Australia ICOMOS National Conference 2025

Registrations open now for the Australia ICOMOS 2025 National Conference.

Our Shared Heritage. Un-Settling Ground.

📍Ballarat, Victoria | 🗓️ 17–19 November
📌 Venue: Goods Shed Ballarat

Set on the Traditional Country of the Wadawurrung Peoples, in the heart of the Victorian Goldfields—recently added to Australia’s World Heritage Tentative List—this year’s conference in the historic city of Ballarat invites you to explore heritage through critical, future-focused perspectives.

Themes:
Battlefronts: Heritage under pressure—past survival through conflict and exclusion; future challenges from climate change and global demand and disruption.
Un-Settling: Rethinking heritage—revisiting histories of upheaval and transformation and imagining new models of heritage that prioritise community agency, local adaptation and inclusive governance.

What to Expect:
✅ Two full days of dynamic presentations and discussions
✅ A spectacular conference dinner and the Aura light show at Sovereign Hill on Day 2
✅ Engaging field trips across Ballarat and the wider Victorian Goldfields region
✅ Provocative case studies, diverse voices, and innovative solutions.

Whether you’re a practitioner, researcher, educator, or community advocate—this is your moment to spark new ideas and help shape heritage practice for a changing world.

Mark your calendar now and stay tuned for registration, call for abstracts and sponsorship details coming soon!

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