The ways we protect, interpret and produce heritage – across local, national and transnational contexts – can shape both historical justice and future peace by (re-)creating common grounds and solidarities. In the context of multiple, overlapping crises, the questions of heritage, conservation, and cultural memory take on a renewed urgency and require us to rethink our theoretical frameworks, concepts, and approaches.

Four Dutch universities together – the University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, Leiden University, and Utrecht University – organise this one-day seminar on these themes. Starting from the recognition that heritage is never neutral but rather entangled with dynamics of power and identity-making, our focus is on the profound entanglement of the material and immaterial dimensions of heritage as well as that between past, present and future in processes of heritage-making. The seminar intends to serve as an incubator for inter-university co-operation and engagement on this important theme for societies in the past, present, and future.

Programme

10:00 Walk in, tea/coffee

10:30 – 10:40  Introduction

10:45 – 12:00  Session 1: Heritage, Violence and Conflict

12:00 –13:00   Lunch

13:00 – 13:45  Third party funding/impact discussion (CLOSED SESSION)

13:45 – 15:00  Session 2: Heritage, Reconstruction and Repair

15:00 – 15:30  Break

15:30 – 16:45 Session 3: Heritage and Environments

16:45 – 17:30 Final discussion

17:30 – 19:00 Borrel

Registration

If you want to join this seminar, please register by sending an email to s.acw-fgw@uva.nl.