Event
Partnering Heritage: Developing Academic Agendas for Una Europa from Southern Africa
Event information
Date & location
From 1:00pm to 5:00pm CET
Online/Windybrow Arts Centre, Johannesburg
Register by 20 OctoberContact
Contact the event coordinator for more information:
Megan RodriguesHow is ‘making heritage’ relevant to interlocutors in cultural contexts in southern Africa? What opportunities, challenges and hindrances exist for engaged social actors? And how can connecting to Una Europa help students, scholars and societal stakeholders to address these issues in a reciprocal way?
Explore these questions and more at this network and brainstorming event, an initiative of Una Europa's Self-Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage. Partnering Heritage welcomes academics with an interest in cultural heritage, master’s and MPhil students, PhD candidates, and colleagues from the NGO and museum sector.
Explore new connections between heritage and world challenges
Partnering Heritage will explore and forge connections between the study of heritage and the challenges the world faces in health and wellbeing, environment, climate change, global migration, decolonisation as well as the emerging digital divides.
Each of these challenges plays out in the now, and engaging with them demands a reimagination of futures. This means that studying and interpreting heritage, in defining, assessing, and interpreting pasts, can provide inspiration to rethink and redefine the challenges mentioned. We want to develop this theme together with new and existing global partners.
Partnering Heritage will be kicked off by societal actors and scholars who, through their work, engage with the kind of questions outlined above. They will introduce us to and discuss the heritage-related academic and societal agendas that they are attempting to enact.
Contribute to the dialogue
Though not mandatory, event convenors warmly welcome contributions from participants. Please indicate in the registration the form if you would like to make a short statement, pose questions, or share a provocation.
Pitches should be 3–5 minutes, and aimed at fostering debate in line with the event theme. You may bring an object, share pictures, or a (very short) video.
Use the registration form to provide a title and a brief abstract. The event organisers will respond shortly after the deadline with further information.
About Una Europa's Self-Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage
Una Europa’s Self-Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage brings together scholars from all of the alliance’s 11 partner universities. These universities are particularly strong in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities.
In addition to encouraging cooperation between its European partners, this committee and the alliance at large aim to create strong academic partnerships worldwide. Both European and global teamwork are needed to identify research agendas that address how heritage is redefined and attains new relevances across local, regional, national, and global contexts. Possible issues include the desirability of, and hindrances to, the repatriation of material objects removed from their original owners in contexts of (colonial) inequality; the need or urgency of decolonising cultural heritage – and what that may imply.
