Event
Partnering Heritage with Latin America: Heritage Futures in the Age of Polycrises
Event information
Date & location
From 3:00pm to 4:30pm CET
Online
Contact
Contact the event coordinator for more information:
Noel SalazarParticipation
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How can cultural heritage actively contribute to tackling polycrises? And how can connecting to Una Europa help students, scholars and other societal stakeholders to address these issues in a reciprocal way?
These questions will be addressed at this interdisciplinary workshop for heritage scholars, professionals and activists. Join us online to explore the potential of cultural heritage to offer resilience, innovation, and pathways forward in addressing today’s most pressing global challenges.
Explore connections between heritage and global challenges
This event will explore and forge connections between the study of heritage and the challenges the world faces such as pandemics, accelerating climate change, geopolitical conflicts, growing inequality, technological disruptions, and democratic backsliding.
These interrelated challenges threaten heritage landscapes, practices and institutions; engaging with them demands a reimagination of futures. Studying and interpreting heritage, defining, assessing, and interpreting pasts, can provide inspiration to rethink and redefine these challenges. We want to develop this theme together with new and existing global partners.
Partnering Heritage will involve 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.
The event is organised by Una Europa, led by KU Leuven and in collaboration with the Coordinacion Nacional De Conservación Del Patrimonio Cultural, Mexico.
About Una Europa's Self-Steering Committee for Cultural Heritage
This networking and brainstorming event is an initiative of Una Europa’s Self-Steering Committee in Cultural Heritage, one of six academic bodies bringing together scholars from all of the alliance’s 11 partner universities.
In addition to encouraging cooperation between its European partners, both the Self-Steering Committee and Una Europa 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.