News
20 February 2023
Seminar with Julie Deschepper: Weaponizing Cultures. Uses of Heritage during the War in Ukraine.
Heritage is always an instrument. In times of war, it becomes a weapon. Its alteration or destruction, while possibly being collateral, incidental, or ...
09 February 2023
Remembering Activism Conference: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus
Agenda What happens to social movements when their momentum ebbs away, the streets are emptied and campaigning ceases? They become memory. At the core of ...
09 February 2023
Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory
London, UK, 27-29 June 2023 The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, ...
07 February 2023
Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side – A Conversation with Antonius Robben and Alexander Hinton
Discussants: Iva Vukusic and Abram de Swaan In a groundbreaking book, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford University Press ...
06 February 2023
Distinguished Lecture by Rodney Harrison: Rethinking Heritage and Museums in and for the Climate Emergency
Reading Group – Heritage Futures Friday 17th , 10.00-11.30am We will discuss one of Rodney Harrison’s chapters: “Heritage as a ...
Events
29
Mar
29 - 31 March 2023, All day
Remembering Activism Conference: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus
Agenda What happens to social movements when their momentum ebbs away, the streets are emptied and campaigning ceases? They become memory. At the core of ...
6
Apr
6 April 2023, 16:00
Seminar with Reindert Dhondt: Decolonizing Heritage and Subjectivity in Gabriela Wiener’s Huaco retrato
Contemporary decolonial thought questions the role museums have played and continue to play in the constitution of the Eurocentric aesthetic and epistemic ...