Dr Moya McFadzean
Senior Curator Migration & Cultural Diversity
Museum Victoria
PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS LIST
Peer Reviewed:
(2013) ‘Genteel women. Empire and domestic material culture 1840-1910 by Dianne Lawrence.
Manchester University Press, 2012’, Book review in Australian Historical Studies: Volume 44/3
September
(2012) ‘Exhibiting Controversy at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum’, Melbourne Historical Journal:
Volume 40. pp.5-19
(2010) ‘Glory Boxes: Female Domestic Consumption and Material Culture in Australia, 1930–1960’ in
Robert Crawford, Judith Smart and Kim Humphery (eds) Consumer Australia: Historical Perspectives,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
(2010) ‘Technically speaking: Digital Representations of Refugee Experiences at Melbourne’s
Immigration Museum’ in Hanne-Lovise Skartveit and Katherine Goodnow (eds) Changes in Museum
Practice. New Media, Refugees and Participation, Berghahn Books. pp.71-84
(2003) ‘Displaced Persons’, Entry for Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Monash University
Conference Proceedings:
(2002) ‘Museums – Social Mirrors, Social Commentators? Or Who's Telling Whose Stories?
Embracing Diverse Communities in Shifting Historical and Contemporary Landscapes’, Museum 2000
Confirmation or Challenge?, ICOM Sweden, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and Swedish Museums
Association
Other Publications:
(2015 forthcoming) ‘Collecting Narratives of Migration: Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century
Collections at Museum Victoria, Melbourne’, Migration to New Worlds. The Century of Migration,
Adam Mathew Online Resource, www.amdigital.co.uk
(2015) ‘Human rights and the role of museums’, Human Rights Defender, Australian Human Rights
Centre, UNSW Law, The University of New South Wales, Vol.24, Issue 2 July
(2013) ‘Remnants of a Life’s Work: Caroline Chisholm’, Agora, Journal of the History Teachers’
Association of Victoria
(2008) Contributing author, Deborah Tout-Smith (ed), Melbourne. A City of Stories, exhibition
catalogue, Museum Victoria
(1999) ‘Immigration Museum’, News of Museums of History, Association Internationale des Musees
d’Histoire, No.23 June 1999
(1998) Immigration Museum Souvenir Guide, Museum Victoria
(1998) ‘Partnership Agreements: More Than the Paper They’re Written On?’ Museum National, Vol.6
No.3
Papers Presented at Conferences and Public Lectures (since 2000):
(2015-2011) ‘Exhibiting Identity at the Immigration Museum’, University of Melbourne, ‘Urban
Legends’ course, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies , annual lecture
(2015) Irish Objects in Museum Victoria’s Migration Collections. Irish Objects Symposium, Newman
College, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies & School of Culture and Communication,
University of Melbourne, 20 February
(2014) From Call to Celebrate to Call to Action – Evolving Exhibition Methodologies at the
Immigration Museum, Melbourne. Workshop, ‘Collecting Institutions, cultural diversity and the
making of citizenship in Australia since the 1970s.’ ARC Discovery Project at Alfred Deakin Research
Institute and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin City Centre, 27-28
November
(2014) More Than Suitcases: Collecting Migrant Stories at Museum Victoria. Eleventh Annual Family
History Feast, State Library of Victoria, 25 August
(2014) Immigration Museum: Exhibiting Difference & Making a Difference. Arts Dialogues Forum,
City of Kingston, 23 March
(2012) ‘Exhibiting Difference/Talking Difference/Making a Difference: Melbourne’s Immigration
Museum’, Museum 2012: The Socially Purposeful Museum, National Museum of History, Taipei,
Taiwan 20-22 November
(2012) ‘Social Interventions: can Museums Really Make a Difference?’ Research and Collections in a
Connected World, Museums Australia National Conference, University of Adelaide, 25-28 September
(2012) ‘Identity: yours, mine, ours’ – Exhibiting Difference and Making a Difference?’ Owning
Racism: Can we talk? Symposium, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 23-24 August
(2012) ‘Museums Exhibiting Difference and Making a Difference’. Expanding Conversations: Social
Innovation, Arts and Anti Racism forum, Australian Human Rights Commission/ Council Histories,
Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, 15 May
(2011) ‘Exhibiting Personal Identity: Making an exhibition’, Public Histories Seminar Series,
State Library of Victoria, August
(2009) ‘Glory boxes: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Collections of Sexual Intimacy in Australia, 19301960’, History & the Meaning of Things Seminar, Melbourne Museum
(2008) ‘Imagining a Home: the role of glory boxes in shaping the imagined domestic spaces of
Australian women, 1930-1960’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Melbourne
(2007) ‘Private Memories in Public spaces. Telling Stories at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum’,
Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide
(2006) ‘The Glory Box: Lifting the Lid on an Ambivalent Signifier’, Australian Network for Research in
Women’s History Conference, Melbourne
(2006) ‘Private Memories in Public Spaces: Telling Stories at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne’,
International Oral History Association Conference, University of Technology, Sydney
(2005) ‘Personal Narratives, National Histories. Representations of Migration at Melbourne’s
Immigration Museum’, On Reflection: Representing Cultural Diversity in Museums, Museums
Association Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 18 May
(2004) ‘Beyond the Label: Museums, Histories and New Technologies. The Getting In Interactive
Theatre Experience at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum’, Festival Audiovisuel International Musie &
Patrimoine, AVICOM (ICOM), Taipei, Taiwan
(2003) ‘Glory boxes: the Object of Memory’, History & the Meaning of Things Seminar, Melbourne
Museum
(2001) ‘Personal Narratives, Global Contexts: Telling Stories at the Immigration Museum’, School of
Architecture and Design, RMIT, August
(2001) ‘The Glory Box – the Object of Memory’, Folk Narratives Congress, University of Melbourne
(2001) ‘Dame Nellie Melba: A Splintering of Images’, lecture, Melbourne Museum
(2000) ‘The Glory Box: Memory and Material Culture’, Life Narratives Conference, Monash
University