Cornelius Holtorf

Cornelius Holtorf is Professor of Archaeology and holds a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. He also directs the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA) at his University. Having collaborated for many years with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) and other major stakeholders in the nuclear waste sector, he is currently directing the project “Memory across Generations”. His research interests lie in contemporary archaeology, heritage theory and heritage futures. Cornelius was a Co-Investigator and led the Uncertainty theme of the Heritage Futures research programme.

Co-Investigator

Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan, and Sefryn Penrose. 2020. Heritage Futures Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. UCL Press.

Heritage Futures Exhibition: Manchester Museum

Cornelius Holtorf, Qingkai Mai, Xian Chen, Yu Zhang. 2018. The value of simulated heritage in China. Archaeopress Blog.

Anders Högberg, Cornelius Holtorf, Sarah May & Gustav Wollentz. 2018. No future in archaeological heritage management?. World Archaeology 49 (5).

Heritage Futures at the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly in Delhi

Arch Out Loud: Designing a Surface Marker for a Geological Repository of Nuclear Waste for the Benefit of Our Children

Are heritage futures relevant to UNESCO?

Can heritage be thriving in an age of extinction?

Making futures and making connections across sectors

Telling the bees – designing the future

The timeliness of heritage

Summary of the Nature-Culture Workshop at IUCN

Time travelling and the future of the past

(ir)replaceable:a discussion about heritage, conservation and future-making

Cornelius Holtorf. 2017. The Archaeology of Time Travel. Archaeopress, Oxford.

A Contemporary Provocation: Reconstruction as tools of future-making

Rodney Harrison et al. 2016. Heritage Futures. Archaeology International 19: 68–72.

Future Archaeologies

Afterlives Salon

Towards Nuclear Cultural Studies

Heritage Futures: How the Future is Made Through Heritage

Archaeology and the Future

Nuclear Waste as Cultural Heritage of the Future

Future Archaeologies of Nuclear Waste – Experiences and Results

The Future Telescope

Investigating Heritage Futures

The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

Heritage Futures

Red Squirrel vs. Peter Rabbit: two future concepts in conservation

Holtorf, C. (2015) Averting loss aversion in cultural heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies 21(4): 405-421.

Holtorf, C. and Troels M. Kristensen (2015) Heritage erasure: rethinking ’protection’ and ’preservation’. International Journal of Heritage Studies 21(4): 313-317.

Holtorf, C. and Högberg, A. (2015). Contemporary Heritage and the Future. In E. Waterton and S. Watson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research; 509-523. Palgrave.

Holtorf, C. and Högberg, A. (2015). Archaeology and the future: Managing nuclear waste as a living heritage. In OECD/NEA (Eds.) Radioactive Waste Management and Constructing Memory for Future Generations; 97-101. Nuclear Energy Agency, no. 7259. Paris: OECD.

Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Stockholm and Forsmark

Högberg, A., and Holtorf, C., 2014 "Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future" 14361. In: WM2014 Proceedings WM Symposia

Nature/Culture Heritage Surgery: Building Sustainable Heritage Futures in the Anthropocene

Alternative Heritage Futures

Assembling alternative futures for heritage

Heritage futures in Interstellar