| Portrait of Tania Leimbach |
For this salon we will be joined by Dr Tania Leimbach from UNSW, who will share insights and reflections from the recent publication ‘Death and profanation: curating museum collections for climate futures’, co-authored with Jane Palmer. The paper investigates two curatorial episodes at the Powerhouse Museum that capture diverse affective relations with objects, and Harrison and Sterling’s (2023) idea of profaning heritage to re-orient audiences towards the future. In this salon we will hear from Tania and discuss curatorial responses to climate change, the affective dimensions of climate change education and changing paradigms in cultural heritage.
Bio:
Tania Leimbach is an education-focused academic whose work bridges scholarship and practice in environment and society-focused education. Her teaching and research focus on inclusive, action-oriented approaches that support learners and educators to engage meaningfully with climate and environmental challenges.
A member of the Environment & Society Group at UNSW, Tania is Program Convenor for the Master of Environmental Management (MEM), a program focused on preparing future change-makers to rethink the world through restorative approaches. Convening several courses in the program, her teaching is centred on developing critical, reflective, and practical capacities in students seeking to contribute to environmental and social change. With a strong profile in climate pedagogy and curriculum design, Tania has designed and led curriculum in climate change education that is now used across universities, secondary schools, and local government settings.
Tania’s research sits at the intersection of sustainability education, environmental humanities, and ecocultural studies. She contributes to inter- and transdisciplinary scholarship exploring affect, agency, and creative practice in processes of social and ecological change. Her PhD thesis, Sustainability and the Material Imagination in Australian Cultural Organisations, examined how museums and cultural institutions enact environmental leadership amid the political and material complexities of the Anthropocene.
| Thu 1 October 2026 3pm – 4:30pm Online Meeting ID: 494 400 416 860 0 Passcode: FC2Bx2cR |
