Events – heritage.city by james lesh

Keynotes in Canberra and Rockhampton

16 September 2024 admin Events

James Lesh gave prominent talks in Canberra and Rockhampton last month. He shared his thought-leadership in cultural heritage, delivering deeply researched, evidence-led and practically focussed talks.

ABC Radio Interview on Abandoned Buildings and Heritage Places

9 August 2023 admin Events

Have a listen back to our ABC Radio conversation on Abandoned Buildings and Heritage Places in Melbourne and across Victoria. You’ll find an interview with me among the many speakers! Restore, rebuild or raze? Debate rages over the fate of our grand old buildings From the Murtoa Stick Shed in the Wimmera, to the historic Curtin Hotel in Carlton, Victoria’s architectural landscape is awash with heritage-listed buildings saved from demolition. But for every success there are stories of demise – as observed by comedian Barry Humphries in 1978 who asked, “why not call ourselves Mutilated Melbourne?” The question of whether Victoria’s

EVENT: James Lesh Public Lecture at the University of Sydney on Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia

4 May 2023 admin Events

Join us at 6 pm on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at the University of Sydney for James Lesh speaking about his book ‘Values in Cities’.

Event: ‘A New History of the Australian Heritage Movement: In Conversation’

25 July 2022 admin Events

Chaired by Professor Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), join Sharon Veale (GML Heritage), Maddi Miller (University of Melbourne) and Dr James Lesh (Deakin University) for a discussion panel on urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century Australia.

Urban History summer seminar series – ‘Questioning the Consensus? Urban Conservation in 1990s Sydney and Melbourne’

13 July 2020 admin Events

James Lesh will be speaking at a virtual seminar this Friday on his research.

Seminar: Heritage preservation, urban transformation and everyday life in the twentieth-century Australian city.

7 June 2018 admin Events

My thesis offers a fresh global urban history of the Australian city, its heritage places, and the preservationists who shaped those places. Twentieth-century Australian urban preservationists – such as architects and planners, heritage consultants and regulators, boosters and policymakers, and activists and everyday people – valued and sought to safeguard many kinds of urban landscapes, comprising buildings, streets, precincts and suburbs and invoking communities, histories, memories and stories.