The lecture series of the research group “Identity and Heritage” is taking place regularly on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm and alternating between the locations of the research group (Weimar, Berlin, Dessau and Erfurt). Current positions in cultural heritage research are presented and discussed in a 45-minute lecture. Audio recordings of the lectures can be listened to in our audio archive.
The lecture will delve into the significance of pilgrimage on society, with far-reaching implications in politics, culture, economics, and social dynamics, shedding light on its conceptualization and scrutinizing the often-blurred boundary between tourism and pilgrimage.
weiterlesen…Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process.
weiterlesen…The sculptor Carl Constantin Weber gives an insight into his work on the contemporary version of a church portal in the context of a medieval building. During a visit to his studio, the relationship between redesigning and the history of a building is explored.
weiterlesen…The critical turn in heritage studies has focused extensively on the marginalization of local identities and practices in global heritage discourse and its instruments. However, its examination of religious traditions remains invariably under-developed. In this talk, I discuss where and how religion at large has posed a challenge for heritage thinking, the efforts made to redress this, and the future challenges for heritage studies.
weiterlesen…Probably no projection surface of a desired heritage works as well as the “Bauhaus”, which can be perfectly used in the service of a positive identification precisely because of a generalised as well as indeterminate concept of modernity. But how did the formation of heritage take place and how did the protagonists of the Bauhaus deal with those issues that did not fit into the idealised image?
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