reimagined

    10.15am Ruth Höflich
    Hard Backs and Soft Fronts

    10.45am Panel One Q&A facilitated by Anni Turnbull, Collection Curator, Powerhouse

11am Morning tea

  • PANEL TWO

    11.30am     Mia Francesca Jones
    Objects of Light: Impacts of Artificial Night Lighting

    12pm James Goodman and Julia Scott-Stevenson
    Imagining the Electric

    12.30pm Lauren Booker
    Dismantling the tools and ephemera of pseudoscience

    1pm Panel Two Q&A facilitated by Jason Le, Assistant Collection Curator, Powerhouse

1.15pm Lunch

  • PANEL THREE

    2pm     Fabri Blacklock and Treena Clark
    The Evolution of Indigenous Fashion in Australia

    2.30pm Talei Mangioni
    Radio Histories in the Pacific Islands

    3pm Lu Forsberg
    Cowpastures

    3.30pm Panel Three Q&A facilitated by Tammi Gissell, Collection Coordinator, First Nations, Powerhouse

3.45pm Afternoon tea

4.15pm Conclusion

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Powerhouse Research

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Research Scholars

Powerhouse offers annual programs to researchers interested in exploring the collection for the purposes of creative practice or academic research.

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