Launch of COMMON ENDS network
Programme for workshop on cultural heritage - launch of COMMON ENDS network
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In this workshop we discuss current approaches to cultural heritage. We ask what are the changing politics and dynamics of cultural heritage sites and what they can tell us about the conflicting organization of society: concerning identity politics, rights to belong, the status of the commons, the relation between the public and the private; as well as conflicts between the local, the regional, the national and the international.
These questions are part of a broader global political agenda, but they also have corresponding effects on local circumstances and grassroots, and we invite speakers to discuss case-studies.
We often assume that identity, belonging and rights to cultural expressions, both tangible and intangible, are fundamental to peoples鈥� wellbeing and existence. But increasing land-use and development beyond the control of local people and local leadership has led to disputes over cultural resources. Cultural heritage sites function as drives for commercial tourism, gentrification and elitist appropriation 鈥� and, often, developments meant to create possibility and development instead tend to alienate. Scientific collecting tends to also create conflicts of similar sorts.
The ambition for these three days is to discuss the conflicts that come up in the handling of this particular source of wealth and wellbeing that we call cultural heritage, its government and its potential for mobilization in the current situation.
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Sunday 27th October
We arrived in the afternoon at Panorama Hotel by car听
19.00听听 听DINNER听
Monday 28th October
09.15 鈥� 10.00听听 听听听 听Welcome and introductions
Session 1: Definitions; paradoxes, dilemmas and aporias - Chair: Knut Rio
10.00 鈥� 10.45听听 听 听听 Michael Rowlands: The Dignity of Heritage: global justice and restitution听debates.
10.45 鈥� 11.30听听 听听听 听Oscar Salemink: Heritage subjects and heritage objects: Some preliminary reflections听听 听听听 听
11.30 -12. 15听听 听听听 听Terje Brattli: The subaltern other?
12.30 鈥� 13. 30听听 听听听 LUNCH
Session 2: Issues of government and cultural heritage: Between state and non-state 听
Chair: Trond L酶d酶en
13.30 鈥� 14.15听听 听听听 听Anne K. Bang: From faith to heritage to faith in heritage: Experiences from听two digital conservation programs in East Africa 2013-2019
听14.15鈥� 15.00听听 听听听 听Graeme Were: 听Heritage and Memory in Post-Reform Vietnam听
Coffee Break听
15.15 鈥� 16. 00听 听 听 听Gertjan Plets: Corporate Social Responsibility and Museums: heritage ethics in the age of neoliberalism?
16.00 鈥� 16.45听听 听听听 听Knut Rio: Cultural heritage tourism and peace in times of total war听
17.00 鈥� 18.00听听 听听听 听Tore S忙tersdal: Rain, snakes and rock art - working in the ancestral landscape of Manicaland
Frode Storaas shows the film 鈥淏oth Sides鈥�:听
Manica District is today the land of Shona-speaking groups that also inhabit the adjacent Zimbabwe plateau. Earlier inhabitants, the San hunter-gatherers that once roamed the plains and the forests of Southern Africa, left their art on the rock walls of thousands of caves and shelters across the subcontinent. Many archaeological sites play an important part in the ceremonial and spiritual lives of people today, as part of the traditional ancestor beliefs. Maintaining good relationships with local authorities is important.听
19.00听听 听听听 听听听 听DINNER听
Tuesday 29th October
Session 3: Cultural Heritage in conflict 鈥� Chair: Gertjan Plets
09.15 鈥� 10.00听听 听Hamed Salem: The Palestinian archaeological heritage: safeguarding a framework for听future generations
10.00 鈥� 10.45听听 听Chiara de Cesari: Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine
11.00 鈥� 11.45听听 听Nils Anfinset: 听Changing politics, conflict, urban development and the role of听culture heritage in Palestine
12.00 鈥� 13.00 听听 听LUNCH
13.00 鈥� 13.45听听 听Sidney Cheung: 听Cultural Leakage and Transformation: A comparative study of听Japanese kodo and Chinese incense tradition in the 21st century.
14.00 鈥� 17.00听听 听EXCURSION to the nearby Fjell Fortress, the biggest Nazi fortress in Norway during听the Second World War, today run as a local museum.听
19.00 听听 听听听 听DINNER听
Wednesday 30th October
09.15 - 12.00听听 听Discussion of project proposal and way forward for our network
13. 00 听听 听听听 听LUNCH
DEPARTURE OF PARTICIPANTS
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