Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage Seminar
- Time:
- 17:00
- Date:
- 9 December 2015
- Venue:
- John Wymer Lab Building 65a Faculty of Humanities
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr. Marta Díaz-Guardamino at M.M.Diaz-Guardamino-Uribe@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Archaeology Seminar Series and the Centre for Transnational Studies in Modern Languages
Abstract
How does heritage make the future? From nuclear waste in Sweden to global endangered languages, from a frozen genetic 'Ark' in Nottingham to the global seed vault in Arctic Norway, and from 'rewilded' landscapes in Portugal to paper-based archives in Paris, Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage (AAFH) aims to develop a broad, international and cross-sectoral comparative framework for understanding 'heritage' not as a domain which is concerned with the past, but rather as a series of heterogeneous yet distinctive practices oriented towards assembling (alternative) futures. This paper introduces this collaborative research project, which involves a team of 10 researchers, 3 PhD students and 21 international partner organisations, and aims to show how its broad themes relate to some of the most pressing ecological, social and political issues of our time.
Speaker information
Dr Rodney Harrison , UCL. Reader in Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies