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From: "Sabine Höhler" <[log in to unmask]>
Geographies of Heritage: Cultures, Environments, and Conservation in Times of Global Change
International Graduate Seminar, 10-14 September 2012
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
5 cp
Supported by the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, and Tema Q, University of Linköping
In September 2012 KTH Royal Institute of Technology offers a graduate course featuring David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus at the Department ofGeography, University College London. Professor Lowenthal is widely acclaimed for his writings and lectures on conservation, cultural heritage and its relation to history. Among his many influential works is the seminal book The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, 1985), in which he analyses the multiple and ever-changing roles of the past in shaping our lives. He examines the roots to the modern cult of preservation and pervasive nostalgia and explains why the past remains as potent a force as ever in human affairs. In The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (Cambridge, 1998) he highlights the late 20th century obsession and commercialization of heritage, and its transformation from a small elite preoccupation into a major popular crusade.
During his visit at KTH Professor Lowenthal will give a number of public lectures spanning the various subjects covered during his long and successful career, some of which will also serve as the basis for the course. In addition to the lectures and seminars given by Professor Lowenthal, professors Anders Ekström, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin will be co-teaching the course.
Anders Ekström is professor of media and culture at Tema Q, Culture Studies at Linköping University. He will provide perspectives on the transregional imaginaries that arise from past and present discourse on disaster, and especially how a long-standing history of exhibiting man-made and natural disasters to distant audiences can be thought of as a long-term heritage of risk societies.
Libby Robin is professor of environmental history at Australian National University, environmental historian and former curator at the National Museum of Australia, and a guest professor at KTH, and will draw on her combined experiences of museum work, scholarly research and writing, and public outreach concerning climate change, biodiversity, and natural and cultural heritage.
Sverker Sörlin is professor of environmental history at KTH, and will talk about geographical dimensions of heritage: the historical uses of heritage for ideological and nationalist purposes; the emergence ofheritage, landscape, and environment as fields of professional expertise; and the role of science and visual and discursive technologies in documenting, assessing, and communicating heritage.
The course (5 cp) is open to graduate students and to practitioners within museums, county councils (Länsstyrelser), and other state and public agencies. The course will be concentrated to the week of 10-14 September in order to make it possible for travelling students to follow the course. The course is free of charge. Please note that expenses for travel and accommodation will not be covered.
The preliminary course schedule is presented below. The extended course outline and the complete reading list will be available from August 2012. As preparatory reading we suggest David Lowenthal’s book The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Registration is now open. Please register no later than August 1, 2012. For registration and further inquiries please contact Susanna Lidström, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH: [log in to unmask]
Preliminary Course Schedule:
Monday 10 September
10.00 – 11.30 Introduction
11.30 – 12.15 Lunch break
12.15 – 13.00 Lecture Libby Robin: "Environmental History in Museums – local, national, global"
13.00 – 13.45 Seminar: Discussion of Readings (1)
13.45 – 14.00 Coffee break
14.00 – 15.00 Seminar: Student Presentations and Discussion (Group 1)
Tuesday 11 September
9.00 – 9.45 Lecture Sverker Sörlin
9.45 – 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 – 11.00 Seminar: Student Presentations (Group 2)
11.00 – 12.00 Seminar: Discussion of Readings (2)
15.00 Public Lecture David Lowenthal: "Heritage Crusading"
Wednesday 12 September
Special Focus Day: Transnational Cultural Histories, Heritage and Museums
9.00 – 9.45 Special Lecture Stuart Ward Professor of Transnational and Global History, University of Copenhagen: "What do I mean when I say transnational?"
9.45 – 10.00 Discussion and Questions
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.15 Panel Transnational Cultural Heritage – Three Perspectives
Anders Ekström, Anders Houltz, KTH, Dag Avango, KTH
Chair: Libby Robin
11.15 – 11.45 Discussion
11.45 – 12.30 Heritage Case Studies – Three Practitioners
Christine Hansen, University of Gothenburg: "Australian Aboriginal Collections in European Museums"
Sharon Willoughby, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne: "Botanical Gardens as Museums"
Nanouschka Myrberg, Stockholm University, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies: "False Monuments? On Antiquity and Authenticity"
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30 "Transnational Heritage: Material and Immaterial" – Discussion and Readings (3)
14.30 – 16.30 Optional Afternoon Field Trip: Nordiskamuseet/National Historical Museum/Polar Exhibition (National Museum of Natural History)
Thursday 13 September
9.00 – 9.45 Lecture Anders Ekström: "A Heritage of Risk: Exhibiting Disasters in the 19th and Early 20th Century"
9.45 – 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 – 11.00 Seminar: Discussion of Readings (4)
11.00 Public Lecture David Lowenthal: "Passport to the Past as a Foreign Country"
13.30 – 14.30 Seminar: Student Presentations (Group 3)
Friday 14 September
9.00 – 10.00 Seminar: Student Presentations (Group 4)
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00 "In conversation with David Lowenthal"
Chair: Sverker Sörlin
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 14.30 Concluding Comments
14.30 – 15.00 Closing Remarks
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Dr. Sabine Höhler
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Brinellvägen 32
SE-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Fon: +46 8 790 87 41
Fax: +46 8 246 26 3
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