SIEF talk on "Culture in Dialogue" - “Heritage at War. Plan and Prepare”
SIEF is pleased to invite you to another talk on “Culture in Dialogue”. The topic of the conversation will be the recently published book “Heritage at War. Plan and Prepare”, edited by Mark Dunkley, Anna Tulliach, and Lisa Mol.
The talk will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, 21 January, at 6pm CET (Amsterdam).
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Marking the 70th anniversary of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and in the current context of devastating conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan, among others, the book “Heritage at War – Plan and Prepare” brings together military, academic, and heritage practitioners’ voices from across the Euro-Atlantic, North Africa and the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific to explore how lessons learned from past experiences of conflict can inform approaches to the safeguarding of cultural heritage today. The book addresses how the military, the heritage sector and other stakeholders in Human Security can, and must, collaborate to give primacy to people and protect tangible and intangible cultural heritage under attack. The volume’s case studies highlight interdisciplinary efforts to protect heritage in conflict zones, drawing out guidance for those working in the Heritage Sector in these contexts, with specific relevance to those engaged in cultural heritage protection and those working in related interdisciplinary fields. Reviewing the historic relationship between heritage and armed conflict, and offering lessons for present-day practitioners, Heritage at War shows how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and yet also a potential vector of peace-building and the return to normality.
Lisa Mol will speak on behalf of the editorial team, while Regina Bendix will serve as a discussant.
Lisa Mol is the Professor of Geomorphology and Heritage in Conflict at the University of the West of England, and an expert in heritage stone deterioration, in particular that associated with active combat. She leads funded projects, including “Heritage in the Crossfire”, and supports initiatives and colleagues in conflict zones in the documentation and remediation of damage to built heritage. She will be speaking on behalf of the Crossfire' and supports initiatives and colleagues in conflict zones in the documentation and remediation of damage to built heritage.
Regina F. Bendix is a professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen. She has contributed to critical heritage studies for more than two decades, gathered in her volume “Culture and Value. Tourism, Heritage, and Property” (2018). With colleagues in Israel and Palestine, she worked on and co-edited the book “June 1967 in Personal Narratives of Israelis and Palestinians” (2022). She served as co-editor of “Ethnologia Europaea” and “Narrative Culture” and is part of the editorial team of “Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft”.
On the SIEF Culture in Dialogue Seminar Series:
SIEF stands for free and open communication across boundaries, borders, and disciplines. Today, with old divisions reappearing in Europe and beyond, we believe that specialists in Ethnology, Folklore, Anthropology, and related fields, have a special capacity to highlight lessons of the past and show that, through dialogue, we can reach better understandings of the world and each other.
Since 2022 the SIEF Board has introduced Culture in Dialogue, a series of occasional online seminars intended to encourage, initiate, and develop communication across boundaries.
The inaugural event was held on 14 July 2022 and featured Stef Jansen (University of Sarajevo) speaking on How can we formulate non-identitarian questions about 'ethnic war'?
