About
Maritime Connects engages with the museum sector of Southeast Asia with two key aims:
To better understand how museums in the region approach maritime heritage.
Explore ways for museums to develop maritime culture and history as a form of shared heritage.
Tim Winter
Tim Winter is ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia at Perth. He is has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, The Getty and Asia Research Institute, Singapore. He has published widely on heritage, development, urban conservation, and the international politics of heritage. He has previously worked with the World Bank, Getty Conservation Institute, and World Monuments Fund. His books include The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia, Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century, (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Toyah Horman
Toyah works as a researcher in the areas of Heritage, Cultural Diplomacy and Sustainability within the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia. Obtaining a Masters in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from Deakin University in 2011, she has been involved in a variety of projects at a number of Australian Institutions, including Museum Victoria, Heritage Victoria and the National Film and Sound Archive. Toyah has worked as a researcher on a number of large scale projects including on the ground data collection and writing reference material for the “Kelabit Highlands Museum Project” (Sarawak, Malaysia), and as a consultant on the international collaborative WARMAP project - producing short films and writing educational content for the project website. Toyah worked with Tim in 2020 to organise an online Maritime Heritage Seminar, engaging professionals and academics with the aim of building long-term collaborations and guide future scholarship in the realm of maritime heritage in the region.