Dr. Dirk HR Spennemann is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management

Cultural Heritage Management

Cultural heritage management is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. It is a branch of cultural resources management , although it also draws on the practices of conservation, restoration, museology, archaeology, history and architecture...

 at the School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University in Albury

Albury, New South Wales

Albury is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. It is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of Albury Local Government Area...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. His main research interest rests in the area of futures studies focussing on heritage futures by examining issues such as the conceptual understanding of emergent heritage(s), the recognition of heritage sites and objects of future heritage value such as Space Heritage and Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

; and the relationship between cultural heritage values and the influences of management processes as they play out between heritage professionals and the general public.

Professor Spennemann is the recipient of the Governor’s Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Publication, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines...

 (2004) and the Partnership Steward Ship Award for Cultural Resources, Pacific West Region, US National Park Service

National Park Service

The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...

 (2001) as well as the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence, Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university located in New South Wales, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Goulburn, Orange, Wagga Wagga and Burlington, Ontario...

  (1996) and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university located in New South Wales, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Goulburn, Orange, Wagga Wagga and Burlington, Ontario...

 (1995).

Professor Spennemann is a member of the
Association of Professional Futurists, the
World Futures Studies Federation, the
World Futures Society, the
British Interplanetary Society and
Australia ICOMOS

Dirk Spennemann is the editor of the journals Studies in German Colonial Heritage (ISSN 1834-7797) and Studies in Contemporary and Emergent Heritage (ISSN 1834-4208) and a co-editor of the Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN 1449-7336).

Publications (selected)

Space Heritage:

• The ethics of treading on Neil Armstrongs footsteps (2004)
• The Naval heritage of project Apollo (2005)
• Heritage sites of the US Space Program in Australia (2005, with Linda Kosmer)
• Out of this world (2006)
• Technological heritage on Mars (2007, with Guy Murphy)
• Extreme Cultural Tourism (in press)

Heritage Futures & Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

:

• On the cultural heritage of robots (2007)
• Of Great Apes and Robots (2007),

Space Tourism

Space tourism

Space Tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry...

:

• Orbital, Lunar and Interplanetary Tourism (in press)

Conference Papers:

• Technological heritage on Mars (Paris) (2006, with Guy Murphy)
• SpaceScapes: Past, Present and Future Extraterrestrial Landscapes in the Human Imagination (Caen, France) (2007)
• Orbital, Lunar and Interplanetary Tourism: Opportunities for Different Perspectives in Star Tourism (La Palma, Spain) (2007)

Space-related publications (or their abstracts) can be accessed via the SpaceArchaeology Wiki