Professor David Adams presented the Northern Branch monthly lecture for the Royal Society of Tasmania on Sunday, 26 July 2026, at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) Inveresk. [
Lecture Overview
- Title: “What Counts as Valuable Knowledge Nowadays, and Who Counts It?” [1]
- Core Theme: The presentation explored how modern, evolving claims to knowledge challenge historic or traditional assumptions. [1, 2]
- Key Topics: Contoured contemporary concepts including alternative facts, community/place knowledge, first nations knowledge, influencer knowledge, and lived experience. [1, 2]
- Focus: An analysis of why these newer forms of collective and localized knowledge claims are rapidly emerging in civic life and public discourse
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