Connecting Things: Objects and Heritage Constructions (6th Annual Conference)

This year’s conference focuses on the objects that come into view when researching identity and heritage constructs: when things are ascribed symbolic meaning, and often multiple and potentially conflicting meaning, they can become relevant as ‘heritage’ for perceptions of commonality and self.

In other words, narratives that inform heritage references are linked to certain forms of materialisations; among them, artefacts, built structures, places, photographs, images, or texts. What insights can a focus on such things yield about present-day references to the past? For example, how things come to be considered significant, irrelevant or offensive by certain actors, whether they carry fixed socio-cultural meanings, and what role they play in the formation of new or as yet under-recognised constructs of heritage? This perspective becomes increasingly important as interest in heritage constructions emerging from (formerly) non-authorized discourses grows; not only because more objects then become relevant for research, but also because contradictory appropriations and interpretations come into focus. Moreover, this view of the object requires a reexamination of guiding theoretical concepts in heritage research; such as (conceptual) understandings of the temporality and materiality of heritage objects.

By placing the focus on research objects, the 6th annual conference of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Identity and Heritage’ invites participants to raise such open theoretical questions. The conference is not only a space in which to present research outcomes, but also a forum for reviewing established research approaches, contexts, and situations. The standard lecture format is complemented by a poster-exhibition on the objects being researched by the Research Training Group, which takes place in the foyer next to the Architekturforum.

November 24th and 25th, Technische Universität Berlin, Architekturforum, Straße des 17. Juni 152, Berlin

PROGRAM INCLUDING ALL ABSTRACTS (PDF, GER/ENG)

Programm

24.11.2022

10:30

Zoya Masoud (Berlin): Ein Kollektiv für ein subjektiv(-iert)es Objekt. Das aleppinische Denkmalpflege-Kollektiv während des syrischen Krieges

Zoya Masoud

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24.11.2022

14:00

Áine Ryan (Berlin): The Irish Handball Alley. Pastime and Past Material Time

Aine Ryan

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24.11.2022

14:30

Katharina Rotté (Weimar): Substanzlose Objekte und ihre Materialität: Zum Verständnis von mit sich selbst identischen Bauwerken in der frühen Neuzeit

Katharina Rotté

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24.11.2022

15:15

Henri Hoor (Weimar): Mittelalter gesucht. Eine Synagoge, Mikwe und andere »sprechende Steine« für Berlins neue alte Mitte

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24.11.2022

16:45

Ortrun Bargholz (Berlin): Erscheinung ohne Substanz. Wie die Planensimulation der Berliner Bauakademie die Konstruktion von Erbe entmaterialisiert

Ortrun Bargholz

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25.11.2022

09:45

Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt am Main): Ambivalenzen des Kulturerbes. Zeitlichkeit und kulturelle Bedeutung materieller Objekte

Hans Peter Hahn

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25.11.2022

11:45

Jan Engelke (Berlin): Wie die Moderne in den Alltag kam. Die Bedingungen des Eigenheim-Booms in der bundesdeutschen Nachkriegszeit

Jan Engelke

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25.11.2022

14:00

Oliver Trepte (Weimar): Weimars mediale Inszenierung – Die Erfindung der Stadt der Klassik und der Moderne

Oliver Trepte

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25.11.2022

14:30

Menschen im Museum. Dokumentarfilm und Diskussion mit Larissa Förster, Wolfram Höhne und Michael Markert

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25.11.2022

16:45

Elisaveta Dvorakk (Berlin/Marburg): Photographic (De-)Constructions of Nations and Nationalisms. Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Image Reports 1937/38 as a Material Photo-Historical Challenge

Elisaveta Dvorakk

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25.11.2022

15:15

Darja Jesse (Berlin): Dinge, die gefallen. Der Wert der Kunst aus dem Nationalsozialismus

Darja Jesse

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25.11.2022

16:45

Chao Tayiana Maina (Nairobi): Pretexts of Repair. Digitisation and the role of metadata in engaging with colonial collections

Chao Tayiana Maina

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