Nadia Bartolini
Research Associate

I am a geographer by training. Prior to moving to the UK, I worked as a land claims analyst and as a research and policy manager in Aboriginal Affairs in the Canadian Federal Government. In 2011, I completed my PhD in Geography at the Open University with a thesis titled ‘Modernizing the Ancient: Brecciation, Materiality and Memory in Rome’. The PhD examined how the modern gets done in a city with so much past, and how the past in the underground shapes the city’s present. In 2015-16, I was a research associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Spirited Stoke: Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent’ and a co-investigator on the AHRC developmental award ‘Re-configuring Ruins: Materialities, Processes and Mediations’. My research interests revolve around urban cultures, materiality and the built environment, memory, spirituality, and how legacies are selected and transmitted to future generations.
Bartolini, N. & DeSilvey, C. 2019. Recording Loss: film as method and the spirit of Orford Ness. International Journal of Heritage Studies.
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Heritage Futures Exhibition: Manchester Museum
14/12/2018 — 30/11/2020
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Esther Breithoff
Harald Fredheim
Antony Lyons
Anders Högberg
Kyle Lee Crossett
Bryony Prestidge
Robyn Raxworthy
Gustavo Araoz
Tim Badman
Francesco Bandarin
Saida Engstrom
Loyd Grossman
John Orna-Ornstein
Ingrid Samuel
DeSilvey, C. & 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

Summary of the Nature-Culture Workshop at IUCN
Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity
Harrison, R. et al. (2016). Heritage Futures. Archaeology International 19: 68–72.
12/12/2016
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Afterlives Salon
02/03/2017
This salon to accompany the current Octagon exhibition Cabinets of Consequence will explore how heritage and other related forms of conservation practices (including nuclear waste management) make futures. How do we use material culture to stitch futures from pasts? What do we conserve? What do we get rid of? What do we allow to change? This Salon will be staged as a series of conversations across various themes currently being explored within the Heritage Futures research programme,Event held at Haldane Room, Wilkins Building , Gower Street WC1
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Kyle Lee Crossett
Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity
Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Homes
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity
The 100,000 Year Question
Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity
Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity
Heritage Futures
04/09/2016
IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawaii
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Stockholm and Forsmark
08/03/2016 — 11/03/2016
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Anders Högberg
Kyle Lee Crossett
Bryony Prestidge
Robyn Raxworthy
Nature/Culture Heritage Surgery: Building Sustainable Heritage Futures in the Anthropocene
04/09/2016
IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawaii
Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons