[Gandur] Fyrsta heimsráðstefnan um menningararf og stofnfundur samtaka um gagnrýnin menningararfsfræði, 5.-8. júní 2012 í Gautaborg

[Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein]

Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - Friday, June 8, 2012
Gothenburg, Sweden

The inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies
will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2012. The
Association of Critical Heritage Studies, to be launched at this
conference, will establish (in association with the International Journal
of Heritage Studies) an extensive network of heritage scholars across the
globe in order to debate and discuss cutting-edge research in the field of
heritage studies. We see Critical Heritage Studies as a synthesis emerging
from diverse disciplinary fields, in particular public history, memory
studies, museology, cultural heritage, tourism studies, architecture and
planning, conservation, as well as cultural geography, sociology, cultural
studies and policy, anthropology, archaeology and ethnomusicology, and
encourage people working in those areas to submit papers or propose
sessions/workshops that address the inter-disciplinary nature of heritage
studies.

The theme of the conference is ‘The Re/theorisation of Heritage Studies’.
This conference will develop current theoretical debates to make sense of
the nature and meaning of heritage. As such, we invite submissions from
people working within the ‘broad church’ of the current flowering of
contemporary heritage studies. Papers should encourage cross-cutting
thinking and should not be afraid to try to theorise what critical
heritage studies is and where it should go. They should be underpinned by
an active move away from site- and artefact-based definitions of heritage
in a traditional sense and should pursue instead a range of methodologies
and questions aiming at interdisciplinarity stemming from social science
scholarly traditions, the natural sciences, and also creative sciences
such as art and the performing arts.

Preliminary key note speakers include:
• Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester (tbc)
• Laurajane Smith, Australian National University

Conference subthemes will include:
• Critical heritage theory;
• Issues of representation;
• Heritage and non-representational theory;
• The politics of affect
• A consideration of emotion and the senses;
• Memory and identity work of communities, nations and other interests in
relation to heritage;
• The utilisation of heritage discourses in debates over multiculturalism,
nationalism and globalisation;
• Heritage, power and recognition;
• Heritage and human rights;
• The exploration of methodologies for mapping and exploring the social
and cultural consequences of heritage;
• Intangible heritage and its implications for re-theorising heritage;
• Non-Western challenges to dominant Western heritage concepts and
characterisation of non-Western appreciations of heritage;
• Work on digital heritage that goes beyond technical treatments of
archiving and embraces a range of social media and other forms of
interactivity;
• The performative nature of heritage – theorising craft, art and
creativity as discourses in heritage;
• Theorising and redefining heritage practices – the merging of discourses;
• Re-thinking conservation science – the blending of creative discourse
into social and natural sciences; and
• The performative nature of heritage – artistic practices, artistic
research and theorizing perspectives in dialogue.

Abstract/Paper Submissions
Submissions are encouraged for sessions, workshops, panel discussions and
performances, as
well as individual papers (20 minute duration):
• The deadline for abstracts on sessions, workshops and panel discussions
is 30 November 2011.
• The deadline for individual papers or performances is 31 December 2011.
• Selected papers and/or sessions will be published in IJHS.

Abstracts should be addressed to Bosse Lagerqvist (Conference Organisation
Committee) and either emailed, faxed or posted to:

Email: bosse.lagerqvist at conservation.gu.se
Fax: +46 31 786 4703
Mail: University of Gothenburg, Conservation
P.O. Box 130
SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden

Fees
Registration: 315 USD/220 Euro
(Registration fees for students and participants from non-OECD countries
will be 150 Euro,
including lunch, coffee breaks and conference documentation)
Conference dinner: 30 Euro (Preliminary)

Post-conference excursions: To be announced
Venue
Info Gothenburg. (To be confirmed)

Conference Organisation Committee
Bosse Lagerqvist, Department of Conservation,
bosse.lagerqvist at conservation.gu.se
Christer Ahlberger, Department of Historical studies,
christer.ahlberger at history.gu.se
Johan Öberg, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, johan.oberg at konst.gu.se
Mikela Lundahl, Department of Global studies,
mikela.lundahl at globalstudies.gu.se


Scientific Committee
Annie Clarke (Australia), Rodney Harrison (UK), David Harvey (UK), Emma
Waterton, (Australia), Steve Watson (UK), Ola Wetterberg (Sweden), Rohit
Jigyasu (Tokyo).