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Announcement: Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference,
Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5-8, 2012
The inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage
Studies will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in June
2012. The Association of Critical Heritage Studies, to be launched at
this conference, will establish (in association with the International
Journal of Heritage Studies) an extensive network of heritage scholars
across the globe in order to debate and discuss cutting-edge research
in the field of heritage studies. We see Critical Heritage Studies as
a synthesis emerging from diverse disciplinary fields, in particular
public history, memory studies, museology, cultural heritage, tourism
studies, architecture and planning, conservation, as well as cultural
geography, sociology, cultural studies and policy, anthropology,
archaeology and ethnomusicology, and encourage people working in those
areas to submit papers or propose sessions/workshops that address the
inter-disciplinary nature of heritage studies.
The theme of the conference is The Re/theorisation of Heritage
Studies. This conference will develop current theoretical debates to
make sense of the nature and meaning of heritage. As such, we invite
submissions from people working within the broad church of the
current flowering of contemporary heritage studies. Papers should
encourage cross-cutting thinking and should not be afraid to try to
theorise what critical heritage studies is and where it should go.
They should be underpinned by an active move away from site- and
artefact-based definitions of heritage in a traditional sense and
should pursue instead a range of methodologies and questions aiming at
interdisciplinarity stemming from social science scholarly traditions,
the natural sciences, and also creative sciences such as art and the
performing arts.
Preliminary key note speakers include:
Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester (tbc)
Laurajane Smith, Australian National University
Conference subthemes will include:
Critical heritage theory;
Issues of representation;
Heritage and non-representational theory;
The politics of affect
A consideration of emotion and the senses;
Memory and identity work of communities, nations and other interests
in relation to heritage;
The utilisation of heritage discourses in debates over
multiculturalism, nationalism and globalisation;
Heritage, power and recognition;
Heritage and human rights;
The exploration of methodologies for mapping and exploring the
social and cultural consequences of heritage;
Intangible heritage and its implications for re-theorising heritage;
Non-Western challenges to dominant Western heritage concepts and
characterisation of non-Western appreciations of heritage;
Work on digital heritage that goes beyond technical treatments of
archiving and embraces a range of social media and other forms of
interactivity;
The performative nature of heritage theorising craft, art and
creativity as discourses in heritage;
Theorising and redefining heritage practices the merging of discourses;
Re-thinking conservation science the blending of creative
discourse into social and natural sciences; and
The performative nature of heritage artistic practices, artistic
research and theorizing perspectives in dialogue.
Abstract/Paper Submissions
Submissions are encouraged for sessions, workshops, panel discussions
and performances, as well as individual papers (20 minute duration):
The deadline for abstracts on sessions, workshops and panel
discussions is 30 November 2011.
The deadline for individual papers or performances is 31 December 2011.
Selected papers and/or sessions will be published in IJHS.
Abstracts should be addressed to Bosse Lagerqvist (Conference
Organisation Committee) and either emailed, faxed or posted to:
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Fax: +46 31 786 4703
Mail: University of Gothenburg, Conservation
P.O. Box 130
SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Fees
Registration: 315 USD/220 Euro
(Registration fees for students and participants from non-OECD
countries will be 150 Euro, including lunch, coffee breaks and
conference documentation)
Conference dinner: 30 Euro (Preliminary)
Post-conference excursions: To be announced
Venue Info Gothenburg. (To be confirmed)
Conference Organisation Committee
Bosse Lagerqvist, Department of Conservation,
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Christer Ahlberger, Department of Historical studies,
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Johan Φberg, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, [log in to unmask]
Mikela Lundahl, Department of Global studies, [log in to unmask]
Scientific Committee
Annie Clarke (Australia), Rodney Harrison (UK), David Harvey (UK),
Emma Waterton (Australia), Steve Watson (UK), Ola Wetterberg
(Sweden), Rohit Jigyasu (Tokyo).
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Dr Rodney Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies
Faculty of Arts
The Open University
Walton Hall
MILTON KEYNES MK7 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM
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web: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/harrison.htm
Understanding Global Heritage: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ad281
CHAT group: www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk
CHAT group: www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk
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The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
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