Cultural Heritage Diplomacy: How Nations use Historic Sites for Political Ends

Why exactly is ISIS destroying the cultural past of Iraq and Syria, and why is finding a resolution so difficult? How does the funding of maritime archaeology off the coast of Sri Lanka and Kenya connect with the disputes now brewing in the South China Sea? And why is Japan investing hundreds of millions of dollars in heritage conservation projects around the world? In what ways are such examples linked?

Are we seeing the emergence of a new arena of international relations, one that uses the past in new and unfamiliar ways?

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Speaker

Tim Winter
Research Professor in Cultural Heritage
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
President of Association of Critical Heritage Studies
 

Round-table and public conversation with Concordia faculty after presentation

Frank Chalk, Director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Erica Lehrer, Canada Research Chair, Museum and Heritage Studies
Alison Rowley, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, History

Moderator: Nadine Blumer, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence