Heritage Futures

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

06/09/2018

Members of the Heritage Futures research team will be convening and presenting at seven sessions at the Association for Critical Heritage Studies 2018 conference at Zheijang University in Hangzhou, China from 1st-6th September.

If you’re heading there, come check out (at least) one of our sessions. Or follow our twitter @Future_Heritage and website for updates resulting from these sessions.

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

Publication

DeSilvey, C. and Bartolini, N. (2018). Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality, and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2018: 1-16.

11/06/2018

World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management

We examine disposal across different heritage domains, and consider the potential for ‘imaginative decommissioning’ (DeSilvey 2017) and the possible differences between disposing in cultural and natural heritage realms.

Rodney Harrison
Caitlin DeSilvey

Workshop

Heritage Futures at Future Fest

06/07/2018 — 07/07/2018

6-7 July 2018

In partnership with the AHRC Heritage Priority Area, we have been invited to programme two panels across two days for this year’s FutureFest, Europe’s largest Festival of the Future. Join us, along with project partners and friends of the project, for “Frozen Futures” on Friday and “Curated Decay” on Saturday.

‘Future Perspectives’ panel discussant

11/02/2016

Listening to the Archive: Histories of sound data in the humanities and social sciences

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Sharon Macdonald

Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a concept that has increasing currency as meaning a sudden destruction of the world, it is usually invoked in order to warn and encourage a change in behaviour.

People

Sharon Macdonald
Co-Investigator

University of York

Diversity

Diversity as a term has lineages in biological theories of evolution, anthropological documentation projects, and, more recently, as an interpretation of multiculturalism and social justice.

Dispatches

Uncertainty

From the Vault to the Archive

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Salvation / Sacrifice

If heritage is defined by those objects, places and practices it is charged with “saving”, we rarely pause to consider its opposite effects: the ways in which it also involves forms of sacrifice.

Who Cares? Interventions in 'unloved' musuem collections

06/11/2015

‘Tomorrow starts here’: earthquakes, heritage, and the rebuilding of a city

In light of the most recent earthquake to strike Christchurch (New Zealand) on 14 February 2016, our researcher Jennie Morgan considers the rebuilding of a city and its heritage through Profusion theme interests.

Transformation
Profusion

People

Gustavo Araoz
Advisory Board Member

ICOMOS

World Heritage Site Management

Film and Sound

Is the Lake District a Rural Area?

21/10/2016

Video of a talk at the 2016 CHAT conference

Sarah May

Stories

In museums of the contemporary everyday, ‘stories’ is a term that has repeatedly been used by those with whom we have talked.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

All things #Diversity @Future_Heritage with @EverydayElvis now at @UoYArchaeology #YOHRS. Follow it on the livestre… https://t.co/EGO0tYWOuM

Partners

University of Gothenburg

We collaborate with the Re:Heritage project at the University of Gothenburg as a partner project ...

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Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons

04/09/2016

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawaii